Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1910-04-28
SIMPLE SERVICES
FOR MARK TWAIN
BODY or FAMOUS WRITER ON
WAY TO LAST RESTING
PLACE.
ORGAN PRELUDE ONLY MUSIC
AND DISPLAY or FLOW.
Frs MODEST.

New York, April 24.-The body OF
Mark Twain yesterday began its last
journey from the sunny chamber IN
Stormfe.d to spot in Gods acre
where it shall rest at last beside
those whom "he loved long since and
lost a while"
Funeral services were said in Old
Brick Presbyterian church of this
city by DR.. Henry A. Vandyke OF
Princeton university, yesterday after
noon. Prayer was pronounced by DIR.
Joseph II. Twitchell of Hartford,
Twain's old friend and pastor. AT
2:20 this morning the body was taken
to Elmira over the Lackawanna road
The services yesterday were brief
and simple. The only music was an
organ prelude. There was a modest
display OF flowers about the coffin.
In his address DR.. Van Dyke said:
This is not the place nor the
time for eulogy of the famous
writer, honored and representative
American. Here We are all of us sim
ply human. A touch of grief is upon
us. We think of Mark Twain, not as
celebrity, but the man whom we
knew and loyed.'
His Last Christmas.
A hearse among the green lanes in
the spring is sad thing to see, and
as those Waiting at Redding station
yesterday saw the white horses and
black van now and again between the
pencilled tracay of the willows,
there rose memory of how the same
hearse had last wended the same
winding road from the same house
on Christmas night. Jean Clemens
had died on Christmas eve while her
Christmas tree stood in the living
room at Stormfield fully garnisned
and untouched. Her body was sent
to Elmira on Christmas night. That
was Twain's last Christmas. That
Christmas night was furiously stormy.
Storms beat upon the daughter; the
sun shone yesterday upon the father.
The hearse plodded through the
lanes, after it followed Albert Blge.
low Paine, cherished friend and biog-
rapher, with Jervis Langdon, favorite
nephew, and in a closed carriage the
only living daughter Clara, her hus-
band, Ossip Gabrilowitsch: Claude,
faithful butler, and old Katie Leary,
housekeeper, on the front seat.
There was no demonstration along
the way.
On the coffin was a wreath of
mountain laurel, an emblem of the
immortality of Dan Beard, an old
fliend and neighbor, who illustrated
many of his books, had stumbled over
the rocks in the >dark to pluck them
the night before, and had sat ND into
the small hours to weave them with
his own hands.
When the train drew out farmer
On the platform said soberly:
There goes man the country
knew as well as George Washington. :"
On the train old Katie sat in cor
ner and wept silently. She said:
Il made him comfortable just be-
fore he sank to- rest. The nurses
could not please him, but he rested
when eased him and said Thank
you, Katie, you do everything just
right"
THE day before he had Miss Clara
into his room to sing. Flow Gently,
Sweet Alton he asked for, and she
sang the old Scotch ballad"
Notables at Services.
F. A. Duneka and Major Leigh of
Harper brothers met the party at the
station at New York. Still without
attracting attention, the hearse orept
slowly through the crowded streets to
the church.
There was a crowd at the doors,
but no crush or disorder. Among
those who attended were:
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie.
Robert ]. Collier, Peter F. Dunno.
cMr. Dooley') Robert Underwood
Johnson, Century magazine, Profess
sor Brander Mathews, w. D. Howells.
James Lane Allen, Carol Beckwith,
painter: Dan Beard, illustrator: Rob-
ert Bridges, poet; E. S. Martin, es-
sayist; John H. Finley, president of
the College City, New York; H. H.
Rogers, Jr.; James Choate, Colonel D.
Appleton, Thomas Wentworth Higgin-
son, and a delegation from Authors.
Lotos, Century and players of clubs