Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-12-29
THEIR LAST TRIBUTE.
Lieutenant James NJ. Lysle Post Calls
the Roster of It's Dead.
A SOLEMN, IMPRESSIVE SERVICE.
Nine Comrades Answer the Last Roll-Call
Within the Year.
EMPTY CHAIRS LADEN WITH FLOWERS

service was held in Carnegie Hall yesterday
afternoon by Lieutenant James NJ. Lysle
Post 1913, G. A. r. 1t was the eleventh an
nual memorial service held by the members
of the post to pay Il fitting tribute of affec-
tion and respect to those of their comrades
who had passed away during .he past year.
The hall was filed to its capacity by
veterans of the war, ladies and gentlemen.
Representatives of Posts SS and 162 of ALLIE
gheny and Al, Isl and 157 of this city were
present in body The music was by Lysle
Post Choir, and was in every way appropri-
ate.
Nine comrades died during the past year
and nine vacant chairs were ranged along
the stage, draped in black and having a
knot of flowers suspended from a silk
streamer above. On the streamer was
printed, "Post 1913 remembers departed
comrades" and the name of each dead
member was also printed in white silk on
each chair. A fragrant bunch of rosemary,
pansy and forget-me-not was placed on the
seats. These vacant chairs were in honor Of
the following departed members:
THE LIST OF THE DEAD.
wEIGAND ROSENCRANZ, Company M.
Seventh Pennsylvania Cavalry.
GOTTLIEB BAUER, Company D, One Hun
dred and Twenty-third Pennsylvania Volun-
teers.
JOHN G. LEHMAN. Company K, Ninth
Pennsylvania Reserve Corps.
JOHN GoRMLEY, Company K. One Hun
dred and Ninety-third and Company H, Sixty
first Pennsylvania Volunteers.
JOHN HARTUNG, Company A, One Hun
dred and Seventh Pennsylvania Volunteers.
GEORGE PFEIFER, United States Navy.
JOSEPH F. DIEBOLD. Company e, Eighth
Pennsylvania Reserve Corps.
WILLIAM KNEEPEE, Company K, Third
| Ohio Volunteers.
JACOB wAsMUND, Company q, sixty-firs
| Pennsylvania Volunteers.
The opening of post was made by Com
msnder A. R. Dawson, after an organ pre-
lude by Prof. Pritchard. The records of
the deceased were eulogized by Adjutant
| D. NJ. Morrison, and then the choir sang a
beautiful anthem. The floral tributes were
then placed by Comrades Sample, Gerwig
and Jones, after which Mr.. Austin rendered
a solo appropriate to the occasion.
A responsive service by Chaplain Holmes
| and the choir was followed by brief ad-
| dress delivered bv Department Commander
Joseph F. Denniston. He spoke
of the very appropriate observance
of this very solemn rite OF the
Grand Army. as being the proper honor to
the comrades gone beyond the river. The
Grand Army with all its past achievements
and its present rites will soon be only a mat
| te- of history. The patriotism of 81 has
| now givea way to the fidelity of comrades
who stoo- side by side in the hour of peril.
| In the respect thus shown their memory is
exemplified the true love and charity of the
| grandest organization on earth, the Grand
Army of the Republic.
VETERANS AT PARADE REST.
Following the address all the veterans
the entire hall. While standing at parade
rest Miss Irene Sample sang the Vacant
| Chair" and Rev. j. H. Miller offered up a
prayer, when the veterans resumed their
| seats. ~ ---- be- s- ,..r - -
Past Department Commander F. 7. Stew.
art then delivered the grafton of the day. 1t
was one OF his weil-knowr clear and forcible
| tributes to the memory of departed fellow
soldiers, abounding in little gem of poetry
appropriately fitting t., the fower5 on the
vacant chairs on his right, and quoted:
''There's rosemary, that's Tor remembrance;
there's pansy. that's for thought"
Continuing, he said the day was one set
apart to say a last farewell to companions of
| tn, battlefield, who had been with his
hearers and answered their names on fame's
eternal camping ground. ION this day our
hearts are full of sweet and sad memories,
when deeds OF the past come crowding in on
us as though enacted yesterday. Now the
| column has halted for those whose memories
we revere They were of those who stood by
us when we breasted the shower OF leaden
hail, that had it not been we met it at the
front would have fallen at our very doors.
THE WORLDS GREATEST HEROES.
"with us they heard the roar of artillery,
the rattle Of musketry and saw the blaze of
| fire in all the awful scenes of war, and with
| US, too, heard the shouts when victory was
proclaimed. They felt sad as we did when
noting the silence in response to the after
roll call. With us they were steadfast in
the country's direst peril. War is the
| herald OF liberty, and liberty was escorted
| by this Grand Army of the Republic that
now pays tribute to each departed comrade
| The heroes OF the world are those American
citizens who In 81 were citizens yesterday,
| soldiers to-day and citizens Tomorrow
Lincoln and Grant were eulogized for their
| part in the rebellion, as were other men of
the times now dead, and then high tribute
was paid the private soldier, the man who
bore the brunt of battle. In closing the
| speaker prayed for the same loyalty and
| patriotism to God and country as was felt in
the days of war, the same jealous love of
| the Grand Army and the love OF its dead
| members.
Commander Dawson then closed the post,
after which the choir and audience Joined
in singing the doxology, and Rev. j. H.