Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-04-23
MEN PROM INENT IN PUBLIC AND
WORLD OF LETTERS WILL
TAKE PART IN TRIBUTE 70
GREAT AMERICAN WRITER.
ANSWERED CALL AT
REDDING LAST NIGHT
WHO DELIGHTED
THOUSANDS WITH HIS WRIT.
lNGs is HELD TO HAVE sue.
cUMBED TO BROKEN HEART

New York. April 22.-Friends Of
Mark Twain announced today that ar
rangements are being made for great
public memorial service here, Trib-
utes will be paid by men prominent In
public life and the world Of letters
Several pastors have announced that
a part OF Sundays service will be de-
voted to eulogies Of the humorist. Ex-
pressions Of regret from men OF let
ters, statesmen, lawyers, clergymen
and business men from the Atlantic to
the Pacific were published here today.
The tributes were more numerous and
varied than were offered upon tho
death of any other public man OF
prominence in years.
Funeral Tomorrow Afternoon.
Simple funeral service over the
body Of Samuel Clemens will be held
in this city tomorrow afternoon. The
body will then be taken to Elmira, N.
Y, and buried beside his wife and
children. It Is the wish of the family
t44at services be as brief as possible.
DR.. Henry Vandyke of Princeton uni
|versity will preach the funeral service
tomorrow in the Brick Presbyterian
] church. The funeral will be of q semi
public nature and attended only by
relatives and close friends Of the dead
author. There will be no pail bearers.
The body will be brought here on
special car. After the funeral the
body will be taken to Elmira where an.
other service will be held.
Twain Died Last Night.
Redding, Conn, April 22.-Samuel
Langshorn Clemens mark Twain).
died painlessly at $3.50 last night OF an
gina pectoris.
He lapsed into coma at 3 o'clock
in the afternoon, never recovering
consciousness. After bad day We'd
nesday, but a good night Wednesday
night, he awoke refreshed.
He recognized his daughter, Clara,
and spoke rational word or two, but
feeling unequal to conversation wrote
out: "Give me my glasses They were
his last words. Laying them aside ha
sank slowly into final unconscious.
ness.
At the deathbed were only Mrs.
Gabrilowitsch (Clara Clemens) and
her husband, DR.. Robert Falsey, DR..
Quintard and Albert Bigelow Paines
who will write Mark Twain's biogra-
ply and his literary executor. and the
two trained nurses.
Restoratives Of digitalis, strychnine,
and camphor were administered, butt
the patient failed to respond.
Discouraged on Trip From Bermuda !
Mark Twain had Just returned from
Bermuda, whence he had gone In
search Of health. On the return trip
he said to Mr.. Paine, his constant
companion: This is a bad Job; We
will never pull through at"
On shore once more he took heart, /
but when sinking he said family tol
his nurses:
"Why do you fight to keep me alive?i
Two days OF life are as good to mel
as four
Was An Inveterate Smoker.
Mark Twain was for more than fftyi
years an inveterate smoker. DR.. Hall,
sey said last night that he was unable,
to predict that the fatal heart trouble
was in any way sequel to nicotine
poisoning. Some constitutions, he
said, seem to be immune from the eff
| fects Of tobacco. That Is one Of them.
| Yet it is true that since his illness
began the doctors had cut down
Twain's daily allowance of twenty
cigars and countless pipes to four
cigars a day. No deprivation was a
greater sorrow. He tried to smoke on
the steamer while returning from
Bermuda and only gave 1t up becauss
he was too feeble to draw a pipe.
Even on his death bed. and when he
could no longer speak, he would make
a motion of waving cigar and pun.
ing.
| Twain lived at Hannibal, Mo-, But.
falo, Tarrytown and Hartford, and
then at Redding where he built q
fine country home. He was a great
favorite here and many saw him on
| his walks in his white fannels.
| Friend Of II. II. Rogers.
Last summer his walks began to fak
ter, and last fall they ceased. The
/ death of H. H. Rogers, close friend,
was severe blow. The death Of hid
daughter, Jean, who was seized with
an attack of epilepsy last fall while In
a bath, was an added blow from which
he never recovered. 1t was then that
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