The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-02-05
STATEFUNERAL
HONOR is PUT
ASIDE BY WIFE
Rites Wednesday Will Consist
of Simple Services at
Home and Chapel
BODY GOES IN VAULT
Offer of Sepulchre in Airing.
ton Cemetery, Washington,
Is Made by Weeks

Washington, Feb. 5.-(By the A. P.)
-Afringe Of folk on the streets be-
fore the Wilson home waiting to see
the great ones who came and went
and. the guardian police who turned
unnecessary traffic from the steep
narrow street alone marked outward
ly today the preparations for last
honors to the dead war president.
| No marshalling of troops for the
parade of sorrow was needed, no set
ting lines that thousands might pass
beside his bier for he will 60 to his
long sleep tomorrow in the character
in which death found nina plain
American citizen with the days Of his
place and high dignities put aside
/ forever.
With only the two brief religious
services to mark the entombment in
the vault beneath Bethlehem chapei
on the hills high above the stricken
home there was little that official
Washington could do to mark it's re-
spect and admiration for the life that
had ended.
Mourning Ordered.
Had Mrs. Wilson willed otherwise
unstinted honors would have been
poured out to mark the nations
mourning. Even as it is in every
mil tary and naval post beneath the
Stars and Stripes last honors will be
paid in full with the booming OF
guns, sounding a knell beneath half
| I'D n n
of national mourning already de-
clared President Coolidge has thrust
side all social activities at the White
House.
Very few Of the many who would
come to express their feelings az the
services if they could find place car
be admitted to the private exercises
in the home or the later public cere'
6 mcny at the chapel. At the home
only the family and little group o,
closest friends can find standing
/, room. There can be no place for the
t plain folk who have no other means
of expressing their sorrow and ad
miration than TO stand for Ions
G hours along the guard way where the
e funeral train will pass.
d For them as we'll as for himself
Y President Coolidge will go to TIT
S house with Mrs. Coolidge and follow
: the casket to the place of ento4b
ment. In that public ceremony, how
c ever, he will be surrounded by hi
e cabinet in the last honor the govern
Y mcnt can pay to q dead leader.
n Await the McAdOOs.
O The family circle will be completed
only few hours before, the caske
10 lowered into the marble vaul
, deep beneath the cathedral. Mr.. an
Mrs. McAdoo will reach Washington
sometime Wednesday morning. I'm
n private service at the home will tax
place at 3 o'clock that afternoon fol
lowed by the chapel service at 1873
and the entombment.
War department officials sough
today to make the most Of the littl
share that was left for them in hon
Y oring a>dead commander-in-chief vi
= der whom the war army fought
Eight non-c commissioned officers
the army with eight sailors and eigl'
marine colleagues of similar ran
X and record will form the littl
guard of honor about the hearse o
the brief journey from the S stree
house to the chapel. They alone wi
j. touch the casket of the man unde
n whom all of them served ga,,antl
p in the war.
i The navy squad will come from tn
- presidential yacht Mayfower. TT
~ marines will come from the shiI
and posts about Washington sr
, among them will be veterans Of tf
~ hard fought fields in France whe!
American valor claimed and receive
~ it's recognition from the world. The
70 will be picked men Of the service
20 whom the honor falls.
n Call War Heroes.
is In like manner the eight army Sc
OF geants were being selected. Recor'
ne of personnel in all posts from whl'
e. men could be drawn were examine
IN to locate war heroes as far as pc
sible to bear this fallen war pres
ed dent to his long rest.
ey At his word these men and mllllol
b. OF other Americans had leaped to off
It. them selves to fight the nations bait
s. with arms in their hands and loyal
to the flag in their hearts as he h
ty fought with every wit and will !
H. the victory. 1t was fitting that su
p comrades SHOULD bear him gently
tic his quiet resting place.
sit Still today there was demand
many sides that last nome
change should be made and me
elaborate ceremonies mark the fu
eral. There were many like Senat
Swanson of Virginia who believ
y that this son of Virginia, mother
Z Presidents, should go back to sic
IN in Virginia soil forever. 1t was Il
feeling that prompted the suggestl
ow that entombment should be in
ss- memorial amphitheater at Arlingt
er where Americas Unknown aires
tie stands guard. Some felt that,
IT. resting place of Woodrow Wills
as war president and himself str'
RS down by the war as surely as any
;Ethe glorious dead who sleep on
ng hillsides beneath the Unknow
It'll resting place should be in that sac
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