The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-02-05
WILSON TO BE LAID TO REST
 IN SIMPLE WAY
Official Pomp And Cere- mOny Will Be Absent
 At Burial
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 this fallen war leader from sharing that glorious vigil in the Virginia hills.
 But it was not to he. and for time, . at least, Woodrow Wilson will sleep as any honored American citizen may sleep, in a vault set in sacred surround ings. Men may decide later that a great memorial shall rise to his pris- oner, but for the present he will go forth from his home for the last time to lie deep in a marble vault beneath the floor at Bethlehem chapel at Wash ington cathedral while men and women and children come and go to their prayers above him.
 Veterans Last Tribute
 The only military touch at the fu- neral, aside from the uniforms of the diplomats and high officials who will at tend, will be the little squad of men of non-commissioned rank of the army, navy and marine corps who will bear the body and form the immediate es- cort from house to chapel. There will be for this dead chieftain no motionless honor guard about his casket night and day, filing past of thousands for last glimpse of the dead. But the fighting men into whose careful hands he will be given in the last journey will be World war veterans, as was he.
 Before the services at the chapel there will be simple rites of the Pres byterian church at 3 D. m. on Wednes- day in the home on IS" street where death found him. The family service will be held there and only a few of those closest to him in life will share in it.
 To represent the American people in this brief service, President and Mrs. Coolidge will attend, but there will be many who know a great personal loss for whom room cannot be found. De tails of the home ceremony had not been announced tonight beyond the fact that Rev. James H. Taylor, pastor of Cen tral Presbyterian church where the for mer President worshipped in Washing ton, and Rev. Sylvester Beach, in whose congregation he sat in his years at Princeton, will conduct the service.
 White House Conference
 For the rest of the hOnOrs to be rem dered a conference at the White House was required during the day, President Coolidge calling Secretary Weeks in af ter the latter had been to the s street home to reiterate the tender of coop eration.
 Rear Admiral Cary T. Grayson again spoke for the bereaved family, telling of the desire of Mrs. Wilson that the public services be as simple as possible and her wish that the casket should rest for time in the vault below the great cathedral that loOmms partly completed over the city from the ridge of hills to the west. There could be no question ing of her wishes and it was so ar ranged, despite the very great feeling i nmany quarters that solemn and inn posing public display of mourning should follow the service at the house.
 Al s the plans stood tonight there was still to be arranged beyond the preeau- ions necessary to keep the way clear From the house to the cathedral. It is scarcely qore than mile up the broad sweep of Massachusetts avenue to the gray stoae edifice that even in it's un- completed state juts boldly up against 1he western sky line of the city. Along !hst >roadWay soldiers, sailors and ma riEes will Je stretched to aid the pO- bee in heeping back the crowds, and Lhese and the twenty-four non-commis- Soned rlc'' marching beside the hearse will bs all that the unit services can do t0 honos he bier of this former com msnder chief.
 .4 Location or Chapel
 Bethlsbam chapel lies beneath the main floor line of the cathedral. of which only the imposing eastern facade is yet in place. Within the Gothic cir cle of stonework is the sanctuary, with the nave and the north and south tran septs still to be erected. All about are the temporary structures of the builders, but directly beneath hte sanctuary lies the crypt chapel, deep amid the massive stone work of the foundation and with great stained glass windows facing east ward Ot the rising sun. The chapel also is known as Nativity chapel and throughout the decorations of it's stone and woodwork runs the story of the birth of Christ
 In the center of the floor of the chap el is a great slab of marble, inset so that 1t worms part of the flooring, with only the brass plates that cover steel eyes to permit the slab to be lifted marking it from others about. It is part of the flooring of the center aisle, through which worshippers come and go at service time. Below is the vault, with no other opening. It lies twelve feet beneath the floor and is fifteen feet square in ground space.
 Already there sleep in the recesses of the vault number of those whom the diocese would honor. There lie Bishop Satterle, in whose memory the chapel is dedicated. and Bishop Clag- gett and Bishop Harding; and there, too, lies Henry Vaughan, the architect in whose brain the great building first took shape.
 And there for a time will lie the cas- ket containing the broken shell from which the dauntless spirit of America s war President has burst its way at last. Whatever final resting place may be chosen for it; however great the me morial that may one day be reared to contain it, there can never be more assurance of peace and reverence than will surround it in that deep-hewn mar ble vault.
 Services at the cathedral before the casket is lowered to the vault will be as simple and brief as those at home. Bishop Freeman will conduct them. end ed by the two clergymen of the Presby- terian faith by whom the dead man worshipped through long years There will be no sermon or full ritual; only prayers and the hymns, with the soft toned organ and the surpliced choir of men and boys to aid.
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