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It was more ornate at that time than you would think so now because there weren't so many of them. It was the place where Rudolph Valentino was laid out. It was very elaborate - so out of keeping with the simple miner who had grown up and had told me his life story up at Skaneateles. He was laid out with all of the equipment that a Roman Catholic burial is surrounded with - the rosary in his hand and so forth. I remember saying to his secretary, “I never knew that John Mitchell was a Roman Catholic.”

She said to me, “He was received just the day before he died. Mrs. Mitchell wanted it.”

That was that. We all went to pay our respects. His body arrived there at a certain hour of the afternoon and we went to pay our respects. He was going to be taken to Scranton for burial. We paid our respects. We sat down to meditate a while. The room filled up with trade unionists, people from the department and everything else. We were all there. It's a slightly awkward operation anyhow. There's no pattern for it, no ceremonial for it. The undertaker seems to unctuously hover over the gathering. While we were all there, in by a back door, led by the undertaker with two or three black suited assistants, comes Mrs. Mitchell and her three or four children. Mrs. Mitchell takes this occasion to have about the loudest set of hysterics I ever heard in my