Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-20

many nunuIeuS OIL IlOGdI CrlDuC6S
sent by labor organizations, fraternal
orders and friends from all sections
of the country.
IMPRESSIVE SERVICE
HELD AT NEW YORK
NEW YORK, Dec. 1S.-Impressive
funeral services We're held today for
Samuel Gompers at the Elks club
after which the body was taken by
automobile tc Tarrytown for inter.
ment in historic Sleepy Hollow GENE
terry.
The great assembly hall Of New
York lodge, No /, draped in the
mourning purple of the order, was
crowded to capacity with co-workers
and friends of the late president of
the American Federation of Labor.
In the throng were men high in the
state and city.
Fifteen hundred persons unable to
gain admittance to the hall assemb-
led in the town hall across the street
and heard the services by radio
Other thousands stood rcverently in
nearby streets. held in line by de
tails of police.
Officers of the lodge, headed by
Sol Tekulslly, the exalted ruler,
marched into the hall and conducted
the obituary ritual of the fraternity
Each officer wore Il carnation, the
badge OF mourning.
Rabbi Wise Delivers Eulogy
The simple Jewish ritual for the
dead was intoned by Rabbi Stephen
s. Wise. The service began by the
reading in Hebrew of the Twenty
third Psalm. Other verses from ths
Bible were in English.
In the eulogy that followed, DR.
Wise said:
Among all the characterizations
Of Samuel Gompers [ have come
upon, none is more fitting than
'trontiersm2n. For Samuel Comp
ers was a pioneer, rugged rather
IMAM suaVe firm rather than con
Vantlonal. Pioneer was he in the
military sense, for lis was the mill
tant mood; and throughout his life
ne was a battler. AS a pioneer
domperS fought for a great cause
not foe larger wage or added com.
fort, but for freer and fuller life
Tor the tollefs OF the nation-which
could not be without these instru.
mentalities of life and freedom,
Had More Than One Ideal
concentrating upon and conse-
Grated to his purpose, he was unlike
the pioneer in that he was a man
OF more than one ideal and more
than one loyalty. Long will men
remember the ardor with which he
espoused the cause of international
peace, seeing it on high ground and
Tor the highest ends. In his quest
of international understanding he
gave generous support and ardent
loyalty to the greatest of the friends
OF man in our day, Woodrow Viii
SON.
Serving most the cause of organ
;Zed labor. lie best served America
TO this once immigrant lad,
America was not a habit but an
IDEAL; not birthright possession. but
q religion. America re-made this
youthful and unafraid IMMIGRANT"
Gompers' Last Message Told
James Duncan, vice president of
the American Federation of Labor.
In his eulogy gave to organized labor
what he said was the last message
of Mr.. Gompers.
When Mr.. Gompers realized that
the end was near, said Mr.. Duncan,
he summoned him to his bedside
and said
Give them this message: Saw to
them that as | kept the faith, | ex-
pect them to keep the faith. Thev
must carry on. No union man with
a card can be a good citizen unless
he upholds American institutions
And he is a poor citizen if he does
not uphold American institutions. !"
Mrs. Gompers, heavily yelled, en-
tered the hall with members of the
family before the services began and
occupied a seat near the bronze
casket which rested before the sta
ton of the exalted ruler. She went
during the solemn ritualistic cere-
monies of the Ells when the hands
of the clock We're lighted at II
O'Clock, the mystic hour of remem-
brance for departed members. The
organ softly played AUD Lang
Syne' during this section. A quar-
tet sang This Vacant Chair"
The organ played Chopin's funeral
march at the conclusion of the cere.
monies. As the casket was carried
into the street to the waiting hearse
many thousands of persons gathered
and barred their heads. The police
had difficulty keeping the streets
clear.
The procession turned north into
Broadway. Traffic on this busy thor
oughfare was diverted. Thousands
lined the sidewalks and barred their
heads as the procession passed.
Outside the city limits, state troop
ers We're waiting to escort the body