The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-11
Signing Notes Of Taps
 Close Final Ceremony
 orCaluin Coolidge, Jr.
Son Of President Sleeps In Mountains He For
 nerly Roamed

PLYMOUTH, Vt, July 10.-In sequestered dimple of the Green noun tains over which the wraiths of Ethan Allen and his Green mountain boys still ride at night, young Cal Coolidge, son of the President, was laid away Thurs day to rest eternally with the stoic pion- eers who broke their way through the forests and established the settlements of Vermont when the country was young.
 It seems almost an affront to the Coolidges to say that their boy was re- stored to these hills undeN modest and simple auspices. They were no longer the President and the Presidents wife, but a plain couple who had lost their son, and they had taken him back to a little crossroads burying ground in their home country to put him away with all their dreams of his career.
 Notable Funeral Party
 Because Calvin Coolidge is the Presi- dent of the United States, battery of writers came with the funeral party !; cavalry was sent up the trail over the thanky-m ma ans as guard of honor; bugler came from the army post named after Ethan Allen to blow the call of taps across the. still green valleys, and crowds struggled up the lumpy roads for the second time in the history of Plymouth.
 The first occasion was just about year ago when Calvin Coolidge, on vacation at his old fathers home, was sworn in by the light of Q kerosene lamp as President of the country, to- succeed Warren G. Harding. In the nearest towns the telegraph offices were swamped with stories of the burying on the mountainside, where rilling streams flash and sparkle between the trees. In those streams not so long ago young Calvin cast for trout. In the clearings between those trees he had made camp fires and talked of red-coats and Indians and the storied patriotism of the Green mountain boys.
 Wood birds called across the valleys, there were rustlings among the shrub bery and woodchuck or squirrel ran off frightened by the unusual traffic up the perpendicular lanes. :.
 Before dusk the crowd had clattered down the hills again to the towns which toll beside the rivers in 'he lowlands i; to the railroads which follow the breaks in the mountains, and were gone, leay- Ing golIng Calvin alone teI the sersAade
 mo fanerai Service
 There were d couple of songs at the grave-side e-sSaYior Like A Shepherd Lead us, and My Faith Looks Up To Thee" The boys from the Mer- cersburg school, who knew young Cal as one of them, sang the first one and a local quartet, the same sort of voices that sang the grotesque political song, Keep Cool With Coolidge" a short time ago in Cleveland, sang the other. There was a great difference in the harmony of the quartet now. They sang with a note that was spiritual. The Rev. K. B. Wells repeated the Con gregational service. The father and mother of the boy and their other son, John, stood near the brink, looking down. Tears poured down their faces and they didn't notice them. The bugler from Fort Ethan Allen raised his battered brass horn to his lips and filled the valleys with the sobbing notes of the last call, The mourners, as if by a common instinct, withdrew few more paces. A moment more i;
 
 the casket. Then the calvary escort swung back into their saddles, and the Coolidges turned their backs on young Cal.
 Calm In Their Grief
 Yet, they were still New Englanders, calm, repressed, not wailing in their grief. Instead of returning down the mountain at once, they went to Ply mouth Notch to visit the old, ram shackle homestead of the Presidents father, Col. John Coolidge, in which the President was born. This has now been turned into general store and the colonel, who got his title by serving on a governors staff, resides in another house nearby.
 Meantime, Mrs. Coolidge was resting in a tree-shaded bedroom of the noun tain home. They tempted her to a nome dinner" before leaving time and the old colonel was persuaded to go back to Washington.
 Then they got into the black limou- (Continued on Page TwO.)