The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1910-04-24
TAKEN FROM REDDlNG YEsTER-
DAY TO NEW YORK CITY
SIMPLE SERVICES.
DR.. vAMDYKE 0FF|c|ATES
Dan Beard Made Wreath of Mountain
laure!s for Coffin-Pron1inent
Literary People Attend
Services.

New York, April 23--The body OF
Mark Twain began today the last
journey from the sunny chamber In
Stormfield to the spot in Gods acre
where it shall rest at last besides
those whom he has loved long since
and lost awhile.'
Funeral services were held in the
old brick Pre- byterian church, in this
city, by DR.. Henry A. Vandyke, of
Princeton University, this afternoon.
Prayer was pronounced by Dr. Joseph
III. Twitchell, Of Hartford. Twain S
old friend and pastor. At 2:20 tomor-
row morning the body will leave for
Elmira over the Lackawanna rail-
soad
Simple Services.
The services today were brief and
simple The only music was an or
gan prelude. There was modest dis
play Of flowers about the coffin.
In his addre Vandyke said: This
is not the place nor the time for eu-
logy of the famous wsiter, honored
and representative American. Here
all Of us are simply human. A touch Of
grief is upon us. We think Of Mark
Twain, not as a celebrity, bit as the
man whom we knew and loved"
A hearse among the green lanes of
spring is sad thing to see, and those
waiting at Redding station today aw
white horse and black van, and
again penciled traces of WILLOWS.
there arose a memory of how the
same hearse had last wended tho
same winding road from the same
house, on o Christmas night. Jean
Clemens had died on Christmas eve
while her Christmas tree stood in the
living room at Stormfeld fully garn-
ished and untouched. Her body was
sent to Elmira on Christmas night
That was Twains last Christmas.
That Christmas night was furiously
stormy.
storms beat upon the daughter; the
sun shone today upon the father The
hearse plodded through the lanes, and
after it followed Albert Bigelow
Paine. Twain's cherished friend and
literary biographer with Jervis Lang
don. favorite nephew, AMI in a
closed carriage his only living daugh
ter, Clara, her husband, Ossip Gabril-
owitsch, Claude, the faithful butler,
and old Katie Leary, the housekeep-
er, on the front seat.
Dan Beard Made Wreath.
There was no demonstration alone
the way. On the coffin was wreath
of mountain laurel, the emblem of i'm
mortality. Dan Beard, an old friend
and neighbor, who Illustrated many
of Twain's books, had stumbled over
the rocks in the dark to pluck them
the night before, and had sat mp into
the small hours to weave them with
his own hands.
When the train drew out a farmer
on the platform said soberly:
There goes a man the country
knew as we'll as George Washington
On the train Old Katie sat in a
corner 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 I eased him and thank you
Katie, you do everything just right"
he said.
THE day before he had Miss Clara
into his room to sing Flow Gently,
Sweet Alton He asked for her and
she sang the old Scotch ballad
F. A. Duneka and Major Leigh, of
Harper Brothers, met the party at
the station in New York. Still with
ort attracting attention the hearse
crcpt slowly through the crowded
streets to the church.
Prominent People Present.
There was a crowd at the doors but
no crush or disorder. Among those
who attended We're:
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie.
Robert ]. Collier Peter f. Dunno (Mr,
Dooley), Robert Underwood Johnson,
of the Century Magazine; Professor
Brander Matthews, ". d. Howells,
James Lane Allen, Carol Beckwith;
Dan Beard, the illustrator; Robert
Bridges, the poet; II. S. Martin, the
essayist; John H. Finley. president Of
the College of the City of New York;
II. H. Rogers, Jr.; James Choate
Colonel d. Appleton; Thomas Went.
worth Higginson, and a delegation
from the Authors, Lotos, Century and
Players Club.