Bisbee daily review., 1919-01-08

memory of their friend and neighbor whose figure had once been so famil- far to them.
 Capt. Archibald Roosevelt received a cablegram today from Lieut.. Col Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.. saying that he and his brother, Lieut.. Kermit Roosevelt, both with the American expeditionary force in Europe. were together. Captain Archibald sent cablegram in reply.
 Theodore said also in his message that Dr. Richard Derby. husband of Ethel Roosevelt, was sailing at once for America. Lieut. Col Derby is in the medical corps, having sailed for France early in the war. Mrs. Derby is at Sagamore hill.
 Many Called at Home.
 Many persons of prominence called at Sagamore hill today and there will be many more tomorrow. Represent ing Cuba, came Carlos Manuel Ces- pedes, minister to the United States; Alfonso Forcado, secretary of the Cuban house of representatives, and Cayetano de Quesada, vice-consul. After telling Captain Roosevelt how high was the esteem in which the Cuban people held his father, they in- formed him that at the request of the people of Cuba the government pro posed to erect in Havana a monument to the colonel
 Another Sagamore hill caller was Col Alexander Saubert, medical corps, United States army, who had at various times attended the colonel. After talking with Mrs. Roosevelt he said she was bearing up remarkably well. She possessed traits of charac- ter which were proving her support now, he said, adding that the Ameri- can people had little realized how much the former president depended on Mrs. Roosevelt throughout his career
 Captain Roosevelt replied today to the cablegram in which President Wilson expressed to Mrs: Roosevelt his sympathy for her loss.
 In his response to the president, Captain Archibald said:
 President Woodrow Wilson, Ameri-
 can Peace Mission, Paris, France
 Permit me to thank you, on behalf of Mrs. Roosevelt, for your courteous message of sympathy"
 Besides the callers at Sagamore hill today, long distance telephone messages came from Vice-President Marshall in Washington and Governor Alfred E. SmithA in Albany Each talked with Captain Roosevelt, ex- tending personal sympathy, and said he would attend the funeral tomorrow.
 Governor Alfred E. Smith and lead CTS of both houses of the legislature will represent New York state.
 Presidents Friends Attend
 A few of the noted men who were Colonel Roosevelt's closest friends have been invited to the funeral. They include Senator Henry Cabot Lodge and Charles Evans Hughes. Another mourner will be William H. Taft, whose friendship for MT. Roosevelt had been re-established more than a year ago
 The former presidents body was placed tonight for the first time in the plain oak coffin, in which it will be taken tomorrow to Christ church, where the services are to be held at 12:45 o'clock On the coffin appears only a brief inscription-the name of Theodore Roosevelt and the dates of his birth and death.
 Whether those at the church would be allowed to look for the last time upon the face of the former president, was not known here tonight. Mrs. Roosevelt was said to be undecided whether the coffin should be finally sealed before being carried into the sanctuary. Announcement may be made tomorrow morning, but it ap- peared more probable that Mrs.