New-York tribune., 1891-05-25
GRAND ARMY BUGLE NOTES
PREPARATIONS FOR MEMORIAL DAY.
THE PARADE EXPECTED TO EXCEED ANY OF
FORMER YEARs-EXERcIsES IN
THE EVENING.


is definitely settled that the line OF the Memorial Day
parade on saturday will form at M, and that the
various posts In divisions under the assistant marshas
will assemble half-hour earlier in the cross streets
below -nnth-st. right resting on Fifth-ave the
regiments batteries and troops Of the National Gnard,
under the command Of Brgadier-Genera Louis
Fitzgerald, will as escort to the Grand Army, and
have the right of the lne Other veteran organiza-
tons and the camps OF the Sons OF Veterans will form
on the left on the Grand Army divisions and follow
the Grand Army Of the Republic posts. New-forks
favorie bands of music will lend their aid as usual
TO the great annual ceremony.
Mayor Grant will review the parade at the grand
stand near the Worth Monument, Madison Square, He
will be accompanied by heads Of the New-fork munich
pal departments and other citizens OF note, both al
home and abroad The parade will be dismissed In
Union Square at Fourteenth-st. The number OF men
to parade will exceed any former similar display In
the city.s
The Memorial Exercises TO take place In the evening
of May 30 at the Metropolitan Opera House, VIII be-
gin at D. m. LleutenantGovernor Edward Z.
Jones will preside. The instrumental music VIII DC
furnished by the United states Army Depot
Band. After patriotic overture, ex-Judge George
NJ Van Hoesen chairman of the Memorial Com
mittce, will open the exercises with br@
speech and introduce General Jones, who VIII
deliver an appropriate address. The orator OF
tho evening Is General George II. Sheridan, one OF
the oestknOwp and mSst eloquent OF the comrades Oh
the Grand Army. musical and literary programme
OF great merit has been prepared The artists WHO are
to aid In the evenings entertainment are Miss j..
Iialenbeck, sol rano; Miss l. Carusl, soprano ana
harplst Miss May E. Dudley. mezzosoprano; Miss
Sarah Baron Andersen, contralto: T. Herbert Deer
basso Miss Helen Russell, elocutlonlst, and Vlct%
Kazdo, yionist Louis AldrIch and Fred Emerson
Brooks viii give of their popular rotations ana
Madame Camille Urso and J. william Macy are among
the possibilities. Victor Harris will bo the piano
accompanlst and an excellent quartet will enlven
the proceedings with songs and glees. Reserved seas
in the orchestra may be obtlned at 81 parerre and
frst-tlcr boxes S6 and S5 Tickets for the evening
anniversary may be had at the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
the Hotel Normandle, the Windsor, Ponds music
stores, Newbecger's iewelry store. No 1915 Broad
way Room t. City Hall, and at The Cottage" Union
Square General admission. fifty cents
Patriotic citizens who wish TO aid the Grand Army
in bearing the expenses Of Memorial Day should send
their contributions 10 A. VI. Underhil chairman and
treasurer Of the Citizens Auxiliary Committee No 80
Broadway. Major Underhl will personally acknowl-
edge all sums sent or given to him, and they will be
gratefully received whether large small.
The 10th New-YorI Volunteer Cavalry will take Its
old place in the parade Saturday, escort to the
Grand Marshal. Twenty to twenty-five men, mounted
and equipped they were in the field, will turn out
They are all members of f. d. Morgan Post, No 207.
Alexander Newburger, Grand Marshal Chappell and
staff will take luncheon with Morgan Post at Central
Hall.
Grand Marshal Brown, WHO will command the Grand
Acmy parade Saturday I'm Brooklyn, has issued his
orders for the day There will be. he says exceed
ingy large turnout Of veterans, lremen and the
National Guard. The route of march will be from the
fountain on Bedfod-ave., Eastern District, the
usual OF former years. Mayor Chaplin and the
heads of departments will review the parade.
Reno Post No. A, will have royal time at the
Lexington Avenue Opera House on Memorial Day, af-
ter the parade The post Will march to the Opera
House for luncheon. At l p. m the exercises will
begin with the "Star spangled Banner" by the band.
The orators OF the day will be City Chamberlain
Thomas c. T. Grain. who will be followed by Ashbel
P. Fitch. The opening prayer will be by the Rev.
John L. Campbell, of the Lexington Avenue Baptist
Church. A song by Professor Adams, a song by a
celebrated quartet and a song by Thomas Trush, who
IS welkn0wn singer from the uptown district, VIII
follow. Commander Brchwedel has been hard at
work TO make this the banner OCCASION Of Reno Post
Comrade Blgln, chairman Of the post Memorial
Committee assisted by Comrades Fuller, Rooney Was
seur Walsh, Griffin Gautert and Ball, is wording
hard for the complete of this occasion. Lovers
of good oratons and music will thoroughly enjoy the
affair. Comrades of the G. A. r. and the public are
cordially invited to attend.
At the last meeting OF Alexander Hamilton Post
No. 1872 beautiful gold-mOunted sword and belt were
presented by the members to COmrade Alexander Ham
ton, the oldest member of the post and the Oldest
living grandson Of the great statesman for whom the
post named MajOrGeneIal Hamilton is nearly
seventy-sx years OF age. Comrade DR.. A. n. Brock
way made the presentation speech, to which General
Hamilton responded in few eloquent words. This
post will visit Washington and Mount Vernon on Me-
mortal Day, leaving the city via the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad at Lberty-st on Friday, May 20, at
80 p. m under its commander F. S. Bartram. II is
to be Loyalty received by the several posts In that
department and also by tho famous Old Guard" Of
Washington, which Alexander Hamilton Post enter
taned while in attendance here at the ceremonies Of
unveiling the Statue OF Liberty. The Old Guard will
meet the post at the depot and escort the "od boys
TO the Ebbett House. where banquet will be given by
the proprietor Of the hotel The members will take
their wives and sweethears along and joyous social
time is expected. on Saturday tho post will par
tcipae in the parade in the morning, and In the after
noon will go TO Mount Vernon. In the evening an
other banquet will be given by the united posts Of
Washington and the Old Guard, all of whom Grand
Army men. on Sunday the post goes to Arlington
Cemetery TO decorate the gmves of its comrades return
ing home on Monday Tuesday following
In issuing Post Orders No. to Alexander Hamilton
Post for participation In the observances connected
with Memorial Day. Commander F. S. Bartram closes
with these eloquent words: " Comrades: 1t seems
significance Of these forthcoming events, Of your
duty TO testify, by your presence upon both occasions
that the memories Of your departed comrades still
abide with -ou-yea that they grow stronger in your
affections with the shortening years which can but
little longer divide, separate, us from the Grand
Army of the Invisible
The Memorial Committee of j. Lafayette Riker Post,
No. e2, A. r., completed arrangements for the
visit OF the post TO the battlefield Of Gettysburg on
Decoration Day, for the purpose Of holding memorial
services at the National Cemetery This will be the
first visit OF any post outside Of Pennsylvania to
Gettysburg Memorial Day, and, aside from the
worthy object of the trip, 1t will reflect credit on the
Department OF New York I'm general and on Riker Post
In particular. President Harrison Is expected to be
present and state Senator Roesch and Judge Patterson
have been invited 10 deliver addresses Comades az
tached 10 other posts as well as citizens generally,
are invited 10 accompany the post, which VIII leave by
special train on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad at
10 D. m. May 20, arriving at Gettysburg at 10 a. M
May 30 returning leave Gettysburg at 8 p M May
Xorlr q m M0ndaV.