The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-09
Taft and Lodge Deeply AZ
fccted at the Final
Ceremonies.
ROUGH RIDERS THERE
Banners of COlOnel's Noted
Troops Are Draped on
Coffin.
OLD FRIENDS ASSEMBLE
Incidents of Entire Career Of
Ex-Prcsident Recalled by
Familiar Figures.
OLD FRIENDS ASSEMBLE

dllIllluE TX uIts.
n a grove Of locust and cedar in
the place Of his choice. across a little
valley from the home on the hill
where the Sagamore Mohannis lit his
signal fire nearly three centuries ago.
Theodore Roosevelt was buried yes
,erday. over the company gathered
round about January's sun slanted its
rays, and as the coffin descended IL
iumlncd the stars of an American
Gag that covered the form OF its SER
want
Sunlight made radiant also the vista
Of North Shore country he loved best
and that is all one Golden Legend.
Below the cemetery knoll sparkled
ne Cove, famous in Roosevelt stories,
70 entolding shores ice trimmed.
against q background of rolling wood
and. Among the naked trees one
saw, near and far, smoke laying
straight upward in the serenity OF
afternoon from the chimneys of the
neighbors.
A snow furry in the morning had
given the earth this seasons first real
coat: the mir was brisk and inviting.
It was Just such day as used to
make the Colonel want to get out
end shake himself" Since funerals
must ne, it was just such n day as
this one should have been blessed
with.
Incidents Rise in Memory.
There filed up the knoll to witness
re ceremony. as there had gathered In
he plain church in Oyster Bay half an
hour earlier. a group Of men whose
aces would make a gallery OF portraits
,,rstrating the career OF this man.
rndred Incidents In the life of the for
ne- PRESIDENT flashed TO mind as the
reve-ert observer who could not Heln
1otlng all about him listened 10 the
v ords 0, the ritual.
Nor does this refer 10 the dignitar.es
xho represented the nation and State,
. tire vice-President Of the United
States members OF the Cabinet, high
officers nj the army and navy. dele
'"ons ''o" .''e -, 90 on
ne Governor OF Ne" iorN' anu '
.loee as the friendship OF many OF then,
% Col Roosevelt had been. but 10 those
5thers ot his associates in past years
wao had come from near and FAR 10
tend the simple country funeral which
ths one really was. notwithstanding the
r-esence OF so many notable persons
special trains and all that,
From Joe Murray. the c'stric' iea"e''
Who got the Colonel into politics as
eo-yo-r Silk stocking" hope In 1851;
.r,r, I,enr, Caho, Lodge. who opened
i'e'' ~. ,.,a-, he bav.
"H' ,0""' 80. cac-a,a-v
* MIN aPPo'''e' -,-.,.i
4 the Navy, through 'ne 'I'e",oe' s''''
,hc old Tennis Cabinet TO WlI''ah
il Taft and Charles L. Hughes. who
,ood hs.ueen hin, and another Pres.'
-. ~ ,,a-s ths,s
and Foe. Present,
TIE Old Guard ana the Young ieu'
'-Arnen of the Colonel and comrades
q lis triumphs. the great political fg
res nf the Roosevelt years, alike bowed
heir heads in Christ Church an'
.arched I'D the hill through the snow
10 the grave
~ naces from the grave but apar
yarahaa.ed he stood and his eyes di
.,a,.s- ,ron, tho omen paralleloErar
~ ,bs o,her side OF which flowers an
ra.tbs htd q Vile OF damp yellow san
"a Sroxen clods The muscles of hi
were uncomfortable When NJ,
., after the service stepped forwar
-, sboor hands with each OF his oil
.-,.,d. lr,n.wonen II seemed that n
-',., Tive way But he turned an,
"a b,s wav down the slope to tn
al
=. s reedIess 70 dwell on the scene o
..,,.s RAJ This Inevitably was, but II
i.roue- ,o saw that none outside OF tn
,anl!ly CIRCLE was more affected thai
Senator Lodge. In whose estimation. In
.1ding the period when they dlffere
politically. the Colonel was indeed wha
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