Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-06-27
SIMPLE SERVICE
MARKS FUNERAL
OF CLEVELAND
DISTINGUISHED MEN WATCH
CEREMONY
BODY is LOWERED INTO GRAVE
AT SUNSET
Last Sad Rites Like Those OF Z
Citizen In Private Life and with
Nothing Of the Official
About Them

NOLnInQ Ot btiC OibS
About Them
CONTINUED from Page One,
perpetual remembrance, through my
mercy and Thy truth in Jesus CHRIST
our lord; amen"
casket Placed In Hearse
The services were concluded at 5:SO
and five minutes later the casket had
been tenderly carried to the hearse
ora the PROCESSION started on its way
70 the cemetery. Along the streets
from the house to the cemetery natlonal
guardsmen, mounted and on loot' po-
iiced tine way. AS President Aoose-
Welt passed through the gate ieaoins
from the Westlawn grounos the
rnilitiamen presented arms and tne
nresident DOTTED his hat in recog-
milton. -.
The pallbearers, six on either SIDE,
marched with the procession as IL
wendell its way slowly down Bayaro
lane to Nassau street and on along
the main thoroughfare OF the Town.
BUSINESS had been suspended during
the afternoon and curtains were drawn
in many of the houses. The silent
crowds stood with barred heads as the
procession passed along into vance
yenter avenue and the bell IN the
tower Of old Nassau hall toiied mourn
fully.
The route led over Virgins street TO
the cemetery, which was reached rev
minutes before 6 o'clock.
The members of the family alighted
from their carriages and, with the
four clergymen in the lead, walked
slowly down the graveled path leading
to the open grave and the rose-strewn
grave of Ruth, both almost hidden IN
the profusion of green boughs and
flowers.
Mrs. Cleveland at Grave
Mrs Cleveland stood with Esther
and Richard and DR.. Bryant as the
coffin was slowly lowered into the
grave. DR.. William M. Richards OF
the Brick Presbyterian church of New
York had started to read the commit
tai services even before PRESIDENT
Roosevelt and others had reached the
scene. The president stood just back
of Mrs. Cleveland as the impressive
final words were spoken. The services
lasted less than five minutes.
The ceremony over, President Roose-
welt. with Secretary Loeb and several
secret service men, was driven to the
depot, where he entered his private car
and remained there until the train
pulled out at $50, when he appeared
on the rear platform. and acknowledged
the cheers and good-bys of the croWds.
Mrs. Cleveland and other members
Of the family returned to Westland,
while the majority Of the guests went
to Princeton inn, where refreshments
were served, with Mrs. A. ID. russell
of Princeton as hostess.
Governors Hughes, Fort and Smith,
who had arrived on the 4:25 train, left
the city after the ceremony. Several
photographers, in their eagerness to
photograph Governor Hughes and other
distinguished guests upon their arrival,
refused to comply with the orders or
the guardsmen to fall back into the
lines and it was not until one of the
troops rode over the scene that the
photographers desisted. At the sta
ton, shortly before his departure.
Governor Hughes good-naturedly
posed for score of camera men who
leveled their lenses at him. The gov
ernor left for New York in the pri-
vate car of George Westinghouse,
which brought Mr.. Westinghouse,
Paul Morton and a number of rep
resentatives of the Equitable Life As
surance society.
AS early as o'clock distinguished
visitors began to arrive. Among the
first was Secretary George B. Cortel-
you and former United States Senator
James F. Smith. James G.. Wilson
and Hilary Herbert followed soon at
terward. The guests were received on
the veranda of the house by Professor
John Hibben and Cleveland r. Bacon,
nephew of Mr.. Cleveland.
Governor Hughes First
Governor Charles E. Hughes was
the first state executive to arrive. AS
he stepped from his carriage all the
other assembled rose to greet him.
The public men greeted each other on
the veranda and presently the benches
which bordered the veranda were
filled and the veranda became crowd
ed. The guests were received into the
house at o'clock, Jesse Lynch Will
Jams, Henry L. Van Dyke and William
H. Bradford of Princeton ushering the
visitors to seats in various parts of
the house. In the reception room with
the casEet were Mrs. Cleveland and
the children and relatives, President
Roosevelt and the officiating clergy
men. AS the clergyman delivered his
part in the service he stood at the
door of the reception room so that he
could be heard by all.
On the casket were flowers and an
ivy wreath from Nassau hall. The
floral offerings were conveyed to the
cemetery before the procession started
from Westland and We're arranged
about the plot.
For over an hour before the services
and when President Roosevelt had
left the Cleveland home the streets
and cemetery We're carefully guarded
by miles of police. The Monmouth
troopers of Red Bank and the Treton
companies of the Second regiment,
which constitute the visiting militia,
in addition to the local company, left
for their respective stations tonight.
Soon after the grave was filled the
cemetery was opened to the public
and the crowds which up to that time
had been denied adnittance surged
into the grounds to view the grave and
floral display
Occupants of Carriages
PRINCETON. June 26.-Twenty-six
carriages conveyed the funeral party
to the cemetery.
The pallbearers walked with the
hearse, six on either side. The Off
ciating clergymen occupied the first
carriage and the carriage behind con-
tanned Mrs Cleveland, her son Rich
ard, DR.. Joseph T. Bryant of New
York, the family physician. The third
was occupied by Miss Rose Cleveland
and Miss Esther Cleveland, Cleveland
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