Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-20
NABUCO GOING HOME
Body of Dead Ambassador
Starts Tomorrow on Journey.
TRIP TO HAMPTON ROADS
Mayaower Will Garry Casket and
Diplomatic Committee.
BY SEA ON BIG CRUISER
North Carolina Will Take Remains
to Rio Janeiro, Brazil-Full Mill
tary Honors to Be Paid.

High civic and military honors will
mark the removal tomorrow afternoon of
the body of Senior Joaquin Nabuco, late
Brazilian ambassador at this capital. from
the vault in Oak Hill cemetery to the
Presidents yacht Mayfiower. at the WASH
ington navy yard. for transportation to
Hampton roads. where il is to be trans
feTed to the big armored cruiser North
Carolina for transportation to Its final
resting place in Rio de Janeiro.
The body will be accompanied from this
city TO Hampton roads by committee
appointed by the governing board or the
bureau of American republics. This COM
mittee consists of Senior Don Francisco
Leon de la Barra, the Mexican ambassa-
dor; Senior Don Joaquin Bernardo Calvo.
the Costa Rican minister: Senior Don
Epifanio Portela. the Argentine minister;
Senior Don Anibal Cruz, the Chilean min
lister. and r. de Lima e Silva, counselor
of the brazilian embassy.
From Cemetery to Navy Yard.
This committee and the personal friends
of the late ambassador will assemble at
Oak Hill cemetery at ] 30 O'Clock tomor-
row afternoon and will accompany the
to Hampton roads. Mr.. Hale. third as
sistant secretary of state. will represent
the United States government. r. l..
Chermont will represent the government
of Brazil.
The rites of the church having been al
ready performed. there will be no religious
services in connection with the removal
of the amba ssador'S remains. The casket
will he placed on a gun caisson by eight
non commissioned officers and then es-
corted to the navy ward by troop of the
18th Cavalry at Fort Myer Appropriate
music will be played by the United States
Marine Band, which has abandoned its
regular Monday afternoon concert at the
marine barracks for the purpose.
The cortege will be met at the navy
yard by a detachment of bluejackets and
marines and escorted to the wharf of the
Mayhower. While the Marine Band plays
a dirge, with the troops standing at at
tention, the casket will be removed from
the caisson and placed on the main deck
of the warship. in charge of special
guard of honor. When all is in readiness
the Mayfiower- will get under way for her
trip to Hampton roads.
By Cruiser to Brazil.
The body will be transferred to the
North Carolina Tuesday forenoon with
full naval honors. The North Carolina
will probably start for Rio in the after
noon.
Secretary Chermont and Mr.. Nabuco,
the eldest son of the ambassador, will go
as passengers on the North Carolina.
The diplomatic committee and MIR. Hale
will return at once to Washington on the
Mayf1ower.
The new Brazilian battleship Minas
Geraes, just built in England. was espe-
cially ordered to this country by the Bra
lillian government for the purpose Of es-
corting the North Carolina on her four
thousand mile cruise to the Brazilian cap
ital She seems to have been delayed In
her trip across the Atianic.
Brazilian Warship Hourly Expected.
Special Dispatch to The Star
NORFOLK, Va. February 19.-Al-
battleship Minas Geraes. bound to Hamp-
ton roads from England TO escort to
Brazil the North Carolina, bearing the
body of Senior Nabuco. late ambassador
from that country to the United States.
did not arrive today Neither has the
wireless station at the Norfolk navy
yard received word from the vessel al
though the operators there have been
endeavoring to open communication with
her for the past three days. Gales.
which IL is known have been blowing on
the Atlantic, have probably delayed the
progress of the vessel. The Minas Geraes
is one of the largest battleshipS in the
world, being of u. 500 tons displacement.
She has just been completed in Eng
land. and has never yet been in Bra
lillian waters.
The armored cruiser North Carolina
aboard which the body of the Brazilian
diplomat will be taken back to its ma
tive land, Is reaoy for the journey.