Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-01-09
Family a Few Friends, Gov
eminent RepreSe ntatiVes
and Fellow Townsmen Fol-
low Funeral Car.
CHERISHED BATTLE
FLAGS DRAPE BIER
Wreath From Members of Fa-
nous Rough Rider Regiment
Only Floral Offering Placed
in CaSket,
tsv MORNING 1oossAL SPECIAL -x.sre .v..s,

cSSttI BAY N. y, Jan, S,--Ilhe0-
dore Roosevelt lies at rest tonight be-
meath a cemetery knoll near the
rambling rural highway along which
he travelled so many times in boy
hood and in manhood between the
Sagamore Hill house which was his
nome and the quiet village OF oyster
Bay,
Perhaps no other president OF
the United States has been paid tho
tribute of so simple funeral as the
one which was given Colonel Roose-
welt this afternoon on the shore of
Long Island Sound Military and
naval honors We're not his in death,
only because it had been his wish.
and that of his family, that the last
rites be surrounded only with the
simple dignity that might attend the
passing of a private citizen.
But the American nation, and for
eign governments as well, sent repre-
sentatives as did ifAso the state and
the city in which he was born. These
noted men sat sorrowfully in the pews
of the little red -gabled Christ Episco-
pal 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.
1t was noon when, at the Saga
more Hill homestead, all of Colonel
Roosevelts family except two OF the
sons, Lieutenant Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt, ir.. and Lieutenant Ker-
nit Roosevelt, who are soldiers in
Europe. assembled for few mo-
ments OF private prayer at the side
of the coffin in which lay the body
Draped over the coffin We're battle
flags under which the Colonel fought
as a Rough Rider on Cuban soil
more than twenty years ago. Rev.
Or. George f. Talmage, rector OF
Christ Church said the comforting
words which were the final ones
spoken for the colonel in the pres
enee of Mrs. Roosevelt--for she did
not accompany the cortege to the
church or to the grave in Young's
Memorial Cemetery, At the Saga
more Hill service only members of
the immediate Roosevelt family We're
present.
Body in Trophy Room.
The body was then taken from the
famous room of trophies which Col
onel Roosevelt had assembled from
all quarters of the globe and was car
ried from Sycamore Hill on its final
journey Snow had come at dawn
and had been falling steadily until
the countryside was white but the
sun broke through the leaden clouds
as the hearse left the Roosevelt es-
tate and passed into the highway
leading to Christ Church.
Between hedges touched with melt
ing flakes and under bare winter
fat. o1t oh 4 a.
bushes of red berries lining the road
side, the procession moved slowly,
headed by mounted policemen who
were the colonel's friends in life and
who had been sent by the city of
New York to act as a guard of honor.
Around the shore of a pond-like in
let of Oyster Bay and over n small
bill the cortege moved to reach the
church. a green frame structure with
its roof surmounted bv steeple in
which was the bell which soon was
to toll the passing of the nations
twenty-sixth president
Here standing on the slippery hill
ocks which are the lawns of some of
the coloners neighbors, were waiting
townspeople. Because of the limited
seating capacity of Christ Church,
these villagers to whom the colonel
bad long been friend and neighbor
had not found admittance. They un-
covered their heads as the coffin was
orne into the church and waited
outside until the services were over
and the procession started for the
cemetery.
The sun had passed the meridian
and the stained glass windows caught
ana held its rays as the casket was
carried up the aisle and placed close
to the altar
Famous Men Present
In the pews were men who are
among the foremost of the countrv's
citizens. Vice President Thomas r.
Marshall represented President Will
son. General Peyton c. March. chief
of staff of the army and Admiral G.
MGR. Winslow represented the mill
tary and naval services, and Secre-
tary Lane the cabinet William H
Taft, who upon Colonel Roosevelts
death became the only living ex-pres-
ident; Charles Evans Hughes, Elihu
Root, United States Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge. of Massachusetts; Ma
jor General Leonard Wood. Vice Ad-
miral William Gleaves, Henry l..
Stimson. secretary of war In Roose-
yelt's cabinet, Governor Alfred II.
Smith. of New York; Speaker Champ
Clark and Former Speaker Joseph G..
Cannon, of the house of representa-
tives were present to pay their last
tribute on behalf of the nation, con-
rress the state and the metropolis.
The diplomatic corps at Washington
also was represented.
MANY wreaths and floral tributes
for which there bad not been room
at the Sycamore Hill home filled the
church with frasrance. One which
was sent to the Roosevelt home and
then brought 10 the altar was the tri-
butte Of President Wilson.
nr, Tatmage. with Bishop Burgess
of Long Island seated in the sanctii-
ary read the sentences, Psalms and
Scriptural lessons which are a part