Show Horse Funston Mourner w. w Host Grieves neves in in Rain I HE SUCCEEDS FUNSTON I II II er i ir I x rr- rr a v- v V V SIC SICy y r 1 w 43 i s i J Y 1 S. S ze I I IA i Gam I Yr JOHN J tG D Of U l to Tt 11 Tte rim n AN FRANCISCO FRANCISCO Feb On On the time S slope of a wind s c Wept swept it eminence in Presidio national cemetery tho bo body of Fighting Fred Funston lay tonight in a a. new Dew made grave Several soldiers from front the Presidio Pre sidio braved the gale Jale to to visit again the spot where a 1 few hours earlier I they had fired a last salute in m memory mory of or the dead major general A forty- forty five mile wind blow blew mournfully fiver q the tho spot as if it in requiem and scattered the thousands of blossoms with which admiring San Sail Francisco friends had covered tho time bare mound of or earth carth Time The worst gale of the winter attended attend attend- ed the time funeral today the most solemn solomn and impressive military ceremonial San Francisco has ever witnessed But Dut the time high wind which drove tho the rain in horizontal sheets failed to keep indoors indoors indoors in in- doors tho the thousands of or people who wished to pay tribute to Funs Funston's tons ton's memory TRAFFIC HALTS I As an especial mark of respect to toI I the nn n ill an who did so much for San Sani i Francisco during the tile tr trying da lays days after aCter I I the fire Cire scourge of or 1006 1906 all street traffic traffic fic fie ceased at 1230 1220 the thc e exact act hour that the body was lowered into the time grave brave and aud for two minutes hundreds o of men meu in all ull sections of or San Francisco stood with bared heads Time Tho feeling of or San Franciscans was eloquently expressed by Rev ney William K Outline Guthrie in his funeral sermon ut at the time First Presbyterian church We citizens of San Sail Francisco who went through h time the trying of or days das fire tiro and earthquake learned to know kno his w worth rth when his genius and his manhood manhood man man- hood brought order out of oC confusion confidence out of or fear and comfort out of distress And this he lie did not counting the cost to himself and antl risk risk- ing lug more than we can understand that ho might night help the needy DISMAL PLACE The Time gale made the time burial place the most dismal spot In San Francisco The wind shrieked wildly and the rain came down in a stead steady torrent and poured into the open grave as six soldiers soldiers soldiers sol sol- diers bearing leg the casket from the caisson on which it had been taken to the cemetery stumbled and slipped lIpped through a n. morass of or mud When the casket had been lowered lo into time tho ground and the grave had been covered coy cov ered creel tho the notes of taps blown by a solitary were almost I drowned out by the howl of the time wind After AHel the parting partin three volleys had been fired Ired the bare mound was covered cov coy covered ered several feet with flowers lowers which admirers of or General Funston had sent Tho The most striking figuro figure In the hundreds hundreds hun hun- of at mourners was General Funston's Funston's Funs Funs- tons ton's horse a black animal which was led behind the caisson which bore his masters master's body ThoI Tho The saddle was empty but General Funston's Funston's Funs Funs- I tons ton's riding boots reversed boots reversed were tied in the tho stirrups |