Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-04-11 | Page 1 | Beloved Speaker is Taken 'Home'

F i ri r Beloved Speaker Is Taken Home i r i I r 7 I sw t ri r J t 4 j I f L 4 i I IL L 1 q w wr r J fi r Mourned 1 by y a 3 nation the funeral cortege of Nicholas Lon T orth beloved fiure in American politics poli- poli tics ics is shown here as as it left heft Aiken S. S C. C on the journey to Cincinnati Ohio Where the speaker was vas buried Saturday NEA EA t to The Telegram I Thousands Attend Funeral Rites Held for Longworth I President and Mrs Hoover Family of Statesmen Officials Present at Simple Services in Cincinnati By FOSTER EATON CINCINNATI Ohio April 11 United Press Press Nicholas Nicholas Longworth son of Ohio servant of America and friend of or mankind was paid simple impressive final tribute here today by representatives from ro all wal walks s of life I The man who was born bom to wealth but ignored its temptations to de devote devote devote de- de vote life to public service was borne to a final resting testing place in Spring Grove cemetery this afternoon President and nd Mrs Herbert Hoover Hoo Hoo- vcr ver Vice President Curtis Curtis' Governor George White of Ohio a distinguished distinguished distin distin- representation from rein congress congress congress con con- gress members of the Ohio state government government gov gov- gov- gov county officials and arid friends Joined with relatives of the dead leader in funeral services at Christs Christ's church Thousands of mourners for the theman theman theman man widely known as just plain Nick beloved as few ew public public pub pub- lic lie life swelled tho the official funeral party which filled the Episcopal Christs Christ's church to overflowing long before the president and Mrs Hoover Hoover Hoo Hoo- ver vcr arrived for the services at p. p m. m Mrs Alice Roosevelt Longworth the nationally beloved belo Princess Alice of or her White courtship by the debonair young joung o n Longworth was comforted during the brief ceremonIes cere ceremonies cere- cere monies by the presence of other her mother moth moth- er Cr Mrs Theodore Roosevelt Sr by her brothers Archie and K Kermit Hermit I I Roosevelt by her sister Mrs Richard Rich Rich- aid ard Derby the former Ethel Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt and close Cincinnati friends of the Longworth family amil t tA A pathetic participant was little Continued on Pare Pace PaIt Two I ATTEND LONGWORTH RITES Continued from Pare Fire One Paulina Paulin Longworth year old daughter of ot tho the dead speaker of th the tho national house of representatives who did not learn of his passing a at Aiken S. S C. C Thursday until the body arrived at tho the Longworth mansion Rockwood early today Tho The casket casket cas CM- ket previously sealed was opened fo foa for fora a brief final view by relatives BISHOP OFFICIATES The Rt Et Rev Henry Wise Hobson Episcopal bishop coadjutor of ot the southern diocese of Ohio officiated d dat at the church and at the cemetery where tho the simple reading of the Episcopal funeral and burial services was augmented only by the rendition of music Handels Handel's Largo Mozart's l Ave Verum Adeste Haydn's Fideles and the hymn The Son of God Goes Goe Forth to toVar War Var were the musical se selections selections selections se- se chosen by tho the family o ot of Longworth who was an accomplished pianist violinist and cellist There here were no eulogies Nick Longworth's Long grave at Spring Grove Gro rests beneath the shadIng limbs of ot a giant oak tree covered with spreading ivy It Is near the center of ot the Longworth plot amid the elder members of ot an Illustrious family to whose name he lie brought brough added luster TRIBUTE SIMPLE The Tha extreme simplicity of ot the tribute trib ute paid here today was vas in keeping with the wishes of at Mrs Longworth who ho did not desire national honors to which her husband was entitled by virtue of his long and peculiarly distinguished dis dis- dis career careen The he formal In hi formality of at the lives of ot Nick and Alice Mice characterized the end o ot of Longworth's brilliant career Active pallbearers at the church and cemetery were Archie and Kermit Kermit Ker- Ker mit Roosevelt Buckner A. A Jr Landon Lan Lan- don L L. and Nicholas L. L nephews of Longworth Charles Charle Davis John Emery and Lucien Wul Wul- sin Cincinnati More than honorary hon hone pallbearers were vere designated Immediately after the burial service service serf ser ser ser- vice at the cemetery President and Mrs Hoover returned to their special specia train which train which awaited on a nearby siding siding and and began the return trip to Washington They had visited th the Longworth home on arrival leaving a floral tribute of Ivy holly and fern fem fernl three feet in hi diameter tied with green bronze ribbon from the horticultural horti horti- cultural department at Washington