The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1910-04-25

IH6T6 were present al the grave only
members of the family party, who came
from New York with the body; former
goYerness of the Clemens family, two
of her friends, the sexton and half a
dozen newspaper men.
Services had previously been held at
the residence OF Gen. Charles J. Lang
don, where forty years ago Mark Twain
married the generals sister. In keep
ing with Mr.. Twain's wish, the cere-
mOny was simple There was no music
no honorary pallbeaTeTs-just the brief
address and prayer of DR.. Eastman.
Body in State.
The body lay in state in the very
parlOr where the marriage of forty
years ago took place, and some of those
who attended the wedding were there
today to look for the last time upon
the face Of their friend. Neither the
Rev Thomas K. Beecher nor the Rev.
Joseph Twitchell, who performed the
wedding ceremony, was present, how
ever.
Mr. Beecher died several years ago,
and Mr. Twitchell was called to Hart
ford by the serious illness of his wife,
who died this morning.
Among the floral gifts was a beau
tiful wreath bearing this inscription:
From five hundred boys of the
Louisville High school in remem brance
of MI. Clemens, who has frightened
their lives with innocent laughter and
taught them squareness and grit and
compassion to the weak"
Pays Rare Tribute.
The services at the house were pub
lie. but the attendance was not large
panied the body from Redding, the lit
tie gathering included only few rela-
tives and old friends.
DR.. Eastman said in part:
We are not here at this time to
speak Of the great man whose going
hence the whole world mourns. nor to
claim for him that place in the halls
of fame which time only can give. We
are here to weep with those that weep
TO give thanks with those whase own
he was in the sacred bonds OF human
kinshlp and family affection"
After the little group had looked for
the last time upon the features of the
dead the coffin was closed, and was
borne to a waiting hearse. Outside. a
few curious onlookers stood in the rain
as the procession started on its way
TO the cemetery, mile or more away.
Cherished In EImira.
Residents of Elmira cherished fond
memories of Mark Twain. With Mrs
Clemens and the children he had spent
many happy summers at Quarry farm
on. East Hill, overlooking the city, at
the home of Mrs. Susan L. Crane. Mrs.
house winds through the wooded
grounds to the summer lodge which
was Mark Twain's workshop. Here he
wrote 'Roughing It." "A Tramp
Abroad" and other works.
Below this lodge, a short way down
in the woods, is another rustic struc-
ture with barked roof, which the au-
thor built for his children. Here may
still be seen many of the undisturbed
playthings of the little ones.
1t was during the Quaker City ex-
petition in 1857. which Mark Twain has
imm ortalized' in The Innocents
Abroad" the humorist met General
LangdOn, then young man, the son
of Jervis I4angdcn, distinguished and
wealthy Elmiran. General LangdOn
/ took kindly to Mr.. Clemens and the
friendship which grew out of the meet
/ ing led to marriage of the author and
| Olivia L. Langdon.
81 saw her first" wrote Twain of his
wife in his autobiography, lin the form
of an ivory miniature in her brother
Charles staterOOm on the steamer
Quaker City in the bay of Smyrna, 1T
the summer of 1867, when she was in
her twenty second year.
I saw her in the flesh z0r the first
time in New York in the following
December. She was slender and beaUti-
full and giTlish and she was both girl
and woman She remained both girl
and woman to the last of her life"