The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1914-05-15
nations TRIBUTE
TO Heroes
Funeral Services for Those
Who Fell at Vera Crvz.
More Than a Million People Saw
The Seventeen Flag
Draped Collins.

New York. May Ito the mel
of the navy who ditN in the occupa'
tion of. Vera Cruz the city, the s btt
and the nation paid tribute to-day in
a demonstration chiefly remarkable
for It's silence and solemmity. Fol
four mics through the city streets
the funeral cOrtege passed, and be-
hind it III an open carriage rode the
president. He sat for the mclst part
with head barred, though the May sun
beat down upon him and the mer-
curry climbed above seventy.
Perhaps 100000 persons saw
the seventeen collins, each ON a Gals
son. borne from the battery plaza in
Lower Manhattan to the navy yard
in Brooklyn. The procession was
nearly two hours i'm passing. Such
was the feeling of the massed thou
sands that a silence at times, partic-
ulaIH in the canyons of Lower
broadway, was oppressive.
There were a few sporadic out
bursts of applause as the presidents
carnage passed, but these were
quickly hushed. At Dey street came
the fiItst short burst of such applause
1t was started by a girl in white n
the sidewalk, who cIhped her
hands, doubtless from sheer ner-
vousness.
Though there were but seventeen
of the dead in the procession, Secre-
tary of the Navy Daniels made it
plain that the ceremonies were for
all who had died at Vera Cruz, not
only the seventeen whose bodies
We're brought UP by the Montana,
but also for Clarence Harshberger
and Henry Pulllam who have since
died.
The religious ceremonies at the
navy yard We're more impressive, if
possible, than was the sight of the
cOrteg.e
II was never in a battle Or under
fire. sad President Wilson in his
brief address. "but l fancy it is just
as hard to do your duty when men
are sneeing at you, for when they
shoot at you they take your natural
Life and when they sneeT ut you they
wound your heart.
I'VE have gone to MeYico," he
said, lin another part of his address,
Ito serve mankind IL we can find the |
way We don't want to fight the
Mexicans; We want to serve them.
"A war of aggression is not a |
thing in which 1t is proud to die, but |
war of service is a war i'm which it |
IS a proud thing to die"
Throughout the procession mount
I'd police closely surrounded the
PRESIDENT in a hollow square, a Sc
,ret service man rode on tn ebox
with a gray-hared coachman, and
others marched behind and beside
he vehicle. Seated in the carriage
whit Mr.. Wilson were Secretary Tu-
nufty and his physician and naval
tide, DR.. Cary Gayson. At the city
lall. where the cortege halted while
iayor Mitchell placed the city's
sreatil on a coffin and delivered a
hor5 speech, the mayor stepped
hrcugh the crowd aud enterdl the
residents carriage. He rode with
i'm to the navy yard.
AS the procession passed the part
y competed Equitable structure. on
over Broadway,a strange sight met
he presidents gaze. Above him,
Ter upon tier. were scaled more
nan thousand worhmen in their
vcrslis. Wish the ease that tine r
tll.ng brings, they bestr>tie beams {
nd g.rlers, high above the side
AK and from their point OF van
ige thiy looked down upon the
ass'ng cortege.
Many waved the.r hands. the 7
resident looking up. litted his Ina, G
nd smiled. is
President Wilson stood ut the a
.aplain's right and Secntary DAN a
Is AZ his left. When the chaplain v
ldcd his prayed he stopped back. b
avng Secretary Daniels and the o
facing each other at the I;
on OF the platform. Then the c
'cre:ary rec:ted the nanies CT aGne-
en- nes In whose honer ybe ser-S