The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-26
Cleyeland's Wishes and Those OF
Widow Followed.
Funeral Is Held at Five O'clock
This Afternoon.
ONLY 26 CARRIAGES.
That Is All Included in the
Funeral COrtege.
President and Governors There
in Private Capacity.

sun DGRlnS 10 Idll Denlflu Tie utilS tO-
day Grover Cleveland, whose death
is being mourned wherever the stars
and stripes are flying, will be lowered
into his grave in historic Princeton
cemetery where lie the remains of his
beloved daughter Ruth. and many
men of fame in days gone by. Around
the grave will stand his devoted wife,
whose union with him in the White
House on that June day years ago is
still fresh in the memory of the
American people, the president of the
United States and nearlt all the MEM
bers of Cleveland's two cabinets. Be-
sides these many others who have
known the dead statesman will be
there to pay a last loving tribute.
While it had been decided that the
funeral would be stritcly private early
afternoon indications were that a
great crowd will be on hand as the
last rites are said.
Nature smiled sweetly today and full
filled the poets conception of a rare
day in June. A westerly breeze STIR
red the leaves of the stately elms ana
the pine trees surrounding the CleVe-
land home and tempered the heat 10
most comfortable degree. There were
few signs about this quiet university
town in the morning hours that the
eyes of the world were centered here.
Except for a solitary policeman VINO
stod at the gate of Westland, the
Cleveland home, there was nothing
about the place to indicate that the
funeral of a former president. of the
United States was to take place. But
after the sun had passed the Heridian
people began to arrive in princeton
from surrounding places and many of
them wended their way down Bayari j
lane to the Cleveland home. Police
men and members of several national
guard companies who had been sta
toned about the grounds kept perfect
order during the time proceeding the
hour for the funeral.
shortly after o'clock some of the
distinguished persons who had been in
vited to attend the funeral began to ar
rive at the Cleveland home and they
kept coming up to the hour for the
funeral. Among the first to arrive were
John G. Carlisle and Commodore E. G.
Benedict. They were escorted to the
Cleevland home by Prof. Andrew F.
West of Princeton university. Later
others arrived and were driven to the
Cleveland residence.
President Roosevelt will not reach
Princeton until shortly before o'clock
the hour fixed for the funeral.
Princeton, n. j., June 26.-Without
eulogy, sermon or song, but with the
simple burial service of the Presby-
leTldH 1IONtT SlCE6ldiQ W as
buried late this afternoon in Princeton
cemetery beside the ivy-covered grave
of his daughter Ruth.
Although President Roosevelt was
in attendance as well as Governor
Fort of New Jersey, Governor Hughes
of New York. Governor Hoke smith
of Georgia., and other distinguished
personages, they did not attend in an
official capacity but as friends OF the
late ex-president.
The last honors paid the dead
statesman were strictly private. both
at Westland, the Cleveland home and
at the cemetery in compliance with
the wishes, not only of Mrs. Cleveland,
but those of Mr.. Cleveland as we'll.
The services at the house which will
begin at 5 o'clock will last about hall
an hour. The clergymen who will al
ternate in the ceremonies and at the
grave are the Rev. Henry Van Dyke
of Princeton university; the Rev. DR..
William r. Richards, of the Brick
Presbyterian church, New York; the
Rev. Sylvester w. Beach, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of Prince
ton, in which Mr.. Cleveland is COM
municant, and the Rev. Maitland "
Bartlett, a former pastor of Mr..
Cleveland and the present pastor OF
the West Farms Presbyterian church
\ of New York.
The Pail Bearers.
} The active pail bearers. who were
chosen by Mrs. Cleveland, and who
will officiate either at Westland or al
the grave, are Mayor George B. Nc
Clellan, of New York; Commodore E
c. Benedict, DIR. Richard Watson Gid
err, Dr. John H. Finley, Prof Paul
Van Dyke of Princeton Graduate
seminary; Prof. John Grier Hibbon
of Princeton university; Paul Morton
ex-secretary of the navy; Prof. How
m nf princeton n l.
versity and Archibald D. Russell. Ju-
Illus s. Morgan and Bayard Stockton
trustees of Princeton university.
Mrs. Cleveland, in issuing invitation:
to the funeral, considered first Mr.
Cleveland's own friends and neighbor.
from among them the list of active
pail bearers No official distinction.
were recognized. The word was giver
out:
Mrs Cleveland has many persona
friends who perhaps might have ex
pected to be within the house. but be
cause, she declares, Mr.. Cleveland
lived as a private citizen she wished {
private funeral with only friends wht
knew him in attendance"
The arrangement was also mad'
necessary on account of the inabilit.
to care for large crowd in the Cleve
land home.
A change in the location of th
casket during the funeral service
was announced today. 1t was sait
that instead of the body being PLACED
, in the library, the remains of the dis
tinguished dead will lie in the recep
tion room which is at the front of tn,
east side of the house and across tn
broad hall from the library Th
casket will be brought down stair
shortly before the funeral begins. an,
1t is said, the personal friends will b.
permitted to view the features of tn
dead statesman in the room where h
died on the second floor. but that tn