Putnam patriot., 1919-12-05
VETERAN REPORTER DIES AT
 SOUTH WOODSTOCK HOME
Louis R., Known as Skipper" Southworth, Began Reporting Career As Cores
 pondent For The Patriot.
For TwenyFour Years Was Marine Reporter On New York
 World-Was Beloved By All Newspaper Men.

original self on all occasions. Those who knew him for years as a fellow worker began to tell anecdotes of him immediately after his retirement; and pest evidence as to what "The Skip per" stood for is that all the anecdotes would have pleased him nightly could he have heard them.
 Right after he left The World in 1915 the city editor of The World sent a representative to see 'The Skipper" This is the beginning of the characteristic letter written to the editor by Mir. Southworth:
 "How nice of you to send an am bassador extraordinary to cheer me up. was taken aback, all sails slat- ting! when opened the door and saw Theodore Murray's merry moon beam ing through the snowdrop bushes, which l admit need trimming"
 That was "The Shippers" way. e kept the wholesome tang of the sea not only in his active writings and workings as a ship news reporter, but after that among the snowdrop bushes, old elm trees and well clipped lawns of Arnold's Inn.
 The Funeral Service
 Lying in state nthe historic room in quaint Arnold's Inn which ''fhe Skipper" so dearly cherished and re- veret, Louis Rhodes Southworth, the last of line of the Southworth fam fly which traces it's lineage back to John Alden, was gazed upon for the last time Wednesday afternoon. Hanging on the wall beside him was a massive wreath, the silent tribute from his comrades of The World. At it's head was the beautiful wreath of orchids, the personad tribute of Ralph Pulitzer, proprietor of the New York World. Resting on the colonial bar which he had adorned with chaneel windows as tribute to his mother, were pillows from his mates among the New York shop news reporters and Providence Journal, placed so he would have seen them if he could have opened his eyes. A wreath of flowers from Capt H. F. Letson of the Cunard line and another of evergreen and class colors from class of '79, Brown University, hung beside his casket, among the wealth of floral tri- butes from his friends. Could he have but spoken or used his pen how he would have loved to describe the scene with his nautical vision of life.
 The quaint triangular park with its old oaken bucket held in place by a huge caterpillar designed by "The Skipper" and gift from him to the town, was surrounded by autos during thte services at the Inn. For fully five minutes the town of Woodstock was silent as the cortege containing besides relatives his journalistic asso- ciates and classmates at Brown wend- ed it's way by the homes of Arthur Sherburne Hardy, Clarence Bowen, Hamilton Holt, Herbert Bowen and other wielders of the pen which have made South Woodstock noted in lit erary history.
 Many walked to the ancient ceme- tery where, according to his expressed wish. the Masonic burial rites were carried out as he wished them and his body lowered in a vault lined with oak and laurel leaves, where he will rest in peace and not be disturbed further by the "Ships coming in"
 As a special tribute to his memory an worth, The World sent Marc Tracy McGrath as their representa- tive ,and Miss A. E. Campwell did likewise from the Providence Journal, with whom he has shared many stor- ies. Il . Relatives and friends from far and near came to pay their last respects.
 The services were officiated by Rev. F B. Harrison of Woodstock, and Rev. Harvey Baker of South Wood stock. who said Mir. Southworth left a place in the community which can not be filled. He was man who filled 1 quaint position in the world of af-