The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-09
ROOSEVELT LIES
 AT REST BENEATH
 CEMETERY KNOLL
Simple Funeral Attended by Representatives of Amer ica as Well as of Foreign
 Governments
By Associated Press

1 theodore hOOSeVelI lies at rest tonight beneath cemetery knoll near the rambling rural highway along which he trav- eled so many times in boyhood and in manhood between the Sagamore Hill house, which was his home, and the quiet vii lage of Oyster Bay.
 1 Perhaps no other ex-President of the United States has been paid the tribute tof so simple funeral as the one which l was given Colonel Roosevelt this after noon on the shore of Long Island sound. Military and naval honors were 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 private citizen.
 | But the American nation, and foreign governments as well, sent representatives, 1 as did also the state and the city in which he was born. These noted men sat | sorrowfully in the peNs of little red l gabled Christ Episcopal church. while brief services of prayer and scripture readings were held without eulogy, in which much might have been said. There was no singing or organ playing.
 ASSEMBLE AT NOON
 | It was the noon hour when, at the l Sagamore Hill homestead all of Colonel | RooSevelt's family except two of the sons, Lieut.. Col Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., and Lieut.. Kermit Roosevelt, who are sol l n E'lrODp a for | ments of private prayer at the side Of the casket in which lay the body. i Draped over the casket were battle flags under which the colonel fought as Rough Rider on Cuban soil more than D years ago Rev. Dr. George E. Ta1mage. rector of Christ church. said the com forting words which were the final ones spoken for the colonel in the presence of Mrs. Roosevelt, for she did not ac- 1 company the cortege to the church or to the grave in Young's Memorial cemetery. At the Sagamore Hill services only mem- bers of the immediate Roosevelt family were present.
 The body of the late President was then taken frorl the famous room of trophies which he had assembled from all quarters of the globe, and was car ried from Sagamore Hill on its final jour. ney. Snow had come at dawn and had been falling steadily until the country '
 through the leaden clouds as the hearse left the Roosevelt estate and passed into the highway leading to Christ church
 POLICE HEAD PROCESSION
 Between hedges touched with melting flakes and under bare winter boughs ] which cast shadows upon the bushes or red berries lining the roadside, the pro- cession moved slowly, headed by mounted policemen who were the colonels friends in life and who had been sent by the city 1 of New York to act as a guard or honor l Around the shore of a pond-like inlet of Oyster Bay and over a small hill the cortege moved to reach the church, green frame structure with its roof sur mounted by a steeple in which was the bell which soon was to toll the passing of the nations twenty-sixth President. l Here standing on the slippery hlllocks | which are the lawns of some of the colo nel's neighbors were waiting townspeo- l nle Because of the limited seating ca pa city of Christ church, these villagers, f, whom the colonel had long been frlend and neighbor, had not been admitted. They uncovered their heads as the cas- ket was borne into the church and wait ed outside until the services were over and the procession started for the ceme- tery.
 The sun had passed the meridian and the stained glass windows caught ana held it's rays as the caSket was Cariieu up the aisle and placed close to the altar.
 FOREMOST CITIZENS PRESENT
 Tn the pews were men who are among the foremost of the countrJs citizens. Vice President Marshall rep resented President Wilson; Gen. Peyton C March. chief of staff of the army, and Admiral c. McR. Winslow repre- sented the military and naval servlces' and Secretary Lane the cabinet. Will liam Howard Taft who, upon Colonel Rooseyelt's death. became the oniy iiv ling ex-President; Charles Evans Hughes. Elihu Root. United States Sem ator Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachu- setts. Major Gen. Leonard Wood, vice Admiral Gleaves, Henry l. Stimson. Secretary of War in Taft's cabi- net. Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York; Speaker Champ Clark and former Speaker J. G. Cannon of the House or Representatives. were present to pay their last tribute on behalf of the nation. Congress. the state and the metropolis The diplomatic corps at Washington also was represented. Many wreathes and floral tributes for which there had not been room at the Saeamore Hill home. filled the church with fragrance. One which was sent to the Roosevelt home and then brought to the altar was the l lrlDule or fTtSlucHl W iiSoA-
 ALL MUSIC OMITTED
 Dr Talmage. with Bishop Burgess of Long Island seated in the sanctuary, read the sentences. psalms and scrip
 tural lessons which are part Of the Protestant Episcopal funeral ser
 vices. The former Presidents fav- crate hymn. How Firm Founda- tion," was rected bv the rector in con- formance to the Roosevelt familys de- sire that all music. even the organ vol untary. be omitted. When he came finally to the Lords prayer. the con gregation joined.
 The scene at the gravesde was perhaps the more impressive. The , plot which Colonel Roosevelt himself had selected as his burial place is the commanding spot in the peaceful and
 picturesque cemetery At the foot of the slope and beyond the public high
 way there is cove. while beyond lie the waters of Long Island sound Not far distant but concealed from view
 by some of the woods in which the colonel was wont to roam. stands the Sagamore Hill home to which his father brought him when small boy
 Trees stand about this knoll and to- day the winter grasses were visibl T