Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1913 — D. H. Yeoman Tells of Visit to Soldiers’ Home. [ARTICLE]

D. H. Yeoman Tells of Visit to Soldiers’ Home.

While in California D. H. Yeoman, who in the civil war was a lieutenant, find at the close of the war a brevet captain, visited the National Soldiers’ Home at Santa Monica and he knows that all the “old boys” will be glad' to know how splendidly the government has provided for the comfort of the soldiers. - The home in California is regarded as a model and Dave found that* everything possible is done for the comfort and hono* of the veterans. As present the home has a population of about 3,000, but the death rate is very large -and from two to five pass away every day. Dave attended a burial service. The casket was hauled to the burial ground on a caisson, the same method employed during the service. The flag at the home is half-masted as the procession goes to the graveyard and is again raised as the procession returns. The band furnishes the escort and the pallbearers and chaplain and a firing squad of veterans accompany each cortege. The salute is fired just as it was in the service. By an order from headquarters no • two’ funeral services can be held at the same time, each soldier being entitled to the honors separately. The burial Dave attended was the 3,0515 t that had been laid to rest in that graveyard, all veterans of the civil war.