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Show I NEW YORK PLANS GEBAT PUBLIC MEMORIAL SERVICE NEW YORK, April 22. Frionds of Mark Twain announced today that arrangements ar-rangements are boing mndo for a groat public memorial service here, at which it will bo possible for tho thousands who know and loved him to be present, t Tributes to his life and charnctcr will be paid by a number of men prominent in public life and in tho world of letters. let-ters. Tho details have not yet boon perfected, but the scrvico will bo held j 'l in ono of the large halls of the city and j probnbl3' will tnko placo within ten days. Several New York pastors announced . ( this morning that a part of their Sun- 1 a day's services would bo devoted to f culopy of the humorist. Expressions of regret from men of i , lettors, statesmen, lawyers, clergymen, ' ' scholars and business men of promi nence from the Atlantic to tho Pacific I '4 are published hero today. Tho tributes ' JJ nro moro numorouus and varied than j ;tj upon the death of any other man of - i" prominence in years. I ; I A "In foreign 'countries, too, thov feel ' ! 'I deep sense of loss in tho death ot ;',if America's greatest man of letters," i I ! said tho Rev. Dr. Chnrlcs F. Akcd, tho $ English pastor of tho Fifth Avenue i . - Baptist church. "Tho whole world , ' know and loved him. He looked , 'I wtrnight into tho heart of things. Ho .; was much moro thaii a mero man of let- j ters; "he was a great humanist. Ho was M ' more than that; he was a groat prophet. . j i Eow men of clearer sight have over ' ' 1 ' looked upon life." J 1 President Woodrow Wilson of Prince- ; ton university voiced a similar scnti- ' I ment that tho death of Mark Twain ' ns more than a national loss. "All t j the world know him. Ho spoke tho l ' spirit of America. He injected human life with a flavor all his own." . F. Hopkinson Smith spoke for a co- ;f. toric of tho humorist's New York J !'; friends. "Thoso who knew him inti- if, " " mately feel to tho full," he said, "the ) i loss oi n nian f high and Iovel3' char- ij ncter, a friend quick to czcito and give , - alTccticn tho big hearted human I i ,:! : mnu. " |