Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-10

an honorary escort and eight non com
misSioned officers from the Army, Navy
and Marine Corps will act as pail
bearers.
Both great and lowly will file slowly
past the bier under the great dome
of the Capitol. The body will lie on an
historic catafalque upon which rested
four former PreSidents-Abraham Lin
coin, James A. Garfield. William Nc
Kinley and Warren G. Harding-when
they were similarly honored.
The funeral services will be simple,
of 80 minutes duration. They will
consist of prayer, two Lead,
Kindly Light" and abide With Me-
Scripture reading and the reading OF
two poems, THE Happy Warrior" by
William wordsworth, and Alfred Ten
nyson's lode on the Death of the
Duke of wellington" There will be
no eulogy.
President to Attend.
The Senate and House will be repre-
sented by delegations of 20. The mem
bers of the Supreme Court. the cabinet
and the diplomatic corps will be present.
A battalion of Infantry, battalion
of Field Artillery, a battalion of Ma
rines, company OF Bluejackets and
a squadron of Cavalry will comprise the
escort.
At the cemetery another military de-
tachment, under command OF Col. Guy
P. Henry, commandant of Fort Myer,
Va, will join the funeral procession.
Both these units will participate IN
the firing of final salutes as the body
of the former President is lowered into
the grave.
Then the military escort will accom-
pany the body to the cemetery, where Mr..
Taft will be laid at rest among the diStln-
guished dead of the Nations military.
It was his expressed wish that he be
buried at Arlington. For this honor he
was eligible through his having held
the post of Secretary Of War. as well
as through his having served as Com
mander- in Chief of the Army and Navy
as President. He is the first President
to be buried at the National Cemetery.
The place of interment was chosen
Yesterday by Mrs: Taft and their three
children, Mrs. Helen Taft Manning and
Charles P. and Robert A. Taft. Slip
ping quietly away from the wyoming
avenue home, they drove to the ceme-
terry and selected the burial plot.
It lies high upon a wooded hillside
overlooking the broad Potomac River,
beyond which the city can be seen with
the White House and Capitol, in which
| Mr.. Taft labored with such distinc-
ton, plainly visible.
The two sons of Mr.. Taft joined their
mother and sister yesterday, coming on
/ from Cincinnati as soon as word of their
| fathers death reached them. Mrs.
Manning had been in the city almost
continuously for several weeks.
Many Tributes Received,
Throughout the day friends, mes
sages and floral tributes were constantly
arriving President and Mrs. Hoover
sent huge basket of tulips, crocuses
and yellow Spring blooms. The con-
gregation with which Mr.. Taft had wor-
SHIPPED sent a large basket of lilies.
| The callers included the socially and
officially prominent and members of
| the diplomatic corps, bringing messages
| of sorrow from their governments.
Mr.. Taft died at Sis pm. on Satur-
| day, peacefully wrapped in unconscious
ness. For weeks he had been upon the
verge of death, amazing his physicians
| by the vitality which enabled him to
combat and occasionally show improve
ment against complication of diseases
any one of which was extremely serious.
| Death came finally az direct result
| of cerebro arterio scleroSis, a blood clot
on the BRAIN accompanied by hardening
of the arteries. In addition, he had
been suffering from a nervous disorder
a bladder ailment and heart trouble.
President Hoover was notified at once
and with Mrs Hoover called imme-
diately at the Taft home to extend his
condolences to Mrs. Taft
Returning to the White House, he
| issued a proclamation establishing q
| 30-day period of official mourning ano
eulogizing Mr. Taft for purity OF
patriotism, lofty disinterestedness ano
a devotion to the best interests of the
Nation that deserve and will ever COM
mand the grateful memory Of his
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