The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1899-07-26
THT LAST SAD RITES
Over the Body Of the Late Colonel
Robert G. Ingersoll.
SERVICES SHORT AND SIMPLE.

selections From the Dead Orators
Writings Read by o1d Time Friends.
Old Servants Come from washing
ton to Honor Their Benemctor.
New York, July 26.-The funeral OF
the late Robert G.. Ingersoll took place
at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon at
Walston, Dobbs Ferry. whore he died
on Friday last. No clergyman was
present to conduct the services; there
was no music, and there were no pail
bearers. The body lay on a cot in the
room where he died. IL was enshroud-
ed in white, and just one red rose
placed on his breast. About the cot
were banks of floral tributes sent by
friends. wreaths and lunches OF bios
sons.
Mrs Ingersoll sat beside her dead,
and beside her were her daughters,
Mrs. Walston II. Brown and Miss
Maud Ingersoll. They were very much
agitated, and wept almost continuous
ly. Mr.. and Mrs. G. p. Farrell we're
present and Charles Broadway Rouss,
Colonel lngersoll's oldest friend, oc-
cupied a chair by the side of the bier.
There were some 40 others present,
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out
The intense silence was broken by
DR.. John Clark Ridpath, who, in
voice full of emotion, said:
MY friends, il is a very sad duty to
read in the presence of the dead the
last poem written by Colonel Robert
! G. lngersoll entitled, Declaration of
the Free"
Thg, ,,oor, ro1o,oI Tnro~.,11 h,a
read and altered in some of the parts
| only a few hours before he was
stricken.
Major o. ]. Smith, who resides in
| DObbs Ferry, and who was a close per-
sonal friend of Colonel Ingersoll, then
| without any preliminary words, read
| another extract from Colonel Inger-
| soils writings, entitled my Religion: "
"To love justice, to long for the
| right, to love mercy, to assist the
weak, to forget wrongs and remember
| benefits-to love the truth to be sin
cere, to utter honest words, to love
| liberty, to wage relentless war against
| slavery in all its forms, to love wife
and child and friend, to make a happy
| home to love the beautiful in art, in
nature, to cultivate the mind, to be
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| genius had expressed the noble deeds
| of all the world, to cultivate courage
| and cheerfulness, to make others
| happy, to fill life with the splendor Of
| generous acts, the warmth of loving
words, to discard error, to destroy pref
udice, to receive new truths with
! gladness, to cultivate hope, to see the
calm beyond the storm, the dawn be-
/ vnnh thn nfcht fn Ia lof
can be done and then be resigned, this
is the religion of reason the creed of
science. This satisfies the brain and
heart"
DR.. John Elliott, of New York, read
the funeral Grafton delivered by Colo
mel Ingersoll over his brothers dead
body This concluded the short and
simple services. Nearly all present
then took a parting look at the dead
and passed out.
After they had gone Mr.. Rouss arose
from his chair, and as he is totally
blind passed his hand over the face of
his departed friend and said:
Perhaps he is better now. No one
can understand it."
Mrs. Ingersoll said to him: "The
colonel wanted you to put your hand
upon his heart" and suiting the action
to the word, she directed his hand to
the left breast of the deceased.
Mr.. Rouss asked what she was going
to do with the remains.
81 cannot give him up" she said.
81 cannot put him in the ground. l
can't bear to think of it. We're going
to bring him back home"
The body will probably be taken to
Fresh Pond, Long Island, tomorrow
for cremation, but this arrangement is
subject to change.
During the morning there were
many visitors to look upon the face
of the deceased. Among them were
several old coloTed servants of the
family who had come from Washing
ton and took four days off and paid
their expenses to do honor to their
benefactor. Among these were two
former buffers of the family. One old
man who was a baggageman on the
railroad came from down on Long
Island; others came from Chicago,
Syracuse and Buffalo.
Many additional kilograms of SYM
pathy we're received yesterday, one of
them being from General Miles.