Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-07-24
Body of Americas First and Foremost Naval
Officer Now Rests in the Naval Academy.
VAST THR0NG WITNESSED CEREMONIES THIS NOR
Service by Chaplain H. H. Clark Was Short and
Simple---Cortege Was Commanded by
Admiral Sigsbee--VolIey and Taps.
FRENCH SAILORS AS ESCORT MADE EXCELLENT IMPRESSION

| BY foreign hands thy decent Limbs
composed,
BY foreign hands thy humble grave
adorn'd
BY strangers honour'd and by
strangers mourn'd.
Pope.
With simple military ceremonies
| which were witnessed. however, by
one of the largest crowds gathered al
the institution for years, the remains OF
Americas first and perhaps greatest
admiral was this morning received al
the Naval Academy and placed in the
temporary vault facing Blake Row.
| The ceremonies, which began prompt
| ly at 10 O'Clock and occupied scarcely
| half an hour, were marked by unusual
simplicity, the intention of the naval
authorities being to have nothing to-
day which would detract from the
greater display when the body of the
famous sailor is finally placed in its
permanent resting place in the new
| chapel crypt.
Long before the time for the receipt
of the sacred dust every available blue
jacket and marine from the fleet of
| battle ships and cruisers were sent
ashore. These, with their officers and
| the squad of sailors and officers from
| the Jurien de la Grayiere. of the
French navy, were formed facing the
ships basin in the rear of the tennis
courts and athletic field. In the center
| of this line and moored TO the sea wall
was the specially constructed and can
opied float where the body first rested
after leaving the u. S. s. Brooklyn
| bound for American soil
The last officer to reach shore before
the arrival of the government tug
Standish, on which the body was
transported from the Brooklyn. was
Rear Admiral Charles ID. Sigsbee,
commander of the third division of
the North Atlantic fleet, which
brought the body to this country from
France. AS the Standish, bearing the
ashes of the great fighter, who has
lain so long in an unknown grave,
reached the dock the long line of white
uniformed naval and marine officers
and enlisted men stood at attention,
and every head in the vast throng was
uncovered.
When the Standish was finally made
fast to the dock the leaden coffin,
weighing |, 400 pounds, was lifted to
| the shoulders of eight sturdy sailors,
four of whom wore the white of
Americas summer uniform. On the
opposite side of the casket were four
sailors from the French cruiser JuTien
de la Graviere, dresied in the blue
pea jackets and white trousers of the
French Republic. These bore the
coffin to the waiting hearse as the
French and American officers and men
were brought to present arms by a
bugle blast. The cortege then wheeled
to the right and headed by the Naval
Academy band under Prof. q. A. Lim-
norman, started the march to the
black draped and flower decked vault
on the old parade ground. Following
the band came the detachment Of ma
rines from the fleet, each ships COM
pany being headed by her officers, just
behind the last of whom were the
natty little Frenchmen.
These, with their strange uniforms
which in the past few days have been
seen much on the streets of Annapolis,
were commented upon and compli-
mented as they marched through the
thfong of American Next to the
Graviere's sailors and Immediately in
front of the hearse marched the jack
les representing Paul Jones' own
branch of the American service, of
which he himself was the first COM
mander. Marching in front of the
hearse, which was drawn by four black
horses. led by marine orderlies, were
Rear Admiral Sigsbee and Chaplain
III. III. Clark, of the Naval Academy,
who conducted the service at the
vault.
The line of march was down the
road in the rear of the tennis courts
to the foot of the Maryland avenue
entrance into the Academy, and thence
to the foot of Lovers Lane, where
the escort marched across the grass and
formed hollow square. This forma-
tion stretched out from the main ave-
nue. to the old band stand When the
sailors and marines were formed with
| the French detachment in the rear Of
the vault and forming the center of
the rear line of the square, the hearse
of Undertakers J. S. Taylor q Son,
preceded np Blake Row. The side
walk here and even the tops OF the
porches of the officers quarters were
packed with the crowd which had
come TO witness the ceremonies.
AS the hearse bearing the body pro-
ceeded to a point Immediately in front
of the vault the escort again presented
L arms anu eLDUu M AttEutAOn unAtA thO
short service read by Chaplain Clark
had been concluded. The casket was
taken from the hearse and placed upon
a flag and crepe draped funeral car. for
which a track had been laid from the
Blake Row curb to the open doors of
the receiving vault. The casket OF
the great man was draped with the
American flag presented by the Daugh-
tiers of the American Revolution prior
to the departure of Admiral Sigsbee' 's
feet from this country for France.
Before the car was moved from the
curb a shortened committal service
was read, by Chaplain Clark, after
\ which the carriage was rolled to the
door of the vault by the body bearers.
Here it was lifted intoethe tomb and
placed upon standards. while the hon
orary pallbearersfstood by. = =