The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-02-07
NATION STANDS
IN SILENT TRIBUTE
Continued from page l,

wide area about the S street home
and on each side of the way, Mas
sachusetts avenue to Mount Stalbans,
where the cathedral stands, police
regulations closed off all vehicular
traffic except such as was necessary
for the funeral party. Others OF the
distinguished company destined TO
witness the chapel ceremony were car
lied by rouna-about ways to the
cathedral and all we're in their place
/ in the chapel before the funeral party
] arrived. There was only standing
room for those behind the few chairs
set for the family and for President
| Coolidge ard his cabinet.
Or the south side OF S street even
pedestrians traffic had been closed off
| to keen the way clear. Many lined the
! high banked earth beyond the sidewalk
to wait for a brief glimpse of the
president and Mrs. Coolidge and of the
other distinguished persons who were
admitted to the private service.
No Sound for Watchers.
| There was music in that simple
service, no sound to reach the wait
I, ing people in the streets. The library
where the service was held is at the
back of the house, and no window
glimpse rewarded the patient watthers
in the street.
Most of those in the streets already
know almost word for word what was
/ to be said within. They knew that
three clergy men would make a fell
/ lowship Of simple mourning and de-
votiensl utterance beside the bier, the
! Episcopal bishop of Washington and
| two Presbyterian pastors with which
Mr.. Wilson had worshipped in Wash
/ ington ana in Princeton. There were
many out there who could have re-
peated with Dir. Taylor the encourag
/ ing fords of faith and comfort voiced
| in the twenty-third psalm who could
| have foretold the appeal DR.. Bach
would make that heavenly compassion
would compass the befeaved house
| hold 1T was for Bishop Freeman to
employ that even more intimate page
/ from the devote life Of the dead man,
/ taken from the worn book of religi-
| Gus comfort it mad been his nightly
| custom to read.
| Arrival before the home of the
squad of on-comnissioned men from
! the army, navy and marine corps, was
| the one touch Of color for which the
simple rites provided. There were
eight men from each service, es-
pecially selected for their records of
duty to the flag.
Army and Navy Bearers.
Their task was to carry the casket
under its shroulding flag and to lift
it to the hearse, then to fall in about
the hearse as the funeral train moved
off down the hill to swing right into
| the avenue and go slowly up the grad
ual climb TO the cathedral above.
+ Again at the chapel theirs we're the
hands commissioned to bear their hon
ored burden into the low set, dinly
| lighted room where the final service
would be said. The distant chanting
of the organ set to funeral dirge,
marked their slow progress. Bishop
Freeman had arranged with his Pres
| byterian colleagues, the order in which
| the burial service would be shared.
! With the printed service, prepared
! that the company in the chapel, gath
cred to give honor to the dead might
share in the exercises, followed the
i Episcopal ritual in q measure, partici-
patton by the clergymen of Mr.. Will
| sons own faith in its ministry, gave
a touch of non-sectarianism to the
ceremony that could only, serve to
| emphasize it's simplicity.
| To those outside the small chapel,
grouped back under the leaf1ess trees
of the cathedral and out beyond in
the nearby streets and avenues, pro-
visions had been made to carry the
service with amplifiers.
Simplicity to the Last.
And there was nothing rnore-this
funeral Of very great man in history
than that which even those highly
placed might see or hear. His actual
entom bment was reserved for the eyes
of his own loved ones alone and the
president and and his cabinet and the
generals and admifals and all the dip
lomats had no part in that
Their tributes ended with the bene-
diction, and the family alone would
see the last solemn moment when the
casket in which lies the worn body of
w oodrow Wilson was lifted down to
its place in the vault to wait peace
fully until men shall decide upon a
fitting work of carved stone to mark
his resting place as that of a servant
of the nation, faithful to the end
Lodge Unable to Attend.
Washington, D. C.-Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge, although designated by
the senate as member Of the com
mittee to attend Woodrow Wilson'S
funeral services, remained at his home
throughout he day. His office an
nounced that he was confined on the
advice Of his physician because of
a bad throat"