St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-31
SANITY CITY DOINGS.
Men Who Died for Their Coun-
try Remembered by Their
Comrades.
The Owner of the House in
Which Abraham Lin
coin Died.
Two Naughty Girls Sent to
the House of the Good
Shepherd.
Summary Of the Doings Of
a Day Gathered From
All Sources.
THEY SAVED THEIR COUNTRY
And the Nation Honors Them
When Dead-Memorial Day Ex-

" ucu Itos
ercises.
Memorial day was generally observed
In st. Paul yesterday by the usual cere-
mony of decorating the graves of the
old soldiers in the cemeteries, and by a
street parade and afternoon exercises OF
quite an elaborate character.
The veterans and members of the
Women's Relief corps and Daughters of
Veterans assembled at o'clock in the
forenoon at the court house, and taking
special street ears, visited the various
cemeteries The greater number of
soldiers graves, some 100, are i'll Oak
land cemetery. Upon the arrival of the
decorating force at this place they dj-
yided into four squads and marched
about among the resting places OF their
comrades in double file, while the WO-
mems Relief corps placed on each grave
beautiful floral tributes. AS the graves
were one by one visited, the soldiers
surrounded them and knelt while the
flowers were placed upon the graves. At
Calvary cemetery about fifty graves
were decorated, and small number at
the two Lutheran cemeteries.
At the entrances to Oakland and Cal
vary white crosses were erected, upon
which were hung wreathS and baskets
of flowers for the soldiers who sleep on
fields of battle or in distant cemeteries.
Besides the decorating committee, many
others brought floral tributes to the
cemeteries.
REQUIEM MASS.
At 10 o'clock requiem mass for the
souls of the soldiers of the civil war was
said at the cathedral by Father Dolphin.
military chaplain at Fort Smelling.
ShonInV on6 Fafhnr Gibbons
sisted in the ceremony. There was no
sermon, and the attendance was largely
from the Crusaders and Father Mat
thew societies.
The parade of the militia and Grand
Army posts took place in the afternoon,
business being generally suspended.
About l O'clock the &. A. r. men met
at their respective halls and marched to
Rice park, where the procession was
formed.
Leading the parade was the Union
Park detail of mounted police. The
procession was in charge of Chief Mar
shal William r. Marshall, Comrades A.
Pugh and William Cunningham acting
as aides The Great Western band
headed the first division, which was
composed of Acker post, G. ID. Parker
commanding, 125 men; Garfield post,
George A. Austin commanding, 60 men;
Bircher post, E. st. Julien Cox COM
manding, "a men; Ord post, B. Con-
verse commanding, 20 men; eX-S0ldiers
not members of the q. a. r., WilfOrd
C. Wilson commanding. Orators of the
day i'll carriages.
The second division was headed by
the First Regiment band and COM
manded by Assistant Marshal A. V.
Teeple, whose aides were E. H, Mil
ham and d. l.. Kingsbury. This divis-
ion included Companies G, d and E, NJ.
n. e., st. Paul; Camp No. l, Sons of
Veterans, w. w. Hills, Jr., command
ing; st. Paul Camp No. 4, Daughters of
Veterans; Woman's Relief corps of
Acker and Garfield posts, and citizens
in carriages.
The line of march was from Fifth
street to st. Peter, to Third, to Jackson,
TO Seventh, to WabaSha, and thence to
the capitol grounds, where the memo
rial day exercises took place.