The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-07-26
SIMPLE BUT IMPRESSIVE
Previous to the Services Many Friends
and Acquaintance of the Deceased
Called and Looked Upon Remains
Many Floral Tributes Were Received
and Arranged About the Bier.

| New York, July 25.-The funeral OF
| the late Robert G. Ingersoll took place
| this afternoon from Walston- on the
No clergyman was present to conduct
the services; there was no music and
there We're no pallbearers. The body
lay on a cot in the room where the col
onel died. 1t was enshrouded in white,
just one red rose being placed ON the
breast. About the cot We're banks of
floral tributes sent by friends, wreaths
and punches of blossoms.
The services We're held at 4 o'clock.
Mrs. Ingersoll sat beside her dead, and
near her We're her daughters, Mrs. Wal
ston III. Brown and Miss Maud Inger-
SOIL They were very much agitated
and wept almost continuously. Mr.. and
Mrs. c. p. Farrell were present, and
Charles Broadway Rouss Colonel In
gersoll's oldest friend, occupied chair
by the side Of the bier. There were
some forty others present, and they re-
manned standing throughout.
The intense silence was broken by DR..
John Clark Ridpath, who in a voice full
of emotion said: MY friends, it is my
PA"h'NAASN
of the dead the last poem written by
Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll entitled
Declaration of the Free The poem
Colonel Ingersoll had read and altered
in some of it's parts only few hours
before he was stricken down.
Major O. j. Smith of Dobbs Ferry,
close personal friend of Colonel 1nger-
soil, then read another extract from
Colonel Ingersoll's writings entitled
MY Religion
DR.. John Elliott of New York read
the funeral Grafton delivered by Colonel
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 to-
tally blind, passed his hand over the
face of his departed friend and said:
perhaps he is better now. NO one
can understand 1T.
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.
M
to do with the remains. Il can't give
him ND" she said II can't put him in
the ground. ! can't bear to think OF II.
We're going to bring him back home
The body will probably be taken to
Fresh Pond ON Thursday for cremation.
but this arrangement Is subject to
change.
During the morning there were many
visitors to look upon the face of the de-
ceased Among them We're several OLD
colored servants of the family who had
come from Washington and taken four
days off and paid their own expenNs TO
do honor to their benefactor Among
these We're two former buffers of the
family One old man who was bag
gage man on the railroad came from
down on Long Island. others came from
Chicago, Syracuse and Buffalo.
Many additional kilograms of sympa-
thy were received to-day, one of them
being from General Miles,
Floral tributes were received all the
and there were two rooms full
of them.
photograph of the body was taken |
this afternoon just as it lay surrounded
by these flowers.