Arizona republican., 1921-04-03
SIMPLICITY MARKS FUNERAL SERVICES
 FOR NATURE LOVER
IRepu5Iican A. p. Leased Wirel


 WEST PARK, N. Y, April 2.-ln i rustic house. the retreat of John Burroughs for nearly half a century. one hundred and fifty representatives of the thousands of nature lovers who admired his outdoor life and writings, gathered today at his funeral. The ceremonies were short, of great sim plicity and reminiscent of the career which the great naturalist pursued among the hills and streams and flowers and beside his rugged stone hearth, with volumes of Emerson. Whittier and Wordsworth.
 By train and by automobile the lit tie groups arrived throughout the forenoon at Riverby, the naturalist's home, situated among the pines and naples. where the Shawangunk mountains meet the waters of the Hudson
 Scientists and manufacturers of wide prominence mingled in sorrow with Boy Scouts and the neighbor- hood children. Publishers and horti- culturists bowed with religious men from the Holy Cross monastery. The mourners came from among the rocks and rills of New England, the banks of the Potomac, the shores of Lake Michigan. the snowa of Canada, the
 
 l for the last time on the patriarchal | countenance of the venerable natur- alist-
 Many NotabIes Present Among them were Thomas A. Edi- son, Henry Ford and Harvey s. Fire stone who for several years have l spent their vacations outdoors with l Mir. Burroughs. Next to Mir. Edison | stood an aged and gray haired man i who had pedalle5 his bicycle from Binghamton, more than three hun dred miles away to witness the final ceremony. ThE man was C. c. Bran hall an acquaintance of the naturalist since childhood
 The sun was shining brilliantly and the pines at Riverby murmured sadly in the breezes from the Catskills when the funeral service began. From muffled photograph came the soft violin strains of Pinsuti's "Remem- T brance." The Lords prayer was said and then slowly a reader spoke some lines written by Earl w. Williams which Mir Burroughs felt characteris- tis of his own self.
 'The forest mods m fellowship they read, ''the winds, my playmates are; the waters lisp the sign o brotherhood, and in the thunder: l wholly strange. The stars are kindly f counsellors to me; I claim kinshiI ! with the worm that crawIs, and witt f the clay wherein the simple tale of it. dim life is written"
 Quotations from Emerson ant 1 Wordsworth and Walt Whitman
 companion of his middle age, als were read. Then William Ormistol Roy of Montreal a friend of Mr f Burroughs, read excerpts iron . -Waiting," one of the first poem 9 Accepting the Universe" his lates ! book.
 Rev. F. D. Elmer. pastor of tn | Collegiate Baptist church at Colgat . university, likewise an old friend. le 0 the prayers and made 2 few remarks
 Wild Flowers on Coffin ;, There are here to pay him trib = ute" he said, those who have com : from the woodland and the field, tn f shop and school, the church and of
 fices of state, the mart and tn e oceans shore. This man. O Lore h has taught us the beauty of You e creations, of the rivers, the sky. tn y valley, the birds and beaSts.s = When he had finished the soft flut If and violin notes of a cradle son s, were heard. Then the mourners file H. by the bier for a last look al NJ
 Burroughs. Some picked wild violet
 from the coffin to keep as a remem II brance. There were many floral of n fersings but they were wild flower 't gathered from the fields and hillside Ie The children of West Park, wh y frequently visited Riverby to learn { l. animal and vegetable life from tf II aged nature lover, trod slowly pa! 'd the dead, each leaving a bunch { T, wild flowers.
 'o From all sections of the natio T; letters came today telling of the loI .o for the naturalist and his inspirs ts tion to those who find comfort ar .o contentment in the great outdoors. ir. Tomorrow, Mrs. Burroughs eighty II fourth birthday, his body will
 taken by automobile into the westei he Catskills and inferred at the pia'
 where he was born, near Roxbur = Many of those who attended his ful t eral will go to 'Woodchuck lodge ' n his den in the mountains, for u . burial