| Show INGERSOLL OBSEQUIES NO CLERGYMAN PRESENT TO CONDUCT THE SERVICES I 1 last lr st poem written by tho the great ae agnostic n declaration of the tree free 0 nead head thero them w waa no music new york july 23 21 the funeral of tho the late robert G ingersoll Ingen soll took place this afternoon from walston dobbs ferry where he died on friday last no clergyman was present to conduct the there was waa no anusic and inai he were no pallbearers pall bearers th the L body lay on a cot in it the I 1 loom boni N where here he died it mas en shrouded in white and just one red rose placed on tile breast about the cot were banks of 0 floral doral tributes sent bent by friends wreaths and bunches bunc liea of ohp services were held at 1 I 1 0 clock mrs fro suit ant beside her dead and beside her N were ere her daughters tire walston 11 II brown and miss waud maud ingersoll they were very y much agitated and wapl cepl almost continuously mr and mra mm C P farrell fanell fan ell were ere present and chaales broadnay I 1 buxe col langr In soils olla oldest friend occupied a chair by alie th e side niilo of 0 the bier there were some forty others present i arid they remained remal ned by dr john dark clark ridpath NN who ho in a voice oleo full of emotion said I 1 solda sly y friends it la is a very sad ad duty to read in the presence of the dead the me 1 last poem written by col robert G 1 I 1 liger soll entitled declaration of tile F arce ace this poem col ingersoll pi had iad tend lead and altered irk in some of its parla L s only a few hours before ho he was nias en down mal maj 0 J smythe who nho r sides in dobbs perry ferry and w a ho was a close per serial friend of col ingersoll noll then without pie nortis read another ey extract ira c t from col cc 1 ingersol Inger solla 9 wL clings wr lUnes ings en entitled t ditled my religion dr john elliott of new york r k read verca ram cd the iho funeral oration dell vereil d h by y col ingersoll InK ersoll ov over e r hla his brothers dead body this concluded tile the short and simple services nearly alt all present then took n u out parting look at the dead and passed I 1 after they had gone eone mr T ouse arose I 1 front from ilia his chair and as he Is totally blind passed hn big hand over the face of ills his departed friend and said perhaps he it Is letter better now no one can understand der deri stand tand it mrs ira ingersoll Inper yoH mid eold to him ahr th colonel wanted you to put your hand upon and suiting the action I 1 to the iho d she e directed tile ills hand to uto flirt ter left Weast r of 0 the dep deceased eased I 1 mr rouse house asked i w hat bat she was going to do with tho the remains 1 I cant give him up lip she said bald 1 1 I cant put him in the ground I 1 cant ant bear to think of it IL were nr ere to bring brine him back horn home g tho the b body defond dy will III probably be tal taken L e a to fresh pond thursday for cren cremation 1 but arrangement Is subject to change during the morning there were plan I 1 visitors to look upon the face of th tha 0 decew deceased sd s d amons among them were several of old colored servants of the family who had come from and tool took four days olt off fund and paid their eapen expenses a to do honor to their great benefactor r among these theao were two former butlers of tile the family one old man who was a li babage kaage man on the rill road pame fame from down on island others came from chicago syracuse and buffalo many addi additional tonal of sympathy were received today one of them being from gen gem miles floral tributes m were ere received all the morning and there I 1 were two rooms full of them A photograph of the body was taken bakon tills this afternoon just as ai a i allay it liy surrounded by these lion llewera erit it took LL three view of the face capi cepl ducal aide to lo seallor Sh Eh allor copt capt arthur V ducat duc it or of the twenty fourth united states infantry has been 1 by r 11 aba shofter te aon ono of 0 ill hla a alana allna tr to olccel 1 I apt pt r who ubo m atas as last week to tho thi ildon ant anc colonelcy 0 of the thirty fifth infantry Infant rv |
