San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1891-05-30
/" IN MEMORY Of"
THE FALLEN HEROES FONDLY
FAVORED.
Procession to the Cemeteries-Order
of the Program, With Oratory,
Requiem and Invocation

Procession to the Cemeteries-Order
of the Program, With Oratory,
Requiem and Invocation
Notes.
With cool, cloudy weather. no rain
and no dust, San Antonio's popula.
| tion celebrated memorial day in great
good humor, much good feeling and
entire satisfaction today and, it was,
throughout a creditable display OF
patriotism and respect to the dead
heroes of both the Blue and the Gray,
in whose homer and memory the
day was observed. Beginning at
0 o'clock promptly the great parade
| formed in two wings on Avenues ID
and E, the regular soldiery on Ave. E,
| the civilians On Ave. d. Alamo plaza
| in front of the postoffice was crowded.
At 10 o'clock the procession started
down Houston street, headed by
mounted police, then came the chief
marshal and his aides, followed by the
u s. Infantry band, eight companies
of infantry, eight troops of cavalry,
light battery with four guns, Com
pany ex.Volunteer Firemen, Bel
| KNAPP Rifles, Musical Union band,
Ord Post G. A. r., Italian society,
| Belknap Post @. A. r., -. A. r. off,
GERS in carriages, Woman's Relief
Corps, Uniform Rank X. OF p, flower
wagon, carriages containing orators
of the day, and other carriages con-
| laining citizens. After crossing into
Commerce street, the procession
| marched 10 the national cemetery,
which had been beautifullymown and
| where the speakers pavilion was
found draped with American flags.
After the troops and visitors had been
| disposed in groups about the ceme-
terry, master OF ceremonies, Col
Young, U. S. A. ordered atten tion,
and Chaplain Ayres, Ord Post
G. A. r, read prayer from
the ritual. Then Col. Young made a
feeling speech to his comrades of the
G. A. r., in introducing Hon. e. w.
w. Ogden, orator of the day. Mr..
Ogden made a beautiful speech, re-
plete in it's sound patriotism, eacetul
ambition and beautiful construction.
It's great length prevents publication
in our crowded columns. He
regretted that he could not
| address the old soldiers as
comrades. He would address them
as a beneficiary to his benefactors.
The gratitude of q nation was theirs.
Tw o heroes came from the battle field,
| each bad lost an arm, one wore the
blue the otner the gray, each is liv-
ing and when they buy gloves each
sends the other his odd glove. Let us
remem Der this incident as a token OF
brotherly love worthy of emulation
and as a proof that all strife is over.
He recalled the war of the rebellion
and declared that review of the lead
ing causes would prove that it could
not have bee avoided by any human
power. Now the north and south
were indivisible and would never
again throw the sword or fix the bay
onst except against common foe.
The most beautiful word pictures filled
his speech andstirred hishearers to fire.
quent applause, and at its conclusion
many old veterans of the war crowd
ed to the rostrum to shake the hand
of the young orator in congratulation.
The Musical Union band then
played requiem and Col. Young an
nounced that q memorial day SER
mon would be preached tomorrow
morning at IL o'clock at Trinity
M. E. church on Avenue G, to
which the public and especially
those who had worn the blue or the
gray were invited. He also an
nounced that decoration of the graves
would now take place, followed by
vOlleys and assembly. The crowd
then scattered, and the graves in the
national cemetery, both of private
soldiers and of officers, were crowned
with flowers, q corps of children dec
Grating the privates' graves with tiny
flags.
Graves in the other cemeteries were
also remembered by friends, COM
rades or relatives, and at II O'Clock
q return march to the city was made,
where all dispersed.
In the National cemetery there are
several graves of prominence, and
among them are those of Maj. Gen.
Brook, Major Webb, Capt. Fischer,
Capt. Larkin Smith, Maj. Wood, Sur
geon NJ. X. Taylor, Maj. Noyes Maj.
G. A. Webb and Hon. Gustave
Schleicher, NJ. G.
In the Krieger Verein cemetery
the graves of several were decorated,
among them being Jacob Waelder,
John f. Ochse, E. Phillips.
In the Masonic cemetery, Alamo
Lodge, Major Minter, J. H. Kamp-
mann, Col. Newton and Fisk.
Odd Fellow Alex Homer.
United States soldiers in the city
cemetery. r. P. 'fendick, Il. Walsh,
Cridon and Blair.
Confederate soldiers, P. esenbach,
f. Hahn. Kramkauer, VIM. Tobin,
Joe Foster, SiemerIng, J. Harris, G.
Noel, Maverick, Waelder, Minter,
McLenan, Porter, Frankel, Ochse, E.
Stevens, Homer, NJ. Neuendorf, Capt.
Merritt.
DASHES.