The daily gazette., 1883-05-31
OUR BURIED HEROES.
DECORATING THEIR GRAVES
WITH FLOWERS.
PROFESSIONS AND oRAT1oNs.
The Ceremonies in Wilmington the Most
Impressive Ever Seen Here-The CeIe-
brat10nS Elsewhere

The ceremonies of Memorial Day In thi
city yesterday were the most imposing eyel
aSIelnpIeo' Inc parade was every.
| thlng that could be wished for. AS puh
lished in yesterdays GAZETTE, the line rs
formed marched to the Wilmington & Bran
dyWlne Cemetery where the usual saIutes
were fired over the graves. The streets
along the line were crowded with
men, women and children, all anxious
to get glimpse at the process
sion. Arriving at the cemetery the
militia after firing their salutes over the
graves OF the veterans parted and while
and Z companies were firing a salute
over tne graves of the dead, F cNmpany
was detached to fire salute I'm the old
Catholic cemetery.
After the ceremonies of decorating the
graves had been completed, the line was re-
formed and marched around the monument
WHicn as passing was saluted. Owing to
tne lateness OF the hour and the conseonent
unwillingness of Post No. 2 and its guests
70 go to the stand erected In the woods on
the banks of the Brandywine, the exercises
at That point were omitted, much to The re-
gret OF the large crowd of people who had
gathered there expecting to hear an grafton
Dy the eloquent Corporal Tanner.
Delaware
avenue to Madison where the militia I'll d
of, after saluting the G. A. R. posts. To
Fourth street, where the dress parade was
given In very creditable manner in the
presence OF large crowd of spectators
Inc posts proceeded to their respective head
quarters and dismissed. The New York and
rhlladelphla posts were given tneir suppets
at the lecture room, OF the Opera House and
the former left for home 90 the 6.3S train
the latter leaving on the 7.3O.
Taken all in all the display yesterday far
exceeded the expectation of the bone posts
IN Weather being everything that could be
post, Sumner Post No. assembled at 3
O'Clock on Wall ut street and marched over
the route already published in the following
oruer: Commander |. A. Fisher and Past
commanders l.. f. Fisher, Simeon Hood
ana Daniel Russel, Jr., of Post No 1914. De-
Partment OF Pennsylvania; Harmony Band.
nrlng party, Sumner Post, wagon load Of
little girls dressed in white and CARVING.
nags, wagon load of flowers and carriages
containing invited guests. The route taken
was: Gut Ninth street to Market, to Eighth,
10 Madlson, to Fourth, to Union, to Second
where halt was made in front Of st Peters
Chapel, between the burial ground there
and Mt. Zion Cemetery, on the opposite side
Of the street. After music by the band the
graves In the two cemeteries, both of which
were nlled with men, women and children
We're decorated with the regulation Grand
Army services, the firing party giving a
parting salute in each enclosure. A stand
was erected on Second street, from which
feter ). Blake made suitable address in
the presence OF several hundred persons
IN NEW CASTLE
Captain Evan s. Watson Post No. s. of
New Castle, with its guests m marched over
lengthy route with Alonzo Wright as chief
marshal and Past Vice Department Com
mander Gormley as chief of staff The Uni
form Rank, X. of p, acted as an escort to
The post. The Catholic, Episcopal, Metbo-
dist, Presbyterian and other cemeteries were
visited, the graves decorated and the mem
orlal ceremonies performed. Addresses wee
delivered by Past A. D. G. NoDes, the Rev,
Y. y. Spencer, d. D., the Rev. NJ, N.
Browne and others. David L. Striker Post
No. 3, of Newport had no formal parade but
decorated the ten soldiers graves in that
vicinity and performed the memorial SER
vices in due form.
IN DOVER.
General A. T. A. Torbert Post, No. 8. of
Dover, assembled at its Headquarters at 2
o'clock yesterday afternoon. The column
IS headed by the State Capital Band and
Past Commander Massey acted as chief
marshal Companies d and f of the Second
Battalion acted as escort to Torbert Post No.
), Commander Klinger, and General Dan
Woodall Post No. II, Commander Carey.
The line formed on Governors avenue and
moved to Lockerman, to Queen, to North,
70 Governors avenue, to Water, to State, to
Lockerman, to Governors avenue and dis
missed. Eighteen graves were decorated in
,he Methodist Episcopal, Presbyterian, Prot
estant Episcopal and Silver Lake cemeteries.
The u. A. X. memorial services were per-
formed by Commander Klinger, Chaplain
Hammond, Quartermaster Mills, ,and Officer
OF the Day Dill. Orations were delivered by
George V. Massey, Esq, and others, The
choir of the Baptist Church sang at the Post
headquarters, and at the cemetery sang
Keller's hymn ''strew Flowers on Their
Graves" The whole battalion fired the
salutes, as field officers are buried in each
The public schools were closed
and business was generally suspended.
kilograms from Washington, New York,
Boston, Baltimore, st. Louis, San Francisco
Chicago, Richmond, New Orleans, Charles
ton, and other cities show general observ-
snce of Memorial Day, with the customary
decorations OF the graves, parades, ad-
Washington, Major w. Lambert, of Phila-
delphia, delivered the grafton. In New
Y ork the procession was reviewed from a
stand in Madison Square, on which were
seated President Arthur, Secretary
Chandler, Secretary Folger, Attorney
General Brewster Major General
Hancock and staff, Mayor Edison,
General George A. Sheridan, Commodore
Upshur, Brigadier General Baron de Tro-
bland, Governor Ludlow of New Jersey.
Major General Schuyler Hamilton, General
Stone, late of the Egyptian army, General
Lloyd Aspinwall, General Horace Porter,
United States District Attorney Root, and
others. At Gettysburg, the ceremonies
were attended by the members of the Penn
sylvania Legislature.
A telegram from Pittsburg says a move
ment is on foot among prominent Grand
Army men there to have Memorial Day
changed to June SOth, "as at that time the
weather is more settled and flowers are
more plentiful and not so expensive"