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Show HEROIC DEAD OF THE MAINE ARE HONORED WASHINGTON. Feb. 15. -Memories of the men who were plunged to sudden sud-den death when the battleship Maino went down in the waters of Havana harbor, eleven 3'ears ago today, were honored in song and stor today in observance ob-servance of tho day by the military, religion? re-ligion? and patriotic bodies-Beautiful bodies-Beautiful and impressive were the ceremonies nt St. Patrick's Catholic church where a militar3' mass was celebrated cele-brated for the dead heroes and by Rev. Thomas E. McGuigan. Row Dr. William Wil-liam T. Pursell, pastor of St. Patrick's, delivered the eulogy. A pilgrimage was made to Arlington, where at the granite shaft which towers above 1G5 of the Maino victims, services unusual in their solemnity were conducted in the presence pres-ence of a throng of people. Rear Admiral Sigsbec, retired commander com-mander of the ill-fated battleship, was tho chief speaker and in stirring words he depicted the story of the catastrophe catas-trophe which led the nation to war. "On that dark, overcast and ominously omi-nously quiet night, eleven years nco," he said, "tapa took on a new meaning to the survivors of the Maino. Thev wero sounded that night with extreme solemnit'. In the pauses the echoes rolled back from the hills with such distinctness that all must have listened and heard. "Taps, the nightpy signal for silence and sleep was therefore the last distinctive dis-tinctive pound heard by tho meu in life, for in one half hour they were dead, for the greater part died in their aleep. And the bugler himself was dead. ife had sounded a requiem for himself and his shipmates." Several others delivered brief addresses. ad-dresses. Two troops of mounted men from Fort Meyer fired the salutes. A large floral tribute was sent by President Roosevelt and man wreaths were sent by individual and patriotic organizations. |