Show UNUSUAL TRIBUTE I PAID WHITELAW t t REID BY BRITAIN Memorial d l Services for Late Am Ambassador ass adof Held in in West- West i. i L minster nii st e Abbey A T ONDON DO Dec Dee 20 20 Tho O.-Tho The Tho memorial LO L service for or the late lato Ambassador Whitelaw Reid Hold celebrated tO today today- Il in Westminster abbey was an nn ceremony The he honor of or such a service ice Ico In Gr Great Groat at Britain's most historic cathedral Has lias on on only to few v occasions I been accorded to an any but British h subjects subjects sub sub- of ot great distinction SUb SUb-I Of the congregation of or 2 2500 OO which n assembled nearly half haIr American residents in England Including the tho staff of or the tho American embassy and consulate consulato general Royalty tho thA government gov o government and m every even class of or public life Ufo together with tho the artistic and literary workers were represented The day was a gray and md gloomy gloom one typical of ot London winter All the tho congregation atlon were dressed In the tho deepest black The robes of the clergy and the choir and t tho the flames from tho the clusters of or candles before the altar were the thc only spots of ot color against the tho dark stone steno wall lined with t tablets and busts of oC hundreds of ot note noted dead Funeral 1 marches were played while white the great groat con congregation a assembled Shortly after noon a processional was played on the great organ and the archbishops of or Canterbury Canterbury- and York In their robes of or scarlet and white with v.-ith the Right ne Rev Herbert Edward Ryle dean ean of or Westminster abbey abbe- In black and gold gollI went to their while the choir softly chanted tl the e opening sentences of ot the tho burial L service ervice The Tho ninetieth psalm was sun sung to Purcell's music The lesson was wag from tho the fifteenth chapter of or tho the First Epistle to the Corinthians Afterward Wesley's s anthem He lie Will Swallow S 0 Up Death in Victory was away sung BUng and then Dean Denn Ryle read part of ot the burial service Tho The music was as sung b by the abbey choir reinforced b by the choir of the k Chapel hapel Royal Roal and the gr great at organ or-an was played by br Sir Frederick Bridge who Sad ad a band of or drums and trumpets to toM M tt Tho The sonorous roll of or tho the drums in inn d bursts of ot tn the thc trumpets In tho the Dead Na L ja In Saul and In Chopin's Marche Marchey y Tw Fm lebre and their accompaniment Of r t ho many man boys' boys voices in to me hymn nymn Let Lei Le 1 Saints on Earth In Concert Sing were unsurpassable in solemnity and andT 1 T r des cs wreaths from President Taft raft n nd Secretary Knox tho the only other ther x In the thc abbey were were were- those from W T ing Goerge e Queen Mary ar- ar aran an and Queen 1 A other Bother Alexandra Mr r a ati d d Mrs Ogden Mills Reid son I and d dau dJ J law in of ot the law ambassador am am- I or arrived cd at Plymouth mouth this morning norm ti but the Crown Princess Ce- Ce clUe chic dock d too late to p permit of ot them ondon for tor the service reaching I 1 Admiral Adm Sir Hedworth Meux naval commander commander- In-chief In with other high officers officers' of ot J thc the he British navy y and 2 O British bluE and marines marln t will willbe willbe 1 be in trace mee to receive c tho the body of or Mr Reid l c 04 1 t its arrival at tho the depot d pot In Sn t. t Naval petty off officers ot cers will act as b be bei of ot tho the coffin irom rom the tho train to tho the warship Natal and during its passage Nelsons Nelson's flagship Ip tho the Victory will fire nineteen minute- minute gun guns Guards will bo he mounted and minute- minute guns fired a as tho rho Natal leaves lea the harbor at past half-past 3 1 in the afternoon All 11 the ships In tho the harbor and in tho the roads will fly the United States en- en sign All the flags will bo be at nt half half- mast and the warships will wm parade guards on their quarterdecks who will salute as the tho funeral ship passes passos |