The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1919-01-08
NO MUSIC NOR EULOGY
At ROOSE VELT'S FUNERAL
SERVICES WE'D Mes DAY
EMPLOYEES OF ESTATE MAY
CARRY THE COFFIN AT
SIMPLE BURIAL

Oyster Bay, y. y" Ian. 1.-Wlth /
the flags of Oyster Bay drooped at .
half-mast and its citizens in deep /
Of Col. Theodore Roosevelt arrange
Col. Theodore Roosevelt, arrange
ments for the unostentatious iu-
neral services here tomorrow were
being perfected today by members
OF the family. High in the air oyer
Sycamore Hill, army airplanes from
Hazelhurst Field maintained a
ceaseless vigil, occasionally swoop-
ing toward the earth to drop
wreath OF laurels among the elms
near the mansion.
In accordance with the wishes OF
the former president, as expressed
by Mrs. Roosevelt, obsequies will
be OF almost Spartan simplicity.
First there will be a prayer tomor-
row at the house, attended only
by relatives. AT l2:45 o'clock the
Protestant Episcopal service tor
the dead will be read in Christ
Church by the rector, the Rev.
George Z. Talmage. There will be
no music, no culogy nor honorary
pallbcarcrs. Mrs. Roosevelt has
requested that no flowers be sent.
Present and former employees OF the
Roosevelt estate probably Will car
ry the coffin.
Burial will be in Youngs Memo
rial Cemetery-the Goods acre OF
the old Young'S farm. Colonel
Roosevelt will loe among the iir
trees on the crest OF a knoll over
looking Oyster Bay coyc-a beautl-
iul Spot-selectcd soon after he LETT
the White House. The cemetery
was established as a family burial
place by an old Long Island fam
lily nearly two centuries ago. The
colonel will be the first OF the
Rooseyelts to be buried in the lam
lily plot.
The quaint church where the ser
vices will be held has seating ac-
commodation, ior only $50 persons.
Admission will be by ticket. Inc
church recently celebrated its 2OOth
anniversary. A bronze tablet bear
/ ing the names OF the vestrymen in
cludes that OF Theodore Roose-
welt, 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
Roosevelt's sons head the list
While the eX-prcsident attended
services at Christ Church when in
OYSTER Bay, he was at the time OF
his death a member OF the Cole
giate Reformed Church OF 81.
Nicholas, Fifth Avenue and Forty
Eighth Street, New York City. NJ
this church he was baptized and
later as a young man united in the
confession OF faith at its altar a,
his parents had done before him
Mrs. Roosevelt is an Episcopalan
and a, there is no Dutch Reformed
Church in this town the colonel at
tended divine worship at Old
Christ Church, Captain and Mrs
Archibald Roosevelt congressman
and Mrs. Nicholas Longworth, anC
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, lr" ar.
rived at Sycamore Hill last night
The colonies other sons, Kermit
and Theodore, Jro still are in Eu
rope in the army service,
Mrs. Richard Derby, who wa
Ethel Roosevelt, now the wife o
Mai. Richard Derby OF the medi
cal corps, United States army, i
expected to arrive in Oyster Ba,
today with her two children iron
Aiken, $. C.. where she has beer
soiourning. Major Derby is il
France.
The Hood OF kilograms OF condo
lence from all parts OF the worl'
continued today. Extra telegra
piers were called here from Ney
York to handle the rush.