THE WEARY TITAN.

Press, Volume L, Issue 15047, 15 August 1914, Page 9

THE WEARY TITAN.

ME CHAMBEBLAIJTS LAST DATS.f

A SIMPLE BURUL.

(from ock owx conrjcsroxDEKT.) LONDON, July 10. Everything in connexion with l Mr Chamberlain's last and his inter-

ment was carried out with tho least possible display and with Kono of * the .-. pomp that his groat*career had t for him. The people of -Binaingliani % k did not oven know that he had gono down to London or had had another - stroke. The peoplo of London did not know that ho had passed, away in their v midst until ho had been gono twelve.

hours. Though death took place at J0.15 p.m. on Thursday, rota single London paper knew of it, and the first

announcomont to the public was in

tho early editions of the nest day's evening papers in- Birmingham. The family wished above all things that there ehould bo no display and -little , ceremony. . i Tho funeral car ond'ttro mourning . coaches wero all tho "cavalcade thai >' rassed through the, streets of London \'- to Paddingtcn stitioa, for ■ tho great statesman had wished to bo 1 buried, in Birminghini, acd the family therefor©---declined the-houour of ,an * Abbey ' grave. A fow hundred persons waited , '~] outsido the resideneo U> see tho pro- ' " cession start; and hero:and there on " the route small knote cr?, people ivaited >, in the cheerless rain. It was Sundey, \' and the holiday crowds at tho railway . f\ station paused 'reverently when the coffin vraa borno in and placed in the train. Mr Auston Chamberlain aad ~. Mr J. Wilson, for many years tho pri- \ ' vato eocretary of both father and eon,. "- v----were amongst the followors. Later in * ~"i prirato <arriag<js camo Mrs Chamber— j lain and her mother, Mrs Eudicott, "'' '; •Miss Chamberlain. Miss Ida Chamber-.' T iain, Miss Hilda and Mr* v'" , Austen Chamberlain. - '• ~\

y-:Ai Snow ffill, Birmingham; 1 ; fin was in, ,the lift; %i Mr. Chamberiaiiv^himself boon borne Tip'to:thp street invalid vakiplaced 'inla two-torso ;h'«»rseV- ; sage to the old homaiat hoarse was followed by a only thinned v put. ae; the : into a- brisk;"trot." "v. '•"■Vv';V^/^ : '^i?#si

■■ ■■■-■• A. UNI^IIAN;'BURIAJi.x ;^|^ Many Birmingham factorira dia Bot|:?|j| work ■ nfc alt on ■Monday.\'.': , B^:; : :ihdr» woe nothing in the coremony. Many- years ago : ; : 3Jtr*. i berlain Held a r Sunda'y School ' : '<iam :;it/;|||s tho'; . Church of .tße' : -Mcssiah^ : eevoro avoidance ; ,of loetentetion qust-o in aocordanco "with," religion which thb; Bervice .vas conducted:by^tho'JKetV; L. P. \Jackuj i>roiessor bt . PhilosophyCatk? f ;?| Manchester Collcgo, ; -.-OifoTd,;Varia Mrs Chamberlain'B request tho JiturigK-'£s??. was tliat which is .geaeraUy:'ueed .■: euch occasions at tUe -' TJnitariatt' Chtn-ch, of King's Chapel, /Boeiott,vffig U.43.A., at which many of lice oi New England have worshipped. -h In t/xe'Churck-of.■thoj'-Messiah wero just a few from tho Gospel nnd dne;or two,hymiia.rjr3| in which- tho congregatioV Younger members ; .of tho:'Chamberlain family quietly acted as sdeßDK!n,aud:.J: = 'J| in the ftofltr pevrs were half f|;>; whit<?-ha : red won who' hfid -been jnom? : 4?-££ bore of his Sunday "form of service," like tho plate on tho) coflin, boro. the simple -inscription i *-Jcwpii Chamberlain, born July 3836; diad Jusy 2nd. 1914.!' .V,\ ;" : %- ; ;^f The «jffin -was placed, on ttro plain :;i;,' trestleSj without any palls of and senmunted ou!y by the cross of IHice. Tho bymas, too, irere : :4g simplicity, itself:' ■■■■■ '.' : "; v *^'"-''"; =: ' :^'.:",:B li Thou should'st call -ifio to resign;,; •;? What . most -1 'prize.-.it-.^iie'w.'.^as ,^;;^

••■'.■ I.only yield Thco what was Thine. - d ' THy'wilt !;<v "dene Then the Minister lead the well- ~ known linos from St. Paul's Kpistle tor the Cbriiithians, and the congregation i szng "Abido with M 0 ,,, one of Mr Chimibcrlain's faroarito byrnus. Then "Bles«?d are tho (Brahms), » yJ raver and benediction and another ' f ymit "Xow the Labonrer , !! Task « O''er, !j and the cofiin was Ix>rne put •■ of tho.chapel to the notes of Chopin's "Funeral March.'' . Only a very intimate and hmitea r group" followed to the csmeUry at. Key . " Hill, the stones of which are said to bo the history of Birmingham. .For there also Ijo Thomas Avery, John \ Henry Chamberlain, It. W. Dale, 4 t George Dawson, John Skirrow ,"-; Sam Timmins, Charles J. Powell Williams/and Thomas Msrit* \ ' neaut ■'■' '. -'':.. -- ' *. .-"