Evening journal., 1910-04-22
SERVICES FOR
MARK TWAIN
Memorial Exercises Will be
Conducted in Dr.. Van Dykes
Church in New York
THE INTERMENT WILL
BE IN ELMIRA, N. Y.

BY United Press Leased Special Wire.
REDDING. Conn. April 22-To-mor-
row morning the body of the master
of Stormleld, Samuel J.. Clemens.
Mark Twain) will bc placed aboard an
express train at Redding. which viii
make an especial stop and be taken to
New York, where a short memorial SER
vice will be held at the Presbyterian
Church. Thirty street and
Firth avenue. of which the Rev. Or.
Henry Van Dyke. preacher and liter
ateur, is pastor.
This was the plan Of the family,
when A. Bigelow Paine, Mr.. Clemens
secretary. left for New York to COM
pote the funeral arrangements. Paine
conferred during the day with friends
of the deceased humorlst in New York,
who Will assist him in arranging for
tn service.
According to Ossil Gabrielowitoh. the
humorists son-in-law, Dr. Van Dyke.
who had been one of the familys
closest friends, will probably ofiiciate.
Gabrielowitch said the service would
be very brief and not in the nature
of a public memorial although the pub
lie would he invited to attend.
Arrangements for the funeral at Ell
mira will not finally be completed until
| late this afternoon.
The body will probably be taken to
/ Elmira tomorrow evening, after the
memorial In New York and burial will
/ be made Sunday i'm the family plot In
which already lie the humorists vile,
his daughters. Sunsan and Jean, ana
/ his infant son, LanghOrne.
Messages of sympathy are pouring
into Stormheld from all parts of the
country to-day. An extra man was
sent to the telegraph Office from Dam
bury to assist the local operator in
handling the messages.
Mrs. Gabrielowitch. her husband and
Jervis Langdon, Mr.. Clemens nephew
are watching over the body to-day.
Bv United Press Leased Special Wire.
By United Press Leased Special Wire.
NEW YORK. April 22.-rhe world o
letters mourns to-day for Mark Twain
A memorial service, rivalling any rihut
. paid by New York TO soldier on states
man is planned for the dead author
With the ncws of his death In hiH Cor
ncoiicut homc plans FOR the mcmorii
. we're begun by this friends here. Tho
call for public service IN the Target ha
in New York. There are 10 be no formi
invitations. reservations being made onl
for the closest personal friends Of ID
Clemens and for the speakers. Presider
Taft. Governor Hughes ana William Doa
fiowels. dean Of American literature Wi
be asked to pay tribute TO The man who's
whimsical humor did so much TO Civ
America its real place in tho field OF let
ters.
II Is contemplated TO have the memoria
service take place within ten days. Tn
sponsors for the movement insit to-da
J that it must be a spontaneous public trih
q ute from those who mourn, and not a ser
e vice for the exploitation OF those VIII
arrange it, An effort viii be made TO EN-
phaslze IN the service. more than anythin
3 else tho fact that Twain was 6elineato
Of humanity and his sympathetic insigh
into the minds and lives of his fellows wa
what made his writings a success
, There is sense Of relief TO tho readin
I, public to-day that death came to the au
X thor without the great suffering he ha
? always feared. 1t IS recalled that he wa
n in way a fataiist.
y In his sermon on his mother. delivere
in the church at Hannibal, Missouri
Twain said:
"Iier preaching did not perish when sh
passed away. but goes on and on. Sc
that your preaching, when alive. be {
such character that when you are deaf
others may reap the benefit. Words som'
. times perish. but conduct is lasting"
= lie followed that theory in life. III
n shock Of the sudden death Of his close
IS friend. H. d. Rogers, was mitigated d
IS his fatalism. In the same manner he az
q cepted the sudden death of his daughte
y Jean, who died last December.
His final word from Bermuda. cable
the day before he was carried ont
the steamer to be brought home TO
throws a characteristic light on Il
n working of his mind when he mu
have realized that he was mortal
stricken:
is Il am able 20 say that while I al
ID not ruggedly well, I am not in enoug
- to excite any undertaken"
s. on another occasion on reading
is message telling Of the rumor that
IN was dead, he smiled and said;
r Not yet 1 am able officially
n, state this rumor is greatly exagge
ated"