New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-05-29
DECORATION DAY.
PREPARING TO HONOR THE DEAD.

| the matter IN hand may be taken as q measure Of
success the celebration will surpass that OF last
May and any of former years Ii being legal hol-
day. the Post Office, the Courts and-for the first
time in its history-the Registers Office will be
closed, in accordance with the law passed last
March, Downtown most OF the stores will not open
for business until Tuesday morning. Upt own tho
retail dealers, it is expected will follow the example
of the wholesale merchants. As before the day will
be celebrated by parade of the Grand Army Posts
in the morning; the decoration of graves by tho
several Posts, with ceremonies in the cemeteries,
and exercises of literary character at the Academy
of Music in the evening. Memorial services will be
held in some of the churches and at other places to-
day Preparations have also been made for observ-
ing the day in Brooklyn and other adjoining cities
and towns.
The event of greatest interest will be the parade.
in which, it Is expected. twcnty-tlree Posts, num-
herring 1000 men, and a large number of invited
guests will take part. At O'Clock the divisions
will be formed in the streets crossing Fifth-ayr.
between Forty-second-st. and Fftieth-st Tho
organizations will be formed in patOons of eight
files front carriages and wagons with flowers will
move two abreast, and the divisions will be placed
III line a hundred feet apart.
ORDER OF THE PARADE.
Major-Gencra Alexander Shaler and staff, form
ing the escort will head the column Grand Marshal
+. II. Kent and other officers aud ailcs-,'-camp
viii come next, followed 10y standard-bearrs
ing battlc-lags. A detachment of the lst Regiment
Mounted Rifles will act as color-guard. assisted by
veterans of the 81 Regiment Cavalry, Captain
Anthony Fisher commanding.
The first division Theodore F. Rodcnbough. T. \.
A. marshal will be eddy the 1st L. = Artillery Band,
and will consist of a battalion OF artillery from
the lSt and 3d /. s. Artillery, battalion II
marines and sailors from the tennessee kandalIa
ami owhatan, ami Light BattcryC, 3d |. :. Ar
tiery.
: long line of carriages will compose the second
Ill vi>oh. Among the carriages at the head of tho
prorc>>on will be thoSr containing the Memorial
Committee and the Citizens Auxiliary Committee,
of which the Rry, Drs. stephen H. Tying and Ihoma,
luntago. +. B. lhurbcr Clinton Is. Fisk. Noah
Iayis Henry licrah aud CornclimS Naa ,ott aro
members. Nlcc-ircsIdrnt Arthur, Postmaster Gem
cral James. Secretary ot War Robert L. Lincoln,
Collrrtor Merritt. Generals Stewart LNo"diopl. -.
H. ii, Ies Franz Sgcl .Jud>on Fitzpatrick and other
invited guests will br followed 10y veterans of tho
Wa Of Isle veteran, of til" Mexican Nardsabled
comrades aud the New-lolk Veteran Association
carry ing hattle-ilags.
The third division will br composed of Dulyras
Ionayc-. ifr and drum corps, loth Nc%-l"rk OHM
Oh Now-York Volunteers Hawkins Zolayrs'. I'D
Nrw-I"lk Volunteers, Veterans 9th Regiment -;d
Noluut.crsl. list Nrw-iork Volunteers bnh New
York Volunteers bearing their old batie-.lags,
United states Army and Nayy survivors of Auder-
sonvllr and other southern prisons ana The Veteran
Ioray' :. Gatng t"mtany H. oi ElIahri!L Nd,
und, command of !. Madison Drake. ne /"rlves
will lar the first Tag nninrl"l o rebel ,"il-U',
rraI kcarry's hat.r-iag. AMI will draE haii'ryo 4
/ tflillug and the cannon caliiir1l l"i'.dl
" MAJ Anthony" Nal ne nj stony Point.
The wagon, of Hover, of the Post, viii follow in
pairs forming thr fourth division: lhcnW Wlll march
the Posts Themselves conloslng the fifth. sixth,
cnth cirlth and ninth div iSous. accompanied hy
the Columbia Rifles. Veterans of 73th Volunteers,
Veteran Zouayes. Turner Cadets. 10th Nrw-lork
Volunteers. Anderson Iouavcs, Veterans 0t the Sh
New-Yock Volunteers and various bands and drum
| CORPS.
! The tenth division will comprise the ith Regiment
! of Ncw-Jrrsry, Cadet Corps leckSkill Military
Acadrmv Blttalion Of the Garde Lafayette. Lincoln
Gnard. Veteran Gnlrd, Skldmore Guard. Tho
eleventh diN >ion will be made up OF TIE 1T Bat
TALON trrmlnia SchrrtIcnl'und. Washington Ri
tlr~ Bohemian Sharp,hoof"r~. singing society Ocs-
t.rIcI.h Austrian Veterans Jackson Company
Council No. t. and a wagon contdlnln- Young
woman prrSonajing III" lroidc>, of liinuy sur
rounded 10y gronp Of girs rcprcsentins the thlr-
Tie lH.t division will be composed Of several en-
giur ana hook aud-lldirr companies. Hnd,r COM
uard of A>,i,tant-C hci of the department. charles
At 9::Io o'cock the line viii begin TO move down
Fifih-arr. 20 Na>hington->'iuarr. whrrr hing
salute will lee given he secretary of War At'cr
passing through the SIarr the line viii Ice hrohrn,
and the Post, i'll proceed to the crmcrrc> ~ and
d:rrs. Tie survivors of Libby. Anderson Iilr aud
other Southern military prisons viii decorate tho
slatac of Lincoln IN ln"n-Nguan ~ IN" 'i";" ~
the parade ln addr's, of welcome will hr made to
Them M the TcUtoul Assembly Rooms ~ lurd-aNe.
hy Captain T. T.. Moran. Washington, monument
viii also be- decorated. on decoration )ay. or So!e
time h. fore the t,org,. Washington Post. which iI
co,npn,.d MAINLY of officers of the Army and Navy,
will 20 10 Noun, Vernon and decorate thr sr''" II
Grorl,. Washington. General Joseph Il. lll"l"y
will make address,
W tho,.>crrl,cs IN the Academy of Mu.ic in tho
evening in.ilua>ier-tirrrral James VII preside.
and an address viii b" dciiSc'rd bN G'n'iil Wool
fond. II i, rNp 'ci'd HAT bI"t a'l,lr>, "ill arp
h. made bv :" rrtar} Lincoln. MC.ic vii 10" iur;
nislcd IN pat by Gli'uofrs band. lie on - uIr"t
and S.rond anniversary oi the b.ith OF iloma'
Moor. viii also br ,r"hrri'd IN th" evening hy
Irish students in & arloa lllll IN anti lp'iion ot
Al In I-tKs
hy the Dahlinrn Post az the Emann'I baplis6
church. IN Sianton->t, where an adli"ss VII b'
made bv thr Rev. Samuel Altman. who was >"ldler
IN the War Of ihe rebellion. hrI2 I4', No. 4
Grand Army of The Republic. VII hold mr,n"rIil
iccs at the Lexington Avenue Methodist hnr'h.
at Fiitv->rcond -. and lrAnsi i"h-'r- ih, rtIhnS.
The sermon will he delivered by the Rev. II. H. BIZ
Lns pastor of the chur h. and the Rev: William II.
McMan chaplain of the Post. will deliver an ad-
,lr.,, unn the objects of the a>sociatiou special
programme of mus, has been arranged.
The members vii mr"t ~ the fo't ro"niN, IN
Er,N ooIt Hail. and proceed IN body 10 tn ciinr'h.
SPORTS AND CANES.
There will De sports and game, of various knls in
tins city and t~ vicinity The spring meeting of
the American Jockey Cub will open At jerome Park
with siN races The most important of ihsSr will be
the run of H., miles for the Great Metropolitan
Siakcs. a handicap, for which Parole. Luke Black
buri IIinoo, Monitor. Grenada, Wara'l ll. Glldelia
and other noted racers are entered lli,dp', Moni-
Tor and Grenada have incurred such penalties by
recent victories that they may not start hHi con-
t,st between Parole AMI Luke Blackburn VIII bo
nlopr worth going 10 Jerome Park To see. They
have never vet met In the other races a large num-
Ter of w,ll-mltchcd horses will appear. Improve
mrnts have been made at jerome this year which
inc rra-, its attractions.
Thr Manhattan Athletic Club will give its spring
games on the club grounds AT EightlI-aYc. and
iity-siNth-s., at 3 p. m he number of entries -
Ern, and gold medals will bc given 10 the first and
second IN each contest There will be handicap RUS
oi 100 yards, 800 yards. one-half mile and ou4
mile. and "sCratch' runs of 800 yards and oue
milc, with various other Interesting contests.
The Ncw-lork Athletic Club will hold itsfwelfth
animal ~pruu upgfiuu at Mott Haven "A - Drlu,.,.