New-York tribune., 1921-04-03
Throng Honors
Burroughs at
Last Services
Children Heap Naturalist's $
Favorite Flower ON His
Bier and Join Others i'm
Mourning Their Tutor
Edison and Ford Attend
Ceremony Held at The Nest
so Years His Workshop;
Burial Today at Birthplace
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WEST PARK, N. Y, April g.
Funeral services for John Burroughs
were held today at "The Nest" River
y-on-the-Hudson, where the famous
naturalist had lived for nearly half
century
Tomorrow, which would have been
his eighty fourth birthday. he will be
buried at his birthplace, "Woodchuck
Lodge Roxhury, in the heart of the
Tatskils.
1t was Mr.. Burroughs often ex-
pressed wish that when the time
comes that so back to Mother
Earth" the services be simple in char
acter and that he be inferred on the
old homestead, with a great boulder.
From village and city came mourning
friends and admirers to pay their final
token of respect to-day. Conspicuous
among them were Thomas A. Edison.
Henry Ford and Harvey S. Firestone.
vacation companions of the naturalist
on many of his jaunts. A group of
little girls of West Park made offerings
VI lIc lag dHl dIOUluSy LIc udtQIdl-
lists favorite flower. They had expect
ed to bring the flowers to "The Nest"
tomorrow, as has been the custom of
children of West Park for many years
in observing the birthday of Mr.. Bur-
roughs. Members of the Boy Scouts of
Poughkeepsie also were present to
show their respect for the one who had
taught them much of wood and stream.
From Binghamton came Charles O.
Bramhall, an old white-haired man, who
made the trip of 200 miles on bicycle.
II had never met Mr.. Burroughs"
was his simple tribute, "but wanted to
express my appreciation for what he
has done for me and all those who love
nature"
The funeral services were held in
the study, overlooking the placid Hud
son, where Mr.. Burroughs wrote many
of his books.
Among the tall pines, oaks and
naples a gentle breeze murmured, and
in the bright sunshine the birds sang.
Clustered around the bier were floral
They were the flowers Mr. Burroughs
loved the best-pussy willows, hepat-
icas, lilies of the valley, prmroses
and daffodills. On the breast of the
quiet figure the children had laid
sprays of the trailing arbutus and the
wild mountain violet.
The ceremony consisted of the Lords
Prayer and Bible selections spoken by
the Rev. Franklin D. Elmer, of Hamil-
ton, n. Y, who quoted from Isaiah lv,
~, and the Psalms.
Between the reading of the lines, in
Guiding those of Earl W. Williams,
Wordsworth, Emerson, Walt Whitman
and some of the earliest and latest
writings of Mr.. Burroughs, phono-
graph played Pinsuti's Remembrance"
and Brahmss "Cradle Song"
In his prayer, the Rev. Mr.. Elmer
said:
There are here to pay tribute those
who come from the woodlands and the
fields. the shop and Office, the church
and state and from shore to shore. This
man, o Lord, has taught us the beauty
of your creation, of the rivers. the
valleys, the skies, the birds and the
animals"
The verses from Earl W. Williams
were read by Hamlin Garland. Frank
Talbot repeated the "Poet's Epitaph,"
by Wordsworth, and "The Threnody,"
by Emerson. Loveman's Coates of
Silence" was read by Grace Davis
Vanamee, and Catharine Preston re-
cited lines from Whitman's "Darest
Thou Now, Soul"
William Ormiston Roy read from
the dead mans York, first the poem
"Waiting," 'and then from the
naturalist's latest book, Accepting The
Universe.