Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-09
GEN. WOOD BURIED
AS NATION OFFERS
SOLEMN TRIBUTE
Thousands Along Avenue Pay
Homage as Warriors
Body Passes.
FORT MYER CANNONS
BOOM FINAL SALUTE
Companions in Arms and in Civil
Life Mourn at Grave of
Noted American.

With cannons booming at one.minute
intervals from Fort Myer Heights and
thousands of WashingtOnians and
visitors massed along the foul-mie
route the cortege followed. Mai. Gen
Leonard Wood, outstanding American.
who won enduring fame in the Span
ish-American War today Joined the
long list of the Nations notable fig.
ures. who have made the historic Jour-
ney down Pennsylvania avenue. over
the Potomac TO Arlington National
Cemetery, and a final resting place.
The body of the beloved Army gem
eral. who died in Boston Sunday, only
three weeks after he had been well
coined in the Capital City for the first
time since he had arrived from the
Philippine Islands. arrived in the
Union Station on the Federal Express
at 7:25 o'clock.
Paid Impressive Tribute.
Marked by military honors, the
funeral was the most impressive ten.
dered to a warrior since that Of Gen.
Nelson A. Miles. who died in 1926.
AS the final strains of taps" were
sounded over the grave on a beautiful
knoll in Arlington in the Rough Rid.
ers' section near the grave of Admi-
raj Sampson, Jacob Wood, the dead
generals brother. strobe from the
roped spectators and. standing over
the fiag-draped coffin. wept without
restraint.
For some moments Mr. Wood stood
shaking with emotion. Then. he lift.
ed his head, and was sympathetically
led away by Brig. Gen. Frank r. Nc
Coy, close friend of Gen Wood. and
for more than a decade his staff
officer.
Mrs. Wood, dressed in deepest
mourning. was escorted to the grave.
side by Osborne Wood. her son.
Leonard Wood, jr.. another son, walk
Ell with his sister
Flowers Bank Grave.
Chaplain w. II. Watts and
Col. John r. Axton chief of Army
chaplains. of1iciated at the grave.
Chaplain Watts read the Episcopal
service, after which the flag on the
coffin was tenderly lifted and a cross
in white sand spread at its head
Col. AXton, after reading the custo-
mary funeral service. paid high trib-
ute to Gen. Wood, both as a citizen,
an administrator and an Army officer.
The grave was banked with scores
of floral tributes. One of them was
from President Machado and the
people of Cuba, whose government
Gen. Wood reorganiZed after the Span
ish War. Another was from Baron
G.. Tanaka, prime minister of Japan.
The S9th Division Association. COM
prising troops trained by Gen. Wood
at Camp Funston. Kans., for the
World War, also sent floral offerings
as did the Military Training Camps
Association. A distinctive floral trib-
ute bore the card of President Cool
idge.
After the brief funeral service the
Army Band, which had headed the
procession from the Union Station.
played its last tribute. This was fol-
lowed by the three-volley salute. and
q bugler took his post at the head of
the grave and sounded taps.
NotabIes at Funeral.
Among the large delegation Of no.
tables at the funeral was Theodore
Roosevelt, il.
Cen Wood and the late President
Roosevelt were equally prominent
members of the Rough Riders con-
tingent in the Spanish-American War.
A bIack-robed horse, bearing an
empty saddle and a pair of military
boots reversed in the stirrups.
sword. flashing in the sun. dangling
from the saddle sea abbard. pranced i'm
patiently behind the funeral caisson.
1t was the Army's own tribute 10 its
dead
The crowd gathered early at the
Union Station and by the time the
started at 9 o'clock several
thousand thronged the plaza.
Immediately after the arrival of the
body il was transferred TO the PreSl-
dents room. Precisely at . o'cIcck,
Mai. Edwin B. Hesse, chief of police,
signaled the Army Band, and, 10 the
strains of Nearer. My God, TO Thee
a detail of eight soldiers bore the cot-
fin through the east wing and its line
of soldier guard at present arms 10
the caisson.
Procession Passes Up Avenue.
1t took the procession more than
one hour and a half to make its
measured way up Pennsylvania ave-
nue.. over the Highway Bridge and to
the south gate at Arlington.
AS the body approached the salute OF
10 cannons at one.mtnute Intervals
doomed out. AS the procession entered
he south gate and made its way up
he hill the Army Band played Inc
Dead March"
II was headed by a car bearing
Chief of Police Hesse and Inspectors
Evans and Brown, with detail OF
motor cycle officers.
Society Does Homage.
A committee of six past presidents
Of the Sons of the Revolution IN the
District of Columbia attended the fu-
neral in a body as a tribute from the
society, of which Gen. Wood was
president in 1910 and 1911.
The committee comprised Capt.
Francis p Is. Sands, chairman; Lieut..
,ol. Benjamin r. Russell, L. S. NJ. C.;
Brig. Gen. George Richards. L. S.
w. c.. and DR.. Marcus Benjamin, pres
dent of the society.
Among the police guard at the fu-
neral was Lieut.. Sidney j. Marks,
light inspector of the Police Depart
nent, who served as a personal body
guard to Gen. Wood on the United
states Samoa during the uprising at
rottbatta. Lieut.. Marks was a sea
nan at the time.
Philippines Represented.
Tribute of the Philippines. whose
government the general headed, was
in the presence of both at
he Union Station and Arlington of
Pedro Guevara, the Philippine copl-
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