Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-31
MEMORIAL DAT.
UNUSUALLY INTERESTING CEREMo
MES IN THIS CITY YESTERDAY.
The Veteran Soldiers Turn Out to Do
Honor to Their Dead Comrades
Last Evenings Services.

Memorial Day was observed in Sacra-
mento yesterday with unusual interest.
Half-masted flags foated from nearly
every mast, and there was general clos
ing up of business houses
The various roads and streets leading to
the cemeteries were alive with teams all
during the forenoon, bearing relatives and
friends of departed loved ones whose
graves were to be laden with floral tributes.
By noon the City Cemetery resembled a
garden in the tropics, carpeted as it was
with evergreens and flowers of every de.
scription.
The civic and military parade and subse.
quent services at the cemetery were very
fine, and at the same time impressive.
Under the supervision of Grand Marshal
o. P. Dodge and Chief Aid George S.
Fisher, the procession was formed at
Tenth and L streets, and the start was
made promptly at o'clock.
a platoon Of police came first, followed
by the Grand Marshal and his Chief Aid
Next came the aids-Colonel Perne Kewen,
General L. Tozer, Major Frank ] Ryan,
E. c. Jordan, W. H. Larkin, s. 0. Rurl-
burt, Guy Maydwell, I. GustaYenson aud
L. Maboney. Brigadier-General I. W.
Sheehan and staff came next, followed BY
the Fourth Brigade Signal Corps amounted
for the first time), followed by the First
Artillery Regiment, Colonel ]. w Guthrie
commanding, and headed by the First Ar
tillery Band. Then followed the Bersag-
lieri Guard, Captain Di Sano commanding;
other members of the society followed the
guard in carriages. Carriages containing
State officers, Mayor Comstock, Trustees
Wolf and Mclaughlin and other promi-
nent city officers, followed the Italian So
ciety.
The Sons of Veterans Captain L. C.
Jordan commanding and their fife and
drum corps came next, and behind them
the Grand Army men, with the Hussar
Band. The old veterans turned ont in
good numbers, each post being well repre-
scented. Sumner and Warren Posts came
hrst, commanded respectively by c. h
Stephenson and L. W. Grothen, and after
them Fair Oaks Post commanded by ".
ID. Ennis. The members of this post carried
wreaths OF evergreens over their shoulders
and large bouquets in their hands.
The Mexican Veterans, Pioneers,
Woman's Relief Corps, Ladies of the
G. A. R.. and guests in carriages, brought
up the rear of the procession.
The line of march was up Ninth street
to h, to Second, to j, to Tenth, and out
Tenth TO the cemetery. The procession
reached the cemetery at 3;15 P. NJ, and
proceeded to the Grand Army plat. The
Grand Army monument, erected on this
plat several months ago, was beautifully
draped and hung with flowers, and around
this the veterans and the guests gathered.
The simple but impressive Grand Army
funeral service was gone through with,
accompanied by dirges, and concluding
with salute of musketry and the Star
Spangled Banner
The services over, the Veterans and Sons
OF Veterans, Pioneers and Relief Corps
made the rounds of the cemetery, and added
more flowers to the already well-decora;ed
graves of dead braves and friends.
The return was made to the city at about
o'clock.