The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-25

Excepting the continued grief over the
death of his flrst-born child, Ruth, four
years ago, the greatest worry of Mr..
Cleveland's later years was the fact
that he was growing old, with small
prospects of leaving his young wife
and their children a competence. At
the time the KniclSerbocker Trust
Company closed Mr.. Cleveland had a
cash deposit there, but it was said to
have been a comparatively small sum.
If he had deposits elsewhere the fact
was not known.
If Mr.. Cleveland carried heavy life
insurance the fact was not commonly
known, and he must have obtained it
befora he returned to the White House
for the second term, as he had been a
sick man for fifteen years, in fact, so
organically affected that an insurance
company would not venture a risk on
him.
Governor Fort. by request Of Presi-
dent Roosevelt, will board the chief
executives train as it passes through
Newark tomorrow, and will attend the
funeral in his dual capacity, first as
the Governor of the State and second
as president ex-oflicio of the board of
trustees of Princeton University. The
Governor will be accompanied by Adj
jutant- General Frederick Gilkyson.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland today person-
ally completed the arrangements for the
funeral of the former President. Al
though prostrated yesterday by the
shock of her distinguished husbands
death, today she is bearing up with re-
marIxabIe fortitude.
The funeral services will not start in
the family home, Westland until
o'clock tomorrow afternoon, in order to
allow time for a number of distin-
guished persons, including President
Roosevelt, to be here. Mrs. Cleveland
has insisted that the funeral be excep-
tionally private and that the cere-
monial be very simple, she echoing the
preferences previously expressed by
Mr. Cleveland himself.
In arranging the details of the fu-
neral. Mrs. Cleveland was assisted by
DR.. and Mrs, Richard Watson Glider.
President John Finley, of the College
of the City of New York, and Cleveland
T. Bacon, a nephew of the former
President.
After the reading of the simple Pres
byterian services in the Cleveland
home the body of the. statesman, which
now rests in a heavy oak coffin, will
be conveyed to Princeton's old ceme-
terry, where it win be inferred by the
side of that of Ruth the first born of
the Cleveland children and whose
death was the hardest blow President
Cleveland ever sustained After the
death Of Ruth Mr. Cleveland aged
rapidly, and his intimate friends said
he never regained his former self.
Affected by Tributes.
Mrs Cleveland was up late last
night, receiving kilograms from all
over the world and arranging for the
funeral She rested little during the
night and was up early today After
cup of coffee she sat on the veranda
alone for an hour. Her position was
sequestered from the view of the street
and it was apparent that she did not
wish TO be disturbed The death OF
her husband has overwhelmed her not
mora than the mountainous expressions
of sympathy which have flooded the
Cleveland home. Among the kilograms
Offering coincidence are messages from
the nations greatest men. All form
beautiful tribute to the memory of the
utetu AS MI ,. NAtfNSlei4lu IedQ Iuem
she could not restrain her tears
Esther, the eldest daughter, and
Richard, the eldest son, will arrive to-
day from Tamworth. N. H. the sum-
mer home of the Clevelands, accom-
panied by Mrs. Perrine, their grand~
mother. and by Mrs. John Finley, wife
of the president of the College of the
City of New York
Neither Marion or Francis Grover
Cleveland, the younger children, Will
come from New Hampshire.
Among other relatives expected to
arrive today are two of Mr. ClevelsnsVa :.