The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-03-30
BURROUGHS BODY
 LIES IN HOME ON
 BANKS OF HUDSON
Will Remain Until Saturday When Simple Funeral for Great Naturalist Will
 Be Held
By Associated Press

body of John Burroughs, naturalist or world renown, who died suddenly this on passenger train near O.. lies tonight in his home by the banks of the Hudson river a few miles north of this city.
 There. where MT. Burroughs had lived since 1878. the body will remain until Sat urday afternoon, when private funeral along the simple lines he desired will be held. The body will be taken to Rox- bury, in the Catskill mountains and buried Sunday. the eighty-fourth annl- versery of his birth, near the spot where he was born.
 The great naturalist and author of out door books had hoped to return to his home, Riverby, to die, and his fore death unexpectedly claimed him, were: How far are we from home"
 MT. Burroughs has spent the winter in California and was returning from there About five weeks ago he underwent an operation for a presternal abscess. Serl- chc liChtt anu ht0Tty COIpliCdllOIS Stt in and he became so weak that he decided he must hurry home if his wish to die amid the lordly hills and trees by the Hudson was to be realized.
 SUDDENLY FALLS DEAD
 During a delay in a railway station at Chicago yesterday he seemed nervous and depressed. but as soon as his train started his spirits brightened according fo r,t 1xl n. Barrus. She accompanied the naturalist from California and was talking to him when he suddenly fell dead in his Pull man car compartment at 2 o'clock this 
 His mind was clear to the end. she said. and death came without warning. MT. Burroughs grand-daughter Ursula Bur- rorghs, and Dr. Barrus two nieces, who were in the party on the train, had re- tired early after expressing to Mr. Bur roughs how happy and cheerful he seemed.
 At dusk this evening hearse conveyed the remains along the winding roads that lead through the rugged hills where MT Burroughs devoted years of study to birds and trees and flowers. Surround ing his home. where the body was placed were the elms and naples he loved while overhead a few birds which re- turned northward early were heralding the springtime.
 Tn brief cases carried by the great naturalist were unfinishs manuscripts Of two books. He had Desssd himself dur ing the winter gathering material in Southern California and jotting down notes for these works on outdoor sub jects. Ultimately they will be added to his long list of printed volumes.
 
 EDISON MOURNS DEATH 2 West Orange, N. J., March 29.-Thomas A. Edison. a member of a small party of intimate friends who had accompanied John Burroughs on his annual camping trips in the last four years, expressed deep sorrow today when learning of the naturalist's death.
 TO me he always appeared to be one of the highest types yet evolved in the advance of men to a high stage.' said the inventor.
 Other members of the camping party were Henry Ford and Hudson Maxim. On tf cir camping trips woodchopping con tests were always matter of keen com petition and in this sport MT Burroughs, notwithstanding his age, always acquitted himself creditably.
 HENRY FORD'S TRIBUTE
 
 personal friend and camp mate of John Burroughs, made the following statement today upon learning of the na-uralst's death: a
 The news of John Burroughs passing is great shock to me. The last time saw him he was apparently in good health. I heard from him during his ill., ness in California. but he took it lightly, making out that he had gone to bed merely for rest cure Next Sunday would have been his s-eighthy-fourth birth day
 "I have known John Burroughs about F years. We were brought together by our common interests in birds and grow ing things. There was something very simple about him, and yet with it all there was a thoroughness of investiga- tion and hardihood of endurance that gave him rank as a natural man. be- lieye if you had offered John Burroughs a million dollars in one hand and the sight of new bird in another. he would have chosen sight of the new bird. The last time he was at my farm he saw a winter bird from the north that he had never seen before. and the discovery filled him with animated interest foS days.
 I've always talked good deal to- gether. John Burroughs could articulate his philosophy while could mostly feel mine, and so we got on we'll together, understanding each other. His philosophy was just what he felt and his work was to write it down. He always brought his new books to me, and l would sometimes show him some of the things was work ing on.
 { HHe was a great companion. He was at solutely child-like in his belief h peo- v,lo For man who saw so few people he had hosts of friends. He was . fine camp mate For him the deserted will derness was more alive than the popu- lcus cities. That was the main charac- teristic of MT" Burroughs. He was alive and his eyes were open.
 well, he used to wonder what it was like beyond and suppose he will begin philosophizing again as soon as he gets his bearings. There will be birds where John Burroughs is-birds and great treesp
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