Omaha daily bee., 1908-06-27
CLEVELAND AT REST
Body of ExlPresident Lowered Into
Grave at Sunset.
DISTINGUISHED MEN PRESENT
President Roosevelt, Three Governors
and Cabinet Members Attend.
SERVICE OF PRIVATE NATURE
Presbyterian Burial Service is Read
at Grave.
TROOPS ACT ONLY AS POLICE
President Arrived shortly Before Five
O'Clock and Was Driven Direct
10 the Cleveland Resi-
TROOPS ACT ONLY AS POLICE

PRINCETON, ~ j.. June 26.-Grover
Cleveland's body Ies buried tonight in the
Cleveland plot in Princeton cemetery.
At 6 O'Clock just as the sun was sinking
in the west a distinguished company 81
lently watched as the body was lowered
into the grave. Then the simple burial
service of the Prest yterian church was +, al
and when the last Of the carriages in the
corteee had driven up to the path leading
to the grave the benediction had been pro-
nounced and the members OF the family
President Roosevelt and others who had
gathered about the grave were leaving the
, cemetery. Many of the personal friends OF
the dead statesman fingered about the spot
which was TO mark his last resting place
and each in turn was permitted to cast
shovelful of earth into the grave.
Agreeable to the wishes OF Mrs. Cleve-
land the services both at the house and at
the cemetery were Of the simplest char
acter An invocation, schiptural reading,
a brief prayer and the reading of a Will
liam Wordsworth poem. Character of the
Happy Warrior" constituted the services
at the house, while the reading Of the
burial service at the grave was brief and
impressive.
Although the funeral was of strictly
private nature. those in attendance num-
bered many distinguished citizens. includ-
ing President Roosevelt, Governors Fort of
New Jersey, Hughes of New York, Hoke
Smith Of Georgia, former members OF
President Cllve'and's cabinet, officials OF
the Equitable Life Assurance society. mem
bers Of tile Princeton university faculty
and, friends and neighbors
MI Cleveland was buried with all the
simplicity and privacy that he himself
might have wished as a private citizen
.t1P tff i've
OF the nation. There was nothing that
savored of the official and the military
element was injected solely as a measure
of precaution in protecting President
Roosevelt.
The president arrived at ASS p. m. and
was met at the station BY Governor Fort.
Prssident roosevelt, Governor Fort and
Secretary Loeb We're driven at once to
wesuand Upon his arrival at the house
the president went to Mrs. Cleveland,
I offering his sympathy and expressing
Keen regret at Mr.. clevelahds death.
The president then returned 10 the re-
ception room. where the body had been
removed In the afternoon from the room
on the second floor, In which Mr. Cleve-
land died.
service begins.
A few minutes later the four clergy
men who offielated came down the stairs
TO the hall leading to the reception room.
followed by Mrs Cleveland and the chill
dren. AS they stepped on the landing. ac-
companied by DR.. Joseph d. Bryant. the
whole company rose and remained stand
ing throughout the service Mrs Cleve-
land was gowned in black and wore be-
coming hat with a short, dropping veil.
Esther was also in black, while Richard
wore a white suit and black tie.
The services began with an invocation
by Rev sylvester W. Beach of the First
Presbyterian church of Princeton, which
was followed by scriptural reading by Rev.
Maitland V. Bartlett of the West Farms
H1resbyterian church of New York, a
former pastor of Mr.. Cleveland, who read
from the fourteenth chapter Of the book
OF John and number of passages from
the fourth and twenty-second chapters of
the Thessalonians: And they shall see
his face" read DR. Bartlett. in closing
land his name shall be in their horeheads
they shall hunger no more, neither thirst
any more; neither shall the sun light
upon them nor any heat for the land which
Is the midst of the throne shall feed them
ana shall lead them until living fountains
Of water and God shall wipe all tears
from their eyes"
Dr. Henry Van Dyke then said: that
according to the request of one whose
respect. there will be no address or sermon,
but there was a poem written more than
a hundred years ago. by William Words
worth, which is expressive Of his char
Acter."
He then read the poem Character OF
Happy Warrior"
Those az the FunsraI.
Twenty-six carriages conveyed the fun
sral party to the cemetery. The psli-bear-
ers walked with the hearse six on either
side. The officiating clergymen occupied
the first carriage. and the second contained
Mrs. Cleveland. her son Richard. and Dr
Joseph ID Bryant of New York. the family
physician The third was occupied by
Miss Rose Cleveland and Miss Esther
cleveland. Cleveland F. Bacon. Miss
Mary Hastings and Prof. and Mrs WOOD
rode IN the fourth. and the fifth and sixth
conveyed Mr.. and Mrs. Hud6leston OF
Princeton. Mrs John II. Finley Of New
York, Mrs. Richard Watson Glider, Georg'
shipley. Miss Annie Heimler the Cieve
land nurse; Louis Comans Of Chicago anc
Charles Rogers OF Brooklyn.
Following the family and intimate friends
came President Roosevelt and seere
tary Loeb In the seventh carriage, anC
this was followed by another containing
four secret service men. The occupants
OF the other carriages were
Ninth, Chief Justice Fuller. Governor
Fort Of New Jersey, Governor Hughes OF
New York aud Secretary OF the Treasury
Cortelyou. Tenth, John q. Carlisle, formel
secretary OF the treasury; William u. vi
las OF Wisconsin and Mrs. Daniel S. La
mont. Eleventh. Richard Olney, formel
secretary OF state; Charles g. Fairehild
former secretary of the treasuryi Davic
RI Francis, former secretary OF the inte
FLOR and Judson Harmon OF Cincinnati
former United states attorney seneral
TwelfthA Hilary A. Herbert former secre
tary Of the navy Governor Hoke smith o.
Gferrta United States Senators kean anC
6riFFs OF New Jersey. Thirteenth. Mr.
and Mrs Frank Hastings, New York
Mrs Joseph ID, Bryant and Miss florenc'
Bryant FOurteenth. Mrs. wilson 3. Bis
sell Mrs. Daniel Manning. Mr. and Mrs
81 George Tucker. Fiftesnth., pr sns
nOchan Prlneeton; Or GsSrEe r LOsk SS