Nation's Flags at Half-Mast For Theodore Roosevelt '80

Ex-President Theodore Roosevelt '80 was buried in Young's Memorial Cemetery, Oyster Bay, yesterday afternoon. The flags of the nation were at half-mast in solemn remembrance of his loss as several hundred close friends gathered in the little Episcopal Church shortly after noon for the final service.

Among those who attended the ceremony were representatives of the Harvard Club of New York, about 40 Congressmen, former President William Howard Taft, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge '71, former Justice Charles Evens Hughes, General Peyton C. March, and a delegation of Rough Riders who served under Roosevelt in the Spanish-American War. There was no music and no eulogy. The only departure from the ritual was the reciting by the rector of Colonel Roosevelt's favorite hymn: "How Firm a Foundation." During the day Army airplanes hovered over the grounds of the Roosevelt home.