Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1910-04-22
MARK TWA|KS
FUNERAL To Be
HELD IN NEW YORK
Simple Services Over Body of
Noted Author Before Being
Taken to Elmira.
END OF HUMORIST'S
LIFE WAS PEACEFUL
Surrounded by Relatives and
Friends, Samuel L. Clemens
Died Last Night.

NEW YORK, April ga simple |
funeral service over the body of Samuel
L. Clemens will be held in this city to-
morrow afternoon. The body will then
be taken to Elmira, N. Y, where it will
be buried beside those OF his wife and
children.
F. A. Duneka, of Harper & Brothers.
Mr.. Clemens's publishers who is max
Ing the arrangements for the funeral,
said that 1t was the wish of the family
that the services be brief as pos
sible. Later on a public memorial
service will be held in some large hall.
Dr. Henry Van Dyke, of Princeton
University will preach the funeral SER
mon at the service tomorrow, which
will be held at the Brick Presbyterian
Church, Thirty seventh street and
Fifth avenue, at 8 o'clock. The funeral
Mr.. Duneka said, will be of a semi
public nature. and will be attended by
only relatives and close friends of the
| dead author. There will be no pail
bearers, and although final arrange
ments have not been made, the service
probably will consist of merely a short
4 address by DR.. Van Dyke There prob
ably will be no music, Mr.. Duneka
said The body will be brought to New
York from Redding, Com, tomorrow
on special car.
After the funeral the body will be
taken to Eln1ira, where another service,
as simple as the one here. will be held.
This service probably will be at the
home of General Langdon, rela-
] tive by marriage OF Mr.. Clemens,
and so far as now known will consist
simply of a short address by Joseph
Twitchell, of Hartford, Conn, who is
one of Mr.. Clemens's oldest friends.
From the Langdon home the body will
be removed to the cemetery to be laid
to rest. TF
/ No arrangements have been made for
the public memorial service. Mr..
Duneka said it probab bly, would be held
in week or ten days. in some large
hall in this city, and that it would be
open to the public. On account of the
almost private nature of the funeral
services it is felt by Mr. Clemenss rela-
tives that some such services should
be held at which the public may gather
in expression of its affection for the
dead humorist
REDDING, Conn. April 22-An ava
lanche of kilograms, cablegrams, let
ters and other messages Of coincidence
from all over the United States and
many foreign countries descended to-
day on Stormfeld, the home OF Samuel
Langhorne Clemens mark Twain), who
died at 6:32 o'clock last night in the
room in which he had done most of his
writing during the last three years.
The world-famous humorist passed
from sleep into death. the transition
being almost imperceptible to those
about his bedside.
The doctors had been saying for sew
eral days that Mark Twain was dying
from angina pectoris. but the good
people of Redding. of Bethel and of
Danbury say they know better; that he
died of broken heart If ever any one
did. And while Albert Bigelow Paine,
his literary executor and biographer,
does not admit of a belief in broken
hearts, he said today that for the past
year-since the death of the authors
daughter Jean-Mark Twain had been
weary of life. When Richard Watson
Glider died recently he said:
How fortunate he is; no good for
tune of that kind ever comes to me-"
Greets Relatives CheerfuIIy.
Yesterday noon he asked for his
glasses. and, thinking he had not
been heard, wrote on a pad, please
give me my glasses This was the
last writing he was ever to do.
He greeted his son-in-law, Ossip Ga
brilowich, and his daughter Mrs. Ga
| brilowitch, and his daughter Mrs. Ga
stored up into sitting position in bed
SO he could glance over the pages of
/ Carlyle's French Revolution
About p, m. he dropped off into
awoke.
1t had become apparent to Mr.. Glenn
ens's physician, DR.. Robert Halsey, of
New York, who had scarcely left his
4 side since he arrived a week ago from
Bermuda, that the patients condition
was grave, and DIR. Edward Quintard,
of New York was notified. Or. Quin-
| tard reached Stormfleld late in the
afternoon.
1t was then so plain the humorist was
near the end that his daughter, SON
in-law, Mr.. Paine, Jarvis Langdon and
f. E. Loomis, the dying mans nephews.
and the members of the household,
some of whom had been In the employ
of the Clemens family for many years,
gathered about his bedside for a last
farewell The dying man recognized
them.
When the others le1t the room Mr..
Clemens's only daughter, Clara; her
husband Mr. Gabrilowitch, and the
| two doctors remained until the end.
There was no pain The moment of his
death was scarcely noticeable.
One thin white hand was between
those of his daughter and the other
among the pages of his beloved CARLYLE.
His glasses lay not far away.
When the end came his favorite
niece. Mrs. f. E. Loon1is, and her hus-
hand and nephew, Mr.. Langdon, were
on their way to catch a train for New
York, encouraged by the fact that he
had recognized them. to believe death
was not imminent They left ignorant
| Of his death.
For several days he had been grad
| ualiy sinking. but was calm and grave,
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