The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-02-04
DEATH FOLDED
HIM ASLEEP AS
WIFE WATCHED
End Came Sunday Morning
at 11:15 o'clock in His
Washington Home
MOURNING PROCLAIMED
President Coolidge Visits
House, Calls for 30 Days
of Mourning

House, Calls for 30 Days
of Mourning
Washington, Feb. 4.-By the
A. P)--Tentative plans for the
funeral of former President Will
son as announced today by DR..
Grayson provide for b brief pri-
vate service ut the S street resi-
dence at p, m. on Wednesday.
This service will be followed
by another at $3.50 o'clock at
Bethlehem chapel in the Cathe-
dral at Mount Adams, where the
body will be placed in vault
until arrangements have been
made as to final resting place.
1t was decided not to hold
state funeral as proposed by
some or to have the body lie in
state at the capitol.
The Rev. J. II. Taylor, pastor
Of the Central Presbyterian
church which Mr.. Wilson attend
ed during his residence in Wash
ington, probably will deliver the
sermon White House officials
again were in communication with
the Wilson home today to render
what assistance they could. Dur
ing the morning Secretary Wea|:s
called on relatives of the form
err President to talk over any
plans they may have in mind for
,vI &c no, at
funeral and entombment.
Washington, Feb. a. By
the Associated Press.) -
Woodrow Wilson has found
in eternity a haven from the
storms and sorrows of a
troubled world.
In the prayerful quiet of a
Sunday morning death folded
him gently in his embrace
and bore him to his maker.
He passed from life while he
slept, with those he loved best
close about him. His broken
,, body had weakened little by
little until the last spark of
his vitality went out. But his
spirit was supported to the
last by the indo1nitable cour-
age of the old fighting days.
In his last wakeful moments
he told his loved ones that he
knew the end had come and
was ready.
| Whether there will be a state fun
eral ceremony or merely private
gathering Of those nearest to him to
pay their last need of devotion is
still to be decided. 1t depends almost
entirely on the wishes Of the widow,
who has been his ever-present help
in the long weary months Of his ill
ness and who was with him when he
died.
President Calls.
The federal government already
has offered to do what ever is fitting
to express the nations reverence at
the passing of a great leader. Pres
ident Coolidge called yesterday Mt
the house of bereavement, expressed
his regret and readiness to be help
tul and then issued a proclamation
OF thirty days official mourning. Over
the White House and on the gov
J ernment departments. on the ma
ticns's fighting ships at sea and over
the outposts of American diplomacy
in foreign lands the Stars and Stripes
were brought to halfmast. Congress
today recessed in respect for hi:
memory and the whole machinery OF
the government whose guiding genius
he was for eight nom entous years
will stand still on the day Of hi:
funeral.
Burial Place Not Named.
The place Of entombment has no
been selected but it is possible hi
body will be placed for while in :
Washington cemetery. There it viii
await the erection Of memorial t.
4 serve as his last resting plac'
!. and to perpetuate fittingly in ston'
% the memory Of those great days o
a crisis when the whole world hum
% upon his words.
: Today the frayed remnants OF nj
" mortality lie in the chamber who's
!. walls looked down yesterday upo
h the last scene Of career that ha
known all the heights and depth
a, of human emotion. In death he al
n pears as if in peaceful slumbe
10 his features serene and compo
,s ed and his squared jaw set with tn
w old determination. But the lines al
~ ~ somewhat deeper and heavier and tn
X flashing fire of his eye has gone OF
ty forever.
Ill Four Years.
The bed on which Woodrow Wi
son died and where his body rests
of massive oak, a reproduction I
=, the bed built at the White Hou!
- for Lincoln and used by every Pre-
ident since. 1t is Of unusual lengt
of and has q golden American Gag
ry over the head. It was made to Il
nd order Of Mr.. Wilson before he I
sh tired from the Presidency and W
ay installed in the s street house
ak had selected rs his future home.
he Although he had not known WI
at day since he crossed the threshold
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