New Britain herald., 1930-03-11

hill. It then crept slowly up the winding driveway to the broad east plaza. where the casket was lifted from the caisson and carried up the long flight of steps. It was from a balcony of this stairway that many presidents have taken the oath of office.
 Sworn In Within Building
 MT. Taft, because of blizzard, was sworn in in the senate chamber.
 Carried through the cast door where the great of the nation daily rub elbows with the many tourists who use that entrance, the casket was placed upon the catafalque in the center of the rotunda. A floral piece from the White House, com- posed of yellow rose buds, mignon- cite and delphinum, was placed at the head.
 When the casket was in place, the American flag which draped it was drawn partly back, and the upper half of the cover removed.
 Those who passed by, in two double files, saw dimly framed in black a face lined with the trial and sorrow of a long and full life. Only a trace of the old smile remained. The features were drawn by the weeks of illness.
 palIor Seems Strange
 The pallor of death lay strangely $ny JI-b been so accustomed 10 see filled with the smiling light of joviality.
 The departed president and chief justice lay in his coffin in the black robes of his judicial office. falling in pleated folds about his broad shoul- ders.
 His face was turned slightly to one side. so that most of those who passed saw him in profile.
 In the exact center of the rotunda, the casket stood but a few feet from a huge white model of the new supreme court building to be con- structed near the capitol-a monu- ment to the late chief justice whc pioneered the way for this long sought individual home for the na- tion's highest court.
 It was between this model and the bier that the one. procession passed while on the other side another double file marched by under the dull rays of misty light that seep ed through the windows high above
 Among the flowers nassed in th' rotunda was the tribute of Chic Justice Hughes and the associat justices of the supreme court; solid mass of red roses, cross shaped. backed by palms.
 Beside flowers from individual lc gations and embassies, there wcr tokens of affection from two Japan csc barons.
 Next to the rcd roses of the su preme court justices. beside tn model of the new supreme cour building, stood a wreath, six feet il diameter-the joint offering of tn entire diplomatic corps. It was o yellow roses, white lilies and orchids
 Steady Line Moves On
 Marshallcd into line by captc police, the throngs moved by th casket at q steady pace, sometime . almost at a quick-stcp. It was cstl mated that 75 passed to the min ute. Yet the waiting crowd on th plaza outside, recruited constantly did not appear to be diminishing. In the line were many members C congress. One of the first was Rer resentatiye Ruth Bryan Owen C Florida. Her father, William Jen nings Bryan, was Taft's opponer for the presidency in 1908. Brya now sleeps at Arlington.
 Representative Florence Kahn ( , California and Representative Katf crime Langley of Kentucky wer among the many other women i line. Many women removed the hats as they came into tho rotund;
 Marching along with the other were Senators Oddie of Nevada Phipps of Colorado, Reyes of Ne Hampshire, Nye of North Dakoti Copeland of New York and Hale ( Maine.
 There were many children, som of them in arms, looking for the frs and last time on the countenancc ( the former president and chief jus tice.
 One little girl babblcd playfully f her mother as they approached th ca5hct,
 trchins E.ic Past CofIin
 A group of little boys. dirty an ragged and wet, Ghufflcd past so eral little negroes. Most Of theT were not tall enough to look into tn ! /,