The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-05-31
The Memorial Services Held
There Yesterday.
ELOQUENT ADDRESSES MADE
teresting Ceremonies at
Mount OIiVet.


Grafton Day, aud the weather was all
that could be asked for.
At about 10 o'clock, the procession
formed in front of the G. a. R. Hall,
on Second South Street, and moved up
Main Street to the DESERT Bank corner,
thence east to Fort Douglas. James B.
Mexican Post led, with the Cadet Corps
from All Hallow's College as escort.
They were followed by Odd Fellows,
then came Pederson's Band, and long
line of vehicles brought up in the rear.
The procession was under the command
of Henry Page, with Messrs. Edgerly,
Post and DR.. Whitney as aids.
Arriving at the Post, the procession
was met oy six companies OF Infantry,
under command OF Lieut.. Col. Osborn,
who preceded them to the Cemetery,
on the south side of which battery D
was stationed. Upon entering the
Cemetery, the members of the Grand
Army and the Womsn's Relief Corps
formed around the monument erected
20 the memory of the soldiers slain at
Bear River in 1862. The band played a
dirge, after which the beautiful and
impressive Grand Army memorial SER
vice was read by Captain Bailey and
Major Bradley. The hymn America,
was then sung IN an excellent manner
by choir composed of Messrs. Chap
man, Douell, Root, Schmidt, Obern-
dorfer, Smell, Groves and Graham. The
battery then fred three salVos, and
after spending a short time in decorat-
ing the graves, the procession re-
formed and marched back to the fort,
where the crowd formed around the pa
william, which was handsomely decorated
with the national col0rs. The services
were opened by the choir singing Rest.
Soldier. Rest. Prayer vas then offered
by Chaplain Hammond, after which
CAPTAIN BADGER
made the opening address. He said:
We have assembled to-day under pc
culiar circumstances. AS q national
holiday, it is unlike any other in this or
any other country. For number of
years our children have been taught to
remember that the Fourth of
July is the nations birth
day, and young and old must usher it
in with demonstrations of Joy. This
day, however, is the great national
funeral day, and it Is spent in mourn
ing for those who died that their
country might be preserved from
wreck and ruin. 1t is in memory Of
those men that we are assembled, -
those men who risked and lost their
lives in defense of the whole country.
Theirs was the cause of justice and
humanity, even though their acts were
baptized in blood. They knew no dis
tinctions of rank, and stood
shoulder TO shoulder for the great
cause of universal liberty, and to-day
those men, the statesman and the me-
chsnic, the scholar and the laborer,
sleep side by side. 1t was love of
country saDd its institu lions which
controlled their actions. The flags IN
der which they fought, all tattered and
torn as they are, have been preserved,
are also preserved at the National
Capitol, and there may they be
preserved for ever. II is but
right and just that those of us who
remain alive should feel proud of those
who fell to fill heroes and patri DTS
graves, and the decorating of those
graves will do more towards impressing
upon the minds of the youth of the
country these great facts than all else.
We thought that our country was
prosperous aud advancing rapidly
before the war, but mark the advance
ment that has taken place since. At
the close of the war the south was
ruined and the north bankrupt yet
where does she stand to-day? While
success has crowned all our efforts, it is
not sign of weakness TO see that all
men, from all sections of our common
country, are coming together. 1t is
time the Ratchet was buried, for the
lpast is past. The Grand Army of the
Republic is doing a great work OF
charity, but that work will soon be
limited, as It's members are fast passing
away. Cur only hope is that the Sons
of Veterans may take up the work and
carry it on. Though in mourning to-
day let US all rejoice that the crisis has
come and gone, and that in it, Ameri-
can patriotism was meyer found want
ing. Let US hope that the Goddess of
Liberty may forever preside over the
destinies of our Republic.
The choir then sang The Flag With
out Stain.
JUDGE BENSON
was the next speaker. He said the OBJ
servance of this day and this beautiful
ceremony brings to mind the
fact that reverence for holy
shrines lies deep in human hearts.
Although more than eighteen
centuries have passed since the days of
the Redeemer, yet men still journey to
the Holy Land to see the scenes He
looked upon. Every heart has its
shrine. 1t may be that the Mecca TO
which you turn is the grave of parent
or child, and as you approach that
sacred spot, you realize that it is holy
grolEd. 1t was this thought which
brought the people to the cemetery to-
day, and while the ladies of the Relief
Corps bestrew the graves with beauti-
full flowers, they decorate the grave OF
every man who gave up his life in the
great stru ggle, whittier they sleep in
the cemeteries o. the north or beneath
the magnolios of the south. They do
more, they wreath the brow of every
man who risked bis life in the war,
they do honor to all men in all ages
who have offered up their lives upon
the altar of liberty.