Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-09
THOUSANDS MOURN
As COL. ROOSEVELT
IS LAID At REST
Sun Breaks Through Storm Cloud
as Body is Lowered Into
Grave.
AN IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL

OYSTER Bay, J.. l.. Jan. 9.-Senators
and Reprcscntativcs in Congress, members
nf the Rough Riders, relatives OF Colonel
Roosevelt. and intimate friends CHM ed
with the children Of the village up the
hillside and stood with bare heads, be
side the opcn grave of Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt IN Ioungs Cemetery here
Yesterday afternoon.
Tho sun. whch had, after n morning
of snow. come out OF thc clouds Iust be
fore the body was carried into the church,
was still sh,urng when the service was
held At the grave snow was melting ana
falling from the locusts and evergreens
which form thick grove about the plot
which Colonel Roosevelt had selected rs
his last restlng-rlacc
ix-rREsIDENT TAFT powEp IN CRitf
Tx-Prcsident William Howard Taft,
the picture of grief. stood near the grave,
with his head bent forward and tears In
his ewes. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge,
who appeared hardly able TO command
himself stood a short distance away
senator Chamberlain. Who was between
them. seemed almost equally affected
some less famous men among Colonel
Rooseyclts intimAtcs were sohblng like
children. His two daughters were over
come with grief Nrs Roosevelt was not
present. and had not left the home after
he service Cf PRAYER which was held
there for the family
Major Gen Leonard Wood, who had
come from Camp Funston on rcccNlng
the unexpected news OF has friend 5
death. lad arrived during the morning
and stood with the members OF the
Roosevelt family.
CROWDS or SCHOOL CHlLpRtN
The members of the family stood on
ground up the hill from the grave. which
was in sloping ground. The Congressional
delegations. representatives oi national
organizations. and old friends wcrc
ranged among the trees ON the slope
and below tho grave. The circle was
completed hv the hnc OF school children,
most o! them boys and girls from the
pvStcr Rav Cove School, dressed IN their
hest. but a few ot them boys who had
made their WAY through the hedge about
the cemetery and were present AZ the
service dressed as they happened 10 he.
Onc boy n = brown SUIT had CHM ed 2
small locust. which almost ovcrhung
the grave and remained throughout the
service, motionlc>s 81 statue.
The earth which had been removed
Tor The concrctc-hncd grave was con
cealed bv flowers. The oak oofIn, part
II covered by thr flag rested on four
rough finished boards on each side OF
the opening.
soRRoWING GRoUF AR0t-r THE GRavt.
In the group about the grave were men
who had frst put Colonel Roosevelt for
ward prominentlv in the State and nation.
Ouc sorrouful old man was Joseph Murray,
the Republican leader ~ the Twenty
first District in 1881, who first induced
Colonel Roosevelt 10 run for office and OF
whom Colonel Roosevelt wrote IN his
autobiography
II was not my fight, Il was Joe $
and il i 10 him thAt owe my entry into
politics.
The man who brought him into his
first great national prominence was sen
ator Lodge 81 whom Colonel Roosevelt
said IN the same volume:
In the spring of 1897. President Nc
kInltS appointed me Assistant Secretary
81 the Navy. ! owed the appointment
chiefly 10 the efforts II Senator II. {.
Lodge OF Massachusetts, who was doubt
less sctlnted mainly by his long and close
f-iendshlD for me. but alsc-I like % be
levc by his keen interest N the navy.
NATION : LEADERS ATTENDED.
Others about the grave were among the
most distinguished men IN the nation a'
artists, authors, explorers, SCIENTISTS. anc
pcn who had stood N various relations
y Colonel Roosevelt; college friends
hunting and fishing friends. sparrlnt
rartners, policemen and priests
.uo;ber Al the grave was Harry Don
ovsn. i clyiiar ch,ufTeur at the Port O
Frobsrkatlon and . son oi the late Mike
I)onoyan. the former prlse fighter anc
trainer. and great personal friend Of Col
opel Roos. vcl' Harry Donovan. whC
had not understood that the services a
sycamore Hill were 10 be for the family
md . fcw lifelong friends, wandered ou
~ the Roosevelt homo Just before the,