Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-05-11

'dTduS mas Iner6 Deen Sucn SpOE-
yer. was noisy tribute to a returns
lie returning dead.
The weather for the occasion could
not have been better. The sky was
almost eloudless. and there was j1ist
enough breeze to stiffen. afloat and
ashore, the thousands of flags which
flew at half-mast Silent thousands.
long before s O'Clock, began making
their way toward lower Manhattan:
others massed about the City Hall
where the procession was to half
briefly; still others lined the ap-
proaclles TO the Manhattan bridge.
and finally a great throng gathered
at the navy yard, where eulogieS
were to be paid. Many wore little
black upon their sleeves
President in Procession.
President Wilson arrived in tbs
city from Washington shortly after 7
O'Clock almost unobserved. He waS
taken Immediately to the home of his
friend, Colonel E. NJ House, and 20
the Battery to take place in the pro-
cession.
It had at first been arranged that
the President was to go TO the navy
/ yard to receive the nations dead on
government ground, but at the last
moment Mr.. Wilson changed his mind
and was driven to the Battery so a.
TO participate in the ceremonies from
beginning TO end. When he reached
| the Battery the fero-dead were upo1,
! gun caissons, police had lined the
way and the procession was ready 70
move.
Twenty-four picked mounted poiics
| led the way. Behind them were thu
| combined bands of the dreadnoughtsz
! Wyoming and Texas, and 500 blife
! Jackets from these ships.
Next came the coffins, in single file.
At the side of each rode policeman.
and at the corner of each caissor
| trudged a National Guardsrnan. The
| stars and Stripes alone covered the
caskets.
Behind the last caisson came the
carriages bearing the President, the
secretary of the navy. senator's con-
gressmen and representatives Of the
state and city. They moved IN the
following order:
| No. president Wilson, DIR. Gray
son. his physician, and Secretary Tu-
multy.
No. 2-Seeretary of the Navy, Cor
ernor Glynn, Lieutenant-Cominandtr
Jones, L. S. y.
No. S-Assistant Secretary OF the
Navy. Franklin D. Roosevelt; Pres
| ident of the Board of Alderman
George McAneny.
No. Rear Admiral Bradley A.
| Fiske, Z. s. n: Lieutenant-C Colonel
Cornelius Vanderbilt and other Ma
tional Guard officers.
No. collector of the Port OF New
York Dudley Field Malone. Briga-
dier-General George Barnett o. s.
NJ. C; Captain William D. AIcDou-
gal Z. S. n.
No. e-General Horace Porter, for
mer Mayor Seth Low, Surgeon-Gen-
eral William c. Braisted, u. S. N.
Corporation Counsel Frank l. Polk
Nos. to 9-Dr. Nicholas Murray
Butler. president of the Colurn bia.
University; Joseph H. Choate, A
Barton Hepburn. DR.. ST. Clair Nc
kelway and others.
| No. 10-Police Commissioner Arthur
Woods. the Mayor of Chicago's COM
mittee.
| Nos. II to 21-congresslonal COM
mittee.
Nos. p to Estate legislative com-
mittee.
Nos. 20 TO 37-Oh1cers from Cover
nor's Island Navy Yard.
Crowd Bares Heads.
Never had the Battery witnessed
such a scene as today's. Noiseiessiy.
almost, tugs nosed up TO Pier A, and
with a precision that is the navyts
the seventeen dead We're landed
grouped on the caissons. Immediate
ly the bluejackets who were to march
| began 10 assemble. The men from the
Texas came by tug from the navy
yard, whence their ship was 70 sal
later in the day for Mexican waters.
their own boats. 1t was the Wyorn-
ing that conveyed the funeral ship
into the harbor yesterday. and all
night long outlined in lights. she
swung al anchor 800 yards ahead Of
the Montana's bow.
The eortege began to move at .
o'clock, the ships bands playing a.
funeral march; bluejackets with arms
reversed. The crowd stood with
barred heads, silent. Through the sky
scrapeF canon Of lower Broadway,
! past Old Trinity Church and into the
City Hall plaza the procession passed.
At City Hall. whose columns and
portico We're draped in black the cor
tege halted. while Mayor Nitche
placed upon a caisson a wreath Of or
chids. the city's tribute. Is he did so
the bluejackets stood at present arnia.
and 500 school children sang Near
! NV ArNu. 10 tHet- trdlhtreU at the
City Hall were perhaps 10000 epecta-
tors.
Services at Navy Yard
From there the route lay nortn.
across Manhattan bridge to Brooklsn
and the navy yard There the cere-
4 monies, as arranged, were simple
and comparatively brief. hymn -
the baftieship bands. and invocatioas
by Chaplain William G. Cassard, of
Annapolis; then President Wilson, j.
address. Prayers by Rabbi Stephen
S. Wise and Father John p. Child
wick, chaplain of the Maine Three
volleys fired by a detachment Of ma
rines from the Texas, and stapA ~
bugler concluded the prn,ram.