Arizona republican., 1919-01-09

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 OYSTER BAY, N. Y, Jan. S.-Theo- dore Roosevelt lies at rest tonight be- heath a cemetery knoll near the ram bling rural highway. along which he travelled so many times in boyhood and in manhood, between the Sagamore Hill house which was his home, and the quiet village of Oyster Bay.
 Perhaps no other eX-president of the United States has been paid the tribute of so simple funeral as the one which was given Colonel Roosevelt this after noon, on the shore of Long Island sound Military and naval honors were not his in death, only because it had been his wisk, and that of his family, that the last rites be surrounded only with the simple dignity that might at tend the passing of a private citizen.
 But the American nation and foreign governments, as well, sent representa- tives, as did also the state and the city in which he was born. These noted men sat sorrowfully in the pews of the little red -gabled Christ Episcopal church, while brief services of prayer and scripture readings were held without a eulogy in which so much might have been said. There was no singing or organ playing.
 nome SeTNiCe TTiNdtc It was noon when, at the Sagamore Hill homestead, all of Colonel Roose- velts family except two of the sons, Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and Lieutenant Kermit Roosevelt, 1 who are soldiers in Europe, assembled for few moments of private prayer at the side of the coffin in which lay the body. Draped over the coffin were bat | tie flags under which the colonel fought as a Rough Rider on Cuban soil, more than twenty years ago. Rev. Dr. George E. Talmage, rector of Christ church, 1 said the comforting words, which were the final ones spoken for the colonel, in the presence of Mrs. Roosevelt--for she did not accompany the cortege to the
 church or to the grave in Young's Me Imorial cemetery. At the Sagamore Hil service, only members of the immediat. Roosevelt family were present.
 The body was then taken from the famous room of trophies which Colone
 Roosevelt had assembled from all guar
 ters of the globe. and was carried iron
 Sagamore Hill on it's final journey
 Snow had come at dawn and had beer
 falling steadily until the countrysid,
 was white, but the sun broke througl
 the leaden clouds as the hearse left tn;
 Roosevelt estate and passed into tn, highway leading to Christ church.
 Procession Is Solemn Between hedges touched with mels
 ing flakes and under bare winte heughs which cast shadows upon tn bushes of red berries lining the road side, the procession moved slowly headed by mounted policemen wh were the colonel's friends in life, an who had been sent by the city of Ney ? York to act as a guard of honor. ] Around the shore of a pond-like inle
 of Oyster Bay. and over a small hil
 the cortege moved to reach the churcf
 a green frame structure with its roc
 surmounted by a steeple. in which wa
 the bell which soon was to toll tn
 passing of the nations twenty sixt
 president.
 Here, standing on the slippery hil r locks which are the lawns of some C
 the coloneps neighbors, were waitin
 townspeople Because of the linlite
 seating capacity. of Christ churci
 these villagers. to whom the colon,
 had long been friend and neighbor. ha s not found admittance. They uncovere their heads as the coffin was borne in g to the church and waited outside unt y the services were over and the pro . cession started for the cemetery. . The sun had passed the meridian al
 the stained glass windows caught al =, held it's rays as the caSket was carri, l. up the aisle and placed close to Il g altar.
 n Big Men In Church. n In the pews were men who are amor n the foremost of the countrys citizer ,f Vice President Thomas R. Marsha l. represented President Wilson. Gener d Peyton c. March. chief of staff of t
 army. and Admiral c. McR. Winslo = represented the military and nav n, services. and Secretary Lane, the ca er inet; William H. Taft. who upon Color [. Roosevelt's death became the only Ii - ing expresident; Charles Eva Id Hughes, Elihu Root. United Stat
 Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of Mass 1t chusetts, Major General Leonard Woo ce Vice Admiral William Gleaves, Hen IS l.. Stimson. secretary of war in Taf is cabinet; Governor Alfred E. Smith D. New York; Speaker Champ Clark a nt former Speaker Joseph G. Cannon, or the house of representatives. were pre- is ent to pay their last tribute on beh;
 of the nation. congress, the state a is the metropolis. The diplomatic COT st at Washington also was represente S. Many wreaths and floral tribut
 for which there had not been room
 the Sagamore Hill home, filled 1 m church with fragrance. One which V 4, sent to the Roosevelt home, and th w brought to the altar, was the tribute ty President Wilson.
 n- Dr. Talmage, with Bishop Burgess ly Long Island seated in the sanctua he read the sentences. Psalms and scr t. tural lessons which are a part of ho Protestant Episcopal funeral servic
 The former presidents favorite hyr
 How Firm a Foundation" was reef
 by the rector in conformance with
 Roosevelt family's desire that all II ty sic, even the organ voluntary. be on In, ted. When he came finally to on Lords Prayer, the congregation join he Grave Side Impressive. he The scene at the graveside was p ng haps the most impressive. The I ,y, which Colonel Roosevelt himself l as selected as his burial place, is the co Ter manding spot in the peaceful and I ce turesque cemetery. At the foot oi he
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