Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-24
MEMORIAL DAY.

C0mpletfOn-A General order From | Commander Fox of Admiral FOote | Post-The Parade-Hon. William Ed gar Simonds to Deliver the OratioR-
 Grand Army Notes.
 At the meeting of Admiral Foote post No. IF, G. A. R., on Saturday evening there was an unusually large attendance of comrades. Seven new members were mustered into the post and the names of seven recruits were presented for membership. The membership of the post is now 585 and from present indi- cations the membership will reach seven hun dred before the close of the present year.
 At the post meeting on Saturday evening the following order regarding Memorial day exercises was read: alADeuARTERs ADMIRAL FooTE PosT No F, DEPARTMENT OF CoNNEcTICUT, G. A. R. NEW HAVEN, May 90, 1886. General orders, No. 1.
 a Mandas H5 ay M 3 m, for the purpose of participating in the deeora- green and St. Bernard cemeteries, Comrades will. as far as possible, appear in full uniform with without uniforms are requested to appear with dark 1 clothes, white gloves and badges.
 eteries at Fair Haven, Westville and West Haven | will take place in the morning of Monday May 31, and all comrades of the post who can requested attend and assist in the ceremonies The decora- Tons M M1s a1eR w and e51 a. m. The Memorial day committee have placed
 es 5 aaE e and a r der charge of Past Post Commander D. C. Munson. al day will take place at Carl,s Opera House Sun day evening" May so 1ss6 at a;so o'clock , The The families and the showing of the G. A. R. badge will give admission n-Domrades will appear in uni 4 The post having accepted invitation to at sunday n % evening, % June 9th, 1sss the members viii assemble in full uniform, with white gloves, at PPomptness Ge1 is desirable as the services at the church commencs promptly % aIt at 7;So Gpn, p;m; N. I. STRICKLAND, Adiutant. The committee having the Memorial day exercises in charge have nearly completed the arrangements for the parade and the dec oration of graves in the various cemeteries They will meet again this evening to arrange the final details. The following organizations have signifed to the committee their inten- ton to parade with the Grand Army: Second company Governors Horse Guards, Second company Governors Foot Guards, National Blues, Giles Continentals, Dwight School Cadets, McManus Zouaves, police depart ment, fire department, Veteran Firemen's association and Sons of Veterans. These, with the three local posts, Admiral Foote, Henry c. Merwin and General Won Stein wehr, will make nearly one thousand men ill hne While it is not fully determined who the chief marshal of the parade will be, yet
 
 will be able to defer his business trip to Washington until after Memorial day, in which case he will act in that capacity. The exercises in Fair Haven will take place Tn the morning at 10 o'clock under the di- rection of Senior Vice Commander Coe and Assitant Quartermaster General Pierpout. There will be short parade before proceed ing to the cemetery, and on arriving there the graves will be decorated, after which there will be a short service, which will, it is expected, include short address by Com mander Rev. Erastus Blakeslee, of the Sec ond church, Fair Haven. Comrades who go to Fair Haven from this city will be able to return by II o'clock or soon after. At the post meeting on Saturday evening an invita- tion was received to attend divine service at the Grand Street Baptist church next Sun day morning, and Commander Fox request ed all comrades who could do so to accept the invitation, especially those living in Fair Haven. It was also announced that mem orial services would be held at the First Congregational church in Fair Haven on next Sunday evening. Owing to the fact that there will be special memorial services at Carll's Opera House on the same evening under the direction of the three local posts, the invitation to attend the services at Fair Haven could not be accepted. Thanks for the invitation were extended however. The Memorial day exercises in Westville will take place at 10 o'clock in the forenoon,
  by the comrades residing in the village, as- sisted by the ladies and citizens generally. There will be brief services at the cemetery. In West Haven the Grand Army veterans having the services in charge are w. L. D. Pritehard chairman; F. G. Hastings, sec retary; H. c. Higgins and William Evans. They will be assisted in the ceremonies by West Haven division, Sons of Temper ance, and the teachers and scholars in the public schools. The procession will form on the Green at 8:30 a. m. and march to the cemetery, where, after decoration, brief ser vices will be held. The veterans will dine at Railroad restaurant after the services on invitation of MT. Howes, the proprietor. There are nineteen soldiers buried in the West Haven cemetery.
 NOTES.
 The ladies of the Auxiliary corps will have charge of the arranging of flowers at the State House on the morning of Memorial day and they will be glad to have the assistance of the wives and daughters of comrades. At Carll's Opera House on next Sunday evening the oration will be delivered by Comrade Hon. Wm. Edgar Simonds, of Hart ford. MT. Simonds was Speaker of the House in the legislature of 1885. He is also delegate from this State to the national en- campment, which meets in San Francisco next August. Comrade Hon. J. D. Plunkett will also deliver a short address. At this service there will be singing by one of the New Haven singing socletles and music Dy an orchestra.
 Comrade George Farnham, formerly of this city, now of Florida, has sent on a chart of the Grove street cemetery, with list of soldiers therein buried, 70 far as known up to last year. He also specially requested that the grave of the old sexton of the ceme- tery and of John Pearl. Confederate soldier buried in this cemetery, should be decorated the same as the others. This has been done for several years.
 On Saturday evening Admiral Foote post received an invitation from Rev. Phebe A. Hanaford to attend the Church of the Holy Spirit last evening. The adjutant was in structed to return the thanks of the post to Mrs. Hanaford and regrets that owing to the late hour at which the invitation was re- ceived it would be impossible to attend as post
 At the meeting of Admiral Foote post on Saturday evening small cedar bush brought from the battlefield of Gettysburg last July by Comrade H. c. Higgins, of West Haven, adorned the table of Commander Fox. It had been potted and was growing finely through the careful nursing of the owner, who prizes it as memorial of that historic ground, where he witnessed one of the great est battles of the war.
 Orange Blossoms.
 Yesterday at the residence of the brides parents John L. Schwaab and Nettie W.