Milford chronicle., 1885-06-05
LATEST NEWS NOTES.
Happenings Of Interest to All,
At Home and Abroad
DECORATION DAY PARADE.
President Cleveland Reviewed the Column
"A Fine Display

The parade on Decoration Day in New Yorl
city was one Of the finest displays for years
The Grand Army Of the Republic formed il
the streets between Fourth and Sixth avenues
from Fifty-frst TO Forty-eighth street at 81,
] o'clock. and at % o'clock the procession
started The line Of march was down Fiftl
! Ave to Fourteenth street, through Fourteenth
street and around Union Square, and dow
Broadway to Eighth street. At the Wortl
monument the line was reviewed by President
Cleveland, in company with his Cabinet, Gen
Phil Sheridan and staff Alajor-Gen. HancOcl
and staff, Governor Hill and star, Mayo
Grace, and the President Of the Board o.
Aldermen. While passing the Farragut
Worth, Seward, Lincoln, Washington, ane
LAFAYETTE monuments the soldiers uncovered
and the colors were dropped with roll Of
drums.
The floral division, consisting Of the wagona
carrying the flowers Of each post Of the Grand
Army, went to the cemeteries in and about
the suburbs Of the city. In addition to the
floral offerings Of the Grand Army, there were
10000 plants and shrubs contributed by school
children and others for decorating the graves,
The military escort for the Grand Army was
First Division, N. G. s. N. Y, Major Gen.
Alexander Shaler commanding.
First Brigade, N. G. s. N. Y Brig Gen.
VIM. G. Ward, commanding wenty-second
Regiment Col. Josiah Porter Twelfth Regi-
ment, Col. James H. Jones; Ninth Regiment,
Col. VIM. Seward Jr.; Eleventh Regiment,
Lieut.-Col. A. P. Stewart
Second Brigade Brig. Gen. Louis Fitzger-
aid, commanding. Seventh Regiment Col
Emmons Clark; Sixty-ninth Regiment Col
D. Scott; seventy-first Regiment Col. Edward
A. McAlpin; First Battery, Capt. Louis Wendell;
Second Battery, Capt. Ferdinand P. Earle.
The following composed the column Of the
Grand Army Of the Republic:
First DiyisiOn-Koltes Post, J. Lafayette
Riker Post, Hecker Post, Edward II. Wade
Post.
Second Division-James @. Rice Post Post
No. $50, Farragut Post, A. S. Williams Post.
Third DivisiOn-JOhn A. Dix Post, Phil.
Keatney Post, Andrew Jackson Post, Sumner
Post.
Fourth INSTRUMENTATION D. Kennedy Post.
Dahlgren Post SedgWick Post, Thaddeus Ste
yens Post.
Fifth Diyision-Gen. James Shields Post,
Wadsworth Post, Michael Corcoran Post Ellis
worth Post.
Sixth Diyisiou--Gilsa Post, John A. Rawlins
Post, John E. Benedix Post, Vanderbilt Post
Seventh Diyision-Judson Fitzpatrick Post
Edwin D. Morgan Post, Gen. James McQuade
Post, Alexander Hamilton Post.
Eighth Division--RenO Post, Veteran Post
Robert Anderson Post Abraham Lincoln Post
bal Post, Joe Hooker Post.
Tenth Division-Lafayette Post, Adam Goss
Post, Naval Post.
Eleventh Division - United States Army
Veterans. Steuben Veterans, Hawkins Zouaves,
Forty-fifth, Fifth, and Thirty-sixth Regiments,
Veteran Volunteer Association, Tenth, Fortieth,
133d, Sixty-eighth, and Thirty-ninth Regi-
menis New York Volunteer Associations, Sixty
ninth Regiment Veteran Corps.
Twelfth Division-Fifth Regiment War Vet
terans Twentieth Regiment New York Volun-
teer Association, Eleventh Regiment New York
Veteran Volunteer Association, Grenadiers des
New York Turner Cadets, Gar
net Cadets, FOrty-seeond Regiment Volunteer
Association.
Thirteenth DivisiOn-Sumner Camp, Vet
eran Camp, Joe Hooker Camp, Farragut
Camp, Oliver Tilden Camp, Robert Lincoln
Post, Sons of Veterans; John j. ScanlOn Post,
Sons of Veterans.
The parade in Brooklyn was one Of the finest
ever seen there.