Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1910-04-22
AMERICAS GREAT
JESTER IS DEAD
Simple Funeral Services Ar
ranged for at New York
Tomorrow
THE WHOLE WORLD MOURNS
Author of Tom Sawyer and
Huckleberry Finn Was
Greatly Beloved.


eral service over the body of Samue
l.. Clemens will be held in this city
tomorrow afternoon The body viii
then be taken to Elmira, New York
where it will be buried beside those
of his wife and children. Later, pub
tic memorial services will be held. DR.
Henry Van Dyke of Princeton Univer
slty, will preach the funeral sermon
at the Brick Presbyterian church
The body will be brought to New
York tomorrow morning from Red
ding.
Man Who Gave Clemens First News
paper Job.
San Francisco, April 22.-Joseph
Il. Goodman of Alameada, one of the
pioneer editors of the west, is the
man who gave Mark Twain his first
job as writer. That was fifty
years, in Nevada.
Samuel Clemens had gone into
Nevada, with Others, as a prospector
While at~work in the country just be-
yond<Virginia City, he sent various
contributions to the Territory Enter
prise, of which Goodman was editor
His manuscript was written in a
highly humorous vein. Goodman ac.
cepted the stories and requested more.
Goodman prevailed upon Clemens &c
forsake his quest for gold, and be-
come newspaper man. That was
in 1862, and, springing suddenly into
local fame, the brilliant wit climed
steadily into public favor.
In 1863 Clemens was sent by Good
man to report the session of the
Nevada legislature at Carson City 1t
was while upon this assignment that
Clemens wrote the first story to
which the non de plume Mark
Twain was signed.
Clemens attracted the attention of
San Francisco editors and offers be-
gan to tempt him. In 1866 he left
Nevada and came to San Francisco.
Here he worked upon the Alta Cali
fornia, now the Examiner; the Call,
then owned by George Barnes, and
the Bulletin.
Clemens was commissioned by the
Sacramento Union in 1867 to journey
to the Sandwich Islands and write a
series of special articles descriptive of
the wonderful South Sea country
When he returned to San. Francisco
some months later, the desire to go
east possessed him. Finally, in 1869
he left the scene of his early tri-
umphs and went to New York. He
never returned to San Francisco
Most of the "old guard who were in
acquainted with Clemens
are dead.
An immortal Epitaph.
Emira N. Y, April 22.-The body
OF Mark Twain will find it's last rest
ing place in family plot here where
have been buried his wife, his
daughters Susan and Jane and his
infant son Langhorne. A simple mar
bic stone marks the graves in the
cemetery here. On it is the little
epltaph which Mark Twain wrote some
time after his wife's death, and which
brings tears on account of it's sheer
beauty to the eyes of every one who
stops to read it. It says:
Warm Summer sun
Shine kindly here,
Warm Southern wind blow softly here.
Green sod above
Lie light, lie light;
Good night, dear heart,
Good night, good night"
The American Chaucer.
London, April 22.-The American
Jhaucer," is the Evening Standards
estimate of Mark Twain's position in
literature. Today the paper says:
Like Chaucer, he kept a hospitable
leart for what is good and healthy.
Since the death of Dickens no writer
If English has been so universally
'ead. Mark Twain and Count Tolstoi
Ire the inheritors of worldwide fame
Tribute BY Roosevelt.
Paris, April 22.-Former President
Roosevelt was greatly panied to hear
of the death of Mark Twain. He said:
His position, like that of Joel Chand-
er Harris, was unique, not only in
American letters, but in the literary
world He was not only great hum
orist but also a great philosopher, and
MS writings form one of the assets
n the American contributions to the
world of which we have a right as
nation to be genuinely proud The
zig skin library which Mr.. Roosevelt
carried through the jungle included
Tom Sawyer" and "Huckleberry
Finn," and Mr.. Roosevelt says he read
10th several times and with the great.
sst interest.
His Last Hours.