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Show 00 PARENTS CONSOLED FOR DEATH OF SONS Washington, April 22. Letters expressing ex-pressing profound sorrow of President Presi-dent Wilson and Secretary Daniels at the death of the four sailors and marines ma-rines at Vera Cruz yesterday, were dispatched today by the secretary of the navy to the parents of the men. The letters were addressed to William Wil-liam Poinsett of Philadelphia. Mrs. Isabella McKinnon of Brooklyn, N. Y., mother of Coxswain Schumacher, Mayer Marten of Chicago and Michael Haggorty of Cambridge, Mass. Mr. Daniels wrote to each: This morning's dispatches from Vera Cruz conveying the distressing news that your son was In the first line to give his life for hie country, saddens all America as the tragedy brings gloom Into your home. My feeling and the feeling of the president to you In this sad hour was expressed by President Lincoln, when, on November 21, 1864, ho wrote to Mrs. Blxby of Boston, whoBe five sons gave their lives fighting under the American flag: "I feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from a loss so overwhelming. But I cannot re- y . , ft'' - fraln from tendering to you the consolation con-solation that may be found in the thanks of the republic they have died to save, I pray that our heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement and leave you only the cherlBbcd memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom." |