Omaha daily bee., 1905-07-24
HONOR FOR FIRSTNAVAL HERO
Admiral Talks Of Trip to France for Body
Of Paul Jones,
cAsKEr STILL ON THE BROOKLYN
This Morning it VIII he Taken 90
chapel with simple Ceremony
seamen VIII Form Guard
of Honor.

ANNAPOLIS, Md, July 2s.-The John
Paul Jones expedition, commanded by Rear
Admiral Sigsbee, will complete its mission
with the landing OF the body of the dis
tinguished dead tomorrow morning. The
eight ships OF the squadron. four cruisers
and four battleships have rested all day
in the anchorage or the Naval academy,
lying in double column, with the cruisers.
headed by the Brooklyn, nearest the city.
The day has been without ceremony with
the exception of the exchange of calls be-
tween Admiral Sands, superintendent Of the
Naval academy, and Admirals Sigsbee and
Davis and Captain E f. Gervais of the
French cruiser Jurien De La Graviere. on
the "half-deck'' of the Brooklyn, in spa
cious compartment at the entrance to the
cabin OF Admiral sigsbee, lie the remains
OF John Paul Jones. They are contained in
a casket of lead, enclosed in another of
wood, Of handsome design and draped with
the colors. Constant guard Is kept by an
armed jackie. Admiral Sigsbee regards his
mission eminently successful and salts
| factory. His squadron has steamed nearly
1000 miles without delay on account of ac-
| cident or mishap to machinery.
Sigsbee Talks of Trip.
In detailing brief account of his trip
for the Associated Press today Admiral
! Sigsbee said:
! Our reception abroad was magnificent
\ tribute. 1t was most generous and hearty
in the honors paid. not only to the dis
\ tinguished dead, but to the navy of the
| United States. The return was without in
cident, the only stop made being to take
| sounding near Nantucket. and that was
brief. We sailed on the sth and picked up
| the Nantucket ship by wireless on the 10th.
Through this medium report was trans
| mittcd to The Navy department at wash
| ington. The next morning at o'clock Ad-
miral Evans flagship, the Maine was heard
| from by wireless to the southwark. Later
| all but the Iowa of Admiral Davis fleet Of
four battleships. The Iowa Joined the fleet
| There Admiral Evans dropped down to
| Hampton Roads, saluting the Brooklyn as
ron took up the lead in single column, in
| which formation the trip up the bay was
made.
Program for Today.
At o'clock tomorrow morning Rear
Admiral Sigsbee will salute Rear Admiral
Sands with thirteen guns and the salutes
will be returned from the shore batteries.
A salute to the squadron from the French
cruiser will then be given and returned.
with these formalties over the active
transfer OF the body will be begun. The
! personnel of the fleet will be put ashore
in small boats to form an imposing guard
of honor when the body is landed. Its
transfer to the shore will be made on the
naval tug Standish, and the landing made
on a float draped and moored TO the wharf
1t will there be placed in a hearse and
transferred to the vault in the academy
grounds. The only ceremony will be the
reading of psalms by Chaplain H. H
Clark of the academy.
Rear Admiral Sgsbee will give dinner
in the evening aboard the Brooklyn, al
| .a.t-
be the guest OF honor. The captains oi
the cruisers and their aids and rear ad
mirals will be guests.
The feet of battleships may leave theil
anchorage tomorrow and drop down tht
bay. Admiral Sigshee will proceed witt
his riSat to -Tompkinsville Tuesday. Hi
, ships will there be laid up for repairs
The French cruiser will depart Tuesda!
for Martinique.