The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-12-19
SAMUEL GOMPERS IS LAID TO REST
 AT TARRYTOWN
Little Knoll In Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Re-
 ceives Labor Leader
BURIAL CEREMONY
 IS IMPRESSIVE
Many Of Nations Most Prominent Men Attend
 The Funeral
fRx Associated Press.

TARRYTOWN,N N. Y., Dec. 1o.- Samuel Gompers was buried today, on a little knoll in Sleepy Hollow cemetery. His body was laid to rest in company with some of Americas 8 most noted personages, In a spot famous in tradition and history.
 To the right of his grave flows the Hudson; to the left winds the picture sque wooded glens of Sleepy Hollow, round about, peeping from the grass or reaching toward the sky, are the simple markers or massive mausoleums of Washington Irving, Andrew Carn- egie, William Rockefeller, Carl Schurz' and of the Dupuys, the Vandorns, the McCoombs, the Van Cortlandts, the Beekmans, the Delavians and the Boochs of earlier generations.
 After two-hour service at the Elks club in New York city, where the body of Mir. Gompers lay in state yesterday and last night, funeral train of scores of automobiles brought him here. Pre- ceded by an honorary escort Of motor cycle police from the metropolis, the cortege made the journey in two hours, passing en route through many sub urban hamlets where streets were lined with those who stood with doffed hats.
 Crosses Bridge
 Through the crooked streets of Tar rytown. the cortege drove across the Headless Horesmen bridge where lcha- bod Crane made his traditional ride; ; and through the ranks of waiting auto mobiles, men and women, to a canopy and heaped evergreens, which marked the Gompers plot.
 The burial place was just short distance beyond the massive pillars which marked the entrance to the an- cient cemetery.
 A misty rain was falling as the sil- ence among the hundreds who waited there was broken by the chapel bell tolling Nearer My God To Thee" and the ven of the cortege entered the grounds. There followed limousines bearing Mir. Gompers' widow, his sons and daughters, his brothers and grand children, his associate officials of the American Federation of Labor, delega- tions of labor union chiefs of all trades, gathered from far and near and Free Masons of Saint Cecile Lodge of New York, having charge of rites at the grave.
 The impressive ceremonies lasted but few moments. As the bronze casket was lowered into the pit of evergreens, banked with huge floral wreaths, the Masons sang "Leady Kindly Light"
 They chanted the Twenty-third Psalm and sang Beautiful Isle of Some where" A sheep skin apron fluttered into the grave, and sprigs of symoblic evergreen from the lapels of Masons followed.
 The chaplain uttered a few words "He had discovered the secret of peace without which there is no understand ing; now the laborer's task is o'er." Then there was brief prayer, another sfotly chanted hymn, and the relatives and friends of MT. Gompers were led back to waiting automobiles.
 Funeral services were held earlier in the day at New York in the Elks club which were attended by throng that crowded the great assembly hall to it's capacity. Fifteen hundred oth- CTS heard the services broadcast by radio in the town hall nearby, while hundreds of others, unable to gain admittance into either hall, stood sil- ectly in the streets.
 Services Is Simple
 The services consisted of the simple Jewish service for the dead and eulogy by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, of the Synagogue, New York; an address by James Duncan, first vice president of the American Federation of Labor, who communicated the dying message of MT. Gompers to American Labor to keep the faith and cherish American ideals, and the solemn Hodge of sor- row" services of the Elks.
 In the lodge hall were Governor Smith, Mayor Hylan, Major General Robert l.. Bullard, Rear Admiral Charles P. Plunkett, leading labor of ficials and prominent men in -natios state and city.