Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-05-30
GAINS In S0LEMNITY.
Decoration Day to be Remembered
With Less Pomp Than Usual.
An ABSENCE OF DRUM AND FIFE,
But the Presence of Many Veterans at ALI
the Cemeteries,
is TO MARK TIE NEW DEPARTURE

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Pittsburg and Allegheny will shine forth
in the impressive ceremonies that character
Ire the day soldiers graves are decorated.
The memory of those who fought foE their
country will be ever before the citizens on
this day, and thousands OF preparations have
been made to show the love and respect
that are felt for the brave soldiers who now
sleep beneath the sod.
For the first time in many years the
Grand Army of the Republic will not turn
out in the usual grand parade which has
distinguished this organization for years.
The patriotism of the old soldiers is like the
great nation itself-deathless, so long as a
man of it lives who breathes its principles,
and however much they would like to
march, their aged limbs refuse to act
The patriots who stood by the Stars and
Stripes in the hour of danger, amid priva-
tion and want, have grown old in years. but
their hearts are still with their dead COM
rades, and they will remember them to-day
in as impressive, if not auspicious, manner
as in the years gone by.
HOW THEY WILL MEET.
The various posts, instead of meeting in
body and marching in a solid column, as
heretofore, will meet in separate bodies and
each attend to the cemetery nearest to them.
This will not require much walking, and be a
relief to the great majority who are no longer
able to endure the fatigue of a long march.
The city posts will take the train to Forty-third
street. and will have only few blocks to walk
The East End posts will march from their hall
to the Homewood cemetery, and the Soutbsde
posts will take care of the graves on that side of
the river and the Allegheny organizations will
look after the dead in their cemeteries.
Mass meetings and camphres, as usual, will
draw the veterans together IN the evening, and
many tale of the glorious deeds of valor viii
be gone over and over again by those who once
marched fought camped and suffered side by
side with the brave BOYS whose graves they
have once more decorated.
Memorial exercises will be held at Mechan-
ical Hall in the afternoon. and Grand Army
men will attend to meet their friends.
The grave OF that faithful nurse, Miss Helen |
p. Speer will receive due attention.
Speeches. orations and music, both vocal and
instrumental, will be prominent features of the
impressive programme that has been arranged
for to-day's memorial services at the Allegheny
Cemetery. Posts 8. 206 80 259, Al and Camp
los. Sons of Veterans, gln all. except A., form
IN line at the corner of Liberty and Market at
$50 and take the train for the cemetery as far
as Thlr y-ninth street, where they will be met
Dy the LawrenceVille school children and
march to the graves. The programme of exer-
ciSes has already been published
At Homewood, Mt. Washington and other
suburban cemeteries, equally appropriate
services will he conducted, and in Allegheny
this morning, at 7:S0, Post Us headed by the
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cemetery of Noegtly's church. on Troy Hill.
In the afternoon they will proceed to Union
dale Cemetery and meet Posts IS and l62 On
the arrival of Post l2S the services incident to
unveiling the soldiers monument will be OBJ
served. Judge Collier Will deliver the oration
and the different schools will present the stones
which mark the location of the lot
MUCH IN ALLEGHENY.
The veterans of the late war and their count
less friends will have much to interest them in
Allegheny, and the day they decorate will be
one long to remember by those who observe
the services In the evening. at 7:30, Encamp-
ment No. 6, Union Veteran Legion. will hold |
memorial services for the dead at its hall, 81 |
Arch street.
Decoration Day will be duly observed at |
Homewood Cemetery, East End. by the COM
Tades of Mcpherson Post No liz. q, A. R..
who will meet at headquarters at o'clock this
morning. AT Oakland Cemetery the pro-
gramme will be under the auspices of Colonel |
Jas c. Hull Post No. 157. IS
The Bays Post. of Turtle Creek; the sardis
Post, W estmore!and county, and the Junior
Order United American Mechanics and Ancient
Order United Workmen lodges of Murrysvllle
will hold services at MonroeVille.
At Williamsburg the members of Major W.
6. Lowry Post 54s will decorate the graves of
the dead.
On the southside the Colonel ]. W. Patter-
sou Post, l5l: H B. Hays Camp, 4 S. of v; |
Lieutenant E. r. Geary Circle I; General |
Thomas Circle, No. a: Hill Top Council, Jr. |
Q. L. A. M; Knoxville Council, ST. Q. u. A. |
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the pupils of Knoxville and Allentown schools, |
will observe the day in Il frttlng manner.
One of the pretty features of to-days trib- |
utes TO the nations dead will be the active |
part taken in the exercises by the school chill |
dren of both cities.
OEDICATISG A CEMETERY.
The event of the day in Coraopolis will be the
dedication Of The new cemetery, which, although
the corporation encountered much opposition
in getting its charter, is now a very popular
institution. The programme consists of music
by tho J. X. Jolly Cornet Band, invocation an
them, M ow the Day." by the choir: address by
Rev. Josiah Dillon; dedicatory hymn composed
by q. L. Cornelius, Esq; dedicatory Grafton, by
Harvey Henderson. Esq; short addresses by
visitors; hymn, 1T is Not Death, choir; prayer
doxology and benediction.
Bishop Whitehead wlll hold ordination services
in the temporary chapel at Johnstown TODAY
Mr. Charles E Snavely, just graduated from |
the General Theological Seminary, New York,
Will be ordained 10 the deaconate. Mr. Snavely
was prepared for the seminary by the late rec
TO" Of JOhnstown, Rev. A. p. DIller. From the
ruins was recovered the stole that Mr. Diller |
wore Ascension DAY. 1889, May 30; also the
vessels. This stole Mr.. SnaveIy
viii wear to-day, and the same vessels lie used
almost at The same hour as Mr.. Diller used in
MS last service on earth. Many of the clergy
will be present.
Tomorrow, the anniversary, there will be a
commemorative service. at which the Bishop
al:d other clergy VINO worked in Johnstown last
year Will be present. The eulOgy will be By
Rev. Rather Field, Of ST. Clements Episcopal |
Church. Philadelphia. He will be remembered
as OF great hep in the work last year. Father
Field Will be accompanied by his co-worker
Father Benson. The services will include a
celebration Of the holy communion, and eu-
Ingies OF the departed rector and family.
Hemorrhnge.