The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-04-24

Jarvis LanCdon, the favorite nephew,
and in a closed carriage, at the rear.
the only living daughter, Clara, and
her husband. Ossip Gabrilowitsch +;
Claude, the faithful butler, and old
Katie Leary, the housekeeper, on the
front seat. There was no procession Of
mourning ncighbors, no demonstration
coffin stood upon BAGGAGE truck in
the glaring sunlight On the cover
was silver plate, inscribed:
Samuel LanPhorne Clemens. MARK
Twain.) 1910'
Above the plate lay n wreath of
mountain laurel, emblem of Immortality.
picked from Ihe tamnrack hills. Dan
Beard, his old friend and naighbor, who
illustrated many of his books had
the dark to pluck them the night before
and had sat up into the small hours TO
weave them with his own hands.
Compared to Washington.
The train began to draw out of the
station and as it gathered way, n farmer
on the platform said soberly:
'There goes man the country knew
as well as George Washington. -
There was no sign that anybody at
succeeding stations through which the
train passed knew what burden it bore.
The family party occupied compart-
ment. Old Katie, the housekeeper, sat
in corner and wept silently.
81 made him comfortable, " she said,
''lust before he sank TO rest The
nurses could not please him, but he rest
ed when | eased him and THANK you,
Katie. you do everything Just right,
he said.
"The day before he had Miss Clara
taken into his room to sing, Flow Gent
ly, Sweet Alton, he asked for, and she
sang the old ballad for HIM. He took
real pride in his daughters voice. and
it is a mistake TO think, as some have
said, that he was opposed to her ca.
reer.'
Z. a, Duneka and Major Leigh Of nar-
per & Brothers met the party at the
Grand Central station. Still without
attracting attention the hearse crept
slowly through the crowded streets TO
the avenue. There was a crowd at the
and no disorder. Among Among those hos "V who 6o"at at,
tended were: Nj. and Mrs. Andrew
Carnegie. Robert J. Collier. Peter +.
Dunno (Mr. Dooley), Robert Underwood
johnson OF the Century magazine, Prof
Brander Matthews, w. D. Howells.
James Lane Allen. Carol Bridges, the
poet, f. S. Martin. the essayist, John
H. Finley. president of the college of
L L.
Jr, James Choate, Colonel D. Appleton,
Thomas Wentworth Higginson, and del.
egatlons from the Authors, the Lotus,
the Century and the Plavers clubs.
The Brick Presbyterian church at
Fifth avenue and Thirty-seventh street
was selected for the funeral services
this afternoon. Two close friends OF
Mr. Clemens were chosen to speak en-
log1es, They were the Rev. DR.. Henry
Van Dyke. professor of English liter.
ature at Princeton university. and DIR.
Joseph Twitchell of Hartford a city
for seventeen years the authors home.
Throng Seeks Admission.
Although the Brick church seats 1900
persons. it was by no means large
enough to contain all who had desired
10 see for the last time the face of Mark
Twain. Four hundred cards of invita-.
tiOn were issued with the understand.
ing that when these had been presentel
the doors would be open TO the qeacral
public. After the services. il was an
nounced. the opportunity you'd bs given
for those outside TO enter thc church,
and file past the plain mahogany cof-
fin.
In keeping with the known sentiments
OF Mr.. Clemens, the program included
no vocal music and no pallbearers. Two
organ selections, brief prayers and he
few words Of eulogY constituted the
service.
Attending the services were repre
sentatives from the Lotus, the Authors
and the Players clubs, prominent pub
fishers and editors. eminent members OF
the bench and bar and literary men and
women Of note,
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