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Show FUNSTON'S BODY LIES II STATE iMfDUO Special Honor Is Accorded Army Hero; Thousands Attend Funeral Ceremony Cere-mony in San Antonio. By International News Service. SAN ANTOXIO, Texas. Feb. 20. The ' body of Major Genera Funston, hero and Idol of the American peopte. lies in state In the old Alamo, the cradle of Texas! liberty. The entire population of Pan Antonio had the opportunity of gazing upon the face of the famous military ge- i nlus for the last time today. . It was deemed fitting that the Alamo, the scene of one of the most heroic Incidents in all history, should shelter the body of one of the greatest national heroes since the civil war. Promptly at 4:30 p. m. the funeral pro- cefsion appeared in the distance, marching to the weird stt uins of a funeral dirge. The first procession, consisting of infantry, infan-try, arrived at the Alamo about 4:.n,5 p. ni. and formed a wide circle in front of the Aiamo. As the caisson bearing the body of Genera! Funst'Jit parsed throu.ch the lines of troops every man's hand went to liis cap in salute. Just behind the body came General Fun? ton's favorite mount, draped in black and carrying the dead general's equipment, his sword and boots, . etc. The body was taken f rom its carriage car-riage and carried into the Alamo. Flag at Half Mast. The little flag waving over the Alamo was at half mast in silent tribute to one of the nation's greatest military heroes. The Alamo was draped in black and just over the general's body was a huge American Amer-ican flag, while behind it was the flag i of Texas. By placing the body of General Gen-eral Funston In the Alamo San Antonio is paying the departed hero a tribute that has never been accorded to another since the Alamo became the most precious relic of the -Lone Star state. Thousands gazed upon the face of the great soldier. The streets in front of the Alamo were crowded with members of the army and citizens of San Antonio. The crowd formed two lines, extending cevera! blocks from the door, which was guarded to a company of the Thirty-seventh Thirty-seventh infantry from Fort Sam Hous- lOfficers declared that it was fitting that the body of General Funston should rest at the Presidio, instead of the national na-tional cemetery at Washington, the usual burial spot for distinguished army officers. offi-cers. Sent to San Francisco. Tn San Francisco General Funston. once a colonel of volunteers, drilled the Twentieth Twen-tieth Kansas, which was destined to become be-come famous in the Philippines. It was in San Francisco that General Funston was in command of the western department at the time of the great fire in 1906. and by his clever work the terrible ter-rible situation added new glory to his illustrious record. General Funston's body was placed aboard a special car tonight, accompanied by Captain Lee. his aide and close friend, two non-commissioned officers and six privates. A military funeral will be held upon the arrival of the body in San Francisco. Fran-cisco. The burial will be Saturday. The route of General Funston's funeral train for more than 1000 miles will skirt the international border over which the late commander kept a watchful eye for eleven months past. Some time tomorrow tomor-row the train will pass the edge of the Big Bend country, later reaching El Paso and thence proceeding along the route taken bv the first troops rushed to Columbus Co-lumbus after the raid of last March. Constant Guard. The private soldiers standing at atten tion beside the casket on the train wih be relieved every two hours, so that a constant guard will be maintained until the train reaches San Francisco. At the service this afternoon not an officer of-ficer attending was in Tull dress. IJke the enlisted men. all wore the regular khaki service uniform, the only distinction distinc-tion being the designating stars or bars ani the side arms that the officers wore. This was done by regular officers out of consideration for officers of the national guard, many of whom had only service uniforms here. The one incident distinguishing the funeral fu-neral service of the honored leader from that of any army officer came just as the chaplain finished reading the burial service ser-vice at General Funston's residence. At that moment thirteen cannon boomed out the major general's salute. The band of tiie Nineteenth infantry then beean playing play-ing softly "Lead Kindly Light." Touching Incident. Only once or. the two-mile march from Fort Sam Houston to the Alamo did the band play a funeral march. The remainder remain-der of the way only the solemn beat of muffed drums marked the progress of the long procession. At the Alamo perhaps the most touching touch-ing incident of the funeral occurred when Brigadier General Henry A. Greene, commander com-mander of the Twelfth provisional division divis-ion at Camp Wilson, stepped apart from the group of officers with whom he had been standing and approached the casket where General Funston lay. He eazed intently in-tently at the face a few moments, then bent over, patted the dead commander's head gently, turned and walked out ot" the building. |