Masaryk Honored by Aged Women

Thousands Stand for Hours to Pass Bier of Former Czechoslovak President

CROWDS JAM THE CAPITAL

Foreign Delegations Arrive for Funeral — Body Will Be Taken to Lana Tomorrow

Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMES.

PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, Sept. 19. — All last night and today the great pilgrimage to the bier of Thomas Garrigue Masaryk continued uninterrupted. It takes nine hours standing in line to pass the body, but the black ribbon of mourners winding up the hillside grows even longer.

As far as possible streets have been closed to traffic, and the police today ordered the queue to take a zigzag course and wind around all four sides of the big square. The official appeal for people to stay away from Prague seems to have had little effect.

Peasants continue to pour in. Among them are many old women, obviously poor, who have clearly spent money saved for Winter necessaries on mourning finery.

It was pathetic to watch them and to realize that in these vast crowds such frail women have no chance of getting anywhere near Tuesday's procession.

Several foreign delegations arrived today, but the majority are expected tomorrow.

The Tuesday procession starts from the Hradschin on the hillside and will wind down to the River Vlatava. Then it will cross to the inner city, reaching the Wilson Station, where the body, accompanied by members of his family, members of the Cabinet and foreign delegates, will entrain for Lana.

The body will be carried on a gun carriage and, apart from officials and family mourners, only troops and Sokols will march in the procession.

Certain streets have been reserved for organizations, including those in national costume, but the general public will have unrestricted access to most of the route.

In order to shorten the procession as far as possible no foreign delegations will march in the parade.

At the Wilson Station troops will march past the bier, giving the final salute.

The station has been draped in black up to the first floor. The coffin will be carried in beneath a black canopy supported by silver pillars.

Jan Masaryk, son of the former President, received the following telegram from the Duke of Windsor, who is at Nicolsburg:

"As our first visit to Czechoslovakia coincides with the sad event of your honored father's death, the Duchess of Windsor and I beg you to accept this expression of our sincere sympathy in the great loss you and your country have sustained." It was signed "Edward."

M. Masaryk replied:

"I am extremely grateful to the Duchess and your Royal Highness for your kind message."

Masaryk Lauded Here

The late Dr. Thomas G. Masaryk, first President of Czechoslovakia, was eulogized as a "great Protestant and defender of democracy" at memorial services held yesterday at the Jan Hus Presbyterian Church, 351 East Seventy-fourth Street. Dr. Masaryk died last Tuesday in Prague.

More than 600 attended the services, including relatives and friends of the Masaryk family, the entire staff of the Czechoslovak Consulate, Dr. Nikola Tesla, the inventor, who was decorated last July by President Masaryk; Dr. John H. Finley, associate editor of THE NEW YORK TIMES, and others.

The religious services were conducted in Czech.

A choir of fifty voices sang Dr. Masaryk's favorite songs, "Tece Voda" and the Largo from Dvorak's New World Symphony. The Rev. Frank D. Svoboda, pastor of the Jan Hus Presbyterian Church, officiated. The Hon. Jindrich Starch, Consul General of Czechoslovakia, also participated, praising Czechs in America for what they did in helping Masaryk gain freedom for his country.

Pupil Praises Leader

The Rev. Dr. Joza Novotny, former pupil of Dr. Masaryk at the University of Prague, praised the late President as "the Moses of Czechoslovakia in freeing the country from Austro-Hungarian ties and in setting up a democracy." Dr. Masaryk's last written work, called "Jesus Not Caesar," contained his beliefs in Christian democracy rather than in force, Dr. Novotny said. Masaryk loved truth and had "the great courage to practice it," he added.

The Rev. William C. Bennett, executive of the Federation of Churches, who talked with Dr. Masaryk last Summer during a trip through Czechoslovakia, described the country as a "haven of relief for Americans thoroughly sick of the surrounding dictatorships."

The signatures of all who attended the services were collected in an album and will be sent to the Masaryk Museum in Prague.