Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1908 — BURIAL OF CLEVELAND [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

BURIAL OF CLEVELAND

There Will Be No Dirge Played and No Eulogy Spoken Over His Remains. TROOPS WILL BE ON GUARD But They Will Be There Only to Keep Order. Four Clergymen to Take Part In the Services—Names of the Men Who Will Be Casket Bearers. Princeton, N. J., June 26. —The funeral of Grover Cleveland today will be marked by extreme simplicity. AU though twice elected president of the United States, no pomp or splendoi will have a place in the ceremonies. There will be no bands to play mournful dirges on the way to the old Princeton cemetery; no military escort, no eulogy by the officiating clergymen. The half mile of thoroughfare through

which the cortege will pass from ■ “Westland,” the Cleveland home ou Bayard Lane, to the cemetery, will be policed by mounted troops and bluecoated soldiers, but they will be there for police duty and as a measure of precaution in protecting the living president, rather than as an element Of display in paying tribute to a departed chief executive. Four Clergymen to Officiate. It has Iwen Mrs. Cleveland’s wish to avoid anything of a military nature at the funeral, and it was only when the necessity of guarding President Roose velt. who Is to be in attendance, was borne upon her by those in charge of the funerdl arrangements that she consented to the presence of troops in a police capacity, Four clergymen will officiate at the house and at the grave. They will read the burial service from the Presbyterian Book of Common Worship, but will eulogy. This simple but impressive service will be conducted by Dr. Henry Van Dyke, of Princeton; Rev. Dr. William R. Richards, pastor of the Brick Presbyteriap church of New York: Rev. Sylvester W. Beach, pastor of the First Presbyterian church, of Princeton, where the Cleveland family attends, and Rev. Maitland V. Bartlett, ex-pastor of the same church. < Men Who Will Bear the Body. There will be no honorary pall-bear-ers. Those who will bear Cleveland’s body to its final resting place in the Cleveland plot will be: Mayor Georg«> B. McClellan. Paul Morton, Commodore E. C. Benedict, Richard Watson Gilder, Professor Paul Van Dyke. Dean Andrew F. West, Professor John G. Hibben, Junius S. Morman, (nephew of J. Pierpont Morgan), A. D. Russell. Professor Howard MoLenahan and Bayard Stockton, of Princeton. Few to Enter Cemetery. The services at the house, which will begin at 5 p. m., today, will be brief, after which the cortege will be formed and proceed to the cemetery. Only those invited to the funeral and a few newspaper men will be permitted to enter the cemetery, which will b" guarded by mounted troops and members of the National Guard of New Jersey. The simple Presbyterian service will be said at the grave, the casket lowered into the ground and one of the country’s most distinguished citizens will have become but a memory.

MRS. CLEVELAND.