Albuquerque citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1907-1909, 1908-11-14
TAFT AND HUGHES
both make SPEECHES
Military and Civil Parade and
Lengthy Program by Prominent
People Pays Tribute 70
the C0untry's
Heroes.

ave-" tUh, NoN. Af.-AAtcF nuIU
than a century OF agitation By indi-
viduals and organizations. bones rep
resenting approximately 1900 mar
tyrs" of the Revolutionary war. who
died on the prison ship Jersey and
other lesser vessels in Wallabout Bay.
Brooklyn. lie at at last in a fttingiy
marked burial place. for which the
government. New York state and
hundreds of individuals made contrf-
buttons. An imposing Dorio column
of granite. 27O feet high, surmount-
ed by funeral urn and nag STAN.
rises above the tomb at Fort Greene
park, Brooklyn, and its dedication to-
day Is marked by a remarkable mill
tary parade of nearly 10000 soldiers
and marines, and memora BILE address,
es by President-elect william II. TAFT
and Governor Charles +. Hughes.
The procession OF naval and mill
tary organizations, saio to be one OF
the larg st in the history OF Brooklyn.
the tremendous outpouring OF people
from all over greater New York.
crowding densely the line of march,
and at Fort Greene park massed by
| tens OF thousands, presented an in
| spring spectacle. Major General
Charles II. Roe. commanding the ns-
tional guard of the state, was grand
marshal of the parade which oom-
prised four divisions-troops isstsched
tc division headquarters. First and
Second brigade headquarters and the
naval militia. In these were fnclud-
ed two squadrons of cavalry, three
batteries OF field artillery two orgA-
nizations of the state signal corps. one
field hospital corps. three coast artil-
lery regiments, headed by General
David e. Austen; the 7th. 18th. 18th.
2srd. 47th. 61st and land infantry
regiments OF the national guard
fourth division of the @. A. r., vet
Grams associations and patriotic So
cieties. squadrons Of mounted poilca
and many military and other bands.
The viclssitudes of the remains of
the sailors and soldiers who died or
fever and starvation, and rotted In
the foul hulks OF the British prison
ships long anchored in Wallabout
bay, which they polluted. have besH
many, and have caused more than
one outburst OF public indigns ton
II was in 1892. at a Brooklyn town
meeting, that definite steps were first
urged to properly bury the remains.
Nothing was done, however. until
1908. when the Tammany society Sc
cured funds for a temporary wooden
tomb. which was constructed on Hud-
son street. To this the bodies. dug
from the trenches along the Wall
about banks where they had been
hastily inferred, were removed.
With passing years the structure
fell into decay, the bones became ex-
posed and children played with them.
Public feeling became aroused and
in 1876 the city OF Brooklyn remov-
ed all that could be collected, several
loads of them, to tomb at Fort
Green park under the stairs OF the
entrance, where they had been until
work was begun on the present
handsome memorial which the late
Stanford White designed and which
represents about 100000. To these
homes were added, four years ago.
after a public service at Plymouth
church, many more. filling about
eight cofhns. which had been un-
sarthed In construction of ware
houses at the Brooklyn navy yard.
All the. remains are now encssed in
metallic coffns in the spacious tomb
which Is approached by a stately
flight OF several hundred steps.
The experiences OF the prism ship
martyrs" constitute one or the most
friL htful chapters In American his
tory. Eleven thousand sailors and
soldiers died in the Jersey alone.
ship constructed TO accommodate
only 400 men, into which more than
thousand prisoners were usually
crushed. Many were kept there for
years. A survivor, Captain Thomas
Dring wildly depicted the scenes OF
the horrible incarceration: "Regis
tered and sent below newcomers suf-
fered terribly from the lntolerable
heat and foul air, and when they
sought the narrow alr-holes they
found them blocked by others. who
fought with all their strength for
even the faintest breath OF the preei-
Gus air.
Utter arrangement Wss a COM
mon symptom OF the fever that
caused many deaths on Doard, and
to increase the horror OF the dark
ness that enshrouded Us; for we were
allowed no light betwIxt decks the Z