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Show -oo BATTLESHIP TO BE MIMED TODAY HAVANA, March 15. Tonight tho battered, barnacle-crustod, distorted hulk of tho battleship Maino lies swinging gently with tho swell of the waves of Havana harbor, afloat by Itself for the first time since It carried car-ried more than two hundred sailors to death amid the echoes of a hidden mine's detonation the night of February Feb-ruary 15, 1S9S, Tomorrow afternoon taps will; be sounded three miles off the Cuban coaBt, Inrushing water will tell of open sea valves, and' a few minutes later thousands of roses scattered on its decks will float off as the ship sink to Its last resting place at the bottom of the sen. The cruiser North Carolina will turn its prow silently northward and brin home the recovered bodies of the men who went down with the Maine This afternoon the public was admitted ad-mitted to iew the thirty-four caskets containing the remains of slxty-flvc members of the crew of the Maine, which lay in slate in the municipal council chamber, converted for trie purpose into an imposing mortuary chapel Walls were draped with black and at the upper end of tho chamber a gilded atar blazed with inuuraerable wax candles. The caskets were ranged rang-ed around the walls, covered with black and draped with Cuban and American Am-erican ensigns The guard of honor was composed of Cuban artillerymen and mombers of the Havana camp of Spanish-American war veterans. The concourse paid last tribute to the dead. At 10 a m. tomorrow the caskets, each borne on the shoulders of six Cuban soldiers, will be carried to the Caballcria wharf between lines of Cuban Cu-ban soldiers presenting arms At the head of this procession will be Prosldent Gomez and members ,'f his cabinet, Minister Beaupre, members mem-bers of the diplomatic corps, the supreme su-preme court, officials of the national and municipal governments, and officers offi-cers of the Cuban army, navy and rurales. At the wharf Mavor Decardenas will preeont tho bodies to Brigadier General Gen-eral W. H. Blxby, chief of the United States engineer corps The funeral oration will be delivered by Father Chadwlck who was chaplain chap-lain of the Maine at tho time of tho disaster At noon the bodies will bo transported to the United States cruiser North Carolina. At 2 p m. the tug Osceola will run a lino to tho old Maine and the scarred craft will release its mooring in the harbor Then it will be drawn out to sea, where It will be sent to rest. |