Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1910-04-24
BODY Of MARK
TWAIN LAID
TO REST
SIMPLE RITES FOR
WE'LL BELOVED AUTHOR
Kindly Country Folk and fam
GUS Men in All Walks of Life
Alike Mourn Apostle Of Smiles
and Sunshine.

GBy Morning Journal knecial t.ssss wirel
New York, April 2a The body ol
Mark Twain began today its last
journey from the sunny chambers
where it had lain in Stormiield 10 the
spst in Gods Acre, whore it shah rest
nj last beside those whom he loved
long since and lost awhile.
Funeral services were said in the
old Brick Presbyterian church at
Firth avenue and Thirty-seventh
street, this city, by Dr. Henry A. Van
Dyke. professor OF English literature
at Princeton university this afternoon
The prayer was pronounced by Dr.
Joseph H. Tvitchell ot Hartford,
conn, Mark TwanS old friend and
pastor.
Early tomorrow morning the body
will leave for Elmira over the Lacka-
wanna railroad.
IN accordance with the wishes of
the family the services today were
brief and simple The only music was
an organ prelude. the Death of
Ase. by Grieg There was a modest
display of white lilies, lilies of the
VALLEY white and red roses, orchids
and sweet peas about the coffin
Those who wished were permitted to
view the features. Invitation was by
card but after the friends and the
family had been seated. the church
WAS well filled by the general public
In all the services took but half an
hour
In his address Or. Van Dyke said
in part;
The touch of grief is upon us We
think of Mark Twain not as the cell
ebiity but the man whom we knew
and loved
Those who knew his work as a
whole know that under the lambent
ana ilrosprcssiblc humor which was
his gift, thcre was a foundation Of
serious Thought ard noble affections
and desires. The mark of lis higher
humor is hat il does not laugh at
the weak. the helpless. the true and
the innocent, only at the false, the
pretentious. the vain the hypocriti-
cal.
Mark Twain laughed ~,nany of the
worlds false claimants out of court.
ana entangled many Of the worlds
false witnesses in the net OF ridicule.
He touched the ahsurdites Of life with
not unkindly mockery and made us
feel somehow the infinite pathos OF
lifc's realities, No one can say that
he ever failed to reverence the pur-
ity, the frank, joyful, genuine, nature
Of little children, Of whom Christ has
said OF such is the kingdom Of Heav-
en-
Those waiting at BEDDING station
today recalled how the same hearse
had wendod the same winding road
from the same h0use--on Christmas
night. Jean Clemens had died on
Christmas owe, while her Christmas
rec stood in the living room at storm
ield fully garnished and untouched.
Her body was sent to Elmirn on
hristmas night. That was Mark
rwaius last Christmas
40 news of the death had reached
he few scattered houses that are in
Redding. That Christmas was turi-
lusly stormy ana the first intimation
ho village had of Jean Clemens death
VAS when a tardy passenger. opening
suddenly the door OF Redding station,
ound himself confronted with four
an. silent men in black, struggling in
he snow with a coffin. 1t was on
his night that the newspapers heard
hat Mark Twain was dying and sent (
lim kilograms OF inquiry.
"I hear, he wrote in reply, chat |
he newspapers say ] am dying { /
would not do such thing az my |
une of life. 1 am behaving myself |
IS well MS I can Merry. Christmas /
o everybody
The storms beat upon the daughter, |
he sun shonc today upon the father. |
The hearse plodded through the lanes; |
fter it followed Albert Bipelow Paine /
he cherished friend and hiographcr, Z
With Jarvis Langdon. the fayoritc I
lephew ana IN "a closed carriage al the /
ear. the only living daughter Clara /
nd her husband Ossip Gabrilowitsch. /
'laude, the faithful butler, and old /
Satie Lcary, the housekeeper. on the /
ront seat. There was no procession /
# mourning neighbors. no demonstra- 7
ion along the way. The shining rose
Food coffin stood upon a baggage
ruck in the glaring sunlight. ON the
over was q silver plate Inscribed
Samuel L4anghorne Clemens Mark
vain. 1910"
Above the wreath lay wreath of
laurel. emblem of immortal
~. picked from the Tamarack hills
,an Beard. his old friend and neigh
or, who illustrated many Of his books,
ad stumbled over the rocks and roots
p the dark TO pluck them the night
efore ana had sat up into the small
ours To- weave them with his own
ands.
The train began 90 draw out of the
iation and as n gathered way farm
r on the platform said soberiy.
There goes "a man the country
new as wen as George Washington
There was NO sign that anybody at
iccccding stations through which the
-ain passed knew what burden IL I,
trried. The family party occupied {
compartment. old Katie. the house 4
eeper sat In corner and wept sill
ntly.
"a made him comfortable. she said.
just before he sank To rest Tho
urscs could not please him. hut he !
sstcd when ! eased him and THANK L
ou. Katie. YOU do everything just
ght. he said
THE day before. he had Miss clara
ame into his room TO sing. Flow I
entity. Sw. q Alton he asked for. I
nd she SANG the old ballad for him. !
c took real pride ia his daughter $
lice. and 10 is a mistake 40 think. as !
,me hnve said, that he was opposed
, her career ft
There was crowd at the doors be- f.,