The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1888-06-13
DECORATION DAY.
General Observance Through.
out the Country.
President Cleveland at Parades
in Brooklyn and New York


Decoration Day was observed in the usual
manner this year in various parts OF the
country Below we give the leading features
of the exercises at prominent points:
Opposite the Worth monument in Madison
Square, New York, the President of the
United States Decoration Day reviewed one
of the largest pageants that was ever as
sembled in the metropolis Of the nation to
honor the memory of the brave soldiers who
gave their lives to the preservation OF the
unity Of their country. Twenty-one years
ago Congress set apart the SOth day Of May
for that purpose, and no year since Decora-
tion Day was made national institution has
it been observed with more becoming cere-
mony.
President Cleveland and three members of
his Cabinet, Secretaries Endicott, Whitney
and Fairchild, came over from Washington
to participate in the days ceremonies. They
arrived early at the reviewing stand, but
even before they came vast concourse OF
citizens had assembled to cheer the survivors
of the war on their errand Of fraternal at
fection It was nearly 9 o'clock when the
President, in company with j. l.. Llnbeck,
chairman of the Memorial Committee, drove
up and took his position on the reviewing
stand.
The head of the procession reached the re-
viewing stand at little before ten O'Clock.
At that hour the stand was filled with promi.
nent citizens, judges, commissioners and
other public officers
First came the First Brigade Of the National
Guard under the command OF General Fltz.
gerald and then the always imposing Old
Guard, clad in their heavy beaver skinned
hats. AS the militia and the Old Guard
passed the stand the crowd for the first time
warmed to the enthusiasm OF the occasion
and created them with hearty round Of ap.
plause. Then came the other regiments OF
the State militia, each in turn saluting the
Chief Magistrate as it passed the stand,
and receiving bow Of recognition in re-
turn.
When the Richmond (Va.) Grays, clad in
uniforms similar to those worn by the Con-
federate armies, passed the stand, sandWiched
between two companies who wore the blue,
and carrying at their head the Stars and
Stripes in recognition Of the fact that al nos,
tile feeling between North and South had
long since died away, they were greeted with
a round Of cheers sufficient in itself to repay
them for their journey from the Old Do
minion.
Never since the day was first observed has
q more inspiring, buoyant procession paraded
the streets Of the metropolis. Fully 10, 600
men were in line, and the general regularity
and perfection Of their marching could but
recall the days when with their departed
comrades most Of them marched together.
1t was after monday when the last of the
procession had passed the reviewing stand,
and President Cleveland was driven to
Brooklyn to review the parade in that city.
As the carriage containing the President
drove away the assembled crowd loudly
cheered him on his way.
The parade in Brooklyn was the largest
and finest ever seen in that city on Memorial
Day. Over ten thousand men were in line.
These were the army Of veterans, bat
marines, about three hundred bluejackets;
the Thirteenth, under Colonel Austen;
the Thirty-second, under Coonel Finkel-
meier; the Forty-seventh, under Colonel
Gaylor, and the Fourteenth, under Colonel
Michel, the brigade being under the COM
mapd Of General James McLeer.
The veteran organizations, under General
E. B. Fowler, carried their tattered battle
flags, and included the survivors of all the
regiments that left the city during the war
It was Just quarter past twelve when
the crowd that had long been waiting at
and around the reviewing stand in front OF
Washington Park, between De Kalb and
Willoughby avenues, broke into enthusiastic
cheering at the approach Of President Cleve-
land in an open carriage.
Among the company on the reviewing
stand were the Mayor and Mrs, Chaplin, the
District Attorney and Mrs. Ridgway, Will
lam E. Robinson, j. S. T. Stranahan, the
Rev. Charles II. Hall, U. E. Lathrop, who
looks so much like the President that the
crowd cheered him on his arrival; Mrs. Dr.
Talmage and daughter, General Black and
delegation Of Grand Army men, General
ButterHeld, Admiral Gherardi, ex-Mayor
Hunter and some of the city officials. =.
1t was a quarter to one when the head OF
the procession came by, the band playing
"DiIie." The President stood up when the
procession began, and answered the salutes
Of the marching men by bowling and smiling,
He remained standing until the Fifth division
had passed. Then he and the party left the
stand and took seats in the carriages. They
remained few minutes longer, AMI then, at
five minutes to two, as the firemen were
passing the stand the distinguished party
where the President held an informal recep-
tion until $3.50 o'clock, when, accompanied
by his cabinet officers, he left on special
train for Washington.
AT night services in memory Of the dead
held in the New York Metropolitan Opera
House, Chauncey NJ. Depew presided and
Colonel r. G. 1ngersoll made memorial
address.
The most impressive services were held at
the tomb of General Grant. Twenty thousand
people were gathered at Riverside Park IN
the afternoon at the hour Of 8, when the SER
vices in honor Of the dead commander were
begun. .,.,L
for the Grand Army Posts and the Virginia
comnany and the members OF the 10Th Regl.
ment. After the band had played q funeral
march, the Rev. DR.. NJ. King offered prayer,
and the ritual Of the Grand Army was read.
The grafton was delivered by General Stew
art L. Woodford. He was frequently ap'
plauded by the Richmond Grays: as we'll as
by the Grand Army men.
At the close Of the services the Richmond
company fred three salutes in front OF the
tomb. The bugle call was sounded, and as
the members of Grant Post marched past the
tomb each threw bunch Of flowers within
The Grand Army Of the Republic cere::
monies in Washington were on a scale OF
great splendor. All the posts were out IN
force. Statues Of revolutionary heroes as
we'll as those of the late war were lavlshly
decorated. A large delegation honored the
memory of General Logan in Rock Creek
Cemetery, where Representative Mason, or llll-
nois delivered q touching Grafton. At noon an
artillery salute was fired: The procession
was formed in front of the Arlington Man:
sion, and, after the usual visit to the grave OF
the unknown, ETC., Senator Palmer, OF Mlcn,
igan, delivered an GRAFTON in the vine covered
amphitbeatrS. He was followed by Senator
Manderson, Of Nebraska.
Philadelphia honored the day by parallels:
addresses and decorations. On the tomb of
Major General Winfield Scott Hancock, at
Norristown, a splendid floral piece was
placed by the Hancock Veteran Association,
and there were floral tributes from number
of other organizations.
Gettysburg also made e. grand ahs RasflUsaf Raainmsi
display. The proceedings IN the Naslona1 slonai
w r Ryan. of Rochester, n. Y, reclted