The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-22
GREATEST HUMORIST.
 MARK TWAIN, IS NO MORE
Man Who Made Millions Laugh Has Peaceful Passing
 at Country Home In Bedding
Simple Funeral Services Tomorrow In New York and Sunday In E1mira-Memorial Meeting In New
 York Soon to Follow-America's Fore
 most Man of Letters

but in the last there was a, congestion of the lungs, a, pure complication of the angina. known as pulmonary oedena, that helped bring about the end. He died pea cefully and was u11- death.''
 Dr. Quintard vigorously denied that the humoriSt's smoking had anything to do with his final illness. Despite MT Clemens own frequent decIara- tions that he had a tobacco heart, Dr. Quintard said that nicotine positively
 DT. Quintard also denied that MT. Clemens had smoked his beloved ci- gars since returning from Bermuda. While he said the physicians would have seen particular harm in al- lowing him to smoke, since he had been used to tobacco all his life, Dr.. Quintard denied that the hunorist was strong enough at least for a week pre- vious to his death to puff on a weed.
 According to pr. Quintard. who was with the dying man constantly until the very end, MT. Clemens died with out the dignity of his final actfon''- meaning this for a dig against certain as dying with one hand in his daug'h- ter C1ara's and the. other placed be- tween the pages of a we'll beloved vol unle of his works.
 His daughter held his hands in his last moments said Dr. Quintard, "but IT fail to remember that there was any book within his reach.''
 That Mark Twain's death is mourn ed alike by all classes that came in contact with him was shown unmis- takably today in the expressions of tender feeling made by. the domestics in "'Stormfeld.'' All the servants, several of which have been with the Clemens family for, years, are bowed down with grief and told of their love for their master with tears yelling in
 None of the servants feels the blow more keenly than Mary Leary. known around the house as Miss Mary" Miss Mary has been housekeeper for Mr. N1aT1hk hk,r7eS ffNr> Tor rible to have such a kind man taken away from us.'' she said today. eve loved him like a father
 Claude Brauchott. butler for the family ever since the building of .tStormfeld''s expressed a. similar sen MEMORIAL SERVICES
 NATIONAL IN CHARACTER
 TO BE HELD IN NEW YORK
 New York, April 22.-The world of letters today mollrns for Mark Twain. A memorial service, rivalling any tri- bute paid by New York to states man, is planned for the dead author. With the news of his death in his Con necticut home, plans for the memorial were begun by his friends here. They call for a public service in the largest hall in New York. There are to be no formal invitations, reservations be- ing made only for the closest personal friends of Dr. Clemens and for the speakers. President Taft, Governor
 
 dean of American literature, will be asked to pay tribute to the man whose whimsical hunor did so much to give America it's real place in the field of letters.
 It is contemplated to have the me- morial service take place within ten days. The sponsors for the movement insist that it must be a spontaneous public tribute from those who give it and not service for the exploitation of those who arrange it. An effort will be made to emphasize in the ser vice, more than anything else, the fact that Twain was a delineator of humor and his sympathetic insight in to the minds and lives of his fellows was what made his writings success. There is a sense of relief to the read ing public today that death came to the author without the great suffering he had always feared It is recalled that he was in a way a fatalist. In a sermon on his mother, delivered in thes church at Hannibal, Mo-, Twain said:
 Her preaching did not perish when she passed away, but goes on and on.
 6Continued on Page 2.)