The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-24
SIMPLE FUNERAL
FOR MARK TWAIN
Services in Accord w ith
ishes of Beloved
Humorist.
THOUSANDS VIEW
PLACID DEAD FACE
Internent at Elmira To-Day
Will Be Conducted Simply, as
Were Ceremonies in New
York-Feeling Address De-
livered by DR.. Henry
Van Dyke.
-[special to The Times-Dispatch. ]

Especial to The Times-Dispatch.1
New York. April 2s.--simpie in the
extreme were the funeral services to-
/ day at the Brick Presbyterian Church.
Fifth Avenue and Thirty-seventh
Street. of Samuel l.. Clemens ("Mark
Twain"). This was in strict accord
with his expressed wish. In a Sc
verely plain mahogany casket the body
of the humorist and philosopher was
borne from his country estate, storm
field" in the wild Camarack Hills.
near Redding, Conn. to this city over
the New York, New Haven and Hart
ford Railroad. arriving at the Grand
mediately carried to the church, where
1t lay in state until 10 o'clock tonight,
when 1T was taken over the Lacka
| wanna TO Elinra, where Mr.. Clemens
will be buried tomorrow by the side
of his wife and three children.
| At 3 o'clock in the afternoon the
/ doors of the church We're thrown open
to the public. Four hundred special
cards of admission had been issued
| After card-hoders were seated the
4
an hour poured into the edidce and
| filled ii to oyertlowing. The great
pipe organ murmured softly Grieg's
Death of Ase" while the church was
/ filing.
Single Ornament on Coffin.
4 The coffin, banked with white lilies
and roses. lay at the chancel rail. Its
simplicity was relieved only by a
wreath of mountain laurels, picked
!,
the artist who illustrated several of
Mark Twain's books, and who was one
1 of his nearest neighbors and closest
friends.
1 The wreath was arranged by Mrs.
/ Beard. II was at the special request;
j of members of the family that this
single ornament was placed upon the
coffin.
After he had read He is my shep-
herd" and other appropriate Bible pas
sages. the Rev. Henry Van Dyke. D.
D., of Princeton, another of Mark
Twains close friends. delivered brct
but feeling address that brought tears
yelling to the eyes of scores of men
and women in the audience.
The Rev. Joseph Twitchell, D. D.. Of
Hartford. who ofticiated at the mar
riage of Mr.. Clemens nearly forty
years ago. closed the services with an
/ Invocation.
Then the crowd filed slowly by the
coffin and gazed for the last time upon
the placid face of the man who for
genera tion had been loved by the
world because he had driven away its
sorrow with a laugh. The interment
| at Elmira tomorrow will be conduct
y =,
eral ceremonies today.
DIT. Twitchell was to have pro-
nounced the last words at the grave,
| but in the midst of to-day's cere-
monies he was handed telegram in
! forming him of the sudden illness of
his wife at Hartford. His place at
the grave will be taken by q clergy
man of Elmira not yet selected.
Crowds Uncovered.
The body Of Mark Twain was borne
| from Stormheld to Redding Station
4 this morning through lanes that We're
traversed on Christmas Day by q
hearse that bore the body of his
/ daughter. That had thrown the hui
! morist into @ sorrow from which he
/ never recovered The road was crowd
eel with persons with uncovered and
bowed heads. A single carriage con-
tanned the only members of the Glenn
ems household who accompanied tho
| body to its last resting place.
These were his daughter, Clara. and
her husband, Ossip Gabrilowitch, Kate
Leary, who had been the dead humor-
lists housekeeper for thirty years and
had witnessed all his joys and griefs.
/ ~ hrt lar pa
Joint literary executor and for the
past year Mr. Clemenss secretary. fol-
lowed in another carriage. accompan-
led by Jervis Langdon. a nephew OF
Mrs Clemens Awaiting the corpse at
the station here were Mr.. and Mrs E,
u. Loomis, the latter Mark Twains
/ favorite niece; Major Frederick Leigh
and f. a. Dmeka, friends of the fam
/ lily.
No more distinguished audience has
been assembled in New York in years
! than that which attended the funeral.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie wero
among the earliest arrivals at the
l church and sat close to the seats oc-
i cupied by tho family party. All through
the ceremonies Mr.. Carnegie's eyes
were dimmed with tears Joseph II.
Choate was close by, EN-GoVernor
Joseph w. Folk, of Missouri, attended
the services as a special mark of re-
spect tc the man whom he declared
to have been the states most distin-
/ gulshed son.
The Players Club was represented
by q delegation OF forty members,
The artistic and literary world were
represented by Dan Beard, Peter Fin
4 ley Dunno, Robert j, Collier William
4 Dean Howells, Brandor Matthews, Da-
\ vid j. Bspham, Augustus Thomas
John Lane Allen. Will Harden. Sidney
Potter. Will Carleton. Robert Under-
wood Johnson, Philip Sousa, II, r,
Mackay. Douglas Fairbanks, III, H..
| Rogers. Jr,, and John u. Stanchfiold.