The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-08-11
SECRET REBUR!AL
 OF ROCKEFELLER'S WIFE IN CLEVELAND
Body Removed From Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Vault
 and Taken to Train.

New York, Aug. 11.-Taken through a driving hailstorm from the vault at ! Sleep Hollow, Tarrytown, in which it had rested since March 15, the body of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller was buried yesterday in Lakeview Cemetery, Cleveland. Such secrecy marked the i removal that only with the arrival of the coffin at Cleveland did the plan become known.
 It had been MT. Rockefeller's pur- pose from the time of his wife's death March 12, to lay her to rest in C1eVe- land, her girlhood home. The contro- versy over his taxes, which threat ened to keep him away from that city, and the fear that demonstration might mark the coming of the body, led, however, to a delay of four and one-half months. Meantime, MT. Rockefeller had gone to Cleveland for the summer, and when attention came to be distracted from him he set about fulfilling his plan.
 Rehearsed Route for Shipment.
 Monday morning word was sent to Charles Vanderbilt, a Tarrytown un- dertaker, to prepare for the shipment of the body that evening. He got the ] permit for the removal, then tried out the roads that would have to be trav- lel1ed from the Old Dutch Church at Sleep Hollow to Harmon, where the Rockefe1lers board New York Central express trains when they halt to change from electric to steam power.
 The State road from Sleepy Hollow to Harmon is being rebuilt, and a four-mile detour is enceSSary. Van derbilt covered the route before noons and at o'clock the twelve-rniIe drive with the body was begun. Frederick Briggs, Superintendent of the Rocke- feller estate at Pocantico Hills, was present when the coffin was taken fl1a I, John D. Archbold plot. The only others there were the guards on duty, the undertaken and his men.
 No one attended the body on it's Journey Vanderbilt sat beside the driver on the .hearse. but no one else took part in the enterprise. Soon after the trip was started a violent storm broke over the river hills, and soon hail was driving in a way that made the most careful handling of the horses the price of safety. For an hour the storm continued, and not until the journey was near a close did it cease.
 Body on Train in Rough Box.
 The coffin was placed aboard a baggage car of the Lake Shore Linn tied, which leaves the Grand Central Terminal at 5:30 o'clock, and reaches Harmon soon after 6. There was nothing about the rough box to fndi- cate it's unusual character and those about the station got no inkIing of the fact that an event the neighbor- hood had long been anticipating was at hand. A similar absence of pre- cautions marked the arrival at .Cleve- land.
 Mrs. Rockefeller's body was placed in the Archbold. vault March IS, after MT. Rockefeller had returned from the south, where he was when his wife died. Guards were at once stationed at the Vault and until Monday two ne- groes maintained watch by day and two by might. A house was erected for them, connected by telephone with the Rockefeller estate.
 Twice a; week since that time wreath of orchids has been placed on the coffin. They were Mrs. Rockefel- 1er's favorite flower and her husband saw that as one arn1fu1 of them faded another took it's place. The custom will be continued in Cleveland. it is understood.
 John D. Rockefel1er, Jr.s was not at the interment in Cleveland. He is with his family at Seal Harbors Me. '