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Show NATION PWS TRIBUTE TO VICE-PRESIDENT SHERMAN President Tift, Membera cf the Cabinet, Cabi-net, Justices and Members of Con-greet, Con-greet, Attend Funeral at Utlca. Utlca, N. Y. With simple but lm-presalve lm-presalve cerernonlej the body of Vice-President Vice-President James 8. Sherman was laid away Saturday afternoon in a crypt within a beautiful mausoleum ill Forest For-est Hill cemetery. Voder a canvas covering that eerved at a shield against a chill November wind were gathered the Sherman family,' President Taft, members of bis cabinet. Justices of the supreme court, senators and members of the house of representatives and a few intimate friends and business associates of the vice-president, while without wis a throng that stood reverently until the trains of "Asleep In Jesus" by the Haydn male chorus had died away. President Tart listened with bowed head and tsar-dlmmed eyee as Dr. M. V. Styker, president ef Hamilton college, col-lege, read the brief committal serv-Ice serv-Ice and the Rev. Louis H. Ho'den, pastor of Christ church, of which Mr. Sherman was a mem Dec, offered prayer. pray-er. A mixed chorus sang "Good Night," and when a selection by the male chorus bad been finished the president presi-dent gazed a moment at the Rower-covered Rower-covered casket and slowly made his way to a waiting automobile, accompanied accom-panied by former Vice-President Fairbanks, Fair-banks, Attorney General YVlckersham and Major Ilhoades, bis military aide. Earlier in the afternoon there had been private service at the Sherman borne and public obsequies at the First Presbyterian church, both of which were atOnded by the president |