New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-05-01
JEFFERSON'S FUNERAL.
Simple SerUiceS at Bua2ard's Bay
Policeman Guards Craze.

Buzzard's Bay, Mass. April 9O.-Following SER
vices that free from ostentation but impress
sive in their simplicity and suggestive of the char
acter of the distinguished actor the body of Joseph
Jefferson to-day laid away at the Bayvew
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 a hundred or more villagers gathered
about the open grave while the commitment ser
vice was read then all withdrew. with the eXcep
ton Of Charles B Jefferson, who alone watched
the coffin it lowered TO its final resting
place Tonight a police officer remained at the
grave and this guard will be continued for several
days
Al Il o'clock this morning a brief service was
held at Crows Nest, the Jefferson summer cottage
here. Only immediate relatives and intimate
friends were present The morning train from
Richard watson Glider. Editor Of The Century
and T. A Taft, of Boston, president of the New
York and Boston Despatch Express COMPANY n!-. Ex
closest friends. was unable to be here
The coffin had been placed in the library and
G tes There We're pieces from the Players
Of New-Yor1 and the Bohemian Club of San Fran
cisco. the Old Colony Club of Sandwich, of which
Mr.; Jefferson was long the president; Nine. Mod,
ieska. Richard Harding Davis. and from well
known actors and actresses IN all parts OF the
country: IN. - ~.
ID Edward A. Horton. Of Boston cbapiain Of the
State Senate. of Mr. Jeffersous favorite poem,
ing eulogy, DR.. Horton then referred briefly to
the simple life and kindly deeds Of the actor. A
PRAYER closed the service and the coffin was imme-
dately placed in funeral carriage preparatory to
its removal to Bayview Cemetery, at Sandwich.
distance OF eight miles. There honorary
pallbearers the ACTING paIlbearers being Glen
MacDonoUgh and Charles J. Rolfe who married
granddaughters Of Mr.. Jefferson; Samuel PheIleps,
Mr.. lefferson's former stage manager; Carl Kett-
Ter. his personal attendant Richard Watson Gil
der, Edward Black. DR.. George Barry and J. A.
Walker.
Preceded by the paIIbearers. the funeral cortege,
composed of twenty-thTee carriages left Crow 3
Nest promptly at u O'Clock, reaching the cemetery
At 20 o'clock. The women of the family. greatly
fatgued by the ordeal of the last few days did not
60 10 the grave.
While the procession was on its way a public
memorial meeting was held in the Sandwich town
hall in which ali the clersvmen Of the town took
A eulogy pronounced by the Rev. o.
l. Griswold, pastor Of the Methodist Church. At
the close of this meeting those IN attendance went
10 the cemetery 10 await the arrival Of the funeral
party, the approach Of which heralded by the
bell of the historic town hall, which seventy-siX
blows sounded.
At the grave. which had been prepared in the
lot purchased by Charles B. Jefferson at the sug-
Eestion Of his father two years ago, the flowers
brought from Crows Nest were arranged in a way
10 entirely conceal the coffin from view. There
the services were brief DR.. Horton read the Uni
tartan burial service then withdrawing with the
rnouruers and their friends leaving Charles B.
Jefferson alone for a time with the dead.