Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-01-09
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Remains of Twenty Sixth President Lie Near Scenes of Hise Boyhood.

Oyster Bay, N Y., Jan. S.-Theo- dore Roosevelt lies at rest tonight be- meath a cemetery knoll near the ram bling rural highway, along which he travelled so many times in boyhood and in manhood, between the Saga more Hill House, which was his home, and the quiet village of Oyster Bay.
 Perhaps no other exPresident of the United States has been paid the tribute of so simple a funeral as the one which was given Colonel Roose- | welt this afternoon, 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 Samily, that the last rites i be surrounded only with the simple dignity that might attend the pass ing of private citizen.
 But the American nation and for eign governments as well, sent repre- sentatives, as did also the state and the city in which he was born. These noted men sat sorrowfullv in the pews of the little Red-gabled Christ Episco- pal church while brief services of prayer and scripture readings were held without eulogy in which so much might have been said There was no singing or organ playing.
 It was the noon hour when, at the Sagamore Hill homestead, all of Col. Roosevelt's family except two of the sons, Lieutenant Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. Jr.. and Lieuten9at Kermit Roosevelt. who are soldiers in Europe, assembled for few moments of pri vate prayer at the side of the casket in which lay the body. Draped over the casket were battle aags under which the Colonel had fought as Rouoh Rider on Cuban soil more than twenty years ago. Rev. George K. Ta'mage. Rertor of Christ church. said the comforting words which were the final ones spoken for the Colonel in the nresence of Mrs. Roosevelt for she did not accompany the corteoe to the church or to the grave in Voung's Memorial Cemetehv At the Saeamor" Hill services only mem- hers of tho immediate Roosevelt fam ilv were present.
 The hodv of the late president was then taken from the famous rooms of trorhies which hn had assembled from all nnarters of the globe. and was carried from cagamore Hill on it's final tourney. 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 Roose- welt estate and nassed into the high, wav leading to Christ church.
 Between hedges touched with melt ing flakes and under bare winter boughs which cast shadows upon the 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 guard of honor.
 Around the shore of pond-like in- let of Oyster Bay, and over a small hill the cortege moved to reach the church, a green frame structure with it's roof surmounted by a steeple in which was the bell which soon was to toll the passing of the nations twen- ty-sixth president.
 Here standing on the slippery hil- locks, which are the lawns of some of the ColonePs neighbors, were wait ing townspeople.a Because of the lim- tied seating capacity of Christ church these villagers to whom the colonel had long been friend and neighbor, had not found admittance. They un- covered their heads as the casket was borne into the church and waited out side until the services were over and the procession started for the ceme- tery.
 The sun had passed the meridian and the stained glass windows cought and held it's rays as the casket was carried up the aisle and placed close to the altar.
 In the pews were men who are among thief oremost of the country's citizens: Vice-President Thomas K. Marshall, represented President Will son. General Peyton c. March, chief of staff of the army, and Admiral c. McR. Winslow, representilv the mili- tary and naval services. and Secretary Lane, the cabinet. William Howard Taft. -sho upon Colonel Roosevelt's death became the only living ex-pres- ident; Charles Evans Hughes, Elihu Root. United States Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusetts: Major General Leonard Wood, Vice Admiral Cleavas. Henry L. Stimson. Secretary of War in Taft's cabinet; Gov ernor Alfred E. Smith, of New York; Speaker Champ Clark and former speaker !. C. Cannon. of the House of Representatives. were present to pay their last tribute on behalf of the na- tion. congress, the state and the me tropolis. The diplomatic corps at Washington also was represented. 1 Marv wr~aths and horel tributes, for which there. had not been room (centinue6 en page five,