FUNERAL TO-DAY

Press, Volume LX, Issue 17990, 6 February 1924, Page 13

FUNERAL TO-DAY

L WA RJRESIDENT. L LIBERATION'S 1 HEROES. 1 - i«OCIATIOS COrI.WF-T.'; r ;ved Fcbr uary o-th. 10.10 p.m.) I X'S «r Present will bo J.„d I iSr „ Wednesday »' ith lhc i!Ui ' >hc ' n3 ,pk,.K be .aden. the P^l'inphith^ l -'" of the ArhngK«nd Cathedral. , i-l ■ P"; . 6i jliirs and marines uiil ..-- ! ?%!foor non-commissioned men besido the hearse. N0 STATE CEREMONY. F OL'GHT OFF SORE DISEASE. „ ,rr S3 asscciat/o;.- COI'VI:in in.) a:«- »•'■• . t . ißlj; isaocii-ito:;.; ivASfliN GTOX > *'c br,,ar > r J-r-fimcrel cervices of the late Dr. -.,' ro ff Wilson will I* held on Vd- " V and i-ill probably bo private '%'xtM that there will be no great - toccrmonv. A number of friends associate v.,11 ho dc.ignat.priro and honorary pall-bearers. Vptec of final burial has not yet C determined. Tho body may rest otiao at least in the great national Mm! now risingou tho Mount of St. the city, where it f! fcir,ed to havo a place of seput„(or tho nation's great dead, simiAbbey in London. ! [i, real causo of Dr. Wilson's death ...jslrtko of paralysis, a eonsequeuco ifia collapse in 1919 on his speaking .*i- tlrough tho country. 'litßga ho was then believed to bo L«ial fcealtby man, it is now known ••it lio entered Whito House with a start towards .Wright's &&, caasing tho physicians to preli ijit ho would not finish his first iaof tho Presidency, but ho fought 3 * lie malady. li is also mealed that ho was blind ... ae ( rc from retinal haemorrhage ilia occurred while still 'at Prince ton Iffvasitj. By bis own direction tho aam of bia illness was concealed from iittsAi because bo feared that wbilo V. was President it might lead to a :uic en the stock market and have , ar-rcsciiing conscqiionces to tho world sail* through post-iyar reconstruc-

THIRTY DAYS' MOURNING. jcnuws iira x.a. ciulk association.) WASHINGTON, February 4. laoctfiately after Dr. Woodrow "Wilm death «u announced tho flags fi GiNCTSCtit buildings everywhere itsulialf-iaMtaiand a 30 days' period ordered. Congress I tinned to-diay and csecutivo departI tt&Vrn been ordered to close, while 1 trai e&ities h«re been abandoned. I Jkitewdg of sustained meaning i.rfiitflpsistatesman, wero spoken on | $&;, ria ho said, "I am ready." } ftn dji tittd on ho lived out his I fafataj life with tho full knowg was on the threshold oi" I tboGrwSßoyond. I !&fc ditectiona from President I Gasp, tough tho United States i CaacWansral in Wellington, the | SfflisdStripes is flying at haif-masb I nri» American Consular Agency iu | Cfeiorcli.]

•i HIDDEN ILLNESS. MM' SECRET WELL KEPT. . • (Saw "Stn»" Sebyicb.) I- WASHINGTON, February 4. »M 8 tte late President Wilson was »fi?»i tour in 1919 ho spoke at Vj*». Colorado, his medical attend--2^i :i ? n > foUnd him nervously dSw 1 .- Whon Dr - WUsoa ar ™" Ji" «,™agto B there was no crowd b'",,i?* bu , t,,o ' solemr Jy ri "sed his Mh« R, » aS if tho gjW.of a groat crowd. This magS*»nwmr that ho had lost his ■Ww, heigntenod by exhaustion. ,Win October tho late President taC ffi ., a Bathrom from complete M?!?' CUBful waa th?fam*S(W P to ., st * t °- of Paralysis a » non the barber was' barred #s*£*"*» f ° r °» fct IUS?T"i* d t? know whether tho m, W- Saff ? rod a Permanent. T TTo! £o waa determined :^f^,^ QaW x not 0ut > i <fflS na ? B »«- for eTen members' **ta\ Wk 4ft audiences in the 50 " . was still abfe ?«"D? f'~ 6d ° n and attempted S J4d yS °? and Mr Tumulty, &?, te rota % regarding l>r Bare "little «»«e Z ¥* th « matter dropped, c - autionin 2 those \ to S< ve ol,fc anv thine *?»»» W. ' ? hen tho seal of mys^ Bj f HEROIC FIGURE." 4515 S-I. CIBU6 ASSOCIATIOB.) Feb ™«y *• s¥ V «fc\Vori^. aCabl^ ram to tho &*«»'" s - ay f tfiat llis view i? 1 tSLT* i s full - v hi 1921. K& accident al circum[EMsuro away his p* «<W A FOE. pWiUODGE-S EULOGY. i " 45 *r Ui , ' *«hruarv 4. "cb-eneiv of

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wero instrumental in forestalling tho United Status's participation, addressed the Senate eulogising Dr. Wilson as a man of remarkable ability and strong character. Senator Lodge, after expressing general sorrow, said :—'Dr. Wilson served during a most terrible war, after which it fell" to him. to take a. leading part in tho difficult work of making peace. "Ho stood tho chief figure m this great transaction, and will so stand m tho pages of history. Indeed, there is no moro conspicuous figure in those events which closed ono period of mankind's history and opened another. Vc stand in sympathy and sorrow m solemn recognition of his passing, which como in tho wisdom ai the high Providence that guides tho destinies ol mankind,"-