The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-03-23
BATTERED BONES
OF NAMES DEAD
CONSIGNED TODAY
OMOTHERE EARTH
Eulog.es By President of
the United States and
Chaplain of the Ill
Fated Warship
NATIONS SORROW SHOWN
Remains of "a Heroes Inter
red In Arlington Gene
terry With Befitting Cere-
monies.
NATIONS SORROW SHOWN
Especial from United Press.) }


Especial from United Press.)
Washington, March 23-With the un-
known dead of the Maine before him,
place in Arlington cemetery, President
Taft today paid eloquent tribute to
these men .hurled into eternity with
out the inspiration of anticipated bat
tie or hope for victory"
"It is well,'' the President said.
''that we shall halt the wheels Of gov
ernment and stay the hum of indus
ceremonies the debt we owe to those
who gave up their lives for the ma
tion. We raised the ship from the
mud bottom of Havana harbor and
gave her remains honorable burial in
the blue waves of the ocean.
I'VE now consign to the sacred soil
of Arlington the recovered bodies OF
those who gave the Maine her person
ality and made her a leaving weapon
for the protection of national honor
and vital interest. We have given to
these ceremonies all possible .solemnity
included in the honors of war, and we
shall fail if they do not express in
unmistakable tone and sign the deep
and lasting gratitude of nation to
her martyred heroes.
'These, our honored dead, were bur1l-
ed into eternity without the inspira-
ton Of anticipated battle or hope for
victory. But they We're on duty when
they went down, they wore the uni
form OF our beloved country and they
are ito be classed we'll to the fore In
that long list of naval heroes whose
steadfastnesS and courage gave the
nation the place it holds in the world.
Il. do not mean to charge response
bility to the Spanish government for
the explosion of the Maine, but that
the tragedy was part of the causes
which led up to the Spanish war none
familiar with the circumstances can
doubt.
That was every American can feel
proud of because it was fought with
ou ia single selfish instance and was
promoted by the most altruistic mo-
tives. Beginning with a self denying
We're forced into the attitude of taking
over the Philippines and our course
In those islands has reflected the high
est credit on our partisan civiliza-
tion.'' s
Washington March 23-The national
capital stood still, this afternoon
while "a dower-covered -caskets, con-
tanning the whitened bones of victims
of the battleship Maine, now at res
forever under 80 fathoms of water OF
the Gulf Stream, passed through
Pennsylvania avenue enroute to his
toric Arlington Cemetery. The Pres
ident of the United States, his Off.
cial family, representatives of the dip
lomatic corps and all branches Of the
national defense participated in the
nd inn nraCCiuo SnruiPoc which
when concluded, left the tragedy OF
Havana harbor that changed the mar
of the world only memory
Every flag in the city flew at hall
mast Twenty-Five thousand specta-
tors stood in respectful attention as
the ,leaden caskets. mounted on army
caissons, passed along the wide road
way and everyone in the crowd un'
covered as the flag draped and flow
er bedecked caskets slowly passed to-
ward the navy department From the
steps of the big gray building, at 2:3(
this afternoon, President Taft deliv-
cred the principal eulogy and Father
Chadwick, chaplain of the Inflated
warship, in simple language, gave ut
terance to the personal grief of the
survivors.
More than 1000 soldiers and sailors
in dress uniform, marched with the
slow half step'' of the army regula-
ton as an escort from the navy yard
where the bodies had been taken from
the Cruiser Birmingham, which had
brought them from Hampton Roads.
The sombre black of the crepe en-
twined in officers sword knots and
on the arms of two score of blue
Jackets that marched beside the dead
the solemn dirges that two great
bands played, toned down the mill
tary splendor to majestic tribute.
The funeral procession halted at the
south portico of the navy depart.
ment. There the official mourners,
the President of the United States.
Secretary of the Navy Meyer and all
bureau officers and navy officials
were massed to pay the government s
tribute to it's dead. There was a
brief prayer by Captain Bayard, chap.
lain of the Washington Navy Yard
and the tributes by President Taft
solemn boom of the national salute
fired by the battery down near the
Washington Monument, the cortege
moved to Arlington.
Out Pennsylvania avenue and
through old Georgetown, the crowds
paid homage as the procession passed
on to Arlington, in the Virginia hills
There brief services closed the cere.
monies.
Father Chidwick and Chaplain Bay.
ard officiated at brief conmital SER
vices at Arlington. Taps were
sounded as the leaden caskets almost
hidden from view with flowers were
reverently lowered into their final
resting place in the new section OF
the national cemetery, beside other
heroes of the Spanish-American war
AS the earth received it's dead and
the last word of the prayer had been
spoken, two companies of bluejackets
lined up, while every spectator barred
his head and the companies of SOL
diers came to the present arms
Three volleys were fired over the
dead. Then from the hills came the
measured booming of the national sa-
Lutte When it was finished the mel
ancholy notes of "Taps'-the final
reQuiem-was heard.
The Names dead were home at
last.