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Show LACK OF POMP I AND SHOW ARE I FUNERAL NOTES j War President Buried AVith- f out Military Show in Simple Ceremony. : WASHINGTON", Feb. 6. Booming Boom-ing guns and the mournful tolling of bolls, symbolizing the nation's sor- j row, ushered in the day upon which j Woodrow Wilson, the great war- , time president will be laid to his last long rest. Twice every hour, wherever the ( uniforms of his country is worn the ; deep throated roar of the suns spoke ( their tribute today to the passing j of him who in the heyday of his il- j lustrious career had loosed a million ' guns in the cause of right. The guns and the bells and the ; flags that flew at half mast every- where marked the chief outward ex- j. pressions of the country's grief, j And even these houora were un- j sought by him whose last wish had , been that he would be buried as a . private citizen of the country to x which he had. rendered such natoble ! service. The peace that was denied to i. Woodrow Wilson in his turbulent ,' life came to him today In death, j Peace is carved in the stone over the doorwoy to the little chapel where final serviees will be held for him late this afternoon; the message mes-sage of peace is portrayed in story and picture in the wood and stone of the chapel; and peace will be further fur-ther symbolized by the unarmed service men who carry him to his crypt i While the crowds of reverential !, mourners gathered this morning in j the little street outside his home t the body of the former president I . was removed from the bed on- which I : he died and born to the small library j j where he spent most of his waking ; j hours since his retirement from the 3 White House. 3 In this library whose walls are festooned with mementoes of his : greatness there was held this after- : noon, the briefest and simplest ; services. They consumed scarcely j more than a few minutes a psalni, a prayer and the reading of some : j extracts from a devotional book '1 which he was wont to read daily and that was all if Then his body was borne down the long stairway and into a hearse for the short trip to the heights of Mount St. Albans, where there was another and similarly brief service. Only the immediate family, a few ' old friends and the President of I the United States, were at the services ser-vices at the house. At the cathedral services there were others representatives repre-sentatives of the various arms of the gover,"riGt over Which he so long presided, but even there., only a comparative few of tho hosti""thnt - . mourn for Woodrow Wilson. Outside the cathedral, however, there were thousands gathered to pay their last respects to Mr. Wilson. Wil-son. To these were brought the prayers and the scriptural readings within by means of radio. And even those unable to gain nearness to the scene had the services brought to them by means of broadcasting, thus for t ho first time in history enabling countless thousands to participate par-ticipate in the final obsequies of a former president. The national capitol rendered to Mr. Wilson all the tribute possible. At 3:30 p. m. when his body was lowered inlo the ! crypt, tolling bells carried the nj e j sage and all business throughout J ji city ceased for (wo minutes. M' J$ ! cars and motor ears halted ttj, traffic, pedestrians uncover' f tho streets, clerks in stores ,o.-journi ,o.-journi d their labors anil the whole city stood still in his memory. The government departments disbeargetl their thousands of workers at 12:30 j p. in. that they might participatac i in the capital ceremonies. ! For Woodrow Wilson there was jto march down Pennsylvania Ave- : mm with the flood of memories that such- a march would bring no clatter clat-ter of military, no muffled drums . and draped colors, no black cassion and dirgful bands, lie did not wish , it. And so lie-was buried this afternoon after-noon as has been no other president s of the United States in history as a private citizen for whom there should be no ostentatious shorn ' of sorrow or display of pomp. ! And as he was a breaker of precedents prece-dents in life, so was he in death. ', He was buried this afternoon with--in the boundaries of the district of , Columbia the only one of his office 1 to find a final resting place within 5 sight of the familiar scenes of his life's greatest work. |