Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-01
IT WAS MEMORIAL DAY.
DUE OBsERYASCE BY a sUSPEE-
SION or AH BEsEHEssL

A Red Hot Game of Base Ball Betweez
the Clerks Of Two Great Houses-Ths
Losers Banquet the winners After II,
Close-ChronoIogy OF q Day I'm tia
Greatest Copper Camp ON Earth.
Like all cities Of any magnitude ovel
which float the stars and stripes, Butte
gave itself q holiday yesterday. and all
business was suspended so that q touching
and beautiful tribute might be paid to the
memory OF the dead heroes who risked
their lives at their country's call. Flowers,
the most exquisite gift of a bountiful ma
ture, were strewn in profusion over the last
resting places OF those whom to honor the
people gathered from all directions, and
though the silent sleepers knew it not, not
ONE OF them was overlooked, and
the humble private who shouldered
o musket received the same honors
al did the one who led him in the fray.
Rank was overlooked, and the starry en-.
blem Of q mighty country foated gaily to
the breeze from every grave in which slept
O man who had been o soldier, and the
same sweet flowers exhaled their perfumes
from each little mound. As death knows
NO distinction, so did the men know none
who assembled yesterday to decorate the
graves Of comrades who had answered the
last muster roll, and are now tenting in
heavens own camp ground, where war and
strife enter not, and where all is peace and
happiness. And as they gently laid
wreaths and blossoms on the graves before
them, they thought of the time when they,
too, would be sleeping the sleep which
knows no awakening, and when Others
would pay them the same tribute and
speak of the deeds they had performed.
Not only were the graves of those
who wore the blue strewn with flowers, but
those who, right OF wrong, wore the gray
were also remembered and only the fact that
they too had been brave soldiers and had
fought for q principle was recalled and all
the bitterness OF war was forgotten amid
the peaceful surroundings Of the quiet city
of the dead.
At 1 O'Clock the long column Of soldiers
and citizens took up its march and after
parading through the principal streets
headed IFS way to the cemeteries in all OF
which sleep men who have faxed the perils
and dangers OF war and who have now
gone to their rewards. At the cemeteries
speeches were made by Col. Dolman, Revs.
Groeneveld and Darrow, and songs we're
sung by q quartette under the leadership |
OF Prof. Firch after which the graves were |
decorated and the homeWard march was
Contrary to their usual custom the mill.
tia companies did not visit the cemeteries
but only escorted the procession as far as
The corner Of Park and Montana streets
where they withdrew and marched to the
hill near the Gagnon mine where they were
inspected and mustered by Gen. Brown, in
general, after which they marched to
their respective armories and broke ranks.
From almost every flagstaff in the city
doated the star spangled banner, and every
business house, excepting the saloons, re-
NAMED closed throughout the day. Hun
1reds OF people thronged the streets, giving
The town q holiday appearance, which was
increased by the total suspension Of almost
business. Great crowds visited the
cemeteries, and others attended the ball
,ame. while still others went to neighboring
to spend the day.
Each year the regard for Memorial day is
Increasing, and tho time will come when the
will be one OF the great holidays of the
'ntire land, and when not only the graves of
but Of all the dead will be decor
tied. |