Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-03-23
Maine DEAD !.
are BURIED
Ceremonies Occurred q,
Washington With Pomp
and SoIemnlty
Bodies We're Laid Beside
Those Brought Back
After the War
By Associated Press.

BY Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, March 23.-Witt
all the pomp and solemnity that thu
mighty nation can pay Its heroes o,
war, the last Of the dead OF tn
Maine, were laid away today in tt,
Arlington cemetery.
Side by side with the bodies o.
those brought back from the Havans
harbor after the war with Spain, they
were consigned to the earth Of the
old dominion, while the nation paid
it's last measure Of honor to the "un
Identified of the catastrophe thai
brought the war, changed the map oi
the world and extended the empire
Of the United States into all corners
Of the earth. :. ~
Seldom In the history Of this coun
try has there been any higher tribute
to the memory OF man or men thar
than for the sixty-four dead Of the
Maine.
Government business in Washing
ton was practically suspended by ar
executive order. President Taft, and
most of the members Of the cabinet
the highest officers OF the army, navy
and marine corps, ofictek Of the de
partments and Representatives o1
many foreign, powers atictpated. IL
Beginning with the removal of the
dead from the United States Steam
ship Birmingham, which brought
them up from Havana, and ending
with the firing Of three volleys o,
over the new made graves
the exercises designed to show all
the honor and respect to the martyrs
Of the doomed battleship were com:
menced.
streets of the capital from the Birm
ingham to the state, war and navy
buildings was picked from the Birm
ingham, and other vessels, now in
Washington. The speakers who faced
tn great crowd in the plaza behind
the navy building were only three
Taft, Father Chidwick, Chaplain OF
the Maine when the explosion OF
February Is, 1893, sent her to the
bottom, and Chaplain Bayard of the
U. 8. Marine band, the show band of
Washington, was chosen to give SOL
emn music for the dead, and an army
battery stationed near the Washing.
ton monument was selected to fire II
salute guns as the ceremonies at the
navy building ended and the quiet
march to Arlington began.
Conspicuous among those who paid
tribute to the sailor aead today were
Rear Admiral Charles D. Sigsbee,
who commanded the Maine at the
time of the explosion; Rear Admiral
Richard Wainwright; Lieutenant
Boyd and Medical Director L. G..
officers under him at
the time.
Occupying special reservations,
with these just mentioned, on the
steps of the big granite building
where were Admiral Dewey and Lieu
tenant General Nelson A. Miles.
During the memorial exercises was
heard the solemn tolling of the paul
Revere" bell of All Souls Unitarian
church, which tolled at the funerals
II presidents, admirals, generals and
,ther prominent men.
In the procession to the Arlington
President Taft occupied
)lace at the head of the mourners.
rhe naval escort was comprised of a
Of marines, two battalions
II seamen, the naval band and the
District Of Columbia naval militia,
ind Just ahead Of thirty-four army
:aissons bearing the leaden caskets
we're Chaplain Bayard and Father
Chadwick, and just behind the flag
lraped collins were the pail bearers
rom the navy, honorary pail bearers
rom United Spanish war veterans,
md forty.eight body bearers. Many
persons were in the
Inc Of march. Over the graves in the
Arlington cemetery simple exercises
Included the burial services by Bay.
I'd and Chidwick and with the firing
4 three volleys of musketry, the ma
fcnal salute Of q guns, and sound
ng Of plaintive sound of "taps'' the
Iead were given to earth.
BANNER MONTH