Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1908-06-26

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ments completed for the funeral today
Of Grover Cleveland. twice president
of the United States, insure simplicity
to a degree perhaps never before
sought in the payment Of last honors
to a chief executive of the nation. The
wishes of Mrs. Cleveland that the fu-
neral be little more ostentatious than
the burial Of a private citizen have
been implicitly observed. Literally the
public will have no participation in the
event.
Less than 200 persons will be pres
ent at Westland this afternoon when
the last rites viii be pronounced in ac-
cordance with the ritual of the Presby-
terian church. Neither at the late home
of the honored dead nor at the grave
will eulogy be spoken. With the
reading of the passages from the Scrip
lures and with prayers Grover Cleve-
land will be laid to rest. There will be
neither sermon nor song.
In conference with her friends and
advisers Mrs. Cleveland maintained
her point that following her husbands
retirement from public life he demand
ed absolute privacy and that in his
death privacy must be preserved. In
accordance with this policy the body
has at no time laid In state.
The casket is ponderous structure
Of quartered oak almost rugged in its
simplicity. Heavy handles of silver
and q plain silver plate alone supply
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scribed:
Grover Cleveland, March 1s, 1887
June "a, 19O8."
Roosevelt to View Corpse.
President Roosevelt, Governor
Hughes, Governor Fort of New Jersey
and others who will be permitted to
look on the face of the dead will OBJ
serve marked physical change since
Mr. Cleveland was last seen in public
at Lakewood or In his .home before i'll
ness closed the doors to all except his
dearest friends.
Edgar Wilson, sculptor, is working
in the laboratories of Princeton uni
versity on the death mask. The cast
reveals hollows at the temples and be-
low the cheek bones, and the broad,
full forehead stands out with notice
able prominence. The completed mask
will be placed In the collection present
ed to Princeton university by Law
renee Hutton, the late author.
1t was a sad ordeal which Mrs.
Cleveland faced when she received
home her two children, Esther and
Richard. Marion and Francis remain
ed at the Cleveland farm in Tamworth,
N. H., in charge of Mrs. Perrine.
Troops to Line Funeral Route.
At the request Of Mrs. Cleveland
and to insure the safety Of President
Roosevelt and also Vice President
Fairbanks, who is expected to attend,
Governor Fort of New Jersey ordered
out three companies of the New Jer-
sey militia and also the Monmouth
mounted guards to perform police duty
at Princeton. The troops arrived early
today under command of Assistant Ad-
jutant General Gilkyson They took
post along the line chosen for the
| funeral procession, but will not act as
escort.
The list Of pallbearers is as follows:
Mayor George 3. Mcclellan, New
York
Commodore e. @. Benedict, New
York
Richard Watson Glider, New York.
Professor John Ii. Finley, New
York
Professor Paul Van Dyke, Prince
ton.
Professor Andrew F. West, Prince
ton.
Professor John G. Hibben, Prince
ton.
i Paul Morton, New York.
James s. Morgan, Princeton.
A. d. Russell, Princeton.
4 Professor Howard McLenahan,
i Princeton.
i Bayard Stockton, Princeton,
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