The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-09-03
RICHARD MANSFIELD
 IS LAID ID REST Simple Ceremony Held Over the Remains of Noted
 Actor.
NO EUL0GY PRONOUNCED Many Literary Persons from a Distance Pay Last Re
 spects to Actor.

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 New London, Sept. 2.-Surrounded by mourning relatives, friends and ac- quaintances the body of Richard Mansfield was lowered into it's last resting place in Gardner cemetery this afternoon. Services were held at Sev- en Acress, which is diagonally across the street from the burying place, shortly after the noon hour, after which a procession was formed and the mourners walked with slow >Eead behind the casket to the newly open ed grave, which willing hands beauti- fled by means of hemlock boughs and flowers
 Rev. Alfred Poole Grint, Ph. D., rector of St. James church, conducted the service at the house and at the grave. By request no address was made at the house, and only the Episcopalean commital service was read at the grave A quartet sang Lead Kindly Light" while the mourners gathered about the -casket which had been brought to the dead actors den on the first floor only a short time before the service. MT. Mansfield's features were not exposed.
 The Mansfield grave was prepared in the southeastern corner of the It, tic burial plot, rod away from any other grave. It is close to a hedge of cedar trees and small naples. Mem- bers of the Pequot colony, on their own initiative, sent wagon loads of potted plants, palms and handsome | hydrangeas to the cemetery which formed hollow square Near the grave was a mound and upon it rested the most beautiful display of flower tributes one would ever care to sec They came from hothouses of the big cities and from the country, where natures contributions were best. Among them were costly orchids rare roses and other flowers of many de- scriptions
 Previous to the service at the house the floral tributes were assembled on the veranda on the south side of the house, Mrs. Langtry cabled an order for wreath from London, William Winter from California and others from Paris and other parts of the con- tiEent Among those who sent flowers are the following: Miss Vera ogden Jones, Miss Martha Jones, Judge IA. J. Dlttenhoeffer, L Fl. Dittenhoeffer. Clyde Fitch, George Munzig, Mr. and Mrs. William Schall, Mrs. Robert Ap- pleton, MT. and Mrs Rowland P. Keasby Mrs. Julia M Demarest, Miss Katherine Gray, Miss Adele Ritche, of New York; Mir. and Mrs Gordon Nor ris, Mrs, McCroskey Butt, Mrs. Cuth- rife Strong, Miss Margaret Jones, Mrs. Charles Guthrie, MT. and Mrs. Alfred T. Mitchell, whose summer homes are in New London; Mrs. Lillian Langtry, of London, Mir. and Mrs. Arthur W. Foster of London, Mir. and Mrs. Eben D. Jordan of Boston; MT. and Mrs. Dorothy Jordan, of Boston, Mrs. Cor denia Severance of St. Paul; Mrs William Appleton of Newport, Mss | Edna Tyler of Washington and New London; William Winter of New York; Mrs. Thaw Kennedy of Chicago, Mrs. Painter of Cleveland; E. H. Sothern, Col. and Mrs. A. c. Tyler of Wash ington and New London; Mir. salton- stall of Chicago and many others. l The casket was carried to the ceme- tery by eight brawny policemen spec tally detailed for the purpose at the re- quest of Mrs. Mansfield. Three other policemen in uniform were stationed about the grounds to keep away any who were not attracted to the spot by a sincere desire to show their respect to the dead actor. There was little need for the officers, however, as the downpour of rain kept away the curl. ous.
 About all the members of the Pequot colony were in attendance and many were present from out of town There was not large attendance of actor folk on account of Labor day being a particularly busy season.
 It is related that not until Sunday was Gibbs Mansfield, the elght-year-ol( son of the dead actor, notified of his fathers death. The father and sor were devoted chums The little fellow bore up bravely. His absence iron the cemetery was a pathetic incident After the funeral a beautiful word pic ture of Mansflelds final moments wal related by friend of the family. Ht said that the actor was in a deep sleel and that few moments before hi final breath he awoke and holding tn, hand of his wife said, God is Love. Mrs. Mansfield, with a pressure of tn, hand, responded, "Yes, dear, God i Love- and with that characteristi movement of the hand when he was as sured of a thing Mansfield breathed hi