The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1899-04-04
HONORS TO THE
PATRIOT DEAD
Military Burial Of the
Troops Who Fell.
PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION
ORDERS DISPLAY OF OLD GLORY
THROUGHOUT THE NATION.
Full Military Honors to Be Accorded
During the Burial of the Bodies
From the West
Indies.
PRESIDENTS PROCLAMATION
ORDERS DISPLAY OF OLD GLORY
THROUGHOUT THE NATION.
Special Dispatch to Tn. Call.

WASHINGTON, April 3.-Arrange-
ments have been practically completed
for the funeral services on the occasion
of the refinement in the Arlington
Cemetery at o'clock Thursday after
noon of the remains of about $50 SOL
diers and civilians who lost their lives
as a result Of wounds or disease in the
campaigns of Santiago and Porto Rico.
The services will be of the simplest
character, being confined to the COM
mttment service conducted by Post
Chaplain Charles w. Freeland, who has
been summoned here from the military
post at Fort Monroe for that purpose.
Full military honors will be paid the
memory of the patriotic dead and all
regular troops in this vicinity, the Dis
trict National Guard and a battalion of
marines will participate in the cere-
mony at the cemetery. Colonel Francis
L. Guenther of the Fourth Artillery
will have command Of the military es-
cort exercises.
The remains Of $50 Of the heroes of
the war have already been deposited in
tents near the spot selected for their
interment, and it is expected that the
remaining 200 bodies will be brought on
day.
The President and most of the Off
Gals of the administration in this city
Will attend the funeral services. Presi-
dent Mckinley to-day issued the fol-
lowing executive order in connection
with the intermentS:
1t is fitting that in behalf of the nation
tributes of honor be paid to the memories
of the noble men who lost their lives in
their country's service during the late
war with Spain. 1t is the more fitting,
inaSmuCh as in conSonance with the spirit
or our free institutions and in obedience
to the most exalted promptings of pat
riotism, those who were sent to other
shores to do battle for their country's
honor under their country's flag went
freely from every quarter of our beloved
land. Each soldier, each sailor parting
from home ties and putting behind him
private interests in the presence of the
stern emergency of unsought war with
an alien foe, was an individual type of
devotion of the citizen to the state which
makes our nation strong in unity and in
action.
Those who died in another land left in
many homes the undying memories that
attend the heroes of all ages. 1t was fit
ting that with the advent of peace, won
by their sacrifice, their bodies should be
gathered with tender care and restored
to home and kindred. This has been
done with the dead of Cuba and Porto
Rico. Those of the Philippines still rest
where they fell, watched over by their
love of a grateful nation.
The remains of many brought to our
shores have been delivered to their fami-
lies for private burial. But for others of
the brave officers and men who persisted
there has been reserved interment in
grounds sacred to the soldiers and sailors
among the tributes of military honor and
national mourning they have SO well de-
served
I therefore order: That upon the arri-
val of the cortege at the National Gene
terry at Arlington all proper military and
naval honors be paid to the dead heroes;
that suitable ceremonies shall attend
lutte of mourning be fired at the cemetery
and that on the same day at o'clock,
Thursday, the 9Th day of April, the ma
tional flag be displayed at half-mast on
all public buildings, forts, camps and
public vessels of the United States and
the departments of the Government at
Washington shall be closed.
WILLIAM MCKINLEY,
Executive Mansion. April 8, 1899.
In the same connection Acting Sec
rotary of War Meiklejohn issued this
order:
The remains Of officers and soldiers who
lost their lives in the war with Spain
during the operations in Cuba and Porto
Rico will be inferred with due and fitting
ceremonies in the National Cemetery at
Arlington, Va, on Thursday, April 6, at
2 p. m.
By direction of the President all of the
United States troops serving in the vicin-
tional Guard of the District of Columbia.
will be assembled at Arlington on the
date in question to participate in the fun
eral ceremonies.