The Sentinel=record., 1914-05-12
President Wilson Delivers Heartfelt EulOgy Over the Remains of the Nineteen Lads Who Fell in the Fighting During the Occupa- tiOn of Vera Cruz.
Business is Stilled in New York City While a Mourning Country Offers Silent Tribute to Those Who Gave Their Young Lives in in Service of Their Country.

left Vera Cruz with the bodies of their comrades
 The police escort headed the cor te5e and was followed by the naval battalions from the Wyoming and Texas. Then came the seventeen gun caissons carrying the dead. Each 'caisson was drawn by four horses, astride two of which rode members of the First and Second regiments of the field artillery. There was in ad- dition one mounted police escort for each caissou Four sailors on each side acted as pallbearers. These men, tanned from recent service ill Vera Cruz, had been called to New York especially for the services in memory of their dead comrades.
 Directly behind the caissons which stretched out their single file were the carriages of the president, Governor Glynn, Secretary Daniels, Mayor Mitchell and other distin- guished guests. The presence of the president in the procession came as surprise for it had been announced he would go direct from the Pennsyl- yania station to the navy yard.
 All along the route every vantage point was black with spectators. Windows, roofs, half completed steel frames of buildings were crowded. Three thousand policemen-o ey- cry ten feet held the crowd back on the sidewalk. But during the cere- mony there was not a suggestion of disorder
 As the procession entered City Hall plaza the voices of 800 children rose to meet them. The children sang Nearer My God to Thee"
 Mayor Mitchell briefly eulosized the dead and laid upon one of the caissons a huge wreath symbolizing the city's appreciation of the service rendered at Vera Crn2.
 After this brief halt the cortege resumed its measured progress over Manhattan bridge to the Brooklyn navy yard. The quiet and straint that had characterized the crowds in the streets, gave way as the process sion proceeded to the East Side and Brooklyn to storms of applause. Here it seemed that the presence of the president eclipsed the grief of the occasion. In the naval parade ground the demonstration found a small physical compass. Less than 10000 were able to pack themselves into the enclosure and face the stand where stood the president with barred head. Mayor Mitchell was at his right and Secretary Daniels of the navy at his left
 With sharp precision the blueiack cts, their white hats catching the dull sunlight, drew up into military formation before the stand. At the same time the seventeen caissOns draped with flags and banked in flowers, contributed by the comrades of the dead, were laid directly in front of the stand.
 A moment later the crowd was per mitted to enter and immediately it filled the entire field. The band of the battleship Texas played Nearer My God to Thee" and Naval Chaplain Cassard began his invocation. In re- ferring to the dead heroes he prayed it would not be necessary to make a further sacrifice on the altar of patriotism.
 Secretary Daniels then turned to the president and read the names of the nineteen men in whose honor the funeral was held and delivered brief eulogy.
 President Wilson stood with head bowed. His deeply lined face showed the grief and solemnity of the mo- ment But in general his appearance gave no indication of the recent strain at Washingt
 He delivered his eulogy of the dead in low. clear voice that carried 10 the farGhest parts of the field. It was followed by a prayer by Rabbi Stephen S. Wise and a benediction by Dr. John P. Chidwick, chaplain of the old battleship Maine.
 Three volleys fired by the marines