LATE MR ROOSEVELT.

Press, Volume LV, Issue 16418, 11 January 1919, Page 9

LATE MR ROOSEVELT.

. ft A SIMPLE FUNERAL. (By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Cable (Received January 11th, 1.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, January 8. Government activities have ceased throughout the United States in memory of the late Mr Roosevelt. Flags will be flown at half-mast for the next thirty days. Congressional. Committees attended the funeral, which waß a simple one. The. interment took place • at the Oyster Bay Cemetery in a little private churchyard belonging to a former colonial family. • The service at the church where Mr Roosevelt was formerly a churchwarden, was attended only by members of the family and a few ticket-holders. The Vice-Presi-dent, Mr T. R. Marshall, represented President Wilson. The first service was held at the deceased's late home at Sagamore Hill, after which the re- . m.ain» were taken to the church, where the episcopal service was read. The mourners included a delegation of Rough-Riders, commanded by Mr Roosevelt in the Spanish-American war. A movement has been started for a national memorial to Mr Roosevelt at Oyster Bay. A heavy snowstorm occurred during , the funeral, with sleet ■ and dark ; clouds over the neighbourhood.