| Show AT REST IN ARLINGTON Body of Rosecrans Interred in Historic City of Dead CEREMONIES VERY IMPOSING Tributes Paid Memory of tho General by the President Speaker Hender son and OthersFull Military Honors Hon-ors Were Accorded the Remains 3Iost of His Old Army Associates Present to Pay Last Tribute of Respect Re-spect to tho Noted Soldier Service Ser-vice Bead by Dr Stafford 1 Washington May 17Vtlh Imposing ceremonies tho remains of MnJGen William Starkti Rosecrans today were reinto red in Arlington cemetery under un-der the direction of the Society of the Army of tho Cumberland The services ser-vices were presided over by Gen David K Henderson Speaker of the House of Representatives President Roosevelt members of his Cabinet Senators and Representatives and a host oC friends including many oC his old army associates asso-ciates were present to pay their last tribute to the noted soldier Full military honors were accorded the remains which were borne to the grave on a caisson The funeral cortege cor-tege moved from the Arlington hotel nt 10 oclock the escort commanded by LlcurCoI Eugene G Dlmmlck Second Sec-ond United Stales cavalry and headed by a platoon of mounted police consisting con-sisting of several military companies and representatives of the following i organizations District of Columbia commundery military order of the Loyal Legion Union Veteran Legion Department of the Potomac Grand Army of the Republic Union Veterans union National Guard Fifteenth Pennsylvania cavalry United Stales volunteers the Society of the Army of the Cumberland and other attending veterans REMAINS CARRIED ON CAISSON Tlie escort was followed by a carriage containing the Rev D T Stafford after af-ter which came the caisson bearing the remains Next In line were the honorary honor-ary pallbearers IltGen John G Schoilckl U S A LieuLGcn Nelson A Miles U S A MajGen II C Corbin U S A Brevet Gen A Baird XT SA BrlgGen John M Wilson U S A Brig Gen George L Gllesple U S A nr vet Gen Thomas M Vincent Vin-cent U S A Col Frank G Smith U S f Ai Co Green Clay Gondlou U S M r Brevet MaJ William P lux ford 11 S A MaJ John M Farnulmr U S V rol Ilcnry Muy District of Columbia National I Guard Hon George W Steel M 1 C iL Clay Evans 11 S V The members of HIP family the President Pres-ident nf the United Stales his Cabinet the Joint commit tI of Conirrosts Gen N 1 T 1 3 > aha Gen Longstreet and Col John S McCalmont Ihroc classmates class-mates of Gen Rosecrans at West Point I and tip committee to rrrelvu the President Pres-ident and Cabinet at the rnmelory BrigGfii J C Jircckenridge Brig Gen John F Weston MnJGen John Tweedul rlgGun JC A Carman U S A and Col G K Knlffen U S V followed the order named When The funeral procession reached the cemetery ceme-tery the remains were conveyed to the pavilion SPEAKER HENDERSONS RE MAPKS I In opening the exercises Speaker Henderson who presided delivered an address Jlo said in part Tower Generals oC mho Civil war had a tUrons hold upon till officers mid men who fought under his voinintuul They respected re-spected they loved him and thai love Is I attested by thin act of yours In bringing tbo I body of your eoniniundor from time I Golden Gate to lay him away III your midst In this sacred and hlotorlo city of llio dead Ulmo lime lilKtor y nf Carnlfex Ferry Inkn Corinth Stone River and Chlckn inaiia will be his guru monument us a soldier Ills gravo at Arlington Jfclghtn will lie a sacpxl spot visited by yon mid your deseeiulmilR and ihe lovers of liberty ibroiinhout the oomlnir ceiitnrles Following lire life of Gen Ronecrana from his blrthplueo III Kingston 0 to his rest Ing pItco horn the fullhful student of his lifo must frfllt his Acts with the loftiest motives of a soldier Jn overy pn Hllion held by Gen Posocrann his nol > lo eluiracier WitS manifest Gen llondorson spoko of fighting with Gen ItoseeiaiiH at thu battle of Corinth and snld that lie wnn tins most fearless offlcfr lie had ever seen ills fearless heroic he-roic dash had been the 1 dcnthlcnell of tho I armies I oC Price and Vanilorn and at the battlo of Chleluiinnuga hum personal efforts ef-forts saved the day No mere fearless man added Gun Henderson ever facial death 1 than tints dear man who sleeps in our midst thIs morning General Rosecrans sleep peacefully peace-fully In the bosom of tliii I country yon = fought heroically to save I You have onrned a rest In her l > nsom but Con Roscerans no pintle grave can hold you for you will bo burled in the hearts of all tho soldiers who fought under your com mniul and In the hearts h of an appreciative apprecia-tive grateful loving country At he conclusion of Spcakcr IIen dersons remarks the I quartette choir of St Patricks Catholic church sang Lead Kindly Light after which brief addresses were made by President Roosevelt Senator Foraker and Representatives Rep-resentatives Hepburn Grosvenor and Gardner The President upoke as allows al-lows PRESIDENTS ADDRESS Mr Speaker and you the comrades of tho great chief whoso rebtirlal In tho national na-tional cemetery hero at Arlington we have met together to commemorate The sneaker In him address han well said that the builder rather than the destroyer de-stroyer In the man mos entitled to honor among us that the roan who builds up Is greater than ho who tears down and that our honor must bo 1 In n lighting man who not only outfit worthily but fought In a worthy cause Ami iherfou for ill tlnn tlto p oplo not only of ilil riinltnl eouti try but Ute mint bus of nianUliul who per the hope for time ordered liberty In what this country lens done they will forever hold you tin men of the urent Civil war nnil lilO IraIiTs liko him vJifpue Immortnl rrnnlia are to be put lodnv In their Ilea r reeling tilled In u pcrnllHr honor hern nice yon wIn Holdlerjt who fought to bull you WIMX upluiililMv you wore the I menlo men-lo wjiose lo It foil to save to nerpotutiy to ninle Itron the nulldiiiil I I iabrte I Uir I fonndallons of whleh liar kern Intel by the men who fought unl1I r the mnn who horui til Mount Vernon Ktan Ls as nn emiallyprlxed memory of time past with Arlington MOUNT VIJUXON I AND AKMNGTON It is no rliiitico Unit lean made Mount Vernon and Arlington bore In tho neighborhood neigh-borhood of AVdhlngtnn tho two great memorials of a iiutlonK past because ODD commemorates the roumJhirr anal tho other oth-er the wiving of the Nation If It were not for what Arlington symbolizes Mount Vernon would he little or nothing IX It were not for what wus done h > r Itose eranji atnl his fellow If It were not for wlint they did then the work of AVuvli Ington would have crumbled Into rhnos anti tho deeds of the founders of this Ue public would bo rtmombeied only heciu j they had been nnoiher of the many failures fail-ures of the spirit i of liberty In this country coun-try THSUNMTKD COUNTRY Without Ihii work that you did the work of the men who fought to a successful success-ful elono tho I revolution would have meant nothing Po you It was Riven to do the I great work whleli if left undone would I liavu meant that all clue done by our peo I pl would have counted for nothing Son lift us a r reunited country and therefore r the rluht the brotherhood with an nil pride In Imo gallantry and self dovotIon of those I who worn the pray and were I pitted against us In the rat struggle r Into very fart that wn nppreelain moro I and more as I limo yearn go in fill Importance Im-portance to this I country and to mankind of your victory makes It more and moro possible for us to rrcognlTp In the hrartl eM and the frankest manner the sincerity I the self < lovotlori a 11I1 the fealty to ho I right as it yore given to them to see the right of our fellowAmericans against whom you fought And now the reunion Is so eomplele that It Is useless to alludo to the fact that It Is complete ANOTHER I IjESSOX I You left us another lesson in brolher hoixl I Today eome here comrades of tho Army = of iho Cumberland tho mnn who had command th men who fought In the I ranks brothers beeause ouch did what there was in him to do for Iho I right 1 each did what he could and all alike spate equally in the glory of the deed that I was done Officer and enlisted man stand nt tho bar oC history to he judged not by the difference In rank but by whether they old their duties to their respective ranks And of how little account looking hack the difference of rank Is I compared with the loins of the I duty and what was true then I I b trim nor The doing tho duty well Is what counts ALL ON AN KQUA LI TV In an audience of this kind one sees In the highest official and social positions men who fought ai enlisted men In the armies of till Union I in the armies of the Confederacy and all we ask IK did they prove their truth by their endeavor If they did honor to them and little lit-tle wo euro the particular position which they held save in so far as tho holding oC exalted position gave tho I man a chance to do great and peculiar service ser-vice ARE ALL AMERICANS I should not try to eulogIze the dead General In the presence of his comrades In tho presence of his fellowmen who havo como to honor the memory of the man ngnlrut whom they were pltfd In tin part and who rome here her mtso they now Hlcf iii > ore AnieriraiiK and nothing oleo tlvotid Io I the Union and tf one country 1 I ahoidd not try In sprat of his jiiivlosi In th pre e < of those who fought through the Civil wnr who risked the loss of life 1 who endmcd tho loss of limbs who fought as enllHted men who rime nut boys not yi t nady 10 enter college col-lege bm n hie to bear eomml lonK In lllp army of the Unlleil Ptatcn an a result of fouryears i < ervlco or three years service wllh the colors HPFiK OP GJ5KAT DIn There are those of thin I class of whom I have I spoken who have addre ed or will addrew yon today They lava entitled to ppeiik an comrades of the great drOll We thu I younger of rue arc rntliled lo pay to the great dead the I homage of those to whom ordered liberty has been handed down as a heritage becuiisn of the blood and the sweat and toll of tho men who lought to a llnlyh the great Civil wnr You taught us in war Trout Imvc been the lessons you have tiiught us In peace shoe Ihe war Reverently and humbly i the men who on me after you hastened to I acknowledge the I debt Unit IB owing to you You were the mm of the mighty = I days who Allowed youruelves equal to tlin day Wo have today lenser tonics hut shame to us 1C wo Inch from doing or Iilllnir u > do well Ihu t leaser tusks where you carried to triumphant victory n feat uii difficult as that whleh was set you And here in the presences of one of Ihu lIUiBlrloiiM l dead whono name will remain fonnurmore on the honor roll of the I greatest Republic on which tho sun has ever shone here In that I presence It hn hoovos all of us young and old solemnly and reverently to pledge ourselves to continue con-tinue undimmed mite traditions you loft us OLD J PLEDGES PKNEWED To do the work nuceaary whatever that work may he to make good tho work that you did to acknowledge the iusplri lion of your eareers III war and In peace and to 1 remind ourselves once for all that lip loyalty is not the loyalty that counts that loyally that counts Is tho loyally 1 thai shows Itself In deeds rather than m word and thcruforc I wo pledge oursel sin s-in 11111 Ice good by our lives what von risked your lives to gain and keep for iho Nation nu a whole COMMITTED TO THE GRAVE The services at the pavilion over the cortege moved slowly to the grave where the I commitment service was read by Dr Stafford closing with Nearer My God to liceby the quartette Taps were rounded I followed by l a nalvo of artillery and the I last sad rites over the distintuislul 1 soldier had been performed |
