Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-05-28
DECORATION DAY,
Programme of Exercises.
HEADQUARTERS FRANK BARTLETT PosT !
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the procession will prepare and form
line as follows:
First division will form line on Spring
street, right resting on Second street
Second division will form on Spring
street, right resting on First street.
ORDER OF PROCESSION.
Henry King, Chief, and City Police.
IS. Hall, Commander.
Aids
First Diuisioa.
Marshal, !. A. Dunsmoor
Aids
Drum Corps.
Eagle Corps, Capt. W. Ii. ii. Russell.
City Band.
Fire Co. No. l.
Park Hose Mol,
Hook and Ladder No. l.
Second DipisioR.
Marshal, John Davis.
Aids
Band.
Fire Co. No. 2.
Citizens on foot.
Veteran Soldiers and Sailors
Grand Army of the Republic.
Veterans Of the Mexican War in carriages.
Orphans from the Home in carriages.
Merrill Lodge Good Templars in carriages.
Orator, Poet and Chaplain.
Singers in carriages.
Foreign Consuls.
Mayor and Common Council.
County Officers.
Citizens in carriages
The procession will commence the
march precisely at | 30 P. NJ, upon the
firing of the second signal gun-Spring
to Third; Third to Main; up Main to
Plaza; countermarch to Temple; up
Temple to Buena Vista; Buena Vista to
the Cemetery.
At the cemetery the several organiza-
tions will break ranks, excepting the G.
A. R. and Veterans, who will at once
proceed with the ceremony of decorating
the graves, assisted by the citizens.
Upon sounding the assembly the pro-
cession will reform in the same order,
right in front, and proceed by Buena
Vista, Temple and Spring streets to
Turnverein Hall. The procession will
here disband and the following order of
exercises take place in the hall:
Exercises Mt the Hall.
Music by the Band.
Opening prayer by Rev. J. W. Ellis.
Quartette-Director, Capt. Carter:
sTREw BLOSSOMS ON THEIR GRAVES.
We gather round these graves to-day,
With slow and solemn tread;
The graves OF those who nobly died,
To save this land of ours.
CHORUS
Strew blossoms bright upon their graves;
All honor to their memory;
The flag they loved still proudly waves
Throout a land united, Free
Mid din and smoke of conflicts hot,
They battled side by side,
Left home and kindred dear, to find
And fill a soldiers grave.
Chorus
All honor to their memory;
Undying be their fame;
Revere the names of those who died.
Our nations honored dead
Chorus
Columbia weep your fallen braves"
Not futile was their work, nor vain
The sacrifice they wrought
Chorus
(AIusic and words by Comrade II. T. Wiley)
Roll Call of fallen comrades whose graves are
decorated to-day.
Our Comrades Absent from Roll Call to-day
Response by Maj. Geo. L. Gard.
Widows and Orphans of Our Fallen Comrades,
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Song, Soldiers Dirge,"
Miss Major Mamie b. Perry.
Decoration Day,
Response by Lieut.. Gov Mansfield.
Army and Navy,
Response by Comrade Gen. Geo. Stoneman.
Quartette, under direction OF Capt. Carter:
HOW SLEEP THE BRAVE.
How sleep the brave who sink to rest
BY all their countrys wishes blest
When Spring with dewy fingers cold
Returns to deck their hallowed mould,
She then shall dress sweeter sod
Than Fancy's feet have ever trod.
BY fairy hands their knell is rung;
BY forms unseen their drge is rung
Then Honor comes, pilgrim gray,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay;
And Freedom shall awhile repair,
To dwell weeping hermit there
Words by VIM. Collins, music by Comrade R.
T. Wileyl
Poem, by A. r. Kercheval; read by s. H. Butter
field.
Solo Song-Miss Major Mamie Perry.
Grafton, John +. Godfrey
Country It's of Thee, to be Joined in
by the audience.
Benediction, Rev. A. W. Edelman.
At two P. NJ. the doors of Turnverein
Hall will be opened, and under direction
of Seargent in charge ladies and their
escorts will be seated.
One-half of the seats ON the floor will
be reserved for those participating in
the procession.
All participants in the exercises at the
hall will be assigned seats on the plat
form and Others on invitation.
Half-hour guns from one o'clock until
sundown.
T. S. HALL, Commander.
|. | A; h,D1r DUssH0OR' Committee.
Attest, JOHN DAVIS, Adjutant.