Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-05-14
MARK TWAIN BURIED
FUNERAL OF NOTED MAN WAS
Held SATURDAY.
Services Were Very Simple and Held in
the Presbyterian Church-Music Was
Brief and Was Only Modest Display
of Flowers = Many Distinguished
People Were Present.


Mark Twain began Saturday its last
journey from the sunny chamber where
it had lain in Stormfeld to the spot
in God S acre where it shall rest at last
beside those whom he "loved and long
since lost awhile.
Funeral services were said in the
old brick Presbyterian church at
by DIR. Henry A. Vandyke, professor
of English literature at Princeton
university. The prayer was pronounced
by DIR. Joseph IL. Twitchell of Hart
ford, Conn, Twain S old friend and
pastor. The body was taken to Ell
MIRA.
They All Knew Him.
Most of those who gazed at the dead
humOrist in his coffin had never be-
fore seen the creator of FTom Saw
yerv and Huekleberry Finn but
they felt that they knew Mark Twain
intimately because Of the humor and
wisdom of his simple philosophy of
life
The sentiment of the immense crowd
Of mourners-they were sincere mour-
ners-was expressed in one of the few
floral pieces that lay about the caslet
in the quaint old brick Presbyterian
church. 1t bore no name. Instead il
carried the simple legend:
" From one who has read Pudd n
head Wilson, 1t was the tribute of
the world to a man il knew most by his
written words
The body reached New York shortly
before noon in a private car in which
rode Mrs. Ossip Gabrielovitch, Samuel
Clemens only surviving daughter, and
her husband Dan Beard, the artist,
Twain IS lifelong friend, James Lang
don of Elmira; Katie Leary, for 80
years the housekeeper at Stormfeld,
and the other house servants. At the
head Of the coffin stood Claude Ben
zollete, for many years Twain 5 valet,
who refused 10 move from the side of
his dead master.
Only a handful OF people met the
body al the grand central station. no
loving hands lifted il from the ear 10
the heaIse That task was delegated
10 the undertaken and bis assistants
Slowly the cortege drove 10 the old
brick church. where the body remained
until the funeral service began al
3 o clock.
Services Are simple.
Ia accordance With fhe wishes Of
the family the services were brief and
simple. The only music was an organ
prelude. There WAS d modest display
of white Lilies of che valley, white and
led loses, orchids and aNoei peaa about
ihe coffin Those who wished were per
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