Show I LAST T RITES l I n V l I. I SIMPLE I Colonel Roosevelt to toBe Be I Laid at Rest Near Old I Home After Services in Ii Quaint Village Church I By Associated Press iress ress PARIS Jan 7 President President Wilson Wil Wil- son is signing a proclamation closing government offices on n the day of the funeral of Colonel Roosevelt and ordering that that the thel American flag be l half alf m mated masted sted wherever it floats a around tn the world By t Associated Press Preas ti tiO P POYSTER BAY J Jan Jin n. n 7 O OYSTER the flags of Oyster Bay drooped at half mast and it its citizens in deep mourning over ove the death of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt arrangements for the unostentatious unostentatious unos unos- funeral services here to- to o morrow were being perfected by memI members mem- mem mem mem- bers hers of the family High in the theair air I over Sagamore Hill army airplanes I from Hazelhurst field maintained maintained 9 ceaseless vigil occasionally swooping g toward the north to drop a a- a wreath Jd laurel among the tha elms near the m man elon alon SPARTAN SIMPLICITY ir irIn In accordance with the wishes of tf former president as expressed to Mrs Irs Roosevelt obsequies will be e beof of ot almost Spartan simplicity First there will b bg prayer service tomorrow at the house houe attended only by relatives At 1245 1241 o'clock the Protestant Episcopal service ser ser ser- vice vico for the ther dead will m b be read in Christ Chris Christchurch Christchurch church by the rector the Rev Hev George Georg E. E Talmadge There will willbe be no music musi no eulogy no honorary 1 pallbearers Mrs Roosevelt has requested that flowers be sent Present and fo folE for of or th the tho Roosevelt estate estal o estat-o ably ably- will carry the coffin IN GODS GOD'S ACRE f Burial will be in Youn Youngs lri wl rl ill cemetery the cemetery the God Gods acre ci of i f Youngs Young's farm tarm Colonel Roos frel V I lL I lb ills among the tho fir trees treCEr on the C e a a knoll overlooking Oyster Bay cove cove- a u. beautiful spot selected soon aft l' l he he- left the White WhiteHouse House The Ti cent come come- tery was established as a a. family apt 11 Place by an old Long Island YI DIffY rr n nearly arly two centuries ago The cornet o will be the first of the tile Roosevelt l t be buried burled in the family plot 1 2 H HE HI WAS VESTRYMAN v Tho The quaint church where the hc sr r- r vices will be held has seating accommodations for only Admission Admission Ad Ad Admission mission will be by At the tue church which recently celebrated t d' d it HI its two hundredth an anniversary Isa r tablet bearing bearing- Uie names of the vestrymen vestry vestry- men which In ud s that of ot Theodore Roosevelt pre president predent dent of the tile x United States tI tc Two 1 pages of ot foolscap fools hung In m cases on the tile walls f alls alis carry th the names ot young of-young young men o 0 o othe i the tile church who PuI en entered the tha service serice for the war art Th Tb S l b. b ti COLONEL FUNERAL TO BE SPARTAN IN SIMPLICITY Body to Rest in Gods Acre Near Roosevelt Estate Continued from page 1 names of ot Colonel Roosevelt's sons head the list f V While the president ex-president regularly at attended attended attended at- at tended services at Christ Christchurch church when in Oyster Bay he was at it the time Ume of ot othis his death a member of the Collegiate Reformed Church of ot St. St Nicholas New NewYork NewYork NewYork York City Mrs Roosevelt is an Episcopalian Episcopalian Epis Epis- cop lIan and and as as there is ho Dutch Reformed Reformed Reformed Re Re- formed church In this town the colonel attended divine worship at old Christ Christchurch church CHILDREN ARRIVE Captain and Mrs Archibald Roosevelt Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- velt Congressman and Mrs Nicholas Longworth and Mrs Theodore Roo Roosevelt Roosevelt Roose Roose- evelt e- e velt Jr arrived at Sagamore lull Hill last night The colonels colonel's other sons sons sons-Ker- Kermit Ker- Ker mit and Theodore Jr are still in Eu Eu- rope Mrs Richard Derby who was Ethel Roosevelt now the wife of Major Richard Richard Richard Rich Rich- ard Derby of the medical corps U. U S. S A A. is expected to arrive In Oyster Bay today with her two children from Aiken Alken Aik- Aik en S. S C C. where she has been sojourning sojourn sojourn- ing The major Is In France The flood of telegrams oJ jf f condolence from all parts of ot the world continued I today |