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Show (BOIES PENROSE BURIED WITH GREAT SECRECY PLACE GUARDS AT GRAVEYARD ; FOR FUNERAL Hearse Appears Out of Darknes at Signal From Solon's Home REPORTERS WARNED Great Men Go to Philadelphia; Philadel-phia; Not One Invited to Last Rites PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 5 The funeral fu-neral of Senator Boies Penrose was j he-Id this morning 'The same great I secrecy lhat surrounded ihe making ; of arrangements for the tuner?.! was maintained until the body of the po-I po-I liiical leader was lowered into the j brick lined grne in South Laurel Hill cemetery fTp information was forth I coming whether there wero any re-i re-i llglous services at the house cr at I ihe cemetery. Newspaper reporters 'were not admitted to ihe burial grounds. The fact that the body of the Sena for would be buried today became known late yesterday when the bu-j bu-j reau of vital statistics issued a permit for interment for January 5 or there after. The immediate ramily of tin senator who was a bachelor, consists of three brothers No information was given out regarding ihe- funeral beyond the brlei obituary notice that lb" fn neral be strictly private. REPORTERS ON WATCH. Newspaper men regard the burial of a United States senator who had figured so largely in political history of the country as an important piece; of news, set a watch on practically j ihe same plan as death watches are: set on promhiem persons who are be lieved to be dying A report t hi t Sen 1 ator Penrose's father was buried years; ago at midnight in order to avoid un : due publicity, made the vigil of re-! porters almost an all-night affair HEARSE APPEARS. About 7:30 a .m. today the three brothers, Charles B.. Richard and; Spencer, arrived at the Spruce street home where the- senator's body lay and where he was born. Four automobiles parked a short distance from the house about the aame time. A little later! Charles Penrose, who is a physician I and had attended Ills brother, came ; out on the front step and waved his arm, and seemingh from nowhere a hearse approached tlie house. A few! minute's Inter the body of the senator was brought out and the hearse fol-j lowed by the lour automobiles, sup ! posedly containing the families of thej three brothers, started for the ceme tl rx . CEMETERY GUARDED. Reporters who were on watch at the cemetery yesterday were not ad-mitted ad-mitted today and the newspapermen' who followed the funeral party through a steady rain ro the last u st-ing st-ing place of the dead senator, were 1 warned thai if they entered the ceme ' tery n would be at their own peril Guards were stationed all around the place The funeral party was in the' cemetery about 15 minutes and left before 0 a. m. Thus was enacted the final scene in (t onUnucd n Page Two I PLACE GUARDS AT GRAVEYARD FOR FUNERAL (Continued from Toge Oue) the career of a man who could hare had one of the largest funerals in the history of the city. Political loaders from every county in the state camel to Philadelphia within the last few I days to do honor to the dead chieftain . and not one was invited to the bach elor homo of the senator where man;, political conferences have been held. Questions had been asked why the family desired secrecy in the burial of Senator Penrose and the answer of close political friends was that Penrose Pen-rose hated pomp and ceremony and that it probably was his wih that ho be buno-d simply and with as llttlo commotion as possible, it Is said to' have been a tradition in the Penrose family, which is one or the oldest In I the city, that all funerals of members ' bo atrlctlv private. I |