Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1924-07-09
SIMPLE RITES
FOR COOLIDGE
YOUTH TODAY
Services This Afternoon al
White House Will Be
Attended by Few
BURIAL, PLYMOUTH, VT.
Funeral Train with Cabinet
Members, Etc., to Leave
at 9 O'Clock Tonight
BURIAL, PLYMOUTH, VT.

WASHINGTON, July 9:-Only the
setting of the historic White House
East Room, with its profusion of
banked flowers, might distinguish
the simple funeral service there to-
day for Calvin Coolidge, Jr., from
that for any other youth of his coun-
try. The governments of nations,
with his own, were permitted to pay
respect to the Presidents dead son,
but the desire of the bereaved fam
lily for simplicity ruled in every de-
tail OF arrangements.
A prayer by the Rev. Jason Noble
Pierce, pastor of the First Congre-
gational church which the President
and Mrs. Coolidge attend here, his
reading of Scripture and the singing
of favorite hymns by quartet, was
the simple rite for the late afternoon
service.
Tonight the body of the youth.
whose death Monday has cast a
shadow over the White House and
brought the keenest sorrow to those
who had grown to know him as
friend during the little time he had
been at home there, will be taken
by the. Presidents family, now brok-
en- for the first time, to his boyhood
home at Northampton, Mass. There,
amid old friends, services will be
held tomorrow at the Edwards Con-
gregational church, of which Calvin
was a member. Later in the day he
will be laid to rest beside the grave
of the Presidents mother at Ply
mouth, Vermont.
Joining the family in attendance
at the White House services today
were a few intimate friends, cabinet
members, chiefs of diplomatic mis-
sions, justices of the Supreme Court,
members of congress now in the city,
and high officers of the Army, Navy
and Marine corps.
On the journey to Northampton
and Plymouth the Presidents family
will be accompanied by the cabinet
officers and their wives; j. Butler
Wright, third assistant secretary of
state; Colonel c. o. Sheriff., military
aide to the President; Captain Adol-
phous Andrews, naval aide: Lieuten-
ant Commander Joel T. Boone and
Major James F. Coupal, the Presi-
dents physicians who attended
young Calvin in his last illness; c.
Bascom Slemp, secretary to the
President; E. T. Clark, the Presi-
dents personal secretary, and Mrs.
Clark.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank w. Stearns.
personal friends, also will be on the
funeral train. The party will be
Joined at Northampton by John
Coolidge, the Presidents father.
To bear the body to it's last rest
ing place, six marines assigned to
the presidential yacht Mayf1ower.
who with six bluejackets from the
yacht, have stood guard over the
bier in the east room of the White
House since yesterday. also will
proceed with the party under COM
mand of Lieutenant Edgar Allen
Poe. The President consented to
the military guard for his son when
it was chosen from among those
aboard the Mayf1ower who had be-
come his fast friends during the
week end trip with the Presidents
family on the yacht which was
young Calvin's happiest occasions in
the White House.
The President and Mrs. Coolidge
were said to have faced the ordeal
of the funeral service today with
the same fortitude with which they
have so far borne their heavy sor-
row. John, the elder son, who has
lost an inseiarable companion in
Calvin's death, also was said to be
showing as brave a front as a boy
could.
Set for P. M. the funeral rites
included first the reading of the 23rd
Psalm, John XIV, verses 1 to 8, Is
to 20 and rs to 27, and Roman 8,
verses 81 to 80, the selection for the
quartet, which the has heard on pre-
vious occasions, was the hymn 20,
Love That Will Not Let Me Co."
Reading by the Rev. Mr.. Pierce of
Away" by James Whitcomb Riley
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