Show fiNAL TRIBUTE TO SCHOfiELD Remains of the Former Commander of the Army Laid to Rest at Arlington SIMPLE BURIAL SERVICE PRESIDENT ATTENDED THE FU FUN FUNERAL N ERA L March 7 Citizen and soldier paid tribute to the memory of the late Lieutenant General John M 11 Schofield ld U S A retired at St S1 Johns Protestant Episcopal church thIs afternoon where the burial servIce was read over the body of the distin distinguished distinguished soldier by Right Rev Alexan Alexander der bishop coadjutor of the diocese of Philadelphia a warm frIend of the late g general The inter interment interment ment was In the national cemetery at Arlington In jJ ji beautiful spot on the eastern slope selected by General Scho Schofield Schofield field more than fifteen years ago Near Nearby Nearby by lies the body of General Philip Sheridan and to the westward rises the Temple of Fame The troops that formed the funeral escort comprised practically all that are on duty in Washington and at the posts near the city Services Were Simple The services at St Johns where General Schofield was a worshIper while stationed In Washington consist consisted ed of readIng of the simple burIal ser service service vice of the Episcopal liturgy The casket was covered with the AmerI AmerIcan American can flag and at Its head rising sev several several eral feet from the floor was a wreath of Easter lilies and white carnations from President and Mrs Roosevelt PresIdent Roosevelt accompanied by his military and naval aides attended the services at the church Back of the president sat the secretary tary of state the secretary of war the postmaster general and the secretary of the inte interior nor The chief justice of the supreme court of the United States occupIed the third pew with Major General Wallace rdolph U S A retired and other lose friends of the family Noted Pallbearers The pallbearers except members of the cabinet who sat wIth the president president dent occupied the V ext two seats and included Senator Alger Senator Proc Proctor Proctor tor and Senator Elkins formerly see sec secretary of war AdmIral Dewey who I Iwas was accompanied by hIs aIde LIeu Lieuten Lieutenant ten i ant Commander Wood Lieutenant Ii GEneral Merritt U S A retired Ma Major jor General John C Bates chIef of staff of the army Major General J P Sanger and Brigadier Generals S M Do Dodge ge Thomas M VIncent and W lL 31 Wherry retired officers of the United States army FIlling the remainder of the nave of the church were representatives representatives from the Society of the Army of Tennessee Tennesse Leaders of the army and navY union and other veterans of the civil war with officers officer of the general staff of the army and hundreds Of friends of the deceased were in the transepts and the gallery Scene at Arlington From the church the body was taken to Arlington cemetery There while the cavalry band played a dirge a mil mu military salute of seventeen guns was fired asa as a last tribute to General Scho Schofield Schofield field as a former secretary of war At Atthe Atthe the grave three volleys were fired by bythe bythe the squadron f cavalry A bugler slowly marched up to the grave and while the guns of Fort Myer boomed forth a last salute taps were sounded and the body slowly lowered into the grave General Schofields grave graye ImmedI att ly adjoins that of his son Captain c B Schofield Second United States cavalry alo |