The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-19
Private Services Will Be
Held for Inventor
Wednesday.
WORLD VOICES SORROW
Thousands to Pay Respects
at Bier; Hoover May
Attend Funeral.
tEdison's life in sketches and other
stories on Page 81
BY DELOS SMITH
United Press STAFF Correspondent


WEST ORANGE, N. j., Oct. 10
Men long in the service of Thomas
A. Edison stood watch today, in re-
lays, at his bier, while other
workers and the public filed past
to do the great inventor homage.
. The man whom death called
Sunday lay IN simple bronze cas-
ket in the UNCOVERED laboratory
and library building where most of
his great achievements were
wrought.
At the corners of the dais, Edison
men, middle aged, with solemn air
and arms folded, were on guard.
Each fifteen minutes the guard was
changed.
Meantime, flow of workers of
TIE Edison concern and fellow
citizens of the Oranges passed for
last view of the man whose life
work was an everlasting monument
OF scientific success.
Funeral on Wednesday
Banked high around the casket
were masses of flowers.
Those who came to pay a tribute
OF farewell were allowed to enter
the structure through a roped aisle,
from streets barred off within the
region of the factory. Police were
there in large numbers.
Funeral services will be held
Wednesday afternoon from Glen
mont, where early Sunday Edison
succumbed to his long siege of
uremia and complications. Details
were kept secret.
The family wanted privacy today,
after its narrowing hours of the last
few weeks, and their spokesman
steadfastly refused even to say
where burial would be.
Milan, o., had been named by one
close to the family as Edison's final
resting place, but this was denied
positively by a spokesman. The
United Press learned that considera-
ton was being given to a plan to
bury Edison within Llewellyn Park,
the secluded and beautiful section
Of West Orange, where Edison had
his estate.
Services to Be Simple
Rosedale cemetery also was NEIL
toned, but the superintendent said
no arrangements had been made
here. and he believed the interment
would be out of town.
Funeral services will be simple
and private. President Hoover may
come, but that is not yet certain,
for affairs of state may prevent
him from paying his tribute of per-
sonal presence to the man he so
admired. Harvey Firestone and
Henry Ford, close friends of Edison,
will be present.
Messages of grief have come by
wireless, by cable, by telegraph
wires-so many of them that tele-
graph companies we're instructed
last night to stop deliveries until
this morning. Two secretaries had
tried vainly to care for the messages
transmitted since Edison died in his
sleep at 1924 Sunday morning.
Casket in Library
Today the casket was placed in
the laboratory library, on bier in
the center of the great silent room.
The room is in the three-Story main
building of the group that comprises
the laboratory. 1t is high ceilinged,
about 30x45 feet. There the 81
year-old inventor spent years of
research, productive of many of the
worlds most useful inventions.
Two tiers of gallery run around
the walls, one above the other.
These and the space beneath them
are divided into alcoves filled with
books which deal with thousands of
scientific problems and technical
subjects. Mineral and vegetable
specimens also are stored there.
One alcove contains cot where
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