All business in Lake Placid closed during the services.

Rev. W.G. Clinton, pastor of the Coconut Grove Methodist Church, officiated and delivered a simple eulogy to the greatness of the man, taking as his text, "Carry on and Be Glad." Rev. R. E. Huey, pastor of the Presbyterian Church, gave the invocation and pronounced the benediction. An octet from the Sebring Choral Society sang the hymns of faith, which he had often heard them sing at the club.

The remains were taken to Orlando Tuesday afternoon for cremation, after which they will be sent north to the chapel of the Lake Placid Club, where rest the remains of his first wife.

The honorary and active casket bearers were: Dean Alvord, of Clearwater; Walter F. Coachman, Lake Placid; Grosvenor Dawe, Lake Wales; Dr. George J. Fisher, chief deputy of the Boy Scouts of America, New York City; O.F. Gardner, Lake Placid; W.J. Kelley, Jacksonville; R.A. McCranie, representing Lyman Delano, chairman of the board of the Atlantic Coast Line railroad company; O.C. Parrish, chairman of the county commissioners, Lake Placid; J.E. Sims, Lake Placid city manager; E. C. Stuart, Bartow; Herbert Trurrell, West Orange, N.J. and Prof. W.F. Yust, Winter Park, representing the American Library Association.

Dr. Melvil Dewey, who founded the Lake Placid Club, South, and located it here several years ago, also founder of the parent Lake Placid Club, in the Adirondacks, and a noted educator, died at 10:15 Saturday morning at Little Loj at Lake Placid. He was stricken about 6:30 a.m. while talking to his wife.

Dr. Dewey aroused earlier than usual, Mrs. Dewey stated, and called her. They were discussing club matters when his talk suddenly became unintelligible. This was followed by loss of consciousness. Dr. A. Te. Eide was called, but Dr. Dewey never fully regained consciousness. He aroused a bit about 8:30 o’clock, but his left side was completely paralyzed, and shortly afterward Dr. Dewey began sinking into the last sleep. The end came without a tremor, peacefully, just as he had often expressed a desire to go.

Melvil Dewey was born in Adams Center, N.Y., Dec. 10, 1851, and celebrated his eightieth birthday 16 days ago when librarians and others with whom he had been associated in past years sent messages from their stations in all parts of the world to honor the arrival of the day of four score years.

He was graduated from Amherst in 1874 and took his master’s degree three years later. Then followed a life full of activity through a wide range of subjects. While at Amherst he conceived his idea for the decimal classification system for indexing libraries-a system which has revolutionized the library indexing systems of the world.

He founded Lake Placid Club, in Essex county, N.Y., in the Adirondacks, in 1895, from which has grown the Lake Placid Club, South in Highlands county, Florida, which he founded four years ago.

An ardent exponent of phonetic or simplified spelling and the metric system, he has never abated his interest in these directions regardless of his numerous activities. To his last days his correspondence was written in simplified spelling. From a position as acting librarian at Amherst 1873-76 his activities brought him into the front ranks of library authorities, and eventually he became one of the outstanding figures in the library and educational world. He founded the Library Journal and edited it for 1876-1. He founded the New York state school for librarians and lived to see it become an outstanding institution after Columbia practically kicked it out because the doctor insisted on accepting girls and women as students.

He was awarded a gold medal at the World’s Fair at St. Louis in 1904 and also received a gold medal at the Paris Exposition. In 1900 in honor of his distinguished services not only as a librarian, but as an educator whose administration during the period of reorganization of the University of the State of New York, 1889-99, produced such advances in both secondary and higher education.

He founded the American Metric Bureau and spelling reform association and was secretary until his death. He founded the American Library Association in 1876 and later served as secretary, treasurer, and president.

He founded and was first president of the New York City Library Club.

One of his outstanding contributions to education came with his originating the traveling library idea.

He founded the New York State University extension system, Association of State Librarians, and American Library Institute, the Albany (N.Y.) Civic League and the Adirondack Civic League, serving all of these organizations at various times as president and in other capacities.

Following his work at Amherst, he was consulting librarian at Wellesley College and later became chief librarian and professor of library economy at Columbia University. He later became executive officer, secretary, and treasurer of the University of the State of New York. He founded the New York State Library School while at Columbia, the first school in the world for training librarians.