Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1899-04-08
HoNoRS FOR THE DEAD.
The Nation to Pay Tribute to Her
Sons who Fell in the War
Presidents Orders.

Washington, April Arrangements
have been practically completed for the
funeral ceremonies on the occasion of
the reinterment in Arlington cemetery
at two o'clock Thursday afternoon of the
remains of about $50 soldiers and civil
ians who lost their lives either as re-
suit of wounds or disease in the cam
paign of Santiago and Porto Rico. The
ceremonies will be of the simplest char
ter, being confined to the commitment
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 MEM
ory of the patriot dead, and all the reg
ular troops in this vicinity, the District
national guard and a battalion of ma
rines will participate in the ceremonies
at the cemetery. Col. Francis L. Guen-
ther, of the Fourth artillery, will have
command of the military 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 from Jersey City to-day or to-mor-
row. The president and most of the
officials of the administration in the
city will attend the funeral services.
President Mckinley has issued the fol-
lowing executive order in connection
with the interments:
at 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 mas
much as in consonance with the spirit of
| our free institutions, and in obedience to
the most exalted promptings of patriot
| ism, 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 un-
| sought war with an alien foe was an in
| dividual type of that devotion of the citi-
zen 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 heroic dead of all ages. 1t was
| fitting 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 surviving
comrades and crowned with the love of a
| grateful nation.
THE remains of many brought to our
| shores have been delivered to their families
| for private burial. But for others of the
brave officers and men who perished there
has been reserved interment in ground sa-
cred to the soldiers and sailors amid the
tributes of military honor and national
mourning they have so well deserved.
| Il therefore order: That upon the ar
| rival of the cortege at the national ceme-
terry at Arlington all proper military and
naval honors be paid TO the dead heroes:
that suitable ceremonies shall attend their
| interment; that the customary salute of
| mourning be fired at the cemetery and
that on the same day at two o'clock p. m,
| Thursday, the sixth day of April the ma
| tional flag be displayed at half staff on
all public buildings, forts camps and pub
| lie vessels of the United States, and that
at u o'clock, noon, of said day all the de-
| partments of the government at Washing.
| ton shall be closed.
| WILLIAM M'KINLEY.
| Executive Mansion. April 8. 1S99.'