Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-01-07

A1ASu- AHCEe may ne DaLlOnaI
memorial services at Washing
ton or New York, in the near
future, but there will be no
military hOnOrs paid to the
dead ex-president at the fun.
eral services here tomorrow.
Oyster Bay, N. Y, Jan. with
the flags Of Oyster Bay dropped at
half-mast and its citizens in deep
mourning over the death yesterday
Of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, ar
rangements for the unostentatious
funeral services here tomorrow
were being perfected today by
members of the family.
High in the air over Sycamore
Mill, army airplanes from Hazel
hsSst field maintained a ceaseless
Nigf, occasionally swooping to-
ward the earth to drop a wreath of
laurel among the elms near the
mansion
In accordance with the wishes of
the former president, as expressed
TO Mrs. Roosevelt, obsequies will be
CT almost spartan simplicity. First,
there will be a prayer service to-
morrow at the hOusG, attended only
by relatives. At 12:45 O'Clock the
Protestant Episcopal service for
the dead will be read in Christ
church by the pastor, the Rev.
George E. TaImadge. There will be
no eulogy, no honorary pallbearers.
Mrs. Roosevelt has requested that
no flowers be sent. Present and
former employees of the Roosevelt
estate probably will carry the cof-
fin.
Burial at Oyster Bay.
Burial will be in Young's Memo
rial cemetery Gods acre OF
the old Young farm. Colonel ROcse-
welt will lie among the fir trees on
the crest of a knoll overlooking
Oyster Bay cove-a beautiful spot,
selected by the Colonel and Mrs.
Roosevelt soon after he left the
White house. The cemetery was
established as a family burial place
by an old Long Island family near
ly two centuries ago. The colonel
will be the firse of the Roosevelts
to be. buried in the family lot.
Ne quaint church where the ser
>Ssices will be held has seating ac-
commodations for only $50 persons.
Admission will be by ticket. The
church recently concluded its 200th
anniversary. a bronze tablet bear
ing the names of the yestrymen in
clude that of Theodore Roosevelt,
president of the United States"
Two pages of fOolscap. hung in
eases on the walls, carry the names
of young men of the church who
entered the service for the war.
The names of Colonel Roosevelt's
sons head the list.
Member Dutch Reform Church.
While the ex-president regularly
attended services at Christ church,
when in Oyster Bay. he was at th-
time Of his death member of the
Collegiate Reformed Church of st.
Nicholas, Fifth avenue and Forty
eighth street, New York City. At
this church he was baptized, and
later as a young man, united in the
>~onfession of faith at its altar as
his parents had done before him.
Mrs. Roosevelt is an Episcopalian
and as there is no Dutch Reformed
church in this town, the Colonel at
tended divine worship at old Christ
church.
Family Arrives at Home.
Captain and MIS-. Archibald
Roosevelt, Congressman and Mrs.
Nicholas LongwoTth, and Mrs.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., arrived at
Sagamore Hill last night, Colonel
Roosevelt's other sons. Kermit and
Theodore, Jr., are in Europe.
Mrs. Richard Derby, who was
Ethel Roosevelt. now the wife of
Major Richard Derby of the medi- /
cal corps. United States army. IS !
expected to arrive in Oyster Bay /
today, with her two children from 1
Aiken, s. c. The major is in /
France /
The flood of kilograms of condo !
lence from all Szs~- - +he world /
continued today and extra telegra- I
uhers were called here from Ne~
York to handle the rush. /
New York, Jan 7-Explaining /
that it was Colonel Roosevelt's
wish that his funeral services be /
cnducted entirely by those friends
among whom he had lived SO long
and happily" Captain Archibald
Roosevelt today declined in behalf
of the family an offer by Secretary
of Wsr Baker to furnish an escort
OF 6ited States troops at the fun
Ell services at Oyster Bay tomor-
row.