Republican farmer., 1919-01-10
''eODS ACRE" TO RECEIVE: BODY OF
 COL. ROOSEVELT Simple Ceremonial Tomor-
 row Afternoon At Late Home. FLAGS HALF MAST IN OYSTER BAY No Eu1ogy, No Music, and No Honorary Pail Bearers.

oyster Bay, N. Y, Jan. 7-.With the 1 flags of Oyster Bay dropped at half mast and it's citizens in deep mourn ing over the death yesterday of Col. 1 Theodore Roosevelt, arrangements for the transformations funeral services | here tomorrow were being made by | members of the family today. High in the air over Sagamore Hill, army airplanes from Hazelhurst encircled
 maintained a. ceaseless vigil, occa- ] sionally sweeping toward 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 1 to Mrs. Roosevelt, the obsequies will l be of almost Spartan simplicity. First | there will be a prayer tomorrow at
 the house, attended only by relatives
 At 12:45 o'clock, the Protestant | Episcopal service for the dead will
 be read in Christ church by the rec
 tor, the Rev. George E. Talmage
 There will be no music, no euIogy, no
 honorary pail bearers. Mrs Roose-
 vet has requested that no flowers be
 sent Present and former employees
 of the Roosevelt estate probably will
 carry the coffin.
 Burial will be in Youngs Memorial cemetery---the Gods Acre. of the Youngs farm Colonel Roosevelt will lie among the fir trees on the crest of knoll overlooking Oyster Bay cove---a beautiful spot selected soon
 after he left the White House The
 cemetery was established as family
 burial place by an old Long Island
 family nearly two centuries ago. The Colonel will be the first of the Roose-
 velts to be buI&ed in the family plot.
 The quaint church where the ser
 vices will be held has seating accom-
 modations for only $50 persons Ad-
 mission will be by ticket The church
 recently celebrated it's 20Oth annfver-
 sary. A bronze tablet bearing the
 names of the vestrymen includes that
 of Theodore Roosevelt, President of
 the United States" Two pages of
 foolscap, hung in cases on the walls,
 carry the names of young men of the
 church who entered the service for
 the war. The names of Colonel Roose-
 velt's sons head the list.
 : While the Ex-President regularly
 attended services at Christ church
 when in Oyster Bay, he was at the
 time of his death a member of the
 Collegiate Reformed church at St.
 Nicholas, Fifth avenue and 4Sth St.
 New York city. At this church he
 was baptized, and later, as a young
 man, united In the confession of ' faith at it's altar as his parents had ! done. Mrs. Roosevelt is an Episco- palian and as there is no Dutch Re- i formed church in this town, the Col
 onel attended divine worship at old
 Christ church.
 : Captain and Mrs. Archibald Roose- 6 welt, Congressman and Mrs. Nicholas 1, Longworth, and Mrs. Theodore !, Roosevelt, Jr., arrived at Sagamore : Hill last night. The CoIonePs other :. sons, Kermit and Theodore, Jr., are s still in Europe.
 Mrs Richard Derby. who was Ethel n 1 Roosevelt, now the wife of Major ;. Richard Derby, of the medical corps, : United States army, is expected to a arrive in Oyster Bay today with her . two children from Aiken, S. C., where n she has been sojourning. The major - Is in France.
 Il New York, Jan. 7.-Offer of a guard o of honor and an escort of United
 States troops at the funeral of Colonel l. Roosevelt was made today to Mrs. It Roosevelt, at the request of the Secre- d tary of War by Major General J. 0 Franklin Bell, commander of the s Eastern Department, through Colonel t W. A. Simpson. acting chief of staff l. Secretary Bakers message trans- r.. mitted to General Bell at Governors
 Island by long distance telephone, was > as follows:
 l. ''The Secretary of War directs that e you make to Mrs. Roosevelt formal IS offer of United States troops for duty IS as guards and as escorts at the funeral d of MT. Roosevelt, regardless of the j. published statement that the family
 desires none.'' n Colonel Simpon at once telegraphed s Mrs. Roosevelt at Oyster Bay to ap- , prise her of his wishes.
 Explaining that it was Colonel "a Roosevelt's wish that his funeral ser !. vices be conducted entirely by those
 friends among whom he had lived so o long and happily" Captain Archibald !, Roosevelt today declined on behalf of :, the family an offer by Secretary of .' War Baker to furnish an escort of :, United States troops at the funeral " service at Oyster Bay tomorrow.
 National memorial services for The
 odore Roosevelt may be held in New
 York or Washington on some date
 after the funeral it was intimated to-
 day by Captain Archibald Roosevelt
 in discussing requests that national . honors be according to the former President here tomorrow.