The daily gazette., 1883-05-28
ARRANGEMENTS ALL MADE.
The q. A r.. Posts in Readiness fC
Memorial Day-Post Notes.

The arrangements for tbe ceremonies on
Memorial Day by the q. A. r. Posts, of this
city, have all been made, and everything is
now In readiness for proper observance oil
the day, All the posts of the city, besides
a number Of visiting posts, have been or
dered to report st 2 o'clock by Mayor Wales,
Chief Marshal Past Post Commander Kea-
bles, of Smyth Post, and Post Department
Commander Wainwright, of DUPONT Post,
have been appointed assistant marshals.
Urgent requests by the Posts have been
made for flowers for decorative purposes
and the General Committee desires TO have
all ladies of the Auxiliary Corps to be at
the City Hall early Wednesday morning to
make up flowers. Those who have flowers
to give will oblige the committee by send
ing thell to the Hall as early as possible.
Stricken Post of Newport and Watson Post
of New Castle, will come to Wilmington at
noon on Wednesday, and unite In the joint
de 'onstration in this city.
Orations will be delivered by the following
persons on Memorial Day. Smyth and Du-
Pont Posts, Past Department Commander
James Tanner of New York; General A. T.
A. Torbert Post at Dover, George T. Massey
and Richard Harrington, ESQ.,; Sumner
Post, the Rev. g. v. Peterson; Watson Post
at New Castle, Past A. d. G.. to the Com
mander in Chief Albert s. Nones: Garfield
Post at Milford, the Rev. l. N, Foreman;
Stricken Post at Newport, Daniel Green;
Reynolds Post at Newark, William H. Pur-
nell, LII. D.
The following circular has been issued by
Department Commander Ross In respo nse
to request from the Joint Memorial Com
mittee of Snyth and DUPONT Posts:
"ln order to insure a more universal OBJ
servance of Memorial Day aud to facilitate
the attendance the G. A, R. and others, the
prOprietors of manufactures, stores and
business places are most respectfully re-
quested to close at 12 o'clock on Wednes-
day, May 30, and remain closed during the
memorial exercises"
Simeon Hood, chairman of the Memorial
Committee of Sumner Post, No. 4, G. A. r.
announces that the post has secured the
services of the Harmony Cornet Band for
Memorial Day. Also that the parade will
form at 3 o'clock on Walnut street with the
right resting on Ninth; the following being
the route to be gone over: On Ninth to
Market, to Eighth, to- Madison, to Fourth,
to Union, to the cemetery. St. Peters
Chapel will be open. A platform has been
erected, from which addresses will be made
by eminent speakers after the usual G. A.
X. ceremonies. The programme will be in
terspersed with music by the band and q
select choir. Donations of flowers are
solicited by the committee, which will be
at the National Hall, at Ninth and Walnut
streets, to receive them.
DUPONT Post, No. 2, attended st. Paul's
Church in body last evening, the Rev. r.
H. Adams selecting as his text Exodus, 18th
chapter, part of 14th verse, "Write this for
a memorial In a book and rehearse it in the
ears of joshua" The choir rendered as
voluntary an anthem, 81 have set Watch
men upon the Walls" in very pleasing
manner. The church was well filed and
the sermon was listened to with marked at
tention.