San Francisco Call, Volume 113, Number 167, 16 May 1913 — JOAQUIN MILLERS ASHES FROM PYRE [ARTICLE]

JOAQUIN MILLERS ASHES FROM PYRE

Bohemian Club to Scatter Mortal Remains of Poet to Winds May 25

Friends Will Observe Last Request of Picturesque California Writer

J ft ' From the funeral pyre which "Joaquin' J Miller built on his estate. The" Hights,' ! Oakland, the ashes of the poet of: the • Sierras will be scattered to the winds | from the bay by members of the Boj hemian club May El. ;, The; exercises, j .which will be conducted under charge jof ; the Bohemian Hub, of , which club ! Miller was ant honored ft member, will :be open to those who wish ft .to*} pay ' homage to the memory ;of the picturesque California writer. f This exercise' ! will be in fulfillment of the last wishes' iof the poet. ' . *~ - ■ ft The exercises,3: which will begin at j 2:30 o'clock In . the; afternoonv will Include the reading of. a poem approj priate to the ceremony written by Miss j Ina ;D. j.Coolbrlth i and read \ by • Richard' ! Hotallng: a critical address by William ' Dallam ;-•; Armes. professor of English i literature, -University of' California; an ; •address :by John Muir, the -writer 3* and j naturalist;: a eulogy, by: Colonel .John P. , Irish,':close: friend of j the poet, and'two ; choruses,, sung by members of the Bo- | hemian club—Joaquin' Miller's poem in | commemoration of * Bret -Harte's ; death? | "Goodby and** Good-Night.''* set to music j by Wallace A. Sabin. and Robert Louis l Stevenson's "The 1 Requiem," composed jby Dr. H. J. Stewart. .3 ft % Hiss Coolbrith is an honorary mem- | ber of 1 the: Bohemian-club and a friend lof the dead poet from the early days | of California/and she will take, part'in I the exercises. ftv-'ft ft Final 3 preparations were made for I the ceremonies' at*, then Bohemian club: I yesterday. "The; commit tee in charge of the 'arrangements consists 3of -Rudolph i J,' Taussig, chairman:J Judge Henry .1. j -Melvin,- William Dallam Armes,.George , Sterling and ..Walter A. .Leimart. 3ft 3:' ;ft : Before* his death 3 Miller desired f that j his body be " cremated -on top, of his I funeral pyre under the direction of the' j Bohemian ..club,;, but as that plan was i impossible, owing to modern health j regulations obtaining in Oakland, the club "decided: that the ashes of the dead; j poet should be taken from ; - the ; crcmaI tory and scattered from the pyre. . Attorney* tor i Dr., Arthur Kt> is ruler, ! accused of having secured - all the i property; of - Mrs. , Nina Holds wort hft, a' ! ! widow, by giving her opiates and ! working on her mind with a "magic . wand," asked for a r continuance "Tun til ! Tuesday 3 after two'witnesses 3 had been examined, yesterday 3 afternoon.- before i Police Judge Crist. , i