The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-09
ESCORT OFF TO MEET
FUNERAL ship TO-DAY
Wyoming Leaves This Morning
TO Await Montana OFF
Ambrose Channel.
MAYFLOWER TO BE CONVOY
Original Plan Regarding Part
to BE Taken by Presidents
Yacht Retained.

The battleship Wyoming. now at the
Brooklyn navy yard. was ordered by the
Navy Department to leave at O'Clock
this morning instead of waiting until to-
morrow to meet the cruiser Montana
bearing the bodies OF the seventeen
marines and sailors killed AZ Vera Cruz
or the Ambrose llghtship and escort the
vessel to the Battery.
Another change in the programme came
In a message from Washington to Capt.
Albert y. Gleaves. commandant OF the
Brooklyn navy yard. that the President =
yacht Mayhower. with Secretary Daniels
of the Navy and Secretary Houston OF
the Department OF Agriculture aboard,
would meet the Montana off the Virginia
Capcs. as first planned. and act as con-
Noy up the coast. The Mayfower, til,
Montana and the Wyoming will be me-
at Sandy Hook by navy tug The three
larger vessels will come to anchor In
midstream off the Battery about the mid
die OF sunday afternoon.
The rest Of the arrangements az an.
nounccd in THE Sun yesterday will stand
unless some unforeseen contingency arises
secretary Daniels II expected to land at
the Battery to meet the President and
the officials and guests at 80 o'clock
on Monday morning while the bodies
TO the caissons on Pier a.
The funeral procession. starting from
the Battery at o'clock. will be composed
as follows: Mounted police escort COM
btned bands from the Texas and
wyoming. a battalion OF marines and
sailors from the Wyoming, Lieutenant
Commander G. II. Miller in command
a battalion OF marines and sailors from
the Texas. under Lieutenant Commander
Timnons one battalion OF the Naval
Militia. the seventeen calssons bearing
the Vera Cruz dead President Wilson,
Admiral Dewey. Secretary Daniels. Sec
rotary Garrison. Secretary Houston, Cant
Gleaves. Gov. Glynn. Mayor Mitchell, the
Congressional committee. a delegation Of
the citizens committee. other Officials
and guests In carriages.
There will he about 500 marines and
bluejackets In tn" two battalons and 800
members of the Naval Militia combined
from the First and Second battalions in
the city. The Naval Militia may also have
its regimental band. Among the off-
Gals Will lie four stan officers of the
Department OF the East on Governors
Island and delegation OF officers OF the
National Guard, including Major-cen.
organ, Brig. ten. Dyer. Col x. Foster
Walton. CO.. Henry :. Sternberger, Col
Cornelius Vanderbilt Col. George W. Win
gate col Frank II. Norton and col DAN
~. Appleton
Tie ceremony at the city Hai; plaza
abou, 80 is TO be very brief The Gals
sons Will form in a line in front ~ city
HAL with the official carriages on each
side. Five hundred school children on
IN" City Hall steps Will sing NEARER
My God. 10 Thee" aud perhaps another
hymn before the procession passes to Cen
tire street to Canal street and over the
Manhattan Bridge. The Mayor will 10,
make - speech.
the navy yard the Tennessee will IRE the
national salute. twenty-ons guns. The
order OF services in the yard will he as
&. Cassard. chaplai OF Annapolis fu-
neral Grafton by the President. prayer Ny
Rabbi Wise. benedIction by Father John
T. Chadwick. chaplain OF the navy yard
and formerly chaplain OF the battleshlp
M.iuc. Tn" services probably will not
take more Than half an hour.
Mayor Mitchell requests that between
the hours of and 10 on Monday morn
ing while the bodies are being taken from
Pier \ to Brooklyn all church bells in
the city Toe tollcd and that flags on all
public and private buildings be at half
mast all day
Cen Horace Porter. chairman Of the
citizens committee, appointed the follow
ing subcommittee To- meet the bodies AZ
the per and take part IN the parad. pr.
Nicholas Murray BUTLER Joseph II. thoate.
Eobort Fulton cutting, A. Barton Hep
burn. Seth Low. j l.. Morgan Gen. An
son -. McCook. H. Fairfield Osborn. DR.
ST clair McKelway and Isaac y. Selig-
man.