Norwich bulletin., 1914-05-12
BUSINESS GENERALLY SUSPENDED IN NEW YORK
Throngs Which Numbered More Than Million, of All Class es, Stood Shoulder Shoulder in Community of Grief, Along the Route of Cortege-President Wilson's Voice Shook With Emotion as He Pronounced Eulogy of the Men Who Lost Their Lives in Defense of Their Fag-17 Caissons Carried Bodies Through the Streets.

New York. May 11-New York join- ed the nation today in memorializine with simple dignity the heroism o1 the nineteen bluejackets and marines who gave their lives at Vera Cruz At the most impressive funeral pa geant, since the time of the Spanish war started on itssolemn route from the Battery to the Brooklyn navy yard it was as if the pulse of the city tenn porarily had stopped.
 All business was suspended and over the commercial section of the city there fell a reverential hush. Ir the throngs which numbered more than a million, East Side and West Side peace advocates and war en- thusiasts. native Americans and inn migrants-New Yorks polyglot pop ulatien-stood sholdrer to shoulder in community of grief
 In the line of mourners that follow ed the artillery caissons bearing the dead were the chiefs of state and city government and many distin guished eve in the tlfrongs that lined the way turned first to the carriage where President Wilson rode, close behing the last funeral car The president came from Washington during the night and was with the procession from the time it left the Battery un- til the squad of marines fired their parting vo1leys over the flag trapped coffins at the Brooklyn navy yard and the navy bugler sounded the taps" that proclaimed the end of the cere- mony.
 On the stand with the president at the navy yard were mothers, sisters and widows of the dead sailors and marines. but in all the throng of rnourners none seemed more deeply touched by the spirit of the day than the man whose word sent the lads of the navy to fight for their country's honor at Vera Cruz.
 President Voices Nations orisf.
 And to the president was left the privilege of voicing the nations grife and the nations belief that those who died in the performance of duty had done for their country a service not 10 be measured by their individual deeds
 The feeling that is uppermost," he kaid. is one of profound grief and yet there is mixed with that grief a pro found pride that they should have gone as they did and if I may say it out of my heart, a touch of envy of those who were permitted so quietly, 90 nobiy. to do their duty"
 The head of the nation looked out ever the thousands massed about the eoHins on the parade ground and his clared his creed: We have gone down to Mexico" he said. "to serve mankind if we can find cut a way. We do not want to fight the Medcans. We want to serve the Nexicans-' There was a wistful note in his voice ss he added
 ~I never was under fire, but I fancy there are some things just as hard to Go as to go under lire I fancy that f is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneer1ng at you as when they are shooting at you. When rEeT cf tI9Ar nnIx faka your natural life; when they sheer at you they can wound your heart
 Picture of Vast Human Stream.
 From a birds eye view, the multi tude aHghted along tho route of the funeral ccrtege presented the picture ef vast human stream connecting two arms Of the sea Mufled voices, soft spoken commands, bS military of- Beers. the melancholy telling of the Trinity church bell ernphasized a hush thas mad fallen over a city of noises.
 The dead were landed by the tugs Traffic and Correction early in the morning and lay in state in the Bat fery plaza for over an hour before the procession started. There were l. ccfsns. The other tive victims of Mexican ssiPers hoHsred today died sfier the Montana left Vera Cruz with - bodies of their comrades
 TAe police escort headed the fu- uDed eeFtase and was followed by the naval battalions from the Wyoming aud Texas. Then came the seventeen gun caissofis carrying the dead Each -ztsson was drawn by four horses, sstride twc of which rode members of the First and Second regiments of the field srfiilery
 There was in addition one mounted police escourt for each caisson. Four sailors on each side acted as pall- bearers. These men, tanned and sea Unn1d with Vera Cruz. had been called to New York especially for the services in memory of their dead comrades.
 Directly behind the single file of caissore were the carriage of the pres idert, Governor Glyrn. Secretary Dan- teis. Mayor Mitchell and other guests. The presence of the president in the procession came as 6 surprise, for 1t had been announced that he would preeeed direct from the Pennsylvanis station fo the Eavy yard.
 All along the route every vantage point was black with spectators. Win lows. roofs. half completed steel frames of buildings were crowded.
 Not Suggestion of Disorder.
 Three thousand policemen, one every ten feet, held the crowd back on the sidewalk But during the entire cere- m0ny there was net a suggestion Of disorder
 As the ProcessieH entered City Half Plaza, 800 children sang Nearer. My God to Thee.
 Mayor Mitchell briefly eaiogized the dead and laid upon one of the caisseHs 2 huge wreath symbelizing the city's appreciation of the service rendered at Vera Cruz After this brief halt, tile-eertege re- SImed i.s measured progress to Man haitian bridge and over this to the navy yard The restraint that had characterized the crowd in the bus tness district gave way as the pro- session proceeded through the east l Side and Brooklyn to storms of ap- Dianse Here 1t seemed thai the pres snee of the nresident ecEipsed he grief l of the occasion | 1a ths naval parade ground, the