The Tupelo journal., 1908-07-03
TOLL FOR
cleveland RITE
Ex-PRESIDENT BURIED WITH ,
SIMPLE CEREMONIES.
PRES. ROOSEVELT ATTENDS
Eulogy Of the Dead and Song Service
Dispensed With-Soldiers Guard
President Roosevelt.

Princeton, N. carrying out
the wishes of her late husband.
Mrs. Grover Cleveland insisted that
his funeral Friday afternoon should be
of the simplest possible character.
Never before has former President
of the United States been laid to rest
with such absence Of pomp and cere-
mOny.
No one was invited to attend except
personal friends and former associates
OF the former President of the United
States, and only those who requested
it received an invitation.
Those who followed the hearse to
the cemetery and the order of their
carriages are:
DR.. Henry an Dyke, DIR. w. R. Rich
ards, Rev. F. W. Beach, Rev. M. ".
Bartlett the clergy.
Mrs. Cleveland (wife), Richard
Cleveland (son), Dr. Joseph Bryant
(physician).
Miss Rose Cleveland (sister), Miss
Esther Cleveland (daughteD.
Cleveland F. Bacon (nephew), Miss
Mary Hastings (niece) of Hartford,
Conn; Prof. and Mrs. Wood.
Mr.. and Mrs. Huddlestone, Prince
ton, and Mrs. John F. Finley of New
York, Mrs. Richard Watson Glider.
Mr.. George Shipley, Miss Heckler
(nurse), Charles Rogers.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt, Secre-
tary Loeb.
Secret Service men Cfour).
Chief Justice Fuller, Gov. Fort, Gov.
Hughes, Secretary Cortelyou.
Ex-Secretary John G.. Carlisle, ex-
Secretary William F. Villas, Mrs. Dan
lei S. Lamont, Mrs. John S. Hibben.
Ex-Secretary Richard Olney, ex-5ec-
rotary Charles S. Fairchild, ex-Secre-
tary David R. Francis, ex-Attorney
General Judson Harmon.
Ex-Secretary Hilary A. Herbert
Washington, ex-Secretary and Gov.
Hoke Smith (Georgia), Senator Kean
of New Jersey, Senator Griggs of New
Jersey.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Hastings, New
York; Mrs. Joseph Bryant, Miss Flor
ence Bryant.
Mrs. Wilson S. Bissell, Mrs. Daniel
Manning, Mr.. and Mrs. st. George
Tucker.
DR.. and Mrs. Gibson (Princeton), DR..
George Carnochan (New York;, Or.
Lockwood.
Mr.. Charles Goodyear, Gen. Arson
McCook, Dr. st. Clair McKelway
| (Brooklyn), Mr. Farquhar.
Dean Fine and trustees of univer-
sity.
Bishop McFall, Trenton; Father
Leahy, pastor st. Paurs Roman Catho-
| lie Church.
Representatives of Equitable Life.
Mrs. Junius Morgan, Miss Sarah
| Morgan, Mrs. George B. Mcclellan,
Mrs. Henry Satterlee.
Randolph West, Mrs. A. D. Russell,
Mrs. Howard McClenehan, Albert D.
| Boyden.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Armour, Mrs.
Cleveland H. Dodge New York;, Mrs.
| Bayard Henry.
Mr.. and Mrs. Gilbert Colgate New
| York;, Charles R. Crane, Rodman Gil.
| der.
T. F. Bissell, G. R. Bacon, H. H. Top.
| akyan, Pension Commissioner.
T. H. Harrison Garrett, Mr.. and Mrs.
| Horatio Garrett, Baltimore.
Scores of beautiful floral offerings
and kilograms and cables of sympathy
poured into the stricken Cleveland
| home Friday.
Mark Twain sent this: "He was a
man l knew, loved and honored for
% years. l mourn for you"
In the broad central hall of the
Cleevland home the clergyman who
| officiated read the Presbyterian
burial service. The hearse, followed
by probably so carriages, then moved
| through the center of the town, and,
while from Princetons ivy-clad tower
is tolled the passing bell, the mortal
remains of her greatest citizen were
borne to the grave.
| mere the caSkeL was placed In an
unmarked plot shaded by spruce and
maple, directly beside the Uncovered
grave of the former Presidents first
! daughter, Ruth.
There was no firing, no singing and
no eulogy at the grave. Simplicity as
| great as possible was observed.
TT was Mr.. Cleveland's WISH" says
| Mrs. Cleveland, land that is a suffi-
Client reason"
Mrs. Cleveland opposed any military
| display, but as President Roosevelt
had signified his wish to attend she
| agreed that there should be mounted
troops and policemen along the line
| of march, as a measure of protection
for the Chief Magistrate.