Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1914 — MILLION PERSONS PAY SILENT TRIBUTE [ARTICLE]

MILLION PERSONS PAY SILENT TRIBUTE

New York City Suspends Business To Pay Tribute to Bluejackets Who Lost Lives. Seventeen caskets born oh caissons from the'battery and followed by a carriage containing PresidentWilson and a procession four miles long composed the funeral cortege of the seventeen 'marines and bluejackets who lost their lives in the occupation of Vera Cruz. The procession was impressive because of its silence and solemnity, and while New York was paying the tribute to the young patriots who lay down their lives for their country, the nation at large joined in the ceremony by feeling the sadness of the relatives of the martyrs to the cause of a new Mexico. The religious ceremony was held at the navy yard. President Wilson took part in the service. He said in part: “I have never been in battle under fire, but I fancy it is just as hard to do your duty when men are sneering at you, for When they shoot at you they take your natural life and When they sneer at you they wound your heart. We have gone to Mexico to serve mankind if we can find the way. We don’t want to fight the Mexicans; we want to serve them. A war of aggression is not a thing in Which it is proud to die, but a war of service is a thing in which it is a proud thing to die.” The names of the young men who lost their loves at Vera Cruz are: Louis Frank Boswell, chief gunner’s mate, battleship Michigan, Ooulterville, 111. Gabriel Defabbio, gunner’s mate, battleship New* Jersey, Batavia, N. Y. Francis P. DeLoury, seaman, battleship New Hampshire, Pittsburg. Frank Devorick, ordinary seaman, battleship South Carolina, BJiakesburg, lowa. Elzie C. Fisher* ordinary seaman, battleship New Hampshire, Forest, Miss. Louis Oscar Fried, ordinary seaman, battleship Arkansas, Gretna, La. E. H. Prohlichistein, seaman, battleship New Hampshire, Mobile, Ala. Daniel Haggerty, private marine corps, Cambridge, Mass. Dennis J. Lane, seaman, battleship New Hampshire, New York city. Samuel Marten, private marine corps, Chicago. Rufus E. Percy, private marine corps, Concord, N. H. George Poinsett, seaman, battleship Florida, Philadelphia. John F. Sdhumached, coxswain,' battleship Florida, Blooklyn. Charles Allen Smith, ordinary seaman, battleship New Hampshire; Philadelphia. Alban Eric Stream, ordinary seaman, battleship New Jersey, Brooklyn. Randolph Summerlin, private marine Corps, Wilocoochee, Ga. Walter L. Watson, ordinary seaman, Orleans, Mass. Of these fourteen will be sent from the navy yard to relatives. The bodies of three— .Percy and Watson—will be taken back on the Montana for removal to New England.