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Show NATION PAYS TRIBUTE TO I VICE-PRESIDENT SHERMAN President Taft, Members cf the Cabinet, Cabi-net, Justices and Members of Congress, Con-gress, Attend Funeral at Utica. Utica, X. Y. With simple but impressive im-pressive ceremonies the body of Vice- President James S. Sherman was laid away Saturday afternoon in a cryp. within -a beautiful mausoleum in Forest For-est Hill cemetery. Under a canvas covering that served as a shield against a chill November wind were gathered the Sherman family, President Taft, members of his cabinet, justices of the supreme court, senators and members of the house of representatives and a few Intimate friends and business associates oT the vice-president, while without was a throng that stood reverently until the strains of "Asleep in Jesus" by the Haydn male chorus had died away. President Taft listened with bowed head and tear-dimmed eyes as Dr. JR W. Styker, president of Hamilton college, col-lege, read the brief committal service serv-ice and the Rev. Louis H. Ho'den, pastor of Christ church, of which Mr. Sherman was a member, offered prayer. pray-er. A mixed chorus sang "Good Night," and when a selection by the male chorus had been finished the president presi-dent gazed a moment at the nower-covered nower-covered casket and slowly made his way to a waiting automobile, accompanied accom-panied by former Vice-President Fairbanks, Fair-banks, Attorney General Wickersham and Major Rhoades, his military aide. Earlier in the afternoon there had been private service-3 at the Sherman home and public obsequies at the First Presbyterian church, both of which were attended by the president. |