Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-13
DEAD OF THE MAINE
TO RECEVE TRIBUTE
Memorial Exercises Thursday
Under Auspices of District
Spanish War Veterans
IN FORT MYER RIDING HALL

| Memorial services in commemoration
of the sailors who lost their lives on
the battleship Maine in Havana harbor
in 1898 will be held in the riding hall
at Fort Myer, Va, Thursday, beginning
at 2:30 pm.
| Lee H. Harris, commander of the De-
partment of the District of Columbia
United Spanish War Veterans. has COM
pleted arrangements for the ceremonies
and issued orders for the occasion. He
announces that Capt. D. v. Chisholm
communicated chief of the United Span
ish War Veterans, will deliver pa
triotic address. and men of public prom
inence in the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the United States will
be on the program.
| The Secretary of the Navy is CO.
operating with Commander Harris and
will detail service men from the Dol
phin, the Marine Corps and other units
to assist in carrying out the naval sec
ton of the program.
Admiral Sigsbee Invited.
Rear Admiral Charles d. Sigsbee Gre
tiredD has been requested to be pres
ent, and as an active member of the
Spanish War Veterans, under whom the
exercises are being conducted. it is ex-
pected that he will be present.
The committees in charge of the
ceremonies are as follows:
Executive committee-H. c. Wilson
chairman; Samuel G. Mawson, J. Q. A
Braden, James +. Maynard, ]. f. Will
son, w. L. Mattocks. Jere A Costello
Lee II. Harris, c. J. P. Weber and Will
| liam Heritage.
Master of ceremonies - Commander
Lee II. Harris.
Reception committee-H. B. Coulter
chairman ]. Q. A. Braden, c. J. P
Murphy, j. E. Wilson, j. w. Hartman
and John A. Gallagher.
Maine Memorial auxiliaries-
Auxiliary, U. S. w. v: Lineal Society OF
the Spanish War, Woman's Relief Corps
Of the Grand Army of the Republic.
Program of Exercises.
The program for the occasion is as
follows: Overture. L. S. S. Dolphin
Band: call to order, Lee II. Harris. com
mander, Department of the District OF
Columbia United Spanish War Veter-
ans: presentation of colors, color guard
of the U. s. S. Dolphin; The Star Span
gled Banner" band of the U. S. S. Dol
php; invocation, Capt. G. Livingston
BaSard, chaplain, United States Navy
Cover Them over With Beautiful
Flowers Parks) will be rendered by
the Capital Quartet, composed of w. f
Braithawaite. A. NJ. Petersen. A. l.
Kienhoff and Benjamin A. Lineback
address, by Carlos Manuel de Cespedes
envoy extraordinary and minister plen-
| ipotentiary from Cuba; selection, banG
of the u. S. s. Dolphin; address, Capt
D. V. Chisholm, commanderin-c chief OF
the United Spanish War Veterans; The
Flower of Freedom" Ian ode to the
fag), Capital Quartet; address. Byron
K. Newton, assistant secretary of the
Treasury: selection, band of the U, S. S
Dolphin; address, Andrew ]. Huntoon
special representative of the command
er-in-chief of the Grand Army of the
Republic; selection, Capital Quartet
salute of three volleys, sailors from the
L, S. S. Dolphin; taps. trumpeter from
the L. S. S. Dolphin; dismissal.
Spanish war veterans employed in the
government departments are to be re-
leased from their official duties at moor
Thursday, to permit them to attend the
ceremonies in Arlington and elsewhere
in commemoration of the blowing up OF
the Maine in Havana harbor February
Is, 1898. Such orders have been given
generally throughout the various de-
partments.