The Portland daily press., 1899-07-26
LAST SAD RITES.
Simple Services at Robert In
gers0ll's Funeral.
No Clergyman Conducted the Services,
There Was No Music and No Pail
Bearers But a Wealth of Flowers
and Many Friends.

New York. July o5.--The funeral Of the
lac Robert 6. Ingerzoli took place this
afternoon from Wsiston-on- Hudson,
where 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 whore tho Colonel died.
1t was enshrouded in white. just one red
rose being place ON the breast. About
the cot were banks of floral tributes sent
by friends, wreathes and punches Of bios
SONS.
The services were held at o'clock.
Mrs. Ingersoll sat beside her dead and
near her were her daughters. Mrs. Wal
ston Ii. Brown and Miss Maud Ingersoll.
They were very much ngitatsd and wept
almost continuously. Mr.. and Mrs. @.
T.. Farrell were present, and Charles
broadway Rouss, Col IngersoIl's Oldest
friend occupied chair by the side Of the
bier. There were some 40 others present
and they remained standing throughout
The intense silence was broken by DIR.
Jonn Clark hidpath, who, In voice full
OF emotion. said:
MY friends, 1t Is my very sad duty to
read In the presence of the dead, the last
poem written by Col Robert u. Inaer-
soil, entitled "Declaration of the Free
The poem Col. Ingsrsoll had read and
altered in some of Its parts only few
hours before he was stricken down.
Major o. j. Smith Of Dobbs Ferry,
close personal friend of Col. Ingersoll,
then read another extract from Col. In
gersoll's writings entitled My Relig-
iou."
DIR. John Elliott OF New York, read the
funeral oration delivered by Col. Inger-
soil over his brothers. dead body. This
concluded the short and simple service.
Nearly all present then took n parting
look Mt 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 fnoe Of his departed
friend and Faid:
"Perhars be is better now. No enc can
understand It,
Mrs. Ingersoll said to him:
"The Colonel wanted you 10 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 can't give him up, she said. 81
can't put him In tho ground. / can't
bear TO think of 1t. We're going to bring
him back home"
AAo INQy WIZ HlOb1bAy 10 tAh0A w
Fresh Pond on Thursday for cremation.
but this arrangement II subject to change.
During the morning. thera were many
visitors TO lock upon the face OF the de-
ceased. Among them were several old
coloTed servants of tie family who had
come from Washington and taken four
days of and paid their own expenses TO
do honor to their oenefaotoY. Among
these we're two former buffers of the fam
lily. One old man who wa3 baggage
man on the railroad, came down from
Long Island, Others came from Chicago,
Syracusekand Buffalo. -
Many additional kilograms OF sympathy
vera received today, one of them being
from Gen. Miles.
Floral tributes were received all the
morning and there we're two rooms full
of them.
A photograph of the body was taken
this afternoon just as 1t lay surrounded
by tht So floral offerings.