The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1883-06-07
OHIO.

All the courts, public Offices schools. and
many of the places OF business in Cleveland
were closed during Memorial Day, and in the
afternoon all the graves having been decorated
in the morning. vast multitude assembled at
the Tabernacle IN attendance on the exercises
held there. The exercises opened with music
by the orchestra, which was followed by an elo-
quent and heartfelt prayer from the chaplain,
Rev. John Mitchell. The High School chorus,
numbering nearly SEQ voices, under the leader
ship of Professor \. Coo Stewart, then sang
To-day Nations HaIIowed Dead in beau
tiful and effective manner This was followed
by the singing of Comrades We Come Once
More" by the Arion QGartette The address
of the day was then made by Captain 4. j.
Kicks. In the course of it lie said:
Our Government which has provided so mu-
nihcently for her wounded and disabled soldiers,
has largely through the earlier efforts of women,
been also sOlieuous to her dead, who fell under
circumstances That made to their burial ut
the time OF DEATH impossible She has established
seventy-six national cemeteries throughout the
South in which are buried SIS SO dead comrades
These halIowed spots are = Gods Acres, and many
of them located within sight Of the fields made
memorable by their death and yalOr, are the most
appropriate places for the heroes to rest in their
eternal sleep 1t would awaken the livcliest senti
ments of gratitude could you with what tender
care and wise foresight these burial grounds have
been located and beautIted. There are Is go bII-
ried at Vicksburg, 1886 at Nashville, I5.257 at
Fredericksburg, Va and l. 962 at Chattanooga
tender solcitude. In these Scyenty-six cemeteries
there rest the bones of ~ 56s soldiers Unknown
What emotions the simple statement swakensl
Their comrades who sleep beside them In
marked graves, whose names are the honored
roll, have spirit friends standing over them to-day,
but no such sacred vigils keep guard over the Tn
known who fell in the forefront of the battle OF
We're left behind in the hasty retreat to take the
chances of IA wayside grave Their last thought
may have been the anguish that far away from
home and kindred, and among an estranged people
their graves would be unh0nored and unknown.
Mothers, you who have drawn sweet comfort from
your silent communion by the side OF your boys
green grave, can you measure the depth of that
sorrow that finds Judgment in its ceasecSs search
for the missing grave amid the ranks in those
beautiful burial grounds in the South and can YOU
not now breathe prayer for those restless hearts
who to-day are yearning to know If by chance
some yigilaut seeker Tor the dead has not found
their loved ones and gathered them with the ma
TONS dead?
Spring Grove and other cemeteries around
Cincinnati were the scene of impressive eere-
monies on Memorial Day. The procession in
the morning was formed in two divisions,
headed by two companies of police under Capt.
Devine. Grand Marshal Van Dyke and his
staffcame next, and then followed the first divis-
ion, Colonel John Kenneth and staff composed
of the First regiment o. n. G., Second bat
terry light artillery, o. n. G.; the Veteran
regiment, Mexican Veterans TO the number Of
about twenty, Hohn's Gun Squad, and the
wagon containing fifty boys and girls selected
to strew flowers over the graves. The second
division was headed by Henry Narcotic Com
mander, and staff, followed by Geo. II. Thomas
Post, William III. Lyle Post, L. NJ. Moore Post,
Commodore Foote Post William Nelson Post,
August Which Post; a Camp of the Sons OF
Veterans, thirty-five in number attached to
Which Post; ii. B. Banning Post, Fifth Ohio
Volunteer Regiment Association, One-hundred-
and-eighth o. V. /. organization, FOrty-seventh
o. Y. l., Sixth o. V. l., Ninth o. V. l. Twenty
srhf n I hun aI sfy-fH n
Schimmelpfennig Encampment McCeOk En-
caMpment, Fire Marshal Bunker a2d staff and
the City Fire Department. There were four
bands Of music The services at the several
mounds in Spring Grove were conducted by the
G.. A. r., after the solemn ritual OF the Order.
In the afternoon, after luncheon. the procession
again formed and marched 60 Wesleyan Gene
terry at Cunminsyille, where Isreal Ludlow
Post conducted the services.
The closing ceremonies Of the day took place
IN Music Hail in the presence OF an immense
audience General A. Hiekeulooper, chairman,
delivered a brief address, General Charles E.
Brown, Colonel Gustav Tafel, Major A. VI. War
ner and Chaplain Howard also made short adj
dresses. Prof.Wethercll recited poem, written
for the occasion, by Colonel t. Q. Hildebrant,
entitled 1.-THE Battle Of 8IOnocacy" Other
Tecita6ons and vocal aud instrumental select
ions were also given.
The programme for Memorial Day was prop
crly carried out in Columbus notwithstanding
the unpropitiOus weather. The members OF J..
G. Mccoy Post, No. /, which is next 70 the
largest Post in the country, assembled in their
hall in the morning to participate in the eere-
MONIES aud . number Of the members of the
Ladies' Auxiliary met in the City Hall for the
purpose of arranging for the transportation of
the floral tributes to Green Lawn cemetery. To
do this two large transfer wagons were required.
The members of the Post and the ex-soldierS
to tho number of about $50 formed on Town
street and marched TO the City Hall, where the
column opened and the ladies passed along the
ranks, supplying each cOmrade with button
hole bouquet, 800 of which had been prepared
for this purpose. This being completed, the
column broke ranks and took eonyeyances for