New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-21

which he never had tired OF playing on
his talking machine at home. was sung
by double quartet. The singing had
been included in the service at the
suggestion of Secretary Daniels. Lead,
Kindly Light" which had been Presi-
dent Mckinley's favorite among hymns,
and Abide with Me" completed the
musical programme.
The midshipmen led again when the
cortege resumed its march toward
Arlington. Their enlisted band. march
ing ahead. played dirRe until IL had
passed out of the Capitol grounds,
then struck up lively quickstep. The
sailor band and Marine Band further
back in the cortege, made the same
change in cadence as they turned into
Pennsylvania Avenue, for the service
has come TO realize that slow music
cannot bring back the dead.
Caisson Follows Military
In the wake Of the military. with
their crape-hung standards, came the
caisson and the fag-draped coffin. The
rear was brought up by open carriages
in which rode most of those who had
been in the rotunda.
Once the journey TO thS Virginia end
OF Aqueduct Bridge had been accom-.
plished the marchers were permitted to
fall into route step, for they had then
been on parade for more than three
hours. Besides, on the long, uphill
1 road leading TO the Fort Myer reserva-
ton. there were few onIookers.
II was shortly after noon when the
I gates Of Fort Myer swallowed the head
Of the cortege The leading band began
cOft 70 nj ffhnntnfo IN
March" and at the same moment gun
doomed and a puff of smoke curled over
I the hill from which Fort Myers batter
| les dominate water and land approaches
to the Capital City.
Once a minute for nineteen minutes,
/ punctuating the dirge like the beating
/ of giant bass drum, there was the
I same boom, and the same cloud OF
| smoke hoated skyward. II was the
| nineteen-gun salute, which was being
given to the dead hero by Secretary
| Daniels's command--the secretary's sa-
/ lutte instead Of the seventeen gun sa-
! Lutte, which is the admiraPs right By
regulation, At the same time the same
! salute was laundering wherever on the
seven seas the warships of the United
| States Navy might be.
Through the reservation and into the
cemetery the procession wended, TO the
accompaniment Of Chopin and the guns
Passed Graves Of Heroes
The caisson. moving toward the rest
| ing place Of its burden, passed hrst
region in which little white slabs grew
/ out Of the ground in mathematical pre-
cision. Beneath them was the fightlng
stock OF the Civil War. IL passed the
/ simple monument which marks the
grave of Thomas Ellwood Rose, who, by
! It's legend, engineered and executed
the Libby Prison tunnel" only to be re-
captured while following his compsn'
| ions back into the protection oil the
Union lines; it passed the grave Oh
| Midshipman Jimmy" Cruise, who,
PREVIOUSLY wounded when a turret gun
aboard the bsttleship Georgia back
! fired in 1907, said: "Never mind me.
| I'm all right. Look after my men,
These are random samples of the
kind Of men who lie in Arlington
| Dewey's own kind.
II was an uphill road all the way
that the cortege followed, and IL was at
| the crest of the highest hill that u
stopped. There General Nelson A.
Miles has built himself a mausoleum,
in which it had been arranged Admiral
Dewey's body should lie until final
resting place was decided on.
Approaching it, the caisson again
nessed through a lane Of blue-clsd
hmiddies" standing at present.
Around the msusoleum were count
Hess stands and wreaths Of flowers, sent
NV government departments. service
officers, diplomats, patriotic societies
and other friends.
Wreath from President
But after the commttsl service had
been read by Chaplain Frazier and the