Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-11-12
RED RlBBONED ANARCHS.
A Wild, Wierd Scene in a Chi
 cago Cemetery.
WEEPING OVER PARSONS LETTER
Mrs. Parsons and Nina Van Zandt Were Not Present-'rhe Bands Played Dirges, Children Sang SorrowfuI Songs and Speakers HaranSued.

Not Present-rhe Bands Played Dirges,
 Speakers HaranGued.
 CHICAGO, Nov. Halloween 1000 and 5000 men I.ll women bIaved the bleak November wind and stood for two hours on the sod in Waldheim cemetery yesterday to do honor to the memories of Spies, Parsons, Engel, Fischer and Lingg. Most of the women were in deep mourning, while the men had crape bands around their coat sleeves or hats or badges of the same material upon their breasts. Five out of six displayed a red satin ribbon, the symbol of revolution.
 As a result of the ultimatum of Mayor Roche, there was no parade in the city. al though about l50 members of Labor Assem- bly, No. l, of the Knights of Labor, formerly known the ''Albert k. Parsons" assembly, marched in body from their hall to the Wisconsin Central depot. At the latter place n number of policemen ill civilian attire min ged with the throng.
 Police Lieutenant Wilson, who was also at the depot, had received orders to suppress any display of flags at half mast, attempt at paradlng or playing of funeral music, but ihere was no effort looking toward a demon UtratiOn within the city limits The early train was packed with people bound for the
 
 of fourteen and the other of sixteen coaches, were called into requisition to transport the crowds who besieged the depot.
 It was , o'clock when the formal exercises at the cemetery commenced. Previous to this a number of magnificent floral offerings had been placed upon the five graves. The various organizations formed ill line on the road outside and marched into the cemetery i'll regular file, preceded by band of music playing d funeral dirge. The speakers stand was profuSely decorated with frs, smilax and red ribbon, and was located a few feet from the grave lot of the dead Anarchists.
 The mother of August Spies, her two sons and daughter, Mrs. Engle and her family, and the two little children left by Parsons occupied q space near the speakers stand, reserved for the relatives of the dead and i'm prlsoned reVolutionists. Nina Van Zandt, Mrs. Parsons and Mrs Fischer were conspic- uous by their absence. The first is ill Penn sylvania, Mrs. Parsons in London and Mrs Fischer in St. Louis. The assemblage was called to order by George A. Schilling, who reminded those present that they had met together on that beautiful autumn day to celebrate the death of five American heroes, and Robert Reitzei, editor of Der Teufel of Detroit, delivered brief address in German He eulogiZad the executed men and the cause for which they died.
 He said that their teachings were those of Thomas Paine, the same that actuated the people of the United States ill rebelling against Great Britain, and pointed to the demonStrat lions held Saturday and Sunday in New York, PittSburg, St Louis, Cincinnati, Detroit and other American cities as we'll as in London and Paris, as a proof that the dead men were remembered and the cause of Anarchy growing. When he had concluded fifty pupils of the Northwestern Socialist Sunday school, boys and girls, sang in Ger man the song, For Truth and Right"
 Then, with letter iu his hand, George Schilling stepped forward and read the letter written by Parsons to his children with the injunction that it was not to be opened until the first anniversary of his death Schilling broke the seal with trembling hand and commenced to read with voice chukcd with emotion.
 The effect of the first few sentences upon the audience was electrical Tears began to roll down the faces of the men and women. and before the reading was completed it seemed as though one weird sob and moan from thousands of threats was minglng with the wailing of the wind as it swept through the leahess branches of the trees The letter ill full reads as follows:
 DUNGEON No. :, COOK COUNTY JAIL.
 CHICAGO, Nov. 9, 1887. To my darling, precious, little children. Albert
 R. Parsons, Jr., and his sister, Lulu Eda Par As write this word blot your names with a tear. We never meet again. Oh. my children how deeply, deeply your papa loves you. We show our love by living for our loved ones We also prove our love by dying, when necessarily for them. Of my life and the cause of my cruel death you will learn from others Your father is aiSelf offered sacrifice upon the altar of liberty and happiness.
 To you leave the legacy of an honest name and duty done. Preserve it; circulate it. Be true to yourselves, you cannot then be false to others. Be sober, industrious and cheerful Your mother-ah, she is the grandeSt the noblest of women-love, honor and obey her.
 My children, my precious ones, I request you to read this parting message on each recurring anniversary of my death, in remembrance of him who dies not alone for you, but for the children yet unborn. Bless you, my darlings. Farewell Your father, ALBERT R. PARSONS
 The weeping and sobbing continued for some minutes after the reading had con cluded when 500 voices of the United Man nerchor sang At the Grave of Our Friends. y
 Other addresses followed in English and German, and after final song by the Man nerchor the exercises closed and the crowd quietly returned to the city
 BALTIMORE, Nov 12-A meeting was held yesterday at Turner hall in memory of the Anarchists hanged at Chicago a year ago, About 400 Anarchists and Socialists attended. Speeches were made by Professor T. H. Gar side, of Baltimore, and Albert Currlin, of Chicago. Currlin hreathed vengeance in every line. He called upon the women to teach their children to avenge the dead and compared the execution of the Anarchists to the crucihxion of Christ
 NEWARK, N. J., Nov. 12-The Anarchists of this city met and listened to fiery speeches eulogizng the Chicago "martyrs' and con- demning their eXecutioners and society gen. erally. There was no disorder
 One Passenger Fatally Injured.
 WATERLOO, la, Nov. 12-A passenger irain on the Illinois Central railroad going east collided with freight train near this nlace The freicht train had hrol,or, in t,s-a