The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-09
Captain Archie in Charge.


were twined with yellow ribbon yellow
beng the color of the cavalry.
Captain Archie In Charge.
Within the church Cant. Archie Roose-
Welt. calm, soidierly. tsctful, directed the
ushering IN Of the congregation.
Around his left arm was a mourning
band on his breast were the CroiX de
Guerra and other emh,ems OF bravery
and citation. lie booked worn but
moved about cnergetiCally. Capt Archie.
the only son of the Colonel now in TINS
| country, having been sent back because
| Of his wounds. ard his three brothers,
Lieut.. col. Theodore. Jr.. capt. Kermit
and Lieut. quentin Roosevelt, the dead
| aviator. were the first four boys 10 60
| into the war from Oyster Bay. Per-
| sons going into the church by the side
entrance passed glass cases on the wal!
| containing n church roll OF honor on
which their names are frat OF all.
The other ushers were Theodore Doug
las Robinson, Nicholas G-ongworth and
William Loeb. who was President Roose-
ve.ts secretary.
Friends OF the former President who
| could not resist the temptation T. send
! flowers although the family had sug-
! sested that none be sent, had half t,led
the chancel with them There VAS
wreath OF pink and white carnations
| bearing the card OF President Wilson
At the LEFT Of the chancel steNS on IN
easel rested n solid mass OF pink lilies
| from which depended - purple s're1mor
| l-ttered In gold, Prom the Senate Of the
| United states" There were orchids AMI
| yioets from tho Boone and Crockett
Club; orchids from the American De
| feuce Society; white roses from the
| Campfire Club OF America; a battlesh:p
done In white carnations from the ON
! GERS OF the L. S. 5. Indiana; heather,
mink roses and vioiets from the osaN
| Osahe OF OSAKA, Japanese organlza-
! ton; orchids, Violets and peach dos
SONS from the Republican National Com
rnittee: lilies from the American HIS
,orical Association: violets from the As
! sIstont Secretary OF State, and n Laurel
y-eath from the National Institute Of
Arta and Letters and the American
| Academy OF Arts and Letters The
names Of remembrances from indiF!o-
mais except that of PRESIDENT Wilson
were no. made public.
Army Men in Full Dress.
The Rough Riders-about a dozen OF
them. were IN sid" pewe near the IRON
~ the room. Not far from them, ii
news we'll forward. were the V!ce-Presi'
dent and the official representatives 81
the Army and Navy, Gen. Peyton 6
March. Chief OF stan OF the army. and
Rear Admiral Cameron MGR. Nins!oW
who was commander OF the Mayflowei
in 1905. They were in full dress uni
form. and 20 the hllt of each sword was
attached a bow or black crepe
Behind Admlra, Winslow eat EY
President Taft, ana near him Franklin
X. Lane, Secretary OF the Interior. \
Mr. Lanes left was Mayor Hylan o.
New York, with his secretary, Grover
Whalen. and Police Comm ssioner En-
! right In front at tho extreme right
=. we're Brig Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt n
citizens clothes, RS he has Just re
ceiyed his discharge from the army
Wis wife was with him Charles L
Hughes ard Mrs. Hughes were not fai
away.
, The delegation Of Congressman fllet
several of the straight backed old pew
at the left OF the middle aisle. Other
. recognized were Lyman Abbott. Joh'
NIcC;rath. Col Roosevelts former scCre
tary, representing at the funeral his pes
=, ent employer. George w. Perkins, VINO J
, in Europe, as well as himself; Col
Henry l.. Stimson. FORMER secretary
War: James r. Garfield and Clifford Pin
, chot of the Tennis Cabinet. Mr. Cannon
, 1r,ibu Root. Robert Underwood johnson
coy Smith, Gen. Wood. representative
~ the Diplomatic Corps Vice Admlra
GIeayes. Senator Frank Kellogg, wn
was Roosevelt's trust buster his hal
now becoming very white: Sena'o
lodge and ever so many others who's
names are known 10 the public, not for
getting Father Curran OF Wilkesnarre
who helped President Roosevelt setti
tho great anthracite strike OF 1907. an
Who said he had "come TO oner M
tribute 10 the finest man In the worid.
Fx-senator W. Murray Crane, VII
, whom Col. Roosevelt had many poiiti
, cal TIT. was one of the last to arrive
, About a hundred persons were pro
,.ded with standing room when the pew
ware filled, but there was no GROWING
Church Suddenly Enlightened.
/ While the people were gathering tn
/ s,xv was not perceptibly frightened b
= the struggle of the sun to get through
r hut as Col. Roosevelt's body was car
1 Tied into the church tho stained glas
= windows on the southern side were sud
8 denly Illuminated. and the dimness with
I in was dispelled by a mellow glow. tn
Y windows OF this country church are n
|. severe rectangles except for one abov
: the altar which Ia u figure OF Christ.
, In addition TO the flowers mentione
4 The only decorations were = wreat