Show MARK ARK TWAIN BURIED AS il H f HAD J I With Utmost Simplicity Funeral For Late American Humorist Held at Elmira I 1 1 I PLAIN CASKET LOWERED AT SIDE OF WIFE Great as 1 Washington Simple Trl Tn j bute of Neighboring Farmer F as a f Coach Passes Through Village NE April 23 Tho body ho v oC of o Mark Twain hogan began today toda Its last lant I journey journo fro sunny chamber I there re It had lain In to lo lothe toI I the spot In Gods acre whore where It ii will willI I rest at last besides those whom loved long since and lost a while I services were said In the tho theold old brick Presbyterian church at Fifth avenue and UI street this t I city by br Dr Henry A A Vandyke I sor Eor or of or English literature at Princeton university this afternoon The prayer was waR pronounced by b Dr Joseph Josoph H II of Hartford Conn Mark Twains old friend and Early tomorrow morning tho tIme body will leave heave for Elmira Dyer oror the tho Lack i r railroad I In accordance ac with the wishes of oi family tho the services today torIa were wco brief and simple The only music was waa W 3 an organ prelude tho Death of Ase AM AMby by Grieg There was a modest dis dIg display display play of white lilies lilies of oC the val vallo vallo valby lo by white and an red roses rosc orchids orchid and sweet peas about the coffin Those Thoo I who wishes were permitted to view the features Invitation was as hi III car can card limit but nt the friends and the tho family lad I been seated the church was well welt filled by the time general public In all nil the tho services took but half ImIr an hour hourIn In his address Dr DI Van ran Dyke Dlce said in part purt This Is not nol the place nor the Limo Hmo far furn tia th the honored and amid respected r American Jm Here tere we are arc all of or su u simply hu ha human haman man mau The touch of grief IB lEI upon us We think of Mark Twain not ns CIS the celebrity ec but tho tIme man whom wo we know and un loved Tribute Is Those who know his iris work as a a I whole know that under the lambent and humor which was Ills gift there was a n foundation of ise de thought and noble affections and desires The mark of his hla higher hu ha humor mor maor is that It does doea not laugh at the ilia weak the thc helpless the true the In Innocent Innocent innocent only oni at tho false time the th preten pretentious pretentious pretentious the vain the hypocritical Mark Twain laughed lau at many man of time the worlds false falso claimants out of or court mind and entangled many of or tho the world false fals witnesses In the net not of or orri ri Ho He touched tho Continued d on Pago Two MARK TWAIN BURIED i iI 1 I I AS A HE HAD LIVED i Continued from Page Jage age One Onet I I f of or life with no mockery and andI I made us feel teel somehow tho the infinite In fin He l j i of or lifes lites realities No one on can i say hay that he ho ever cel failed to reverence I tho the purity the frank Joyful joul genuine nature of little children of whom has hns said Of such Is the tho king kingdom kingdom dom of oJ Heaven haven havenA A hearse bearse among the green breen lanes of spring is a sad sd thing to see sec and andas andi I as nc those thoe waiting at Redding station i Ii t i today saw the white while horses and the I J I black van an now no and aUll again between n tho the thol l II pencilled tracery tracer of the willows there thero therel V l rose r o tho the memory of how the same I hearse had last wended the same r I winding road from the tho same samo house honse c t i i on Christmas night Jean Clemens ClemensI I 1 had died on Christmas eve ere 0 while her hor herI I 1 I Christmas tree stood In the living l ij room nt fully full garnished and untouched I N Her body hodr was sent Bent to Elmira on onu u j l Christmas night That was Mark MarkI l f I Twains lost last t Christmas V I No news of or the death bad had reached I HI t the few tew scattered houses that are nrc In tn inV I M V Redding That Christmas night was wu f t furiously stormy and tho the snow sno flakes is P 11 drove droe like shot The first Olst intimation j tiro tho village had hod of J Jean an Clemens death f i was when a tardy tard passenger opening I suddenly sudden I the door of ot Redding station found himself confronted with four fourt IB J tall silent men In black struggling t i aJ in tho the sno a coffin It was on oni fl i this night that the newspapers heard beard that Mark Twain was dying and sent him telegrams of ot inquiry f Prominent an UI Washington i 1 I hear he wrote In reply that l II I the newspapers say sa I am dying I It t would not do such a thins thing at my time lime I n NI 1 of life I am behaving beb myself as well as ns I r can Merry Christmas to oren every body Tho storms beat heat upon the Ule laughter daughter as a the sun shone today on the father Tho Th hearse plodded through h the tho lanes after It followed Albert Bige Bigelow low Paine the cherished friend and antL ant biographer with Jarvis Langdon the favorite nephew and in a closed carriage car carriage at the rear the only living daugh daughter ter Clara and aud her husband Ossip Claude Claudo the tho faithful butler and old Katie Leary tho the house on the front sent seat There was Wag no procession proc of mourning neighbors no demonstration along tho way wa The rosewood coffin stood upon a baggage o truck On Ou the cover COCI was WIS a aliver liver Ilver plate plato Inscribed ed Samuel Lang Lan Lanhorn horns horn Clemens Mark Twain 1910 IHO Above A 1100 the plate platt lay la a wreath of or mountain laurel emblem of Immor Immortality picked from tho the tamarack hills Dan Beard hl hi Ms old friend and neighbor who Illustrated many of his hie looks hooks had stumbled over the rocks and nod roots loots In the dark to pluck them thom the night before and had sat But up Into the small hours to weave them with his bis own hands The Thc train began to draw out of the station and as it gathered way a farmer on the platform said Bald soberly There roes goes ues a man nian tho the country knew as well as s George Washington |