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FUNERAL.
Unusual l1onors to an
Officer of Junior
Rank.
The Annapolis Chronicle of April 20,

i The interrlent Of the bodies of the two
| Young nidshipnlen. Ward and Neunann,
/ who were killed in the explosion aboard
the battIeship Missouri off Pensacola
last Tuesday, will be held in the Naval
i Academy Cemetery at 4 go o'clock this
/ afternoon and will be attended by all
the mournful porlp of military funeral.
II The Academy brigade OF midshipmen
in full dress and under command of
Lieutenant Commander Fullam, was
II marched TO the West Street Station at
i 20 and drawn up in a hollow square
facing the entrance to the tralnshed.
II The special funeral train, composed of
/ a Pullman and baggage car, was pick
ed up at Odenton by A. w. & B. Engine
II No. &. Engineer Colburn at the throttle,
and Conductor McGinnis in charge. The
special was brought down from Phila-
II delphia attached to the rear OF train No.
~, over the Pennsylvania Railroad.
The officers OF the Academy had or
i ders TO be present at the station in full
dress. Captain Halsey and Lieutenant
| Huse were there early and the other
4 officers came in slowly. Several class
mates Of the two dead rnidshipmen were
waiting. Captain ]. NJ. Robinson, U. S.
i A., a friend OF the Neumanns, was in
/ the crowd. A distinguished visitor was
/ Captain D'Chear, of the Royal Navy,
/ who came from Washington to repre-
i sent the British Admiralty. Mrs.
/ Cowles, wife of Captain William S.
/ Cowles. commander of the Missouri,
waited with the others Mrs. Cowles IS
a sister of the President
1t is unusual for foreign country to
/ be represented at funeral of the rank
! of this one That Great Britain should
! send a captain TO be present at the bur-
/ ial of two midshipnen OF the United
/ States Navy is considered not only an
! extra expression of friendship for this
/ country. but a distinguished honor for
| the two dead boys.
Mrs. Cowles IS here only privately,
| but If, way represents the old COM
rnander of the dead and her brother,
too, as an individual
1t was marked by many in the crowd
| that waited around the station that this
funeral was. especially sad in view OF
i the fact that the two who started out
i on their career from one side of the
i creek should return at its end to rest on
Il the other side so soon. Not for many
a day has larger funeral been held in
n Annapolis, and seldom, if ever before.
Il have officers of the rank of Ward and
Neurllann been so honored.
II By the time the train was due at the
II West Street Station, about 4 O'Clock,
the streets surrounding the station were
packed with a mass OF people, nearly
all of whom had known the young Of
ficers during their four years course
at the Naval Academy AS the caskets,
draDed with the Stars and Stripes, are.
borne to the hearses by the seanen APP
pointed from the ships off the Naval
Academy as body bearers every head
will uncover and the brigade present
arms.
As the bodies are placed in the
hearses the following midshipmen will
take their stand beside them as honor
airy pallbearers: BY the vehicle con-
tanning the remains of Midshipman
Ward, Midshipmen Canaga, Court,
Howard, Ellyson, Liggett and Self
redge; on either side of the other hearse
will be Midshpnen Whiting, Pegran,
Eberle, Strassbrrger, Atkins and Cook.
The cortege led by the Naval Acad-
! envy Band playing the funeral march,
and with the brigade of mid shipmen
followed by detachment Of seamen,
: will proceed down West street to Col
lege avenue and King George street.
From King George street the band will
lead the way through the Oklahoma
gate and thence around the athletic
field to the cemetery.
ii AS the funeral cortege enters the Gov
eminent inclosure the flag on the lower
parade ground, which had remained top
masted all morning, will be dropped to
half-rnast, where it will remain during
the services at the graves.
Upon entering the cemetery the bril-
gade will be again formed in a square
surrounding the last resting place of
the two officers. The unusually strong
ties binding the two young fellows in
/ friendship so close that it was known
even by the Secretary of the Navy will
not be broken even in death.
After the services have been read over
the body of Ward by Chaplain Clark, of
the Naval Academy, and Rev. Father
Kautz, Of ST Mary's Catholic Church,
has conducted the last rites over Mid
shipnan Neumann, the bodies will be
} committed to the ground. As the cask-
cts are lowered into one grave, which
had been lined with evergreens, the
whole brigade will present arms.
FROM PRIVATE SOURCES.
Mr.. w. o. Smith has furnished us
with extracts from letter written by
Mr.. A. Gartley. telling of the death and
funeral OF Ned Neumann. Mr.. Gart1ey
I went from Washington to Annapolis to
attend the funeral and assist his friends.
! He writes:
The funeral was to have been held
/ on Saturday at Annapolis, but com
plication ensued which delayed the flu
J neral until Wednesday of this week.
( Ned had dear ciass-mate by the name
of Tom Ward, son of General Ward
OF the Army During the whole career
these boys were inseparable and when
they went to sea were assigned TO duty
together on the Missouri Ned was en-
gagged to Wards sister and they were
devoted sweethearts. The accident
on the Missouri resulted in the death
of both. General Ward lived in Oswe-
go, New York, and it was his wish and
| the wish of his daughter fhat tie -