The Washington herald., 1910-12-09

Boston, Dec. S-Before the body of
Mary Baker G. Eddy was laid at rest in
a receiving vault at Mount Auburn Gem
etery early this morning. the issue be-
tween George w. Glover, her only son,
who had come on from his home in Lead.
S. Oak. TO attend the funeral, and the
directors of the Mother Church as u the
final disposition OF the body of the former
head OF Christian Science was fairly
joined.
Two hours before the funeral was held
In the Eddy house. Glover told Archibald
Mcclellan, chairman of the directorate,
that the fact that services would be al
lowed TO continue as scheduled was not
TO be construed by the directors as in
dicating the sons assent to the choice Of
Mount Auburn Cemetery as the site for
Mrs. Eddy's final resting place He did
not approve OF the directors choice of the
Boston cemetery instead of some place IN
the neighborhood OF Concord, N. H,
Glover said. and he Indicated beyond
a shadow OF misrepresentation that unless
his wishes. hitherto ignored. were con-
suited. he would seek legal aid in as
serting the right of one Of kin TO the pos
session of the body OF his mother
MY mother once told me-" Glover said,
when he was in conference with McCiel-
land and Gen. Henry NJ Baker before the
funeral. that, since she had been born
in the neighborhood OF Concord and mad
lived there so many of her years, that
was the place where she wished her
body TO rest after life had passed. I
insist that her wishes should be respected
in this natter
Directors stand Firm.
During the time that Glover was hurry
Ing. with, his son and daughter from his
South Dakota home the directors.
through Alfred Farlow, their Official
spokesman, had reiterated the statement
that Mrs. Eddy had never thought OF
death; that she had never spoken TO any
one OF the contingency which arose when
she breathed her last on the evening of
last Saturday, and that she had never
expressed any wish concerning where
she was to be laid when death claimed
her
That matters between Glover and .the
directors have come 10 a serious pass
was further indicated late tonight. when
it became known that ex-senator Will
lam T. Chandler. who was chief OF coun-
sci during the institution of the next
friends suit against the trustees of
Mrs. Eddy's estate In Concord during
March, 1857, is expected TO come down
from Concord to have a conference with
Glover and Ebenezer J. Foster Eddy.
Mrs Eddy's adopted son, in Boston to-
morrow. EUch a conference was ar
ranged yesterday when Chandler's son
came down from Concord with lawyer,
who had also been one of Glover's coQn-
sci in the Concord litigation, and when
a conference between Glover and the two
was held
Ebenezer Foster Eddy has told the
members of the board Of directors that
he stands with his foster-brother in the
contention that Mrs. Eddy's body should
rest where she herself had once said that
it should. Until Glover himself broached
the protest against the action of the
directors in completing arrangements for
the interment Of Mrs. Eddy without con-
sultation and according to a scheme that
did not suit him, none Of the heads of
the mother church who were in Gloverrs
company from the time he was met at
the train yesterday until the funeral
hour had so much as mentioned the fact
that the arrangements had been com
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