The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-11

tru0Ye0 national gu4fo8m4u. Inc
stars and stripes alone covered the
caskets.
Behind the last caisson came the
carriage bearing the president, DR..
Grayson and Secretary Tumulty.
Order OF the Procession.
No. 1-Secretary Of tie navy; Gov
ernor Glynn: Lieutenant Commander
Jones. U. g. N.
No. 2Assistant Secretary Of the
Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt; president
OF the board of aldermen. George Nc
Aneny.
No. s-Rear Admiral A. Fiske. U. s.
N: Lieutenant Colonel Cornelius Van
derbilt. and other national guard Of
No. 4Collector Of the port Of New
York. Dudley, Field Malone: Brigadier
General George Barnett, U. 8. N. c.:
Captain William D. McDoushal. U. s. N.
er Mayor Seth Low; Surgeon General
William C. Brainsted. u. 8. N; Corpora
ton Counsel F. L. Polk.
Nos. 6 to SLDr. Nicholas Murray
Butler. president OF Columbia univer-
sfty: Joseph III. Choate. A. Barton Hep
burn. DIR. Ct. Clair McKelway and 9TH
ers. s9s
No. e-Police Commissioners Arthur
Woods; the mayor Of ChicAgo'D COM
mittee.
No. 10-Congressional committee.
No. q to N-State legislative commit
tee.
No. Is to s6-Onicers from Governors
Island and navy yard.
Landing of the Dead.
Never had the Battery witnessed such
a scene an today's. Noiselessly, almost.
tugs nosed up to pier A, and with pre-
cision that IL the navys the seventeen
H.
sions. Immediately the blue5acketa
who were to march began to assemble.
The men from the Texas came by tug.
from the navy yard, whence their ship
was to sail, later in the day, for Mexi-
can waters. The Wyomings men came
ashore in their own boats. 1t was the
Wyoming that conveyed the funeral
outlined in lights, she swung at anchor
800 yards ahead Of the Montana's bow.
The c0rtegez hogan to- move At
O'clock, the ships bands playing a fun
eral march: bluejackets with arms re-
| Wersed. The crowd stood with barred
heads. silent. Through lower Broadway
1sAt Old TEted1s chneee and into. The 2
| AT City hall, the columns and portico
of which were draped in black. the
cortege halted while Mayor Mitchell
placed upon a caisson q wreath OF or
chids. the city's tribute. As he did 80
the bluejackets stood at present arms
and 800 school children sang Nearer.
My God. to Thee" Gathered at the
city hall were perhaps 10000 spectators.
From there the route lay north, across
Manhattan bridge to Brooklyn and the
navy yards where the ceremonies were
simple and comparatively brief. After
an invocation by Chaplain William G.
Cassard Of Annapolis came President
Wilson's address. Prayer by Rabbi
Stephen 8. Wise and Father John p
Chadwick. chaplain OF the Maine
three volleys by q detachment of ma
rines from the Texas and Taps by q
bugler completed the program.
List Of tho Dead.
The dead from Vera Cruz are:
Boswell, Louis Frank, chief xunner'a
mate. battleship Michigan. Coulter
Vile, Ill.
Defabbio. Gabriel A.. gunners' mate
battleship New Jersey. Batavia. N. Y,
De Lowrey. Francis p. seaman. bat
tleship New Hampshire, Chicago.
| Devorfck. Frank. ordinary seaman
battleship South Carolina. Blakesburg
Iowa.
Fisher. Elsie c.. ordinary seaman
battleship New Hampshire. Forest
Miss.
Fried. Louis oscar ordinary seaman
| battleship Arkansas, Gretna. La
Frohlischstein, E. H., seaman, bat
tleship New Hampshire. Mobile. Ala.
Haggarty. Daniel Aloysius. private
marine corps. Cambridge. Mass.
Lane. Dennis J., seaman. battleshir
New Hampshire, New York city.
| Marten, Samuel, private, marine
corps. Chicago
Percy, RUFUS Edward. private. ma.
rine corps. Concord. N. H.
Poinsett, George. seaman, battleshir
Florida, Philadelphia.
Schumacher. John F.. coxswain. bat.
| tleship Florida, Brooklyn.
NTH. Charles Allen. ordinary sea-
| man, battleship New Hampshire. Phil.
adelphia.
| Stream, Albin Eric ordinary seaman
battleship New Jersey, Brooklyn.