Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-29
mEmOR1ALDAY ExERorsEs.

MEMORIAL DAY EXERCISES. Observance of the Day i'm This City and Victnity-A Large Parade Ex. pected-Sunday Evening Services at CarlIs Opera HOuse-Orders Issued by Different Omcers-FulI PartIcu- lars.
 The arrangements for the Memorial day exercises are practically completed, and it is safe to assume that the services will be car ried out on grander scale than for many years. Beside the five or six hundred com rades of the Grand Army who will be in line, there will be four of the companies of the city battalion, the Governors Foot and Horse Guards. Winchester Hose Co.,. active and veteran 6remen, Sons of Veterans, Giles Zouaves, Dwight School Cadets, McManus' Zouaves and the police department.
 Colonel Leavenworth's order for the par ade of four companies of the Second regi- ment is as follows:
 HEADQUARTERS SECOND REGIMENT,
 CONNECTICUT NATIONAL GUARD,
 WALLINGFoRD, May 27, 1886. ) Special Orders No. 10.
 Companies B, c. and E, having volunteered to lie on Memorial day are ordered to assemble at their armory in New Haven Monday, 31st 1886, at P m, in full dress gray uniform, with shakos, for Field and staff, mounted, and non-comm missiened Lieutenant Colonel Henry R. Ioomis will com mand the battalion By order of
 THOMAS T. WELLEs, Captain and Adjutant.
 The exercises preceding the Memorial day observances will take place in Carll's Opera Honse tomorrow Sunday evening, when Hon. William Edgar Simonds, of Hartford, will deliver an oration, and short ol 11a al hyH T n Plunkett, of this city There will be singing by the Harugari Leidertafel society and music by fine orchestra. Prominent gen. tlemen in the city have been invited to take seats on the platform.
 On Monday in accordance with orders is- sued by the commanders of Admiral Foote, Henry O. Merwin and Won Steinwehr posts, G. A. R., the posts will assem- ble at their several headquarters at 12:3O D. m., for the purpose of decorating the soldiers graves in the Grove street, Evergreen and St. Bernard cemeteries It is expected that the line of march will be taken up at ? o'clock Green out the north gate to Elm street, to Grand, to Olive, to Chapel, to Church, to Grove, to Grove street cemetery. After the graves have been decorated here the march will be resumed as follows: Gene tery to York street, to Davenport avenue, to est, to St. BernarQS cemetery, where S1m1- lar forms will be observed at the Grove street cemetery. From here the line of march will be to Davenport avenue, to Win throp avenue, to Evergreen cemetery, where the final ceremony of decoration will be per formed The return line of march will be through Sylvan avenue, to Howe, to Chapel, to Temple through the south gate to the Green, where the parade will be dismissed.
 IN WEST HAVEN. he in u,in tol place on Monday morning, the line forming on the Green at S:30 o'clock, in front of the Congregational church, the right resting on Campbell avenue. The line will march at o'clock in the following order:
 Marshal ". l. c Pritchard
 ezi HaFTy S Richards. G W=[I 5i NoFthroP: HOW: '
 Columbia Drum Corps
 Invited Guests in Carriages.
 Public Scools.
 LINE OF MARCH. Campbell avenue to Main street. to Washington avenue, to cemetery south gate.
 oRDER OF EXERCISES. Decoration of graves singing-"We'n Strew Their Graves Again, ''''''A''n- '''ep' 0Oi-' ''0''' ''' Fred Williams Recitation. You Put no Flowers on My Papa's Them Over With Beautiful tii'u somebody's Darling ;:s'n'OiS singing."My Country, 'Tis of Thee, ,"..... Schools
 IN FAIR HAVEN. The exercises in Fair Haven will take place in the morning at 10 o'clock, under the di rection of Senior Vice Commander J. N. Coe of Admiral Foote post. There will be a short street parade and the column will then proceed to the cemetery where the usual dec oration services will be observed. After the decoration is completed there will be short services in accordance with Grand Army forms. Soon as the services are over here the Grand Army comrades will proceed to this city to take part in the afternoon exer- cises. The residents of Fair Haven are requested to bring their floral offerings to No. 20 Grand avenue as soon after 6:30 a. m. as possible. The comrades of Admiral Foote post and l the Sons of Veterans are requested to meet at H. W. Crawford's store at 9:45 a.. m. on l Sunday, May 30, to attend divine service at | Grand avenue Baptist church.
 IN NASHVILLE. The Grand Army veterans and all old | soldiers resident in Westville, together with | the good people living in that village, will | assemble at the cemetery on Whalley avenue | at 10 o'clock and decorate the graves of the | soldiers therein buried. It is expected that | there will be prayer and an address and | other brief exercises after the decoration is | performed. As in Fair Haven, the com rades will proceed to this city after the ser- vices are concluded and join with the posts | in this city in the services at the different l cemeteries in the afternoon. The following circular order is self-explan- 1 atory HEADQUARTERS ADMIRAL FooTE PosT No. I'll
 DEPARTMENT OF CONN, C. A. R-,
 New Haven, Conn.,, May 20, 1886. The death and burial of five of our members | since January 1st and the burial by the post of five old soldiers not members of the Grand Army sheuld | and does remind us that the time is fast approach ing when must all answer to the final summons. With this fact so prominently before us let us not fo get our duty to those comrades who gave thelr lives long years ago in that eventful struggle which preserved, united and strengthened our glorious Union.
 Memorial day and its beautiful observances should be held sacred by every old soldier and all should esteem it privilege, not to be forgotten or to gather with his comrades in those si lent camping grounds, and lay his tribute of afec- sion and fraternity upon 9 the grave of % some com, whose company we may soon be called.
 ask that every comrade will cast aside all busi- vote his time to these ceremonies, so beautiful and impressive Remember, comrades, , be your last opportunity to bestow on a comrades zrave aye the lo flowers Of spring; e -,,. eoo and upon each and every member to fill his place in the ranks with the same loyalty that responded to the call of his country in the time of it's great need and with that fraternity that binds together as com rades
 The order to fall in will be given at D. m. Mon day, May 31st. Will you respond to the roll callf
 Yours in F. O. & L.,
 SIMEON J. Fox, Post Commander.
 NOTES. Winchester Hose company are directed by their foreman, w. B. Harbert, to meet at 12 | o'clock, noon, in uniform with white gloves and flowers to take part in the parade. They | will decorate the graves of the late Lieuten ant Governor O. F. Winchester and that of | the late W. w. Winchester.
 The committee on flowers make a special | that all flowers for general and | set pieces designed for particular graves be left at the State House at as early an hour on | Monday morning as possible. This is made necessary from the fact that much time is re- quired in the arranging of the loose cut flow CTS and also in placing them in position on the floral ears which are to take them to the |