Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-01-08
NOTABLES AT BIER
HONOR COLONEL IN
IMPRESSIVE WAY
Funeral Most Impressive In
Simplicity Congress Is
Represented
ENTIRE NATION PAYS HONOR
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press
OYSTER BAY, Jan. S--Accept for
two sons. absence as soldiers in their
country's service overseas, the family
of Theodore Roosevelt Twenty-six
president of the United States, gath
cred I'm the living room of Sycamore
Hills shortly before noon today for
the simple funeral service.
Mrs. Roosevelt bearing in mind her
husbands words to funeral ceremony,
decided not to attend the church ser
vices, nor to Join the procession to the
cemetery. 1t was announced that she
would big good-oye to the body of her
companion in the house where they
lived for many years while her chill
dren who grew to manhood and
womanhood in the atmosphere of the
old homestead, would see all that IL
mortal of their famous father COM
mitted to earth In the family plot,
the highest hill in the cemetery over
looking Long Island Sound.
The home service, one of prayer
alone, lasted hardly more than five
minutes, and was In charge of Rev
George Talmadge, rector of Christ's
Episcopal, the Roosevelt family
church, while the ritual before the
altar was concluded within fifteen or
twenty minutes, after the body was
brought into the edfce.-
Long before the hour set for Coll
onel Roosevelt's funeral this after
noon, silent crowds of villagers
and visitors collected in the vicin-
ity of Sycamore Hills, to Christ
Episcopal Church and to the Me-
mortal cemetery. Many tried in vain
to gain admittance to the spacious
grounds of the Roosevelt estate, but
deputy sheriffs and detectives kept all
away.
Only the immediate members of the
fa mt pra a. Ia II
+. the house enc g -: rites OF Christ
Tchurch, as follows:
| Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, ~ sees
tative. and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth.
Captain and Mrs. Archie Roosevelt
Mrs. Richard Derby. Mrs. Douglass
| Robinson. the coloners sister; Mr..
and Mrs. T. ID. Robinson, the former
being the colonel's nephew; Admiral
! w. 3. Fowles. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph
Alsop, w. Emlin Roosevelt and John
X. Roosevelt, cousins of the colonel;
Mr. and Mrs. T.. Reeve Merritt. Mrs.
j. West Roosevelt. Mr.. and Mrs. La
mon Warner, Mrs. T. l.. Roosevelt.
John f. Roosevelt. Mrs. s. Fritz. Mrs.
f. Robinson, Mrs. L. Geer. Mrs. J.
I Roosevelt. Mrs. James A. Roosevelt,
Mrs. Fred Roosevelt, Emanuel Roose-
welt and Miss Nellie Heyler.
Rev. q. E. Talmage. member OF
the family, read the Episcopalian
btiNitc lNt TIC uNau ut SAttci Cllui Sh
at 12:45 o'clock. There will be no
special music and the only departure
from the ritual will be the recitation
GS the rector of Colonel Roosevelts
favorite hymn, How Firm Founda-
ton"
Admission to the little village
church where the colonel worshipped
was by card and was limited to less
than 500. President Wilson was rep
resented by Vice President Marshall,
the Army by General March, and the
Navy by Admiral Winslow. and a dell
egatlon represented both houses OF
congress. Among the close friends OF
the former President invited were:
Senator Henry c. Lodge. of Mass
lachusetts; former President William
H. Taft and Former Governor Charles
f. Hughes. The delegation OF Rough
Riders who served under the colonel
since the Spanish American War had
places of honor.
Interment was to follow in the
Memorial cemetery in plot selected
by Colonel Roosevelt soon after he left
the White House.