Daily Los Angeles herald., 1882-05-31
THE PROCESSION.

one CLOCK on spring street anu pro-
ceeded on the line of march, as pub
lished, in the following manner:
Chief of Police King, with officers
Mcmahon, Cells and Beintes as aids.
Commander Hall, with A. B. Moflitt
and D. j. Foley as aids.
Marshal l. A. Dunsmoor and aids, C.
L. Fisher and Len Thompson.
Drums of the Eagle Corps.
The Eagle Corps, offcered by Capt.
Russell, Lieutenants Brown and Hol-
brook and Sergeant Keller
The City Band.
The 3Ss Engine Company, with their
banner draped in mourning. They also
had an elegant floral offering on plat.
form.
Vigilance Hook and Ladder Company
carrying a flag beautifully decorated
Park Hose, Marshal John Davis and
aid.
Spanish Brass Band.
Confidence Engine Company, drawing
their hose cart profusely covered with
flowers, the blue banner draped with
Grape.
Grand Army of the Republic under
command of Captain Walker.
A vehicle draped with the American
flag and filled with flowers.
Mexican veterans in carriages.
A carriage containing Mayor Tober-
man, Supreme Judge Ross and French
Consul Meyer
A carriage containing Lieutenant Gov.
Mansfield, Gen. Stoneman, Col. Godfrey,
orator of the day, and Major Gard.
The Good Templars and Band of Hope
in carriages, carrying banner inscribed
''Our Watchword, Prohibition.
The members of the City Council in
carriages.
Citizens in carriages.
AT THE GRAVES. 10
On arriving at the cemetery the pro-
cession broke ranks, and the decorations
at once commenced. In a little while
the scene was one of rare floral beauty.
A number of private graves were also
decorated by friends, and the occasion,
taken altogether, was suggestive of sad,
kind remembrance.
The procession then reformed and
marched to Turnverein Hall, where the
literary exercises completed the cere-
monies of the day.
EXERCISES AT THE HALL.
Music by the Band
Opening prayer by Rev. j. w. Ellis.
Quartette Director, Capt Carter
srREw BLOSSOMS ON THEIR GRAVES.
(Music and words by Comrade r. T. Wiley.)
"Our comrades absent from roll call to-
day." was responded to by Major Geo.
E. Gard. as follows:
Mr.. Chairman, Comrades of the Grand
Army, Ladies and Gentlemen-When
strong pinioned memory, returning from
weary flight, dips her magic brush in
the faded colors of other days, andpaints
in the immediate present living picture
| full of the records and love of the past,
how vivid become the remembrances
that encircle the sacred memories of our
comrades absent from roll call to- day.
The observance of this day of decoration,
with all its glad and sad reflections, re-
awakens within us the genius of our bet
ter love, the spirit of patriotism. To-day
We live anew, in treasured thought re-
counting the many tender and terrible
experiences of the war. We are carried
back to the time when, with mothers
blessing, sisters prayer, loving en-
brace, the hope of the Republic went
forth to the "tented field" The great
drama of the war presents itself to our
minds, strikingly familiar in all details,
revisiting us with recollections of the
time when, after the long and weary
march, footsore and exhausted, we to-
gether shared the cold earths welcome
couch in the valley bivouac. Again we
are reused by the shrill blast of the bu-
gle or the alarm of the ''long roll, +" and
hurriedly form into line to repel the ex-
pectant charge. Again we storm tire
cloud masked batteries that from the
lofty mountain side hurl forth their
whirling messengers of death. Again we
contest, inch by inch, the possession of
disputed ground, red with gore, and COW
cred with the dead and dying, as though
blaze of powder and curling smoke, and
clash of arms, and glitter of bayonets
and flash of swords, breast barred to
breast, alike defiant and fearless, brave
men as ever the brightest orb Of heaven
shone upon; struggling on and on in the
fearful combat of destruction, until gra-
cious night catches up and suspends her
mantle over the awful scene-and so, on
in imagination we are led through bat
ties and repulses, assaults and victories
to the final surrender, when the tri-
umph of the Union arms establish
ed the principle that under the Con-
stitution, the general government is and
must be supreme, vouchsafed US an un-
divided country. Then follows, fancy,
the grandest spectacle the world ever
saw, that of the dissolution of the great
contending armies. When the soldiers
of the South, than whom no drawer foe
ever surrendered, in peaceful submission
to the result of war and the triumph of
right, returned to their desolate homes
to begin again the battle of life; and the
soldiers of the North, than whom more
generous victors never conquered, in
the full flush of success, but with
malice toward none, stacked their guns,
and came back to win new laurels in the
heroism of civil strife, what a glorious
theme for the future historian! What a
heroic example for the nations of the
earth! Here let me say, as the thought
recurs to my mind that while are glad
that these scenes are growing dim with
aeeting years, and hope that time may
assuage all the wounds and eradicate all
the bitterness of that fraternal conflict,
still We must not forget that it is our
holy duty, as well as our rightful pride,
as surviving companions of that patriotic
fatherhood, as people who believe in
i aud alaa.icl tho .,lnu e.. I.