The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-10
Funeral Train Leaves Aiken
for Cincinnati; Silent
Tribute Is Paid.
CAPITOL IN MOURNING
Hoover and Party to Depart
From Washington for
Ohio Tonight.
BY FOSTER EATON
United Press STAFF Correspondent

body Of Nicholas Longworth, Speak
er Of the house OF representatives,
started home to Cincinnati for bu-
rial today. The special funeral
train, chartered by the government,
left Aiken at 1876 q. m.
just before IL a. m. q simple
hearse drove up to the home of Mr..
and Mrs. James r. Curtis, where
Longworth died Thursday. The cas-
ket was moved to the hearse from
the flower banked drawing room and
carried to the railway station. where
it was placed within the private car
Of Charles Clarke.
Ten automobiles carrying mem
bers of Aiken's social colony, who
had known the Speaker as an an
nual participant in the gaieties of
Aiken life, accompanied the hearse, i
Citizenry Stands in Silence
They included Mayor B. Wealth
ersford, Devereaux Milburn. polo
player; Skiddy Van State, sports
man; Mrs. Evalyn Mclean Of
Washington, close friend Of the now
widowed Alice Roosevelt Longworth,
and DR.. Robert Henry Wilds chief
of the physicians who attended
Longworth in his last illness.
Thomas Hitchcock, /Westbury, N.
Y. polo player, Bysrd Warren of
Boston, Preston Davie of Tuxedo,
N. Y; j. F. Byers of Pittsburgh,
]. D. Lyons of Pittsburgh, and David
Gray Of New York, joined other
friends here as an escort, while six
young business men Of Aiken acted
as pallbearers.
AS the procession passed slowly
through the streets to the station.
the citizer1ry stood in silence, many
barring their heads as the hearse
passed BY.
Walks to Car Unassisted
Mrs. Longwortl1, CARRIED in black.
accompanied by her brothers, Ker-
nit and Archie, and other members
Of her immediate group, left the
Curtis home just before 1870 q. m,
the time set for departure of the
train. She stepped into large,
black sedan-the personal car Of
Mrs. Curtiss-wllich awaited at the
door. The party drove through all
but deserted streets to the station.
Immediately Mrs. Longworth
stepped from the car and, unas-
sisted, walked the eight feet across
the platform to the private car,
waiting on the tracks. She entered
it Immediately and disappeared be-
hind the drawn curtains.
The crowd on the platform stood
in utter silence as the train began
moving slowly down the track and
finally vanished in the distance.
Widow Talks With Brothers
The detailed schedule for the fu-
neral train is:
las P. M.-Arrive Columbia, S. C.
$3.50 P. M.-Arrive spartanburg. S. O.
$40 P. M.-Arrive Asheville, n. c.
s:45 P. M.-Arrive Morristown, Tenn.
HOO ns-AIIlAe hnO4Nlllcs Aeun4
5A. Nj. Saturday)-Arrive Lexington, Ky.
Z A. M.-Arrive Cincinnati.
Mrs. LongWorth Thursday night
and again this morning talked long
with her two brothers, retaining
her compoSure as she has from the
moment she received in Washington
the first word Of her husbands ill
ness.
Senator James F. Byrnes of South
Carolina called for a moment at
the Curtis mansion this morning.
Mrs. Longworth was informed
that official Washington will con-
verge on Cincinnati Saturday for
the funeral at Christ Episcopal
church.
Leaves Washington Tonight
President Hoover has informed
Mrs. Longworth he and Mrs. Hoo
yer will leave Washington tonight.
The presidential party will include
secretaries Theodore Joslin and
Walter Newton and Captain Russell
Train, naval aid.
Twelve senators and eighty-nine
representatives of the house, over
which Longworth ruled, and where
his popularity was greatest, will
represent the legislative branch of
the government. Vice President
Curtis, a legislative veteran like
Longworth, cabinet members and
dignitaries of Ohio will be among
the official party.
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt, widow
Of the President, will join the party
in Cincinnati, as will Mrs. Richard
Derby, the former Ethel Roosevelt.
Unofficial society and the diplo-
matte corps will be represented in
Christ Episcopal church Saturday.
From these and other groups will
De drawn the list of honorary pail
bearers. The men who will carry
Longworth to his grave have been
chosen. They are Archibald and
Kermit Roosevelt, Buckner Wall
ingford Of Cincinnati, who narrieA
Longworth's sister, and three
nephews OF the Speaker. Landen.
Buckner Jr., and Nicholas Long
worth Wallingford.