Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-05-31

Colonel W. b. Denniston, his brother,
Major Joseph Denniston, read his oration,
Dolores" In it occurred these words:
ms annual ceremony is tribute which
speaks more positively, more eloQuently than
the bronze and marble shafts which have been
erected all over our Union They, tbs true.
speak well and nobly, and show no stinted
purses no sound of false economy in their
honor and praises of loyalty. Praise and graft
tude are lavishly exemplifed therein and
thereon; but these ceremonies with national
songs and hymns of praise and laudations and
nowers will be continued by generations yet
unborn-'will serve to keep the memories
green" Of the patriotic dead, when marble and
crumbled to dust.
Soon our turn will come; soon we will be
mustered into the great grand army beyond.
unto the end, and when our time comes, aye,
when the last of the old veterans has been laid
forrest when for us there will be no more roil
call this side of eternity. may there stlll pc
found willing hands and loving hearts 60
flowers above us.
ON THE soUTHsIDE
large procession of old soldiers and citi-
zens was formed. They marched to the
cemetery, where the graves of the sleeping
boys were sprinkled with flowers and orna-
mented with flags. The choir sang, I'VE
Will Deck their Graves with Flowers, and
the Select Knights band played dirge.
Then Judge Collier delivered the Grafton.
This is an abstract:
We meet for no empty show or useless
parade but to testify from full and overhowing
hearts that the remembrance of their sacrifices
has not grown dim with passing years. stand.
ing by their resting places with bowed head
we can recall the unselfsh devotion of the
men who fell that liberty might live, and that
the Government bequeathed as heritage
by our patriot fathers might not perish from
the earth.
We are not here to glory in the victories of
the past, nor to stir up hot blood by the recital
of our comrades valor. We have buried the
animosity and hate engendered by the war. and a
we desire to forget all, save the good In the
past, while we renew our inhexible purpose to
maintain the Government saved by the devo-
tion of our comrades.
Here is the fitting place to call to mind the
men who with us stood guard over the nation;
to think OF the charge some comrades died In
repelling, some terrible leaden shower that
smote him by our side; some prison pen where
show that the love of Union and liberty was
not laid aside when the battle flags were furled
and the sword laid by to rust
AT TROY HILL.
At the conclusion of the services at the
Hampton Monument, in East Park, Allie
Cheny, Post S8 and John 1. Nevir Camp,
Sons of Veterans, proceeded to Troy Hill.
After the reading of the general orders and
selections by Post 88 choir came the address
by Rev. W. w. Cowl. He said:
We are still able-stiIl suficient-for the en-
joyment of all the privileges and for the per-
fOrmsnce Of ali the duties Of the Memorial
Day of our order. As we have come, for two
decades and half, to the churchyards and
cemeteries where our deceased comrades are
sepulchered, that we might cover their lonely
resting place with flowers, and so voice our
tender regard for their memory, so, on this
year of our Lord 1889, do we again come. Still
able for all its obligations do We come: with
flowers and evergreens in our hands sufficient
for the graves of all our departed comrades,
and in such numbers, and with SO much of
vigor still remaining, that we can still pass on
our loving errands, from one grave TO another
and from one cemetery to another. until the
lowly tomb of every departed soldier has been
fttingly marked and tenderly honored.
In the beginning the dead constituted the
picket line of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie; the time is coming and coming upon the
tripping and winged feet of every movement,
and every experience, when this order shall be
reversed-when the living shall stand as
sentinels, and as pickets, about the sleeping
and countless hosts of our dead; and even when
this decimated picket line shall be found
eagerly waiting for the summons that Will
permit them to lie down side by side with
the tired and sleeping hosts of the Grand
Army.
SERVICES IN GENERAL.
There was a general decoration of graves
at VOeghtley's, ST. Philimoy's. Smithfeld
Street, Hebrew, Welterhausen's and Ions
dale cemeteries by the comrades of Post 8S
and Nevin Camp, S. of V.
Posts 162 and 12S and Camp No. 2, S. of
v, proceeded to Uniondale Cemetery, where
Post 1872 decorated the graves in Mt. Union
and 12S those in Hlldale, joint detail
being sent to Bellevue Cemetery.
The exercises at Sewickley in the after
noon were impressive. The services were
conducted by General Hays Post No. 3 and
No. IS, of Allegheny. Rev. j. M. Scott de-
livered the grafton.
The Charles r. Bright Post, of Verona,
also observed the day. The ceremonies
were conducted in the q. P. Cemetery. Ad
game, n. Davis, J. Cowan and j. Walters.
Blakely was the orator. The graves were
decorated by Captain Thomas Espy Post 153,
of Mansfield, and James A, Garfield Post,
of the Thirty-sixth ward.
Tarentum held big celebration and the
town had parade, to which neighboring
towns contributed.
Post 155, of Mt. Washington, held
memorial services in West Liberty Cemetery.
After the services in this cemetery Towering
plants were placed in the following ceme-
teries: Methodist Isaac Amber; South
side, Junior Vice Commander John Hepline;
st. Michael's, Fred Langenbacher; st.
Paul's, Joseph j. Mcdonald; Concord,
Senior Vice Commander James Sheppard;
st. Wendle's and Outer ST. Peters, O.
Shawhen and W. Beisner; Zimmerman's, J.
p WilheIrn