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Show PBESlOEflT TO PAY I(!iiTlUIE Arrangements for Ceremonial in Honor of the Nation's Dead Now Complete. NEW TOEK, May 9. Final arrangements arrange-ments for the tribute to be paid the navy's victims of the fighting at Vera Cruz were completed tonight with the announcement of the official programme. pro-gramme. The city's public edifices which the procession will pass have taken on a sombre appearance," with black .draperies enfolding their columns and porticos. The preliminary naval movements move-ments in the unique ceremonial for the dead on American soil are already under un-der way. Off Sandy Hook touight the United States ' battleship Wyoming, which left the navy yard today, awaits tho coming of the armored cruiser Montana Mon-tana with the bodies of the seventeen dead, due to arrive tomorrow, accompanied accom-panied by the Mayflower with Secretary Secre-tary Daniels aboard. The Montana, with the Wyoming as her escort, will move up the bay late on Sunday. By 8 o'clock on Monday morning the caskets containing tho bodies will have been landed and placed on caissons in the plaza adjoining Battery park. Battalions Bat-talions from the Wyoming and the Texas and from the naval militia of New York state, will be drawn up ready to Rtart the march at nine o'clock. Parked on tho south side of Battery place will be the carriages in which delegations of the national government, congress, the state legislature, the army and navy, city government and bodies of citizens will follow the caissons. Marching up Broadway to the city hall, and across tho plaza, the procession will pass over Manhattan bridge to the marine grounds at tho Brooklyn navy yard, where the nation's tribute to the dead will be paid by President Wilson. A halt will be made at the city hall plaza, where Mayor John Purrov Mit-chel Mit-chel will place a wreath on one "of tho caissons as the city's tribute and school children clad in white will sing a hymn. The president, who will reach here from Washington on Monday morning and go direct, to the navy 'vard, will review the procession from a. stand directly di-rectly iu front of marino barracks. The caissons will he driven past the president, presi-dent, the caskets removed ami placed upon trestles and troops will then form a square around the caskets and the stand. Brevitv and simplicity will characterize charac-terize the exercises, consisting of a hymn by the band, a. prayer bv Chaplain Cassard of the navy, 'an address by President Wilson, a prayer bv Kablii Stephen S. Wise and the benediction by-Father by-Father John B. Chidwick. A firing party consisting of the marine company of the Texas will then bo marched in front of the stand and will fire three volleys. Taps sounded by the bugles will conclude the ceremony. cere-mony. The caskets will be forwarded bv tho naval authorities to the next of kin of the deceased. |