New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-05-08
President to Lead Process
sion from Funeral Ship
and Pay Last Tribute.
NAVAL HEROES DUE
HERE ON SUNDAY
All Craft In Harbor to Dip Colors
as Montana Comes to Anchor
Off Battery.

President Wilson. IL was announced yes
terday. will ride at the head OF the fu-
neral procession Monday OF the seven
teen marines and sailors killed in Vera
Cruz. He will make the funeral grafton
in the navy yard, TO which the public is
invited.
Accompanying the President at the
head OF the procession. as II moves up
Broadway from the battery will he Ad-
nirsl Dewey. Josephus Daniels. Secre-
tary Of the Navy, Lindley NJ. Garrison.
Secretary OF War, and Congressional
committee
Instead OF a brief ceremony, involving
no war honors. as was first intended, the
plans approved yesterday call for ma
t!onal tribute 10 the naval heroes that will
be the most solemnly picturesque process
sional in New York since the Spanish
war.
In it will he the heads OF the nation,
state and city. Representatives OF Con-
gress, the army. navy and militia, all
paving tribute TO the first OF those TO die
for the United States while under arms in
Mexico. Officially they died doing police
duty. but in the funeral procession Mon
day they will receive full war honors.
Wyoming Funeral Ship Escort.
On SUNDAY afternoon the cruiser Mon
tana. bearing the bodies, Will be met by
the Dreadnought Wyoming and escorted
10 the Battery. There, after her long
run from Vera Cruz. the Montana Will
anchor. some 800 yards off the sea wall
No one will be permitted TO board her
and navy launches will keep visiting
craft away. The seventeen steel cofflns
will not be disturbed until Monday morn
ing. The police. anticipating crowds at
the Battery 10 see the funeral ship, have
made special arrangements to prevent
disorder
Some hours later the yacht Mayrower.
with Secretary Daniels aboard, will come
up the harbor and anchor near the Mon
tsna and the Wyoming. II was not
known Yesterday If the Wyoming would
salute ii being Sunday The official sew
enteen guns may he fred in the morning.
AS the Montana comes up the harbor
steamships OF all nations will dip their
colors and all flags on the forts will be
put at half-staff.,
Monday morning. at $50, the seventeen
dead will be taken from the Montana In !
navy tugs TO Pier A, a the Battery. /
where seventeen caissons. heaped with I
flowers and drawn by four horses each. |
will be in waiting 4 room IN Pier is |
ready for the heaps of flowers sent by |
sailors Of the battleship Florida.
Yesterday Commandant Gleaves OF the .
navy yard requested that no more flow
ers be sent to the navy yard, but rather
to Pier A, in care of Dock Commissioner
Smith. who has charge Of the floral trib-
utes.
Procession Starts at 9 o'clock.
The procession will move up Broadway
10 City Hall Park, where brief stop will
be made: then up Centre st. TO Canal ST..
over Manhattan Bridge and down Flush
ing av to the marine barracks gate of the
navy yard.
As the President enters the yard the
battleshp Tennessee will salute with
twenty-one guns. He will go at once TO a
raised platform, where he will make the
funeral GRAFTON.
Work on the city's representation in
honor of the Vera Cruz dead was COM
pleted yesterday with the naming of the
full committee that will escort the bodies
Mayor Names Committee.
Bridge Commissioner kracke issued an
order discontinuing traffic over the Man
haitian Bridge between 9:l5 and II O'Clock
Monday morning. The lower arch OF the
bridge will be 6raped in mourning. Mayor
Mitchell appointed a citizens committee
yesterday to aid in the ceremony. The
committee includes: