The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-05-07
|PLANS FOR HEROES
RECEPTION ARRANGED
Bodies Of Vera Cruz Dead to
Arrive at Battery Mon
day at 8 A. NJ.
PORTER HEADS COMMITTEE
Funeral Procession will March
to City Hall and From
There to Navy Yard.

Conferences between Capt Gleaves.
commandant Of the navy yard. and mem
bers Of Mayor Mitchers temporary COM
mittee OF five gave definite form yester-
day to the plans for receiving the bodies
Of the sailors and marines killed at Vera
Cruz when they arrive here on Monday
morning.
The cruiser Montana with the bodies
aboard will reach New York some time
Sunday afternoon. She will stay down
the bay until early Monday morning,
when she will proceed to an anchorage
on the Battery. conveyed by the battle
ship Wyoming and tho Mayfower. the
Presidents yacht.
The bodies will then he landed at Pier
a. North River. from where the process
sion through the city streets will go to
the navy yard. Here are the details Of
the reception as they have been so far
arranged by the Navy apartment and
Mayor Mitchel's representatives:
The Montana will arrive at Pier 4 at
o'clock on Monday morning carrying
seventeen bodies. The three bodies OF
residents OF New England will remain
aboard the ship which will start for Bos-
ton with them in the afternoon.
Gen. Horace Porter has accepted the
Mayors invitation to head the committee
Of citizens which will receive the bodies.
The names OF the other members will
be announced this afternoon.
The general committee will be as
sisted by the temporary committee
named yesterday. consisting of George
McAneny. President OF the Board Of
Aldermen. chairman; Police Commits
sioner Woods, Dock Commissioner II. \.
c. Smith Corporation Counsel Frank L.
Polk and the Mayors secretary, Theo-
dore Rousseau.
President Wilson will arrive from
Washington in the morning and will pro-
coed at once to the navy yard
The line OF march will be from Pier A
up broadway to the City Hall plaza.
where there will be "A stop OF twenty
minutes for ceremonies yet 10 be ar
ranged. up Park Row to Centre street
to Canal street over the Manhattan
Bridge to Nassau street in Brooklyn. lef,
down Flushing avenue to the marine
barracks gate at the navy yard.
The religious exercises over the bodies
will be held at IL o'clock on the marine
parade grounds on the Flushing avenue
side OF the navy yard
President Wilson will deliver the only
address. The religious ceremonies will be
conducted by a navy chaplain yet 10 he
selected.
The fourteen bodies will he carried
upon caissons TO be furnished by the
FIRST Battery of Field Artillery. y. q.
" Y, with an escort for each body from
the same organization.
The bodies will be escorted by detach-
ment of marines and sailors numbering
500 from the Texas and the Wyoming
Other military organizations will par,ici-
pate. including the Naval Militia. which
will send a full battalion. There will be
a company OF policemen. No civil or
CARNATIONS Will take part In the process
sion.
At the City Hall organizations which
wish TO take part will be assigned to
positions by the Mayors committee. II
is possible that the Mayor will make
brief speech. that a chorus OF 500 school
children will sing the national air and
that the caissons will pass between rows
OF Spanish war veterans.
Flags will be at half mast all over the
city and public buildings will be in
mourning dress. Bridge Commissioner
Kracke expects to deck the approaches
To the Manhattan Bridge in black
The city will appropriate $500. which