St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-31
on ARLINGTON HEIGHTS.
SIXTEEN THOUSAND CR.V:S MARKED
WITH FLAGS AsD FLOWERS.
SUNLESS AND CHILLY DAY.
Cleveland, His Cabinet and Many
congressman ut the Celebra-
tIoE-Nariin, of Indiana, De-
livercd an Eloquent Grafton,
and Bryan, of Nebraska,
Created EuthusiaSm.

livercd an Eloquent Grafton,
and Bryan, of Nebraska,
Created enthusiasm.
WAsHINGToN. May so. - Congress
rested today and all the government
departments were closed, while private
business also was generally suspended.
Flags hung at half mast ON the public
buildings, and the streets were crowded
with uniformed veterans and sight
seers. President Cleveland set the ex-
ample in observing the day, which was
generally followed blythe citizens. Sew
eral members of congress took part In
the exercises in the different cemeteries
as orators, while among the onluokers
were some statesmen who had fought
for the Confederacy. Whatever of bit
terneSS may have been the inheritance
from the wal seemed to be forgotten,
and the graves were decorated with
those of their one-time enemies.
Most OF the great generals OF the war
are buried about Washington. so that
friends and former comrades had many
conspicuous monuments to decorate.
There was a long parade in the norm
ing, participated in by the district mill
tary under the command OF General
Albert Ordway and G. A. r. posts. and
the ceremonies at the cemetery began
at noon. Slight showers fell at inter-
walls, but the rain was not sufficient to
interfere with the programme Ii
nounced.
The day was sunless and chilly, how
ever, elaborate preparations had been
made for the observance of the day.
The most important ceremonies were
held on the Heights Of Arlington,
across the Potomac and overlooking the
city. where 5000 Union soldiers are
buried. Every grave was marked with
a flag and a bouquet OF roses.
THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE
crowded the grounds. among them
many members OF congress and some
representatives OF the foreign legations.
At loon a national salute was fired, and
the tomb of the unknown, where the
bones of hundreds OF soldiers taken
from battletields are inferred. was dec
grated with services by the Grand Army
posts, the Woman's Relief Corps and
the Sons OF Veterans. In the amphi.
thratrr. where religious services were
held on the Lee plantation Sunday, the
bugle sounded the assembly. Music
was given by the Marine band and the
G. A. r. musical assembly.
President Cleveland arrived shortly
after II, accompanied by Secretaries
Gresham and Morton. The party took
seats at the trout of the speakers stand,
and was applauded.
Gen. Black and Corporal Tanner, both
ex-commissioners OF the pension bureau,
we're i'll the stand. and later, Secretaries
Carlisle and Hoke Smith arrived.
Hon. A. l.. Martin, Of Indiana, chair
man of the committee III pensions. de-
Iivcred All eloquent Grafton, aud Col.
John A. Joyce read a poem.
Representative Bryan, of Nebraska,
aroused much enthusiasm by his speech.
He began: The only excuse one of my
generation can offer for speaking here
Is to assure the veterans thai this day
shall not die with them. When the
nation has forgotten the battlefields
where were won its greatest victories,
it will not forget the burial places
where its greatest dead rest"
Speaking of the results of the war, he
salu: lit would have been defeat to
have held together in iron bands two
estranged sections, but it is glorious
victory to have beeu able to bring back
an unwilling brother and make him a
happy brother"
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND
sat through the entire programme,
which lasted three hours, but did not
speak. After the ceremonies he drove
back to the city with the members of
his cabinet, meeting thousands of peo-
pie who were driving over to Arlington.
At ArlingtUn, tile great national cem-
etery, at the various private cemeteries.
and wherever i'll one of the parks stands
a marble Ur bronze representation of
one Ut the heroes of our civil war, there
We're beautiful floral decorations and
displays Of the national colors. The
floral display was particularly striking,
for i'm addition to the contributions OF
individuals and societies, by order of
President cleveland, the whole of the
floral wealth of the White house
grounds was cuiled by the gardeners
and USED for the decoration of soldiers
graves. Col. Wilson, the superlntend-
ent of public buildings and
grounds, had also done his part in select
ing the choicest blossoms in the parks
for the Identification Of the soldiers
monuments with which the city
abounds. The public ceremonies. as in
the past. were %intrusted to the G. A. R.,
and were at once impressive and sue
at all points.
The C%OXevites seized the opportunity
to exploit themselves in public under
cover of a patriotic desire to decorate
the peace monument of the western
edge of that forbidden spot. the capitol
grounds. Last evening they were re.
by Galvin'S army, $50 strong.
and after formal welcome by Oklahoma
Sam, representing the leader of the
movement, who is now in prison, the
who were very hungry and
forlorn after their long tramp from
Lansdaie, near Baltimore, found quar-
tiers in some rude shelters on the ex-
right OF
TIE CoXEY CAMP.
Yesterday evening the men spent
their time in gathering evergreen and
wild flowers, and today they marched to
and deposited their offerings on
the peace monument. The chief event
of the day about Washington was tie
celebration at Arlington, where count
less thousands of the nations defenders
lie at rest, some beneath marble slabs,
ana very many in the shadow of the
monument to the Unknown Dead"
To this great cemetery the Grand
Army repaired in force. They formed
neal their hall on Pennsylvania avenue,
and at 1880, under a threatening sky,
they started on their march for Airing
ton, headed by a considerable body of
the district militia. The old veterans
stepped out bravely to the notes of the
bugles OH the march that is getting
to be more arduous as the years roll by.
The exercises at Arlington began at
1890 O'Clock. and consisted of an BRA
ton by Representative A.. N. Martin, of
Indiana; the delivery of a poem by Col.
Joan A. Joyce. and an address by Rep
resentative Bryan. of Nebraska. There
were also public ceremonies at the SOL
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