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Show BODIES Of Last Sad Rites For the Victims of the Maine - Havana, Cuba, March 36. The funeral fu-neral rites connected with the sinking sink-ing of the battleship Maine and with carrying to their last resting place the bodies of many of her gallant sailors wore the center of Interest here today. The old battleship was to be sunk In the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, the smoko of the saluting guns of war vessels serving for a funeral shroud, while with national mourning the bodies bod-ies of the sailors were started on their journey to Washington, Followed in procession byxthe president pres-ident of tho Cuban ropub'llc and by other high dignitaries and amid a concourpo of all classes of Cubans and American citizens, the dead of the Maine wore borne on tho shoulders of Cuban sailors and artillerymen through the streets of Havana. Cuban infantry infan-try lined the sidewalks on which a great multitude reverently uncovered as the bodies passed from the mortuary mortu-ary chamber In the palace to the harbor. har-bor. There they wore placed In the custody of officers of the United States navy. . s lhecaskots7 draped with Cuban and American flags and covered with flowers, wore borne out, a guard, of honor saluted and all along tho lino-tho lino-tho saluto was continuous until the procession reached the harbor. At the harbor itsolf stood a guard of honor of Spanish-American war veterans, and facing these was another guard of honor of Cuban soldiers. The othor great function, the sinking sink-ing of the wreck of the Maine, was set for this afternoon The old battleship, bat-tleship, her decks hidden beneath great masses of floral offerings, and escorted by warships bolonglng to the United Stales navy and tho Cuban nary, na-ry, was to be towed out to sea. Under tho salutes of cannon from the Cabanas Cab-anas fortress, she proceeded to find (Continued on Pago Six.) on THE. DEAD (Continued from Page One.) her last resting placo in tho unsounded unsound-ed depths of the Gulf of Mexico. Funeral Services In Washington., Washington, March 1C Elabqratoj plans have been made for tho fune-l ral services for the Maine's dead, here j next Saturday. President Taft, mem-' hers of hl3 cabinet and other government govern-ment officials will attend the open air .services at tho south front of the state, war and navy building, Bus- . iness In tho capital will be suspended. suspend-ed. Leaving tho Maine at her last resting rest-ing place at tho bottom of the sea today, tho cruisers North Carolina and Birmingham headed direct for Hampton Roads, Va. Arriving there, the caskots containing contain-ing tho recovered remains of sixty-five sixty-five of tho warship's crew, will bo transferred to the Birmingham and brought to tho Washington navy yard Tho Birmingham Is duo here Friday. Fri-day. Saturday tho oaskojR will be placed on flag decked army caissons and escorted es-corted to tho sceno of the funeral services by blue-jackots, marines and soldiers from nearby stations. After tho services, tho funeral procession will re-form for the marcn to Arlington national cemetery, where already many of tho Maine's victims He buried. |