The evening world., 1894-05-26
TO THE DEAD.
Elaborate Plans Completed for
Memorial Day Celebration,
The Parade, Of Course, Will Be
the Principal Feature.
Mayor Schicrcn to Preside at the
Cypress Hills Exercises.

Judging by the programme prepared
by the G. A. R men. Memorial Day, next
Wednesday, will &c more widely observ-
ed than ever before. The elaborate
character of the plans laid out certainly
Indicates that the old soldiers intend to
pay their sleeping comrades "a tribute
worthy of the cause they fought for
thirty years ago.
The veterans, however, are not the
only ones, and indeed are perhaps q mi-
nority, of those who will make open re-
membrance of their dead Instituted by
the q. A. r. a few years ago, and soon
thereafter made a legal holiday in most
of the States of the Union, the day has
been taken up by the American people,
citizen and soldier, as one peculiarly set
apart to the honor of those who have
finished the duties of life.
4 thousands of soldiers graves in this
cluster of big cities will be marked with
nags and flowers and the dust of the
heroes shaken with salvos of canon,
but thousands OF mounds that mark
where lay those whose lives led through
more neaceful paths will be heaped with
blJss ".
With fine weather on Wednesday the
throngs as never before. The Grand
army People are turning their attention
ssspeeiaily to Cypress Hills; A commit
--r the ground,
%mSnsn e, GSommittee co, consisted of Col. N: J:
County rNem rial Committee; Reuben
Eney,k Chairman Committee on Public
EsInrnft,. EEsremfNniss; Col ,, J.; w. Jones Chairman
Tregaskis. President Cypress Hills Ma
tional Monument Association; Col. NJ
e. Shattuck. Grand Marshal for Brook
srai and Chief Of STAFF; Mr.. William
Miles, Treasurer of the Cemetery; Mr..
Charles l.. Lyons, Its Counsel, and Mr.
X; ;rbs F.; Butts, Butts, the e, Superintendent: Up
cided on, the park for the artillery laid
out, and grounds mapped so there would
h pe no confusion during the services.
esting and the service the most pictur-
esque that have been held for years, and
1t Is expected that at least 1000 specta-
tors will witness them.
Mayor Schieren will be the citizen pre-
siding, officer of exercises, and several
public speakers will make the addresses.
Every grave will bear flag and cut
each soldiers resting-place.
Similar exercises will be held in other
cemeteries where soldiers are buried.
In the forenoon the parade occurs-the
great popular feature Of the day. The
special committee which has been labor
Ing for many days at the Grand Mar
ty-first Regiment Armory, Thirty fourth
street and Park avenue, has been pre-
pairing great things for that event. The
and pains have been taken to a sap%e eVee
rything In perfect working order. The
points Of rally are in the streets cross:
ing Fifth avenue between Fifty-first and
The Committee promises the largest
estimated that there win be between
The patriotic small boy and that large
the military win doubtless be disap,
more active part In the demonstration.
The Ninth Regiment, Sixty-ninth Bat
talon and Troop A.. will be in line, but
rst SfSGa Eishth and Tweifth regiments
with their thousand bayonets each and
all their panoply of war. will be MISS
Ing from the event.
to Gen. Fitzgerald, inviting the National
Guard. The General replied IN a very
Seourteous letter, saying that the troops
do 80 much duty this Spring and Sum
mer that he, did not feel like ordering
them out. However, he would write a
and leave 1t to his discretion whether or
not to volunteer. The Ninth, the Sixty
ninth Battalion and Troop A alone sent
A veteran at Headquarters said to-day
that II was Adjt.-Gen. Porter's fault
that the militia was overworked at
this season. With Creedmore practice,
Van Cortlandt Park manoeuyres and the
Peekskill encampment following in
rapid succession, the men could not be
expected to assume an extra day $
The line of march is both short and
a direct, extending from F1fty-seyenth
street, down Fifth avenue to Washing
ton Square. where ranks will be broken:
q The procession Is scheduled to move at
o'clock. and all will be over long be-
The order OF parade will be as follows:
Regulars-Engineer Battalion from wIllets
iery marching as infantry under command OF
. Col. Loomis L. Lansdon.
and % three companies Of seamen as infantry from
Ninth Regiment. N. Y. s. N. O.
sixty-ninth Battalion,
Troop A as guard OF honor to Grand Marshal.
frooL !. cadets. personal escort to Grand Mar
A1 Grand Marshal. Capt. Charles F. Roe and stan.
Past Grand Marshals under escort of First Vet
First piyi.iOn o. 4 R., j., ); G Wolf Marshal
s0sSS 20 pTon scy il. q ~ loe 81 and aus' Marshal
Isrd pI'i.sn ~ o. "A & r. .na HSs' H. Marshal
.hsi%Po.ts So sos sss, bis and ms
nm pivison o. r. ,,i .ns n 90 SsnO' Mar
sirth Division. q. 4. R.-POsts q. q. %. sSS.
S.';s s: g. a. 81 s;s Is .ss ss'::s &C.,
v..sraa oorpS siz'y-nin'h Regiment n T. T.
hsssAsr Irish Brigade.
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