Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1911-10-04
BODY TAKEN HOME.
Remains OF Admiral Schley VIII Be
Buried At Arlington National
Cemetery At Washington.

The body of Rear Admiral Schley
was taken yesterday from the Algon.
quin Hotel. on Forty fourth street,
New York, to the Pennsylvania Sta
tion, where it was placed on board a
train for Washington.
Many army and navy men called at
the hotel in New York Yesterday.
Some of them are now on the retired
list and many of them had served
with Admiral Schley. One of these
was Capt. Joseph G. Sears. Admiral
Schley's aide at Santiago. Rear Ad-
miral George c. Reiter also went to
the hotel.
Members of Admiral Schley's fam
lily accompanied the body to Washing
Dton. The interment will be in the
Arlington National Cemetery. The
body arrived in Washington last even
ing and was taken to his former home.
1t has been decided that there will be
an official funeral.
Every honor will be shown the
memory of the deceased Admiral. The
Marine Band is on a tour of the
South, the Mayfiower and Dolphin are
away from the Washington yard so
that there are no bluejackets avail
able in Washington, and only one COM
pany of marines. Enough engineer
troops could be obtained from Wash
ington barracks and cavalry and field
artillery from Fort Myer to make up
full regiment which was among the
troops that participated in Admiral
SIMPSONS funeral.
The entire battalion of midshipmen
were taken to Washington from
this city for the Sampson funeral, the
reason being that Sampson had been
formerly superintendent of the Naval
Academy. This, however, had not
been done in connection with the fu-
neral of any other former superinten-
dent.
According to the navy's plans,
enough marines and bluejackets will
be drawn from Annapolis and Phila-
delphia to make total of eight COM
panies. And midshipmen will be
taken to Washington, the strength
will be sixteen companies. This
will make by far a larger funeral
than that of Admiral Sampson.
A delicate point is expected to be
the matter of the selection of pail
bearers. Six retired rear-admirals of
about Schley's own age have been ten
tatively selected, but the list will first
be submitted to Mrs. Schley before
any names are made known.
This is an unusual honor to naval
officer, and will be accorded not on
account of his rank, for others of
as high or higher rank, have not
been so honored, but because of his
distinguished services during his ca
reer.
The funeral and interment in Ar
lington, which will follow, will be at
tended by a number of the ranking
officers from the Naval Academy and
other naval stations, and marines and
sailors from the Academy will prob
ably help to make up the provisional
battalion which will form part of the
cortege.
Annapolis vies with Frederick for
the honor of being the home of the
hero of Santiago. Though Schley was
born in the Western Maryland city,
he married an Annapolis lady, Miss
Franklin, was here as a midshipman
and later as an officer, being the
head of the department of modern
languages at the Naval Academy.
He claimed Annapolis as his home,
had voting residence here, and ex-
ercised the right of suffrage on sew
eral occasions. His son, w. S. Schley,
Jr., now practicing physician, grad
uated from st. Johns College in 1893.