Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1890-06-07

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view the cheering was renewed with a
will. This was the special escort to the
President and distin guished guests.
President Harrison, with Vice Pres ident
Morton, occupied the first carriage,
drawn by four horses, while in the fol-
lowing vehicles were ex-President
Hayes, Secretaries Rusk and Miller,
Postmaster General Wanamaker, Gen
eral J. d. Cox, the orator of the day,
Generals Schofeld and Sherman, Sccre-
tary Window, Ex-Governor Fairchi Id,
of Wisconsin; ex-Attorney General
Wayne McVeagh, Representatives Nc
kinney and Townsend, Ex-Governor
Foster, architect George II. Kelly and a
large number of other distinguished
guests. The scenes which marked tho
progress of this division were a repoti-
ton of those accorded the veterans at
its head. Cheers ran from block to
block like volleys Of musketry, while
handkerchiefs and flags were waved by
the hundreds. The Presid ent respond
cd to the ovation by re peatedly raising
his hat and bowling until his neck
was stiff and his right arm tired.
The fourth division was composed OF
five sections of Knights Templar under
the command of Captain General NJ. j..
llouck, and as they marched along with
martial tread, their white plumes way
ing proudly in the air and their swords
shining and Jewels sparkling in the
sunlight they presented an inspiring
spectacle. Immediately behind them
came twelve brigades and divisions of
the Knights of Pythias, the uniformed
rank of Odd Fellows, knights of st.
John, and OF Father Matthew, German
civic societies, German Warriors and
Prussian Verein, Italian and Hungarian
Knights, bohemian citizens and Catho-
lie knights. A miscellaneous contin.
gent of citizens on foot and in carriages
brought up the real of the twelfth and
last division. From beginning to end
the parade vas nearly three miles in
length.
II was two o'clock when the head OF
the column had passed under the deco
rated arch at the cemetery gate and
twenty minutes later before the Presi-
dent and party reached the grand stand.
Fully twenty thousand people had al.
ready gathered around the memorial,
although the parade was still in prog
ress; while those who had been viewing
1t from the thoroughfares poured in like
a resistless torrent. Little time was
lost in seating the visitors. Mrs. Gar
field, who had given IA reception to the
President early in the day, drove wei to
the cemetery in advance of the process
sion and, with her dsughtcr, Mollie Gar
field Brown, J.. Stanley Brown, her SON
in-law; Harry Garfield and j. A. Gar
field, Jr., were seated Immediately be-
hind the orator of the day, with the
P~resident.on the right, Vice President
Morton on the left, the members of the
Cabinet supporting them on either side.
The singing of America by a choir of
five hundred voices prefaced the exer-
cises, and after ex-President HAYES had
succeeded in securing attention from
the multitude which, considering its
size, was remarkably quiet and we'll Or
eered, he made a few brief remarks as
president of the Memorial Association.
Prayer was offered by Bishop W.. A..
Leonard, of the Episcopal church, and
then the presentation of Hon. Jacob ID.
Cox, Of Cincinnati, the orator of the day,
was greeted with cheers loud and long
repeated. In a clear and distinct voice
which could DO heard far into the
throng, Ex-Governor Cox spoke as fol-
lows:
My fellow citizens: We have come here 10
dedicate this memorial to one OF our country's
worthless. Our task is not the mournful one
which flled the streets Of our cities with IN.
neral ageants nine years ago. II our thoughts
take a tlnge of solemnity from the memory Of
the tragedy which brought the life OF Garfield