Show L ES AT ROOSEVEL TF U FORMER PRESIDENT LAID AT REST AMID TH THE arf scenes nr S OF HIS EARLY BOYHOOD last sad rites Surrounded Vit t simple dignity that MI tend tand the passing of f a private citizen oyster day bay T theodore h 0 roosevlt cr ct twenty tw only sixth president tnt of the united states lie lies at rest beneath a cemetery knolt knoll near tho the rambling i rural highway along which lie traveled so many ninnY times n e S an la boyhood and in manhood between betea the sagamore ito house use wh which ich was his home and the hulot village of P perhaps e chaps no other ex president of the fhe util ked states liaa has been paid tho tribute of so simple a n funeral as tile the one ne which was given colonel roosevelt wednesday afta afternoon january 8 on the shore of long island sound military tary and naval honors were not his lit in death only because it had been his wish and that of lits ills family that the alie lust rites be surrounded only with tho simple cimpl 0 dignity that might attend the passing away of apri yate catl culen ien but the amerlean american n nation and foreign governments as welt well sent rep representatives bisenta addid as did also the state and city in which he casborn was born these men sat sorrowfully I 1 in n the pews of thella the little red gabled christ chilst episcopal church while brief of proper prayer ad scripture k readings were held without a eulogy in which so much nah might lif have been sald said there was no singing or organ playing thousands rf of mourners ers cagne came from filin new york and all parts of long island it was noon nood when at the sagamore c hil homestead all of colonel roose velt belts Z family except two of the sori sons lieutenant colonel theodore roosevelt jr and lieutenant roosevelt who are aie so soldiers idlers in europe assembled selu bled for a few moments of private prayer at the side of the casket in which lay tho the ho body y draped over alie casket were battle flags under which lic he coio colonel nel fought as a rough alder rider on cuban soil oli inore than twenty years agov ago the rev dr geo george rg e E talmage Tat mage recto lector r of christ church said the comforting words w which cilc were the th final ones spoken tor ford the colonel in WD the presence of mrs roosevelt for she did not accompany the cort cortege egeto to the church hurch or to the grave ln in youngs memorial cei cemetery at tiro the sagamore hill s services only me members mb 8 of the 1 immediate ni M roosevelt fu family were present the body wa was s then taken faken fro from m the famous room of Tro trophies phles which colonel elf bad assembled from till all quarters of 04 tife the globe and was carried from sagamore hul on its 16 final lourney journey matiy many wreaths rentes and floral tributes ei ford for which there had not ice been n room dilim at he sagamore hill home filled the church with fragrance One which was sent to the roosevelt home nad and then brought to the altar was the tribute of president wilson dr talmage with dishop bishop burgess of long island seated in the I 1 ary 1 lead the sentences senac aces psalms psalm S ang an scriptural lessons which are a part of the alie protestant episcopal fit funeral sen tees ices the former pred dents favorite hymn liyan illow how film a foundation was recited by the rector lector tn in conlon nance to the roosevelt fam ilys desire that all music eyen the organ voluntary be omitted ted when he came finally athe to the lords i i rayer raer the congregation joined the scene tit at the graveside grave side was per leaps the alie more inor e impressive lin bere iere stood the rok roosevelt sevelt far family filY ex ceist the boys bois who tire are nbrina and their mother as t the be casket et its historic flags nov noly removed was varl lowered in into t 0 the th ground near at hand looking on rev re erectly erent crent ly wire nie men n in public and vats vate life waw IK had been as so Bodif cd colonel roosvelt in affairs of bf i tc politics literature and the alic army arms roughriders Rough riders neighbors for ahou will elerbe eich be almost alrid ballo weil gemind g gion ml ai ind rid ch children ildrem from in the all illige ige alio of to wM which ilithe the colonel sent lits his own arn srn n mid i n d daughters they formed a sorrowing borrowing el circle I 1 r C i a as dr talmage read P the e brief committal aft |