The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-05-11
THE HEROIC DEAD
Nor shall glory be forgot
While Fame her record keeps,
Or honor points the haliowed spot,
Where VaIor proudly sleeps.
Theodore O'Hara.
(RY LEASED wIRE1


NEW YORK, May 11-Nation, state
and city united today in tribute OF
reverence to the American sailors and
marines who gave their lives for their
country in the fighting at Vera Cruz.
While church bells tolled a requiem
President Wilson, Governor Glynn and
Mayor John Puroy Mitchell led a dem
onstration of patriotic mourning with
out parallel since the war days OF
1898.
Seventeen flag-drapped coffins con-
tanning the bodies of those who died
fighting for the Stars and Strips in the
present Mexican trouble, were brought
in solemn state aboard United States
cruiser to this port. and today their
grateful countrymen, from the chief
executive down to the humblest citi-
zen did homage to their memory.
Early today the seamen of the cruis-
er Montana silently lowered the cof-
fins, one by one, over the ships side
to tugs on which they were brought
ashore to be placed on gun caissons at
military funeral.
Battery Park Crowded.
Battery park was black with a crowd
aggregating many thousands long be-
fore the hour set for the opening cere-
4
hot sun shining through a thin mist
gave an uncomfortable touch Of hui
midity.
AS the caskets, each covered with a
great starry flag, were place on Pier
A, the men, women and children pack
| ed closely behind the police lines.
watched silently and reverently with
barred heads.
All of the bodies had been trans
ferred before Secretary of the Navy
Daniels, with his staff, left the yacht
Mayflower, which escorted the funeral
ship from the Virginia capes to the
port of New York. The landing of
secretary Daniels was the signal for
the ceremonies. President Wilson, &C
companied by his secretary, Joseph
Tumulty and DIR. Cary T. Grayson, ar
rived over the Pennsylvania railroad
from Washington at 7:13. An automo-
bile met the presidential party at the
Pennsylvania station. and Mr.. Wilson
was taken to the home of his friend,
Colonel f, NJ. House, for breakfast.
Wilson Reviews Parade.
1t was then announced that Mr. Will
son had changed his plans for the
day. Instead of going direct to the
Brooklyn navy yard, as he originally
intended, he said he would review the
funeral cortege from one of the stands
in front of the city hall, going to the
navy yard afterward to deliver his
funeral Grafton.
With a precision born of long prac-
tice, the sailors and marines of the
battleship Texas, who were assigned
to escort the bodies to the Brooklyn
navy yard, formed into line of march
at Pier A. beginning at $50 O'Clock.
Half an hour was allotted to the Of
ficers to get the lines formed. Fol
lowing the sailors were members of
the various military and civic organ
izations who took part in the pro-
cession.
Headed by twenty-four mounted po-
licemen the cortege then moved be
tween a solid line of faces, thanking
Broadway on both sides. toward the
city hall. The makeup of the cor
tege was as follows: Mounted police,
combined bands from the battleships
Wyoming and Texas. battalion of blue
jackets from the Wyoming, battalion
of bluejackets from the Texas, militia
band, battalion from the naval mill
tia, caissons with bodies thanked by
riders and national guardsmen, car
riages containing distinguished repre-
sentatives of the United States govern
ment, tne navy. tne army. ana New
York city, and detachment of mount
ed police.
Parade Is Simple.
There have been large and great
parades in New York. Had it been de-
sired there might have been one of the
greatest civic and military turn-outs
the city ever saw; but the idea of ev-
cry one. from the president of the
United States down. was to have the
cortege and everything connected with
the memorial. as compact and as sim
pie as possible. This made it more
impressive.
Throughout the city all flags were
at half-mast. In addition to the enor-
nous crowd which thronged Broad
| way, Park Row and Main street,
street, around city hall, there were
! three hundred Spanish-American war
| veterans. two hundred members of the
civil committee, eight hundred school
children and several hundred dele
gates from patriotic associations. AS
the funeral passed the children sang
| Nearer My God to Thee"
Place Wreath on Caisson.
After delivering his funeral grafton,
Mayor Mitchell placed a wreath upon
one of the caissons. the being symbolic
of New York City's tribute of honor
and sorrow.
From city hall the route of the pro-
cession was through Center and Canal
streets and across Manhattan bridge