The National tribune., 1883-05-17
MEMORIAL DAY.
The Work Laid Out for the New York Grand Army
Posts.
TFro,n nle Ne,o York TYnes.1

From The beto York Times.
Nearly all the Posts in the city have now
reported to the grand marshal the number of
men they will parade on Decoration Day and
their work before and after the parade. Phil
kearney Post, No. g. Commander r. c. Morgan,
will decorate graves at Trinity Church, also
sending details to Greenwood Cemetery Abra-
ham Lincoln Post, No. 13, Commander Charles
A. Wells will inaugurate the Decoration Day
observances at Lincoln Monument, in Union
square. In response to the invitation extended,
a large number of colored civic and military
organizations will be present, and the Post will
be escorted to the square by the colored lodges
of Odd Fellows. The early morning services
viii be very impressive. An grafton will be
delivered by General Horace D. Porter and
addresses by General John Cochrane, chair
man of the committee on arrangements, and
others. 1t is promised that General Grant and
Secretaries FoIger and Lincoln will be upon
the platform. The Post will also send details
to decorate DR.. Hayes grave at Chester, Pa,
to Woodlawn, Greenwood, Lutheran and New
York Bay Cemeteries. John A Dix Post, No.
I35, Commander A. NJ. Underhill; James G.
Rice Post, No. % Commander Max Reece and
Judson Fitzpatrick Post, No. 143, Commander
VIM. G. Reddy, will go to Trinity Cemetery.
large number of the New York Posts Will
accompany Koltes Post, No. 81, Commander
Charles Sempsey, and attend the unwilling of
their monument in the Lutheran Cemetery.
The Post will turn out about $50 men, with I5
battle flags. At the cemetery there will be an
Grafton by the Hon. Carl Sehurz and by Philip
Betz, Post Chaplain. Department Commander
Reynolds and staff will be present. Accom-
panying them viii be VIM. L. Kennedy Post, No.
AZ, Commander Alonzo Howell; j. L. Riker
Post, No. 90, Commander August Sehaeifer;
John A. Rawlins Post, No. so, Commander
Henry Isaacs; Joe Hooker Post, No. 12S, Com
mander Jacob Jacobs; Steinwehr Post, No. 1872,
Commander w. Krzyzanowski; Stewart Hart
Post. No. 169 Of Mount Kisco; KoItes Post,
No. 22S, of Philadelphia; Koltes Sons of Vet
Grams, No. II; the Fifth Seventh, Twentieth,
and Forty-ffth Regiment Veteran Associations,
the German Veteran Singing Society, and the
Turner Cadets George G. Meade Post, No. 3d.
Commander w. J. Holmes, will decorate the
graves of soldiers buried at Willett's Point and
Fort Schuyler. Reno lPostg No. A, Commander
Henry G. Perley, with 250 uniformed men, will
go to Harris Island Robert Anderson Post
No. IS, Commander j. Pr Rosseau, will go to
Cypress Hills, as will also Wadsworth Post, No
II, Commander John Fl. Van Wyck. Farragut
Post, No. 70, Commander B. w. Ellison, will
decorate the graves In Woodlawn Cemetery, as
will Ellsworth Post No. 67, Commander Chas
Smith, and Oliver Iilden Post, No SO, Com
mander Edward Rate. Cameron Post, No. 49,
Commander John E. Nugent, will unveiI the
sareophagus erected by them over the grave of
General flnckney at Greenwood. President
Arthur has promised to be present if his en-
gagements of the day will admit. Shields Post,
No. 90, Commander John Beattie, will accom-
pany Cameron Post, and also the Duryea
Zouaves. An Grafton viii be delivered by Maj
Willard Billiard. E. A. Kimball Post, No. 100
Commander Thomas Cochrane, will decorate
the grave of Col. Kimball at Greenwood. They
will be accompanied by the Hawkins Zouaves
Sedgwick Post, No. 1S6, Commander Ed Byrne,
will go to Governors Island, accompanied by
Dahlgren Post, No. 113, Commander William
McEntee- 1t is expected that General Sickles
will deliver the GRAFTON on the island. In the
parade Sedgwick Post, by permission of the
Board of Aldermen, viii carry the Washington
flag now hanging in the governors room in the
City Hall.
The Memorial committee of Kings county
met in Brooklyn on the 18th inst. The COM
mittee appointed TO wait on General Jourdan
to persuade him to order out the Second divis-
ion National Guards on Memorial Day reported
that he positively refused to comply with their
request, and yet he gave permission to Colonel
Austin to take his reginent-the Thirteenth
to New York city to parade there. Col Lynch
appeared before the committee and asked per-
mission for the Hancock Legion to parade on
Memorial Day. 1t was granted, and the grand
marshal was requested to assign them posi-
ton in the line.