GUNS AND MUFFLED DRUMS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 81, 10 August 1923, Page 5

GUNS AND MUFFLED DRUMS.

SHORT SERVICE AT CAPITOL. WIDOW SUFFERS SILENTLY. HEAT WAYE EXPERIENCED. 1 Press Association—Copyright. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. (Received 9.25 a.m.) Washington, August 8.

Minute guns were fired f rom the Pottomac forts throughout the ceremonies, while muffled drums kept time with the rumbling gun-carriage.

Arriving at the Capitol, the coffin was placed on the catafalque, and an invocation was delivered by Pastor Calvary, of the Baptist Church, Harding's place of worship, a male j quartette from which sang "Lead Kindly Light." The twenty-third J Psalm and other excerpts from the | Scriptures were then read, followed |by prayers by the Congressional I chaplains, the hymn "Nearer My 'God to Thee," and the Benediction. I Mr Wilson did not participate in the service, returning home immedi lately the procession reached the 1 Capitol. I Mrs Harding, heavily veiled, sat at the right of the casket near Harding secretary, who wept bit'^rly. The service lasted but a few minutes. Then the diplomatic corps paid their respects, and the mourners then left the Capitol. Shortly afterwards, the doors were thrown open to admit the public to view the body. Thousands had been standing in line since early morning. Over two hundred persons were prostrated by the heat during the procession. During the funeral service, business was suspended at all the Stock Exchanges and business houses throughout the country. Memorial services were held in all /the /churches simultaneously the Washington obsequies. ,