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Show yoisco SAYS SAD HAIL AIIDFAHEILL Simple Services ' Held . Over Casket by Baptist Minister Before Mortal -7 Remains Begin Journey SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 4 (By A. r. San Francisco today Interred tha memory of President Warren O. Harding In Ita vault of treasured '"" thoughts, while slowly recovering from the sorrowful scenes which surrounded the funeral cortege tf tha late chief executive at tha nation na-tion here yeetsrday. The services here were simple. The members of Mr. Harding's of' flclal family and a few Intimate . . friends gsthered about hla casket and heard tha Rev. James 8. West, a Baptist minister, pray for "him whom Thou hast called from eas-,1. eas-,1. riflclal service ta rest eternal." When the prayer waa concluded Mrs. Harding Joined the Rev. Weet In -amen" and said ta tha mlnls- "It haa been a great comfort ta " I me." As Mrs. Harding torn ed for an-ther an-ther look at her husband s face before the casket waa closed, ether members af the party filed ant ef y ' the room and left her alone for a few momenta with her dead, while - eurglng silent crowds which lined - the streets below joined ber la re-, -r,M ' sulem. HIAO BOWIO OOWN. Mrs. Harding waa bowed down, but not broken In aptrlt, under the load or grief with which she haa e been burdened. , She thanked the minister; "Mr. Watson," the po-' po-' Itceman who waa on guard at the ... presidential suite, and her parting . .. word of comfort to San Francisco . , waa: "I wont break down. My thoughta will go Just aa fast aa tha traln." Mrs. Harding waa the last mem-ber mem-ber of tha official party to leave the hotel. She eame down to her automobile on the arms of Brigadier Briga-dier General Sawyer and Secretary Christian at o'clock, almost thirty mlntuea after the casekt started moving towards the depot. - v She was spared tha ordeal ef watching the casket, carried by ' aoldlera. sailors and marines, wend - Ita way -through tha hotel lobby to the street through a colorful array " of military officers, while the naval ' band entside the hotel played "The Atar-8pang led Banner" and "Lead, Kindly Light," Mr. Harding's favorite fa-vorite hymn. As the gray raskst, covered by hn American flag, topped with a wreath of California eamatlona, waa gently rolled Into the hearse, - 'the chimes of St. Patrick's Catho lic church, just a block distant, filed "nearer, My God, to Thee." "NOTABLES FOLLOW HEARSE. The bright array ef uniforms which thrse branches of the military mili-tary service brought to the procee-olon procee-olon wee In sharp contrast to ths garb of frock coaled statesmen who Followed the hesrss. Around the Montgomery street canopy of ths Palace hotel was ' gsthered an Imposing array of atateemen whose names are household house-hold words in the nation. There were General John 1. -Psr- shlng. Secretsrles Hoover. Work - and Wallace, Attorney General - Iieueheriy, Associate Justice Mo Reynolds of the United Btatee supreme su-preme court. Rear Admirals Simp-eon Simp-eon and J. 8. McKean, Senator Samuel Sam-uel Sbortridve, Congressman Julius Kahn. and Mayor James Rolph. With the exoeptloa ef Attorney - ' Oeneral Ieugherty. whose condi tion would not stand the strain. - all tha notables walked te the da-pot. da-pot. While (he cortege passed through silent thousands to the station, California Cal-ifornia flowers which had been gathered lavishly te Invite the soillee of the man who loved them, were showered by etrpiaaee from . the eky, that his pathway Into the beyond would be one of Increased beauty and brightness. At the Southern Pacifls depot the a body was plaoed on board the Harding special train, which was covered with shrubbery and flow-ere flow-ere gathered from California gardens. gar-dens. A shaft of sunlight broke through - a cloud Just before ths sun set in the Uolden Gala snd lighted the skies Just as ths bllllsntly lighted -- coach sped out of the Weet en the first stretch of Its sorrowful Journey Jour-ney ts Wsshlngton. |