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Funeral services for Arthur Beane '11, who died in New York last Sunday, will be held today at 4.15 o'clock in Appleton Chapel. The Reverend Raymond Calkins. D. D. '90, will officiate.
In this square, the coffin was placed upon a black-draped platform, great, smoking funeral pyres at its corners. Here the corpse of Ebert remained in tate for several hours while troops marched past to the strains of Chopin's and Beethoven's solemn music an:! while sorrowing...
At 6:30 in the evening, the coffin was placed upon the funeral train which steamed out into the black night for the President's natal town.
Next morning, the arrival of the funeral train at Heidelberg was signaled by the tolling of every church bell in the town, the tolling continuing for three hours.
As Heidelberg is occupied by French troops, the funeral procession was deprived of any military pomp. A vast crowd of notables, who had arrived in 43 special trains, formed a long and impressive queue of mourners. Among them were Frau Ebert, two Fraulein Ebert, Ebert's only son, a...