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Show HONORS PAID VERNON CASTLE. Prominent Men and Women Do Reverence Rever-ence at Flier's Funeral Service. New York. Honors befitting a hero were accorded at the funeral services here Tuesday of Capt. Vernon Castle, famous as an originator and interpreter interpre-ter of modern dances, a member of the British flying corps, who was killed at Fort Worth, Texas, February 15, when his airplane crashed to the ground. Representatives of the United States army and navy, of Earl Reading, Brit ish high commissioner 10 me i-m. States, men and women prominent in 1 New York society and theatrical cir- cles, paid tribute to the memory of tlie dead air fighter by their presence at the church, and hundreds stood outside out-side in a drizzling rain. Captain Castle was buried in the uniform uni-form in which. he fought at the French front and pinned on his breast was the cross of war which he won for bringing bring-ing down two German aviators. Six of his former comrades, members of a detachment of the royal flying corps, which brought the body here from Texas, were pallbearers.' |