The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-05-28
A GENERAL HOLIDAY
PROCLAIMED BY MAYOR MILLER
For the rAtr,Isth-COnpl.,Inr til. Arrangement,
for Grand aud SOisbls Observance Of Keno
rlAi DAy-Ths D.cOratIOa Details, and
the Ceremonies AfterWard.

A proclamation by Mayor Miller Is off,
CIally promulgated this morning in the adj
veFtisipg columns requesting that business
houses throughout the city be closed on
Wednesday, and that flags be displayed by
residents aud business men. Everything
gives increasing promise Of an unprecedsnt-
ed observance OF Memorial Day this year.
The day will open with the decoration Of the
graves Of soldiers in the late war who are
buried 10 the various city cemeteries. The
following members Of Holiday Post hSYe
been detailed 10 attend 10 the decoration GER
emOnies In the different cemeteries:
Mt Wood: G. b. Jones, g. Rodenbaugh,
+. Bye, VIM. Turner, Wm. Atweil, ]. Emery,
W. Cunningham, A. Shores and D.. Greer
Peninsula: VIM. MoAdams, G. Prayer,
Ed. Robertson, ". 81. Morgan, John Carlin,
B. Mclaughlin, Jas. Dyson and 0r!oG Miller.
Sixteenth street and old Catholic: III.
Brown, ]. Berbig, Ssmue' Dayis,W. J. Robb,
Chas. Klaprolh, f. Fey, Geo. Roberts and G..
II. Robinson. Ill.
Greenwood ar d Mt Calvary: ]. McAdams.
II. G. Peternau, F. Shauley, !. D. McFaddsn,
Samuel McVey, D. Usselltun, J. n. Little,
Hiram HSzleton, h. J. Felber and b. +.
Msl"ns. ill., ..s.u
Red Mems Cemetery: NJ. Bennett. A. saur,
William Budke, q. b. Ferrell, q. Kraus D..
Magihris.
Mt. Zion: !. H. Burt, W. II. T.ayis, J..
W. SchuIlze, G. II. Beam, J. II. White, L.
Woodmansee, H. Spanenbufg.
10 the afternoon the d. dication ceremonies
will take place. They will be preceded by .
procession, in which the following organizs.
lions, with many Others not yet heard from,
will participate: The Turner'S, fire depart
ment, Butchers association, several uni.
formed "a ks X. Of F.. Spangler Post G. A.
r., Bellaire; Brannum Post g A. r., fridge.
port Thoburn Post g. a. K, Martins Ferry;
Holiday Post No. u, G. A. K, Wheeling; /.
y. Rechabites. E..
The veterans OF the Mexican war will be
provided with conveyaucss; also the disabled
soldiers of the late war.
The Vince ing police will form feature OF
the parade.
Col. VIM. Travis Is the chief marshal and
all societies will report 10 him at G. A. r.
hall, No. 1915 Market street at o'clock sharp.
The line will be formed as follows: Grand
ARMY posts on Market street right resting at
Beck's Block, with position &C dir g 10 date
Of Organizations; all o.ner societies On Four
tenth east Of Market, right resting on Mar
ket; fire department and all other vehicles on
Fourteenth street west OF Market
The officers OF the organization will report
TO Chief Marshal VIM. H. Travis, at G. A..
r hall as soon as they arrive. The Assistant
Marshals are Joseph Barker, W. ]. Robb,
Lswis Woedmansee and Israel Waterman.
Following Is the route Of procession! Line
will form on Market street at O'Clock ?. N.
and will move at 1880 sharp up Market street
10 Ninth street, on Ninth 70 Main, down
Main to Twenty fourth, up Twenty fourth 70
Cbapline, up Chnpline 10 Twentieth. down
Twentieth TO Market, up Market to
Eighteenth, out Eighteenth 70 Jacob. up Ja-
cob 10 Fifteenth, down Fifteenth to EoR, up
Eoff to Fourteenth, down Fourteenth 10
Chapline, down Chapline to the monument
Mr.. G. F. Irvine has been appointed Chair.
man OF the Decoration exercises. The pro-
gramme will open with the singing OF Amer,
ican by the school children, followed by prayer
by Rev. Dr.. J. E. smith. The Arion, Bee.
thoven and Germania societies will then sing
Kreuizer's Chapel, with brass band accom-.
paniment. The formal presentation OF the
monument, aud the ritualistic ceremonies Of
the dedication will follow. The German
societies will then sing "star spangled
Banner" the school children will sing
"Columbia, the Gem OF the Ocean," the
G. A. K. boys Marching Through Georgia."
and Hon. J. NJ. Da'zsll will deliver the ora.
ton. The Mannerchor society will also sing
chorus, aud William leighton, jr., will read
an appropriate original poem. Rev. z, z.
Swope will pronounce the benedicnon.