The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-05-30
TODAYS EXERCISES.
Flag Presentation to City Schools by the Gar
field Post-MemOrial Services at
Garfield Hail.

The presentation of flags to the schools
of the city by the Garfield post will occur
| this morning, the exercises commencing at
| $50 o'clock on the southeast corner Of
Market and Williams streets. The various
schools will meet at $50 and headed by the
principals and teachers will march to the
grounds. The Carlton, Lincoln and Levy
street schools will join on the corner of
Main and Lewis streets and march to the
flag presentation from that point. 1t is
supposed there will be between four and
five thousand pupils present besides few
hundred citizens, provided the weather is
favorable.
The program is as follows:
Music-ITnder the direction of Prof
George c. Young.
Song-School children, America"
Address-Presentation Colonel II. W.
Lewis
Response-M. W. Levy.
Song-School children, Columbia, the
Gem of the Ocean"
Delivery Of flags to schools-Superin
tendent Il. W. Stevenson.
Song-SchooI children, Rally Round
the Flag"
The parade will then be formed, the
teachers and pupils marching to
the Sedgwick block, where the flags
will be deposited at the superin-
tendent's headquarters, where they will
remain until the beginning of the next
school year when they will be placed in
the various room. There will be one flag
for each room, there being about one hun
bred rooms occupied by the city schools.
The Lewis academy will also be provided
with flags by the post.
MEMORIAL SERVICES.
All parties desiring to contribute flow
ers for grave decorations today may leave
the same at Garfield hall any time this
forenoon The hall will be open to the
members of the post assembling for the
memorial exercises at 2 p. m, and to the
public a half hour later. The exercises
will commence about 245.
Invocation by Rev. J. d. Hewitt.
Song, America" under the leadership
of Prof. Young.
Address by COmrade Sluss.
Electric cars will be in waiting to take
the children and firing squad to the end of
the Paramount line, within four blocks of
the cemetery. Other cars will be at the
service of the public
At the cemetery the post services will
be held and the graves of the old soldiers
decorated.
HEADQUARTERS GARFIELD Posi- No. %,
DEPARTMENT OF KANSAS g. A. r.
WICHITA, May 30, 1890.
General order No. q
The cycle of time has again brought to
us this festival of our dead" at which 1t
is our sad pleasure to strew with choicest
flowers the graves of those whose ties
with us were welded with the fire of bat
tie" Those graves, already green with
the verdure of every recurring spring time,
are the shrine at which every man who
wore the blue, and every loyal heart
throughout the land will worship to-day.
with charity for all and with malice to-
ward none" let US perform this sacred
service.
Comrades will assemble at 2 o'clock
sharp at post headquarters, and after the
ceremonies there, will repair to the ceme-
terry, to carry out the service according TO
the ritual of the grand army of the republic.
How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,
BY all their cOuntry's wishes bleSt!
When spring, with dewy fingers cold,
Returns to deck their hallOwed mould,
She there shall dress a sweeter sod
Thand fancy'S feet have ever trOd.
''By fairy hands their knell is rung;
By forms unseen their dirge is sung;
There Honor comes, pilgrim gray,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay;
And Freedom shall awhile repair,
To dwell a weeping hermit there"
JOHN A. WALLACE,
Post Commander