The Washington herald., 1911-10-06

to Arlington, and eight white-haired
comrades of the hero of Santiago, splen-
did in gold lace and blue, stood at at
tention while the Naval Academy band
played the slow strains Of Nearer, Ny
God, to Thee Admiral Schleys favorite
hymn.
When the casket had been strapped to
the gun carriage, the band swung into
Chopins immortal funeral march, and
wheeled down Madison place toward
Pennsylvania avenue. Company by COM
pany the midshipmen faced about fours
right, and followed in the slow stride of
the funeral parade. Behind them came
the marines and sailors, and the gun
carriage carrying the casket fell in be-
hind the field artillery battery. More
than 800 Spanish War Veterans formed
the rear guard, and score of carriages
bearing rela tives and friends of the fam
lily followed.
| The cortege reached the AQueduct
Bridge at 4 o'clock, and with the excep-
tion of the artillery, jackies, and marines,
the procession halted and stood on rest
ed arms during the military service at
Arlington.
huge InrOnB mt Arlington.
. Every car going toward Arlington was
crowded during the hour before the serv-
ices. and when the procession reached
the cemetery more than 5000 persons
stood about the plot that is to be Ad-
miraI Schley's last port
Around the grave stood Secretary Of
the Navy Meyer, Admiral George Dew
ey, Rear Admiral Badger. Rear Admiral
Reginald F. Nicholson, Rear Admiral
Bartlett ]. Cromwell, retired; Rear Ad-
miral Edward H Gheen, retired: Rear
Admiral Edward S. Barker, retired; Rear
Admiral Thomas c. Mclean, retired;
Rear Admiral Thomas c. Remey. retired;
Lieut.. Gen. Nelson A. Miles, L. S. A,
and former Justice Alexander B. Hagner.
Beside them was Mrs. Schley and her
two sons, Capt. Frank Schley, L. S. A,
and DR.. Winfield Scott Schley, with their
families.
Lieut. Commander Leigh c. Palmer,
naval aide at the White House, attended
the rites by direction of President Taft
as his personal representative.
The sailors who had marched beside
the gun carriage from St. Johns lowered
the casket into the grave, and three
bands. the Naval Academy Band. the
Navy Yard Band, and the Fifteenth Cav
airy Band, played the funeral march.
When the last strain had died away,
two companies of jackies fired the salute,
and the artillery began to roar. For ten
minutes the hills sent back crashing
echoes of sound.
AS the throng around the plot turned
away, some of them with tears trickling
down their cheeks, the band struck UP
lively airs. and the seamen and soldiers
marched briskly toward Washington.
Great Showing by NiddIes.
Tba Sho
II was their first appearance since the
annual reorganization at the Naval Acad-
emy, and the company and battalion
officers had only 'had a week with their
commands, but the corps marched and
drilled as one man, and save for the
solemnity Of the occasion, they would
have received an ovation from the
crowds The cadets put the regulars on
their mettle, and the entire procession
was far above the ordinary in perfect
marching order and splendid appearance.
The parade was marshaled by the STAN
OF Rear Admiral Badger, commanding
the second division of the Atlantic fleet.
who came from the battle ship Vermont
in Hampton Roads to attend the funeral
The young officers, wearing the stan
braid about their left shoulders, were
everywhere along the line Of march, and
throughout the procession.
Not since President Mckinley was laid
to rest has there been such a floral dis
play in Washington. The altar at St.
Johns was converted into a bewildering
forest of blossoms. Huge wreaths of
roses, banks of late violets and scores
of set pieces made the church heavy
with fragrance. There were more than
800 floral tributes.
| Besides the military services, BENJAMIN
B. French Lodge, No. 15, F. A. M,
performed a short ritual at the grave in
accordance with an oft-eXpressed wish
of Admiral Scnley. Hundreds of frater-
nifty men, representing almost every Ma
sonic lodge and secret order in WaSl-
! ington, attended, because the dead ad-
miral was a stanch Mason and a firm
believer in secret organizations.
The Final Tribute.
Even the thousands who went to the
funeral out of curiosity or to see the
display felt the beauty of the ceremony
| at Arlington Cemetery. When the mel
low notes of the bugle sounding taps"
foated acros the green, there were few
in tie throng that did not feel a thrill,
and the crashing volleys were a fitting
cloSe to the tribute TO dead naval idol
| Wise Master Allen Bussius, thirty-third
degree; Senior Warden Jacobus Seneca
Jones. thirty-third degree; Junior Warden
William L. Boyden, thirty-third degree:
! Honorary Orator Francis A. Sebring.
thirty-third degree; Honorary AImoner
Louis Goldsmith. thirty-third, degree:
Master of Ceremonies A. B. Coolidge,
thirty-third degree; Expert Harrison
Dingman, thirty-third degree; Assistant
| Expert Andrew w Kelley, thirty-third
degree; Guardian of the Temple James
Lansburgh, thirty-third degree. oficiated
at the Masonic service.
Scottish Rite Delegation.
Sovereign Grand Commander James D.
Richardson. Secretary General Stirling
Kerr, jr., DR.. Francis ]. woodman, and
Inspectors General J. Wakefield Court
land, Judge A. L. Fitzgerald, AIphonso
c. Stewart, and Senator Nathan B. Scott
represented the supreme council of the
thirty-third degree, sovereign grand in
spectors general for the Southern juris-
diction of the Scottish rite of the United
| States, at the funeral.
| A delegation of the Loyal Legion at
| tended the church services, headed by
Brevet Maj. Gen. Cyrus Bussey, U. S. V.
The ushers at the church were Lieut..