Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1910-04-29
MARK twain BURIED
FUNERAL OF NOTED MAN WAS
HELD SATURDAY.
Services Were Very Simple and Held in
the Presbyterian Church-Music Was
Brief and Was Only Modest Display
of Flowers = Many Distinguished
People Were Present.

New York, April 24.-The body of
Mark Twain began Saturday it's last
journey from the sunny chamber where
1T had lain in Stormfield to the spot
IN God s acre where it shall rest at last
beside those whom he "loved and long
since lost awhile"
Funeral services were said in the
old brick Presbyterian church at
Fifth avenue and 37th street, this city,
by DR.. Henry A. Vandyke, professor
of English literature at Princeton
university. The prayer was pronounced
by DIR. Joseph H. Twitchell of Hart
ford, Conn.,, Twain s old friend and
pastor. The body was taken to Ell
mira.
They All Knew Him.
Most of those who gazed at the dead
humOrist III his coffin had never be-
tore seen the creator of ''Tom Saw
yer" and Huckleberry Finn" but
they felt that they knew Mark Twain
intimately because of the humor and
wisdom of his simple philosophy of
life.
The sentiment of the immense crowd
OF mourners-they were sincere mour-
ners-was expressed in one of the few
floral pieces that lay about the casket
IN the quaint old brick Presbyterian
church. 1t bore no name. Instead it
carried the simple legend:
From one who has read Pudd N.
head Wilson. 1t was the tribute of
the world to man it knew most by his
written words.
The body reached New York shortly
before noon in private car in which
rode Mrs. Ossip Gabrielovitch, Samuel
Clemens only surviving daughter, and
her husband; Dan Beard, the artist,
Twain's lifelong friend, James Lang
don of Elmira; Katie Leary, for 80
years the housekeeprr at Stormfeld,
and the other house servants. At the
head of the coffin stood Claude Ben
toilette, for many years Twain's valet,
who refused to move from the side of
his dead master.
Only a handful of people met the
body at the grand central station. No
loving hands lifted it from the car to
the hearse. That task was delegated
to the undertaken and his assistants.
Slowly the cortege drove to the old
brick church, where the body remained
until the funeral service began at
3 o clock.
Services Are Simple.
In accordance with the wishes of
the family the services were brief and
simple. The only music was an organ
prelude. There was a modest display
of white lilies of the valley, white and
red roses, orchids and sweet peas about
the coffin. Those who wished were per-
mitted to view the features. Invita-
ton was by card, but after the friends
and the family had been seated the
church was well filed by the general
public.
Among Those Present.
Among the distinguished friends of
the dead humorist in the church were
Will Carleton, Brander Matthews, Will
liam Dean Howells, Mr.. and Mrs. An
drew Carnegie, Mr., and Mrs. Joseph
Choate, James Lane Allen, Peter Finley
Dunno, Sidney Porter, John B. Stanch-
field of Elmira, Robert Underwood
Johnson, H. H. Rogers Jr., son of
Twain IS dearest friend; Colonel Henry
J. Harper of Harper & Brothers,
Twain IS publishers; Robert Bridges and
delegations from the Players, Authors,
Century and Lotus clubs.
At the Grave.
Elmira, N. Y, April 24.-Under a
tent on the grassy slope of the Langdon
plot in Woodlawn cemetery, with rain
beating iercely against the canvas COW
err, little group of mourners silently
watched today as the body of Mark
Twain Samuel L. Clemens) was lower
ed into an evergreen lined grave be-
side the bodies of his wife and chill
dren.
nravailad are as follows. North Da-