Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-14
HERR|CK FUNERAL
IS DUE TOMORROW
Body Speeds to Cleveland
Home After Solemn Wei
come in New York.
by the Associated Press.

L HeTTlCk CAME tlUHIG VOuuy, IuDuEuCu
alike by the land he served, America
! and the land In which he served her
France.
The body Of the United States Am.
bassador to France was brought for its
final rest on native soil in the slim
| gray Tourville, newest and fastest Of
French cruisers.
| The cortege. fiag-draped CONN borne
on an artillery caisson, moved for two
miles through the city's heart. Noon.
/ time trafic was detoured and tens
Of thousands lined the way with barred
and bowed heads.
At Grand Central Terminal the
casket was placed under military guart
Of honor in car Of special section
Of a late afternoon train to be escorted
by relatives and members Of the funera
party to the Ambassadors home city Of
Cleveland, where the funeral will take
place Monday.
Among those to pay respects to the
memory of the Ambassador was Col
Charles A. Lindbergh, who was vel.
coined to France by Mr.. Herrick a
the termination Of the aviator's his
toric ocean flight and who was q guess
at the American embassy In Paris II
the days following.
The French cruiser which brought
| Ambassador Herrick's body home o.
| mark Of the esteem and love in which
| Frenchmen held this friend Of France
was met last night OF Nantucket by
the United States cruisers Marbleheac
! and Cincinnati, which escorted her from
| Quarantine.
Through somber gray morning the
city tug Macon went down the bay te
meet the craft that was designed fol
war but that for the moment was
| turned to purposes Of love and sympa-
| thy. From the Macon officials Of city
/ State anG Government and Of France
went aboard the cruiser for the journey
| to Manhattan.
Two Flags Flown.
The Tourville new two flags, both ai
half mast. From the great tripod mas,
forward the Stars and Stripes hung
| Imply in the wet haze and from the
aft mast dropped the tyicolor Of France
| The casket was on the rear deck be-
| tween two enormous nnuzzled guns, be-
| meath the tricolor and covered with ar
| American flag. On this draped fiae
there lay small black cushion, II
which was pinned the blazing scarlet
and white decoration OF the Crane
| Cross of the Legion Of Honor.
| Slowly the marine cortege, the French
| cruiser, the American craft, the Macon
| Coast Guard and police patrol boat.
proceeded to the city through q colo
mist so dense that only nearby objects
could be seen.
Suddenly the Statue Of Iibert,
doomed through the haze, her great arm
upstretched as though In benediction
and the Tourville began firing q ma
tional salute Of 81 guns, tiny fiashe:
punctuating the murk from port am
/ then starboard and then port again
| Fort Jaw at Governors Island repliet
| with q similar salute and the New Yorl
skyline loomed through the mist, IT
jagged outline broken by countless flags
! all at half-staff.
l.. In clearing water Che Tourvill,
/ docked 1T the. French Lima pier at Yves
I Fourteenth street, and as bugles bley
their shrill direction and the docl
swarmed with officers in golden epau
| lets. the gang plank lowered for tnos
privileged to board the funeral ship.
His Son Boards.
/ Parmely Herrick, son Of the Ambas
sador, went aboard, with his wife
chateiaine Of the embassy in Paris. Of
his arm In deepest mourning, and witt
their son, Parmely Herrick, jr., follow
ing. Representatives of the Government
followed, Postmaster General Walter 7
Brown. representing President Hoover
/ the commandment of the Sd Naval Dis
trict and the commandant Of the q
Army Corps, the French Ambassado
and the consul general, representative
Of French war veterans organization:
large delegation from the Obi
Society, Col Lindbergh and Mayo
James ]. Walker.
They stood bowed q moment befor
the casket and then stood aside: bugl
blew. Two French soldiers who o.
down the bay had stood as guard Q
honor, like statues, in blue and red wit
their little round blue caps topped witt
red pompons, stood aside. The caske
| was lifted reverently from Its position
on the deck in O little grove Of CROWN
palms and laurel trees and borne SILENT
to the street.
The procession was led by q compan
Of mounted police. regiment Of foo
soldiers with fixed bayonets, three com
panies of bluejackets and one Of Ma
rines, and large delegation Of sailor
j from the Tourville. The bands playe
1.-THE Star Spangled Banner" the Mar
seillaise" and Chopin's funeral n1arcf
Sixteenth street east to Fifth avenu
and the avenue to Forty-sixth stree
were cleared OF all traffic, and polio
stood like blue walls along both curb
like bikes imposed against swellin
tide of silent humanity.
! Lindbergh Conceals Himself.
| The car in which Col. Lindbergh wa
riding caused some notice from tn
| crowds at first, but he lowered the cur
tains lest his presence should In an
way detract from the solemnity OF tn
occasion. The crowds were 50 THO
along Fifth avenue that there wa
scarcely room to move even close to tn
buildings, but 1t was a CROWD as sol
emn and as sadly well behaved as an
In the memory OF police.
At the terminal the casket was q
once taken to the special car and place
| under the military guard Of honor tina
viii stay always with 1t during tn
tourney. As the side doors Of the ca
| were closed there could be seen atol
the fIag-draped casket, beside the grea
cross Of Frances highest honor, Httl
bunch of white carnations placed b
the hand Of some anonymous admire
from the common people.
BODY SPEEDS WESTWARD.