The Colorado statesman., 1924-02-09
QUIET SERVICE
is CONDUCTED
FAMILY AND CLOSE FRIENDS
GATHER FOR SIMPLE FU-
NERAL CEREMONY
WILSON LAID To REST
AMERICA BIDS FAREWELL TO
FORMER. PRESIDENT. FOR
EIGN ENJOYS ATTEND

Washington.-Wood Wilson lies
at rest.
The grave enfoded his body; the
hearts of his countrynen enshrined
his memory.
Under skies that dropped gray rain,
they carried the warrior chieftain
through the gateway called Peace and
laid him down to sleep.
The drip of rain from tree branches,
the rustic of oak leaves clinging to
their boughs, a sob in the crowd, the
far-off boom of Il gun, the solemn ca
dences of bishops voice-these
marked the hour.
Above his narrow bed arches the
great unfinished structure of the ma
tional cathedral, typical of his unfin-
ished work, but going on to compile
| ton, as his faith told him his work
would 90 on.
At p. m. in the quiet home where
Mr.. Wilson died ON Sunday, the voice
of his pastor, Rev. James II. Taylor,
of the Central Presbyterian Church,
broke the funeral silence:
"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall
not want"
Through the familiar words of the
majestic psalm he moved, to its eli
max, breathing hope and peace.
"And l will dwell in the House of the
Lord forever"
In the deepening hush rose a voice
in prayer.
1t was Rev. Sylvester Beach, who
was Mr. Wilson's spiritual advisor in
the days of his presidency at Prince
| ton university.
Then Bishop James e. Freeman,
head of the Episcopal diocese of
Washington, opened little khaki-cov-
cred Bible, sent to Mr.. Wilson by a
soldier in France" one of his bud
dfes''-a book which Mr.. Wilson
treasured above all others, because he
felt it linked him to the men he sent
| to war, and whose sufferings he
shared.
Then the strong arms of soldiers,
sailors and marines-picked men of
the services Mr.. Wilson commanded in
| the war-lifted the coffin and bore it
| to the hearse outside.
Behind the body came the honorary
pallbearers, former classmates and
associates of the dead president. They
were Cleveland II. Dodge, Cyrus II.
! Mccormick, DIR. +. =. Davis and DIR.
| Hiram Woods of the Princeton class
| of 1879, in which Mr.. Wilson grad
uated; Frank L. Polk, David f. HOus-
| ton, Newton d. Baker, Josephus
Daniels, Albert S. Burleson, John Bar
ton Payne, William C. Redfield, E. T..
Meredith, Thomas W.. Gregory, mem
bers of Mr.. Wilson's cabinet and Sen
ators Swanson and Glass of Virginia; ;
former senator John Sharp Williams
of Mississippi, Representative Garrett
of Tennessee and Charles S. Hamlin
of the federal reserve board.
President and Mrs. Coolidge fol
| lowed these, and then came the wild
ow, the two daughters, Miss Margaret
Wilson and Mrs. William G. McAdoo,
| william G. McAdoo, Joseph Wilson of
| Baltimore, brother; John Randolph
Boiling and Wilmer Boiling, brothers
of Mrs. Wilson.
Outside, thousands had gathered and
stood with barred heads in the rain.
At the entrance to the bethlehem
chapel the doorway marked 1.-The Way
| to Peace" the procession paused.
From within came the majestic sound
| of Chopin's Funeral March.
Bishop Freeman, in his robes mer
the body. Bishop Freeman concluded
the service, repeating verses from
Tennyson's Crossing the Bar" with
its message of resignation and faith in
| Gods goodness. Then the cnsket sank
slowly into the stonework and from
outside. beyond the double walls and
where the gray end of gray day
was coming swiftly, the bugle rang
out in taps" the soldier farewell to
a fallen comrade. There were only II
| few remaining about the chapel en-
| trance as that last, clear message was
sounded. They stood ,bareheaded and
the soldier and marine guard at salute
until the last note died.
Behind them in the chapel, Mrs.
Wilson was sobbing as she turned
| from the vault with the members OF
| the family to go back to- the vacant
chair beside the fireplace, and the
books that waited for the friend they
would see no more.
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