New-York tribune., 1919-01-07

was dead.
Mrs. Roosevelt was the only member
Of the family at Oyster Bay at the
time. She sent q hurried call for DR.
Faller. the colonel's Oyster Bay physi-
clan, and for w Emlen Roosevelt, the
coloncl's cousin and most intimate
friend Mr. Roosevelt arrived shortly
before o'clock and under Mrs. Roose
velt's directions took charge of affairs.
Funeral Services Tomorrow
Through him the plans for the Colo
nel's funeral arranged in accordance
with wishes he had expressed TO Mrs.
Roosevelt. were announced. These call
for prayers at the house on Wednesday
noon. to which none but members o.
the family viii be admitted followed
by the simple service of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in Christ Church.
Oyster Bay, At 12:45 o'clock AT the
church service there will be neither
music nor eulogy nor Will there be an
imposing list Of pallbearers. The body
will be borne into the church by em-
ployes Of Sycamore Hill, who Will later
assist in lowering the body into the
grave in Young's Memorial Cemetery,
about two mites from the Colonels
home.
At the grave the Rev George Tai
mage. rector of Christ Church, who
will oficiate at the house and at Christ
Church. will read the committal ser
vice. and the funeral viii be over,
The grave where Colonel Roosevelt
will rest is in plot selected by him
and Mrs. Roosevelt soon after he re-
tired from the White House 1t is on
a wooded knoll overlooking Oyster Bay
cove. where the Colonel in life used to
bathe and boat, and where he taught
the younger Roosevelts to swim. From
it any memorial that may later be
erected will be 5isible we'll out in the
bay as we'll rs from the road leading
TO Sycamore Hill.
Simplicity Emphasized
The severe simplicity of the funeral
will be emphasized by the small mum
ber who can be admitted to the services
III tlS (IUlSI. HlS li@to {, SNeNhA4i9 Sel-
pacity of less than 800 For this reason
admission 10 the services viii be re-
stricted to members OF the immediate
family and the most intimate Of Colo
mel Roosevelt's friends. These tickets
will be issued from the late Office of
the Colonel in the building at BAT Mad
ison Avenue.
Last evening the town board of
Oyster Bay, acting for the family. re-
quested Police Commiss ioner Enright
to send detail of New York police.
whose commissioner the Colonel once
was, to help handle crowds that will
flock into the town tomorrow. These
viii have charge Of traffic and handle
the crowds IT the little church and
about the cemetcrN
Early visitors to Oyster Bay yester-
day found the town not fully aware Of
the fact that its leading citizen had
possed away. The report did not reach
the village until with the arrival Of
W. Emlen Roosevelt and the Colonel's
rivate secretary Miss Josephine NJ
rumor was heard that all was not well
or the hilltop. With Miss Stricken
vas Joseph Bishop, former secretary
of the Panama Canal Commission and
the Colone's friend of more thar thirty
years standing. These confirmed the
report and at once mourning SIGNS be
gan to appear in village windows. and
en- the village fagpoles the national
emblem was at half-mast
Few Visitors at the "Hill"
Few Of the villagers and none Of
the visitors attracted to the town bv
the report Of the Coloncl's death visited
Sycamore Hill. The reporters who
came on the carly train were given the
details of the Coloncl's death by ".
En- .en Roosevelt, who arranged to meet
with them later in the day and advise
them as to arrangements for the
funeral
These were delayed because Of un-
certainty as to the time Mrs. Richard
Derby, formerly Ethel Roosevelt. could
arrive from Aiken, n. c.. whittier she
mad cone on January satisfied that
her fathers complete recovery was but
matter of time. There was also some
doubt as 10 what time Captain Archie
Roosevelt, who had gone to Boston to
attend the funeral of his father-in-l law,
would arrive home
The first member of the family to
reach the house was Mrs Theodore
Roosevelt, jr., who since her arrival
from France two weeks ago has been
living with her parents in Portchester.
Soon afterward Mrs. Douglas Robinson,
the C0loels sister. in deep black for
her husband, who died suddenly last
fall, arrived accompanied by her son.
Senator Theodore Douglas Robinson.
With Mrs Theodore Roosevelt. ir.. was
her mother. Mrs. Alexander Not long
aftcrward Major John a Hartwell. the
colonels intimate friend and one Of
his physicians. arrived, accompanied bv
Mrs Hartwcl.
Mrs. Roosevelt Bears Up Well
They fourd Mr.. Roosevelt. according
10 " Fmlen Roosevelt. bearing up well
under the shock, and trying to arrange
Tor the funeral as she knew Colonel
Roosevelt would like to have it ar
ranged. Absolute simplicity and as
nearly private funeral as possible
was her wish. After Mrs Derby had
photographed from Aiken that she would
;arrive home early this afternoon
=" ednesday was set for the services
The ColonePs other daughter. Mrs
Nicholas Longworth. was expected to
arrive at Sycamore Hill from Wash
lngton last night and Captain Archie
Roosevelt reached home from Boston in
the early evening. The other members
Of the Colonel's family, Lieutenant
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, jr, Of the
26th Infantry, is with the army Of oc-
cupation IN Germany, and Captain Ker-
mt Roosevelt is also somewhere in the
zone of occupation. News Of their
fathers death was sent them by cable
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