The evening world., 1889-05-29
me- MORTAL DAY.
To- Morrow's Programme for the
Celebration of Veterans Holiday.
Two Big ParadeS, Memorial Services,
Athletic Sports, and Races.
President Harrison to BE in Brooklyn
and ut the Exercises at Grants Tomb.

ihV hlStIOpOllb Will uhNo HuOtutT RICuI
day tomorrow.
President Harrison will review the Brook
lyn Memorial Day parade at Washington Park
in the morning, and attend the services at the
tomb Of Grant, Riverside Park in the after
noon.
GOV. HILLS SHARE IN IT.
Gov. Hill will be here, also, and will lay
the corner stone of the new armory Of the
gallant Twenty eighth Regiment Boulevard
and Sixty-second street, in the afternoon.
The day will be commemorated with more
than the usual mpressiveness in both New
York and Brooklyn.
FIFTEEN THOUSAND VETERANS.
The First Brigade, commanded by Brig
Gen. Louis Fitzgerald, will net IA escort to
the $4,000 scared veterans of the Grand
Army of the Republic, who will be divided
into eleven divisions.
Beside the militia and the Grand Army of
the Republic there will appear in the parade
the First New York Mounted Rifles, the
Fourth New York Cavalry, 100 Peekskill
Cadets, $50 boys from the Institution of the
Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society, sixty
Calidonian Club men in Highland plaid and
tartan. the Guards Lafayette, q. s.. Grant
Hose of the Ninth Ward and other organizn-
tons. The Twelfth Division Of the G. A. II.
Will be composed Of wagons filed with
flowers.
Lieut.. Col. VIM. P. Walton will be Grand
Marshal of the monster parade, and Gen.
Howard will lead the parade in command of
the United States Regulars. The First
Brigade will follow and then the Grand
Army, led by Col. Walton.
THE LINE OF MARCH.
The parade will form in the neighborhood
will move at 8. 80 o'clock. The line of march
will be dow Fifth avenue, past the review
ing stands at Madison Square, TO Union
Square and around the Square, disbanding
cations then visiting the several cemeteries
and %strewing flowers upon the graves of their
fallen comrades.
The Veteran Corps of the gallant Sixty
at Z o'clock in the morning, and accompanied
by. the Irish Brigade Veteran Association.
will march to Murray Street Ferry, led by
Gilmore's Band, and commanded by Col.
John Pigott. There they will meet the
Montgomery Light Guard Veteran Associa-
ton, of Boston, Col. Il. F.. Doherty COM
manding. and escort them to the parade, and
afterward assist them in the decoration of
the Montgomery monument in st, Paul's
Churchyard.
PRESIDENT HARRIsoN's PROGRAMME.
President Harrison and Gen. Tracy, Secre-
tary of the Navy, will arrive in Jersey City
from Washington at 8. Is this evening on the
Pennsylvania Limited. They will be driven
directly to the home of Joseph F. Knapp,
Bedford avenue and Ross street, Williams
burg, where they will be entertained till the
hour for the review of the parade at WASH
ington Park.
CEREMONIES AT GRANTS TOMB.
After the Brooklyn parade the President
will accompany U. s. Grant Post g.. A.. r.
and the Police Veteran Corps of BROOKLYN To
Riverside Park, to witness the ceremonies at
the toni of Grant 1t is expected that Mr..
Harrison will deliver q short address at the
tomb.
A reception COMMITTEES, consisting of Grand
Marshal Knight, Major b. r. Corwin, Police
Commissioner James ID. Bell and DR.. ST.
monds, will meet and escort the President to-
night.
BRooKLYN's PARADE.
Henry, w; Knight will be the grand mar
shall of the Brooklyn parade. A battalion of
Regiment commanded by Gen. James Nc
Leer, the Grand Army OF the Republic. Sons
of Veterans and many civic organizations
More than 1900 men will parade, and the
Cleremont and Willoughby avenues and Cum
berland street. TO South Oxford and Hanson
streets to Flatbush avenue, where the parade
will disband and proceed to the several celne-
teries.
The grave of Peter Cooper, in Greenwood
Cemetery, will be- strewn with flowers by
Peter Cooper Post $50, Miss @. NJ. Westover
singing Angels Ever Bright and FAN" the
bOlO WHICH WAS buuk " Iu6 Iuu6IHl OF Ll0
great pbiianthropist. They will be accom-.
panied by, Prof. Bayne's Si~xty-ninth Regi-
ment band.
%oUNDIN A NEW ARMoRY.
The veteran members of the Twenty-second
Regiment will participate with the regiment
in the ceremony of laying the corner. stone of
the new armory at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
Gov. Hill will handle the trowel, assisted by
Mayor Grant, and Chaplain Dunnell will CON
duct the religious exercises.
HoSoRINd IRISH HEROES.
The celebration of the Veterans Holiday
will be continued In various forms in the
evening: The lrishmen Of the city will honor
at Flynn's Hall. Joe Weldrick. James p.
Degnan. John BiegGr, james McElroy and
John Eckhardt will entertain in songs and
speeches, and Gen. James II. O'Beirne will
preside.
SERVICES AT THE oPERA-HoUsE.
The memorial exercises at the Metropolitan
Opera-House in the evening will be presided
over by Mayor Grant, and among the Volun-
teers who will participate are Thomas w.
Keene, Gertie Boswell, Master Albert Vein
stein, NJ. Bonner and the Bank Clerks Glee
Club. EK-President and Mrs. Cleveland
will occupy o box.
Lafayette Post, G. A. r., have accepted an
invitation Of Meade Post, Of Philadelphia, to
assist them to morrow, and they viii go TO
the City Of Brotherly Love as the escort of
Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman. Chauncey
NJ. Depew, John F. Plummer, James A.
blanchard and Floyd Clarkson will also 90
along. and after the exercises of the day they
will be entertained at the Union League Club
of Philadelphia.
SPORTS AND GAMES,
The holiday will be taken advantage of
quite generally by the people OF the metropo-
lis in games and sports Of every variety.
The Harlem Regatta Association will hold
its Spring Regatta tomorrow the Pasaaic
River Amateur Rowing Association will also