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Show UNVEIL TABLET I FOR BURROUGHS I Homestead Farm of Nat- Bp uralist Becomes Nation- K al Memorial Bp-. ROXBURT. N. T . April 4. The filf homestead farm In the Catskille. 'WSOlfr where John Burroughs was born, lived HESS? and is buried. Monday became a na- jjgjSff tlonal memorial to him In a simple Rfv Ceremony attended by several hundred Wbf of those who knew the naturalist iM&j: Trudging tho snow-covered moun- Pfc- tninslde came villagers from all alona jBfe. tho valley and othera from various MfcSr parts. of the state. They assembled fPP1! around the rustic fence that guards the Kr. last resting place of the naturalist and H&- the "boyhood rock" that is his tomb- HBr$ stone Poems hy Burroughs, by hi.- fBBSf friend. Wall Whitman, and others who wBtoi wrote of nature's wonders were read. bjshPs? Then his grandchildren, I'rsula nnd John Burroughs, unveiled a bronze BiMr memorial tablet, imbedded In the Kti "boyhood rock.' The tnb'eL the work HeTv of C. S. Pauln of New York, is a baa- RfcK relief copy of thnt sculptor's ' Summit sB of the Years '" picturing tho naturalist LB?U' seated upon the 'boyhood rock" and BSfe': looking Into the distance, one hand WsP. shnding his eyes. It bears these 'wo HRY lines from Burroughs' poem, ' Wander- K Ing H "I ."t;md amid 1 he- ct.-rn.il wnyfl Ef', And what Is mine shall know my When the cereinony came to a eios H wild flowers gathered from the fields and the hills of states near by and as distant as California were placed 'upon tho grave. There were Junipers, H plucked from the rc-itlng place of Walt Whitman at Camden. N J.. nnd flow-crs flow-crs grown beside the cottage at La-Jolla. La-Jolla. Calif , where Burroughs lived a Mr ago Ju3t before starting toward B jhomc a trip In the midst of which I Other floral tokens came from llienry Ford, who recently bought the H I Burroughs farm that it might be pre- served as a memorial, and from B Thopuu . Bdtpon, the manufacturer fBVJ anrl the Inventor, for many years va- fBVJ I cation comrades of the naturalist. Bl expected to attend the ceremonies Ely'. ' I but were unable to do so. |