The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-06-26
The Remains of ExPresident
Cleveland viii Be Laid to
His Last Rest in Princeton
Cemetery.
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
TO BE IN ATTENDANCE.
Troops Will Be Stationed, But
They Are in Princeton to
Protect the Chief Execu-
tive.

Princeton. \. J.. June e6.-Ther>
Will be no eulogies at the funeral OF
ex-President Grover Cleveland. which
will be held at p. m. today. Presi-
dent Roosevelt is expected to arrive
at 4:45
The funeral will be marked by ex.
treme simplicity. Although twice
elected President of the United States.
no pomp or splendor will have a place
in the ceremonies. There will be no
bands to play mournful dirges on the
way to the old Princeton Cemetery.
no military escort, no eulogy by the
officiating clergymen. Tht half mile
OF thoroughfare through which the cor
tege will pass from ''Westland," the
Cleveland home on Bayard lane, to
the cemetery. will be poIice4 hy
mounted troops and blue-coated sold
iers, but they will be there for police
duty and as a measure of precaution
In protecting the living President
rather than an element of display in
paying tribute to a departed chief ex-
ecutive.
II has been Mrs. Cleveiand's wish
to avoid anything of military nature
at the funeral, and IL was only when
the necessity of guarding President
Roosevelt was borne upon her by
those in charge of the funeral arrange
ments that she consented to the pres
ence of the state troops in police ca
pacity.
Four clergymen will officiate at the
house and at the grave. There will be
no honorary pallbearers. Those who
will bear Mr.. Cleveland's body TO its
final resting place in the Cleveland
plot will be Mayor George B. McClel-
Ian, Paul Morton, Commodore Z. C.
Benedict. Richard Watson Glider of
New York, Prof. Paul Van Dyke.
Dean Andrew F. West. Prof. John c.
Hibben, Junius s. Morgan, a nephew
of ]. Pierpont Morgan: w. d. Russell.
Prof. Howard McLenahan and Bayard
Stockton of Princeton.
Few TO Be Allowed in Cemetery.
Only those invited to the funeral
and a few newspaper men will be per-
mitted to enter the cemetery, which
will be guarded by mounted troops
and members of the National Guard of
New Jersey.
President Roosevelt. Governor Fort
of New Jersey, Governor Hughes OF
New York. Governor Hoke Smith of
Georgia, members of President Cleve-
lands Cabinets and other notable citi-
Zens are to attend.
Although admittance to the Cleye-
land home and to the cemetery is linn
tied principally to personal friends of
the family, thousands are in Princeton
today to witness the Cleveland process
sion.
The Military Guard.
Late yesterday afternoon Col. Gilki-
son came here from Trenton and with
Mayor Robson held long consulta-
tion with those in charge of the funer-
al at the Cleveland home. Following
the conference IL was stated that the
military would consist of the Second
Troop of Cavalry, Companies A. B. c.
of Trenton and l. OF Princeton of the
Second Regiment OF the National
Guard of New Jersey. The mounted
| troopers under command of Capt Ed
win Field arrived here today on a
special train over the Pennsylvania
Railroad about l o'clock. The Tren-
ton companies and the local compan-
| les, numbering about 300 men. are
commanded by Mai. John Mccullough.
The ex-President's body was placed
In a casket and taken To the library
on the first floor where the ceremon-
les will be conducted yesterday. A
silver plate bears the inscription:
Grover Cleveland, March Is, 1851
June "a, 1905"