Los Angeles herald., 1910-04-23
VILLAGERS WILL
PAY LAST TRIBUTE
TO TWAIN TODAY
Business to Be Suspended in Red
ding, Conn.,, Until Body Is
Placed on Train
NOTABLES SEND COND0LENCE
Taft and Roosevelt Among Those
Who Express Sympathy to
HumoriSt'S Daughter
N0TABLES SEND C0NDoLENCE
Associated Pressl

n EDDING, Conn.,, April 22.-The
II, little village of Redding was in
~ mourning today for its benefactor
and friend, Mark Twain, who had en-
deared himself by his kindly good ma
ture and generosity.
Tomorrow morning, when the body is
taken to the train for New York, where
funeral services will be held in the old
brick church, all business will be sus-
pended and the villagers and farmers of
the surrounding hills will pay their last
tributes to the dead.
All day the villagers passed the house
and parties in motor cars from neigh
boring cities drove up the river road
and stopped to look over the lowlands
to Stormfield, on the hill. There has
not been such a gathering In the vii
lage since Mr.. Clemens gave his benefit
for the library to which he recently
gave money for a new building.
Late today the body was prepared for
burial, and dressed in the white flannel
he so constantly wore in the later years
of his life, will be placed in a plain
mahogany casket, which will arrive
here tomorrow morning.
Many messages of comfort were re-
ceiyed today by Mrs Ossip Gabrilo-
witsch, Mr.. Clemens only living daugh-
ter. Among them were kilograms from
President Taft and former President
Roosevelt.
HANNIBAL'S REQUEST DENIED
A message was also received from
the authorities of Hannibal, Mo-, ask
ing that Mr.. Clemens body be brought
there for burial. Mrs. Gabrilowitsch in
reply said that as the family burial
grounds were in Elmira, N. T., 1t was
thought best that the body be taken
there.
The body will be taken to the station
at 10 a. m. tomorrow and placed on
board the Pittsfield express. 1t will be
accompanied by Mr.. and Mrs. Gabrilo-
witsch, Albert Bigelow Paine and SER
wants who had been in Mr.. Clemens
service for many years.
Upon arrival of the body in New
York it will be taken TO the old brick
Presbyterian church, where services
will be conducted by the Rev. Dr.
Henry Van Dyke, assisted by Rev.
Joseph H. Twitchell OF Hartford, the
latter a lifelong friend of Mr.. Clemens.
At the conclusion of the New York
services, the body will be taken to El-
mira, in the Lake Forest, the private
car of e. r. Loomis, vice president OF
the Delaware, Lackawanna & western
railroad.
Mr.. Clemens did so much of his work
in bed that in death he still seemed
II
his active life. Ranged about him
were his books. Beside him was his
tabouret set with a tobacco jar, coll
lection of pipes, a stand Of cigars and
matches in abundance. Above his head
was reading lamp.
FAULTS OF CHAMBERAIAIDs
In old days one of his worries had
been the chambermaids.
"They always put the pillow on the
opposite end of your bed from the gas
burner" he wrote, 80 that while you
read and smoke before sleeping, as Is
the ancient and honorable custom or
bachelors, you have to hold your DOCK
aloft in uncomfortable positions to keep
the light from dazzling your eyes.
"They always put your books into
inaccessible places. They always put
the match box in some other place.
They hunt up a new place for 1t every
day and put bottle or other perish
able glass things where the box stood
before This is to cause you to break
that glass thing. They always save
UP all the old scraps of printed rub
bish you have thrown on the floor and
stand them up carefully on the table
and start the fire with your valuable
manuscripts
In later years, when successive sor-
rows descended heavily upon him.
Mark Twain had been spared all such
small discomforts. He lay today among
all the luxuries of disorder that he
loved. Death, that stamps some faces
with indignity, has left nothing but
nobility on his. There were no lines of
pain, no hint of sadness-nothing but a
large and serene benignity.