Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1910-06-30
AN IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL
Services Held Over The Body
OF MidShipman Mason, Vic
Tim OF Drowning AcCi-
dent
SADNESS OF RIFLE TEAM
Remains 0f Midshipman Thomas, The
Other Victim, To Be Buried Here
Tomorrow Al p. NJ.


held in the Naval Academy Chape
this morning, when the final marks oil
military respect, and the tribute OF
hosts of friends were paid the remains
and memory of one of the three vic.
Tins of the drowning accident of Tues
day, when Mrs. Joseph Bowyer and
Midshipman Crosby +. Thomas and
Sherman nj. Mason lost their lives.
The services this morning were fol-
Midshipman Mason only. Word was
received this morning from Mrs. +.
/ H. Thomas, of Union Point, Ga, moth.
er of the other youth, requesting that
a change be made, and instead of hold
ing the funeral today and shipping the
remains of her son home, services be
held on Friday and the interment
made at the Academy cemetery. This
will be done and the family of the
young sailor lad who gave his life
trying to save another will be held
at 3 o'clock Friday afternoon.
The services over the body of Mid
shipiman Mason were largely attend
ed. Prominent in the large congre-
cation was Captain John NJ. Bower,
superintendent of the Academy, whose
household was saddened by the gloom
of the same deplorable affair that took
from the light of life both Mason and
Thomas. He attended the services
alone, his wife and daughter, Miss
Ruth Bowyer, having left Annapolis
yesterday afternoon with the remains
of young Mrs. Bowyer, which will be
buried in Erie this afternoon.
The casket, flag-draped and laden
with massive and beautiful floral tri-
utes from sorrowing fri lends, had
been placed at the foot of the chancel
steps in the handsome memorial
Chapel. The steps on either side were
banked with other floral designs.
These tributes included pieces from
the new fourth class, from Captain
Bowyer, the fellow members of the
now saddened Academy rife team and
from the rife team of the Maryland
National Guard, which had contested
with the sailor lads team of. which
Mason was a member. In addition to
the flowers sent by the team. the
Maryland militiamen detailed Lieut. ten
ant John dep Douw, of the brigade
staff, to represent them at the ser
vices.
The great dome of the massive
chapel had echoed the subdued muir
murings of sympathy from the gath
ering members of naval and Annapo-
lis society sets, and others, when the
pallbearers in their spotless white
uniforms, with each left arm bearing
the broad band of crepe Indicative of
their sorrow, arrived, and took places
on either side of the aisle beside the
casket. These were Midshipmen
Bushrod Howard, Howard T. Bartlett,
Calvin H. Cobb, Oscar C. Badger,
George F. Jacobs, Oscar w. Leidel,
Lambert Lamberton, and Harold f.
Saunders.
The hymns. Nearer My God to
Thee" and LEAD Kindly Light" were
sung during the services. Almost
Immediately the battalion of mid
shipmen composed of the new fourth
class, which is the only class now at
the Academy, and on this occasion
was differed by the upper classmen
of the rifle squad, came from Bancroft
Hall paraded without arms. Outside
was grouped the Academy band and
two companies of marines, and as
the funeral services began with the
impressive Episcopal ritual, the Stars
and Stripes flying from the station
flag pole just outside, was run down
to halfmast, where it remained until
after the body of young Mason had
left Annapolis.
The hymns were sung by the fourth
class male choir, during the services,
which were conducted by the Rev. H.
H. Clark, post chaplain In a few
hfief remarks on the occasion, Chap
lain Clark paid fitting tribute to the
heroism of the two youths who, uphold
ing the traditions of the navy. haC
CALAMITY given their lives inIan effor
to save the life of another.
After the services in the Chapel tn,
body of Midshipman Mason, accompa
MED by the escort composed of tn,
fourt class battalion, the rife squat
and the companies Of marines and lei
by the Academy band playing thu
o00hCnlAk Au0 hON~o W
Chopin's funeral march. was taken t
the station and there placed aboard
car for transportation to Newport TO
interment.
AS the funeral cortege, under com
mand of Lieutenant G. w. Steele
marched through the streets on tn
way TO the station, it and its crepe
draped and furled flags passed through
lines of sorrowing people, from tn
heart of every one of whom went on
a wave of pity and sympathy.
Following the hearse containing tn
casket, which was draped with tn
Stars and Stripes. came the corps {
instructors and officers at the AcaC
envy, each with his sword knot drape
and his left arm crepe draped, while
, the rear of the line was the carriaf
of the superintendent containing Ca
tain Bowyer and his aide, Lieutensl
Commander D. W. Wurtsbsugh.