Douglas Daily Dispatch

GEN. GOETHALS LAID TO REST AT WEST POINT

WEST POINT, N. Y., Jan. 24 (P)-

The body of Major General George W. Goethals, U. S. A., retired, builder of the Panama canal, was buried today with imposing military ceremonies in the historic cemetery of the United States military academy on the plains overlooking the winding Hudson river.

This was the wish of the man who separated two continents in one of the greatest engineering triumphs of the ages. His grave is near the mounds of General Winfield Scott, General Daniel Butterfield and General George B. Custer.

The tat of muffled drums and the slow measures of the funeral dirge sounded as the full corps of cadets was drawn up after the simple services in the post chapel. The flag draped coffin was carried to the burying ground on an artillery caisson.

A squad of cadets from B company-the company General Goethals commanded when he was a cadet--fired a volley as the coffin was lowered into the grave, and the shots echoed and re-echoed through the surrounding hills.

Then-the plaintive notes of "taps" from a cadet bugler, and the academy had given its final honors to one of its most distinguished sons.

The Rev. H. Percy Silver, a former academy chaplain and an old friend of the family, was in charge of the service in the chapel. Mrs. Goethals, her two sons and daughters-in-law were present, together with many high in the public and military life.