Morning journal and courier., 1891-05-30
MEMORIAL BAY.

The order of Parade and Line of March-General Jehnson,s Grave to [. be Decorated by the Twenty.Fifth Regiment, New York Volunteers. To-day being Memorial day, the courts and city offices, also the government offices and the banks, will be closed all day. Business in most lines of trade will practi- cally be suspended during the afternoon. Many stores will remain open during the fornoon and many will be open during the evening. Generally the hours of closing will be from 1e o'clock to or in the af- ternoon. At the stores of Howe & Stet- son and M. E. Perry notices are displayed which announce that these stores will be closed for the entire day. These are the only.onss in this line closed. The hard ware stores, as previously stated, close for the day.
 The graves of deceased veterans in the various cemeteries will be decorated in the forenoon and in the afternoon the custom ary Memorial day parade will take place. The local battalion of the National Guard, nor's Foot and Horse Guards, Admiral Foote post, Henry c. Merwin post and General Won Steinwehr post, G. A. R., Nathan Hale camp, Sons of Veterans and the New Haven fire department will parti- cipate in the parade. The start will be made from the cornsr of Temple and Elm streets at 3 o'clock, and the line of march will be over this foute: ! Elm street to Whalley avenue, to Garden street, countermarching on Whalley avenue to Grown to Colege to chape fo Church Grove, to the New Haven .sa cemetery y;n , ,. TO- the e!y and the of council.
 The delegation of the Twenty-ffth regi ment, New York volunteers, which will be the guests of Admiral Foote post to-day and which comes from New York to deco rate the grave of General Johnson, will consist of Sergeant J. Golf, J. A. Billings J. J. Daily, J. Sweeney, L. O'Brien, D. Moran, A. Ferman, w. Corning, Sergeant J. Mckee, Sergeant B. Curran, Sergeant George Lockos, Captain w. c. Grover, ac 1 companied by his two sons, Sergeant H. Toomey, M: Whalen, P. T. Connolly, Lieu | tenant P. Hicks and George Hassell, who resides in this city and will head the dele gation. The company will be met al Belle dock at 6:30 o'clock this morning or their arrival in this city by Comrade Has sell with the two guide colors, as the guid' left of the command. He will be accom- J panied by volunteer delegation from Ad miral Foote and H. c. Merwin posts. Upol the arrival of the visitors in this city they will be taken to breakfast upon the invi tation of Comrade Goodnough of H. 0 Merwin post. They will carry in tn parade the regimental colors presented t< them by the city of New York at tn last presentation, the old colors being il state of dilapidation, which renders i impossible to carry them in the line They will, however, be tied with red white and blue and placed in the window of the residence of the late general o1 Howe street and there saluted by the com pany in passing.
 The grave of the deceased general vii be decorated in the morning with specia services appropriate to the occasion. Tn company will place upon the grave Iarg Maltese cross in red with 25th N. Y. v. il ! wbite immortel1es across the center. Tn and blue immortelles with Fifth Corps il center. The flowers for decorating tn, grave are of the choicest kinds and hay, been presented by Eli Whitney, jr. through his gardener, Conrad Simpson, ot the Fortieth Mozart regiment, New Yorl city. The ceremonies at the grave will be l of an especially interesting nature and vii be participated in by General Johnson' widow, the Twenty-ffth regiment N. Y volunteers and all the other companies il the line of the procession.
 Notices of the ceremony in neighborins places appear on another page, in addition l to those before announced.
 ATTHE PosTOFFICE.
 On Memorial day today, May 30, the postofice and branch at Fair Haven will close at 12 o'clock noon, except the stamI window at main office, which will remain open until 1 o'clock p. m.
 The carriers will make two morning de liveries, and the carriers window will b. open from to 8 p. m.
 Recommended for Special Constables At the meeting of the committee ol I nominations last evening it was recon | mended that the following be appointed special constables: Robert M. Walker Michael Hogan, George Strantz, Austin B Potter, Henry Cloux, Thomas McCarth and Thomas Allewood.
 The petition of James F. Kelley was re ceived for appointment as city weigher but as he was not present at the meetin the petition was tabled.
 Base Ball Games.
 Should the weather prove propitious to day two championship games of base bal will be played on the Howard avenu grounds between the New Haven an' Providence teams of the Eastern associa tion. The morning game will be calle, promptly at 1O:30 o'clock and the after noon game at 4 o'clock. The pitchers il the morning game will be Tuckerman fo Providence and Clarkson for New Haven and in the afternoon game Homer will b in the box for New Haven and NJ. J. Sulli van for Providence. Two good contest may reasonably be expected.
 The Boston-Yal game scheduled for yes terday was postponed on account of rain
 The Atlanta base ball team of this cit go to Branford this morning and play tn Branford Lock Works team this afternoon at Branford park at the Totoket lodge Ancient Order of Foresters' picnic, whicl takes place there to-day. Much interes centers in the contest, as the teams ar very evenly matched and close game i expected. A large delegation of friends o the Atlantas will go over with the team t cheer their team on to victory. The fol lowing well known players, who have brilliant prospect in the near future on tn ball field, will participate: Holton, cap tain and c.; O'Brien, 2d; Eagan, 1b. Johnson, l. f.; Hill, c. f.; Burquist, s. s. Mullen, r. f.; Redmond, 3b.; Payne, p. Rrffle and Collett, substitutes
 The Concordia base ball club of this cit, will play the St. Johns base ball club o Meriden in that city to-day. A large dele gation is expected to be present from thi