The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-05-01
JEFFERSON Laid away
With Simple Services
MAGNIFICENTFL TRIBUTES
FROM MANY FRIENDS.

Tennyson's "CrossIng the Bar" the
Much Loved Actors Favorite Poem,
Read-Interment at Sandwich Within
walking Distance of the Cottages of
Many of His Cape Cod Friends-Ffye
Sons at the Grave-Guard to be Kept
over 1t for Some Time.
Buzzards Bay, Mass, April 3o.-Fol-
lowing services that We're free from os-
tentation but impressive in, their sim
plicity, and suggestive of the character
of the distinguished actor, the body OF
Joseph jefferson was to-day laid away
at the Beyview cemetery in Sandwich,
within walking distance of the cottages
of many of his Cape Cod friends.
Mr.. Jefferson's five sons, a score of
intimate friends, and hundred or more
villagers gathered about the open grave
while tn commitment service was read;
then all withdrew with the exception Of
Charles B. Jefferson, who alone watched
the casket as 1t was lowered to ats
final resting place.
Tonight police officer remained at
the grave, and this guard viii be con-
tinued for several days. .,s53a
At Ii o'clock this morning brief SER
vice was held at Crows Nest" the
Jefferson summer cottage here. Only
immediate relatives and intimate
friends were present. The morning
train from Boston brought twenty-five
friends in addition to those who were
already here. The former included
Richard Watson Glider, editor of the
Century, and E. A. Taft of Boston,
president of the New York and Boston
Dispatch. Former President Grover
Cleveland, one of Mr.. Jafferson's closest
friends was unable to be here.
The casket had been placed in the
library, and was banked on all sides by
magnificent floral tributes. There were
pieces from the Players club of New
York and the Bohemian club Of San
Francisco, the Old Colony club Of Sand
wich, Of which Mr.. Jefferson was long
the president; Madame Modjeska, Rich
ard Harding Davis, and from well
known actors and actresses in all parts
of the country.
The services opened with the reading
by DR.. Edward A. Horton, Of Boston,
chaplain of the state senate, of Mr.
Jeffersons favorite poem Tennyson's
Crossing the Bar Without attempt
ing a eulogy DR.. Horton then referred
briefly to the simple life and kindly
deeds of the actor. A prayer concluded
the service and the casket was immedi-8
ately placed in a funeral carriage pre-
paratory for its removal to Bay View.
cemetery at Sandwich, a distance of
eight miles There were no honorary
pallbearers. the acting pallbearers be-
ing Glen MacDonough and Charles j.
Rolfe, who married grandaughters Of
Mr.. Jefferson, Samuel Phelleps, Mr..
Jefferson's former stage manager, Carl
Kettler, his personal attendant, Richard
Watson Glider. Edward Black, Dr.
George Barry and r. A. Walker.
Preceded by the pallbearers, the
funeral cortege, composed of twenty
three carriages, left Crows Nest
promptly at 1870 o'clock. The women
of the family, greatly fatigued by the
ordeals of the past few days, did not
go to. the grave. .@-
While the procession was on its way
a public memorial meeting was held in
the Sandwich town hall, and at which
all the clergymen of the town partici-
pated A eulogy was pronounced by
Rev. o. l.. Griswold, pastor of the
Methodist church.
At the close of this meeting those in
attendance proceeded to the cemetery
to await the arrival of the funeral party
the approach of which was heralded by
the bell in the belfry of the historic
town hall, and upon which seventy six
blows were sounded. n
At the grave which had been prepared
in the lot purchased by Charles B.
Jefferson at the suggestion of his father
two years ago, the flowers which had
been brought from Crows Nest were
arranged in a way to quite conceal the
casket from view. "r
Here the services were brief. DR.. Hor-
ton read the Unitarian burial service.
then withdrawing with the meurners
and their friends, leaving Charles B.
Jefferson alone for time with the
dead.