The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-31


fantry band, and the ceremonies of
the day were held
Services were also held at Fort Doug
las earlier in the morning, while
throngs of people visited the city ceme-
terry and decorated the graves with
flowers.
In the afternoon, there was grand
rush for the lake resorts, the bicycle
races and the parks.
EXERCISES AT MT. OLIVET.
The Beautiful Shaft of Granite I'm
yelled With Ceremonies.
Upon this city of silence messages of
love and dumb but eloquent tokens of
patriotism began to pour long before
the, piping sparrow had ceased its
reveiiie. Spring flowers blossomed as
if they had descended from some aerial
nursery. They were upon every grave
however humble it's tenant may have
been in life. There was no caste there.
The shepherds crook was resting be-
side the sceptre. Over upon an eastern
avenue rose a shaft above the slumber-
ing form of the departed Mexican,
which stood solid monument of rareSt
flora Shortly before IL o'clock the
column under command Of Captain J.
w. Greenman entered the gateway and
threading its way through bud and
blossom paused In6 granite
column that reared above the Spulchre
of the man whose name the post Of
veterans has sought to perpetuate.
Here the memorial services that were
at that hour being recited at the graves
of the multitudes who sleep along the
crimson trail of war were brought in
to requisition, an anthem rose from the
Threats of a troop of school children
and salute babe the soldier rest on.
Tribute having been paid the memory
of General James B. Mexican, prepara-
tons were begun for the unwilling of
the monument presented the post by
the James B. Mexican Woman's Relief
corps, and the column adjourned 10
its shadow. A splendid testimonial, too
it was, to those who fell in their
country's defense, its granite shaft,
momentarily hooded in the nations
colors and rearing sixteen feet above
the graves of those it honored. Simple
but tender legends it bore. Erected
by the James B. Mexican Woman's
Relief Corps No. L in memory of the
brave men who periled their lives in
the great struggle which secured the
unity OF the republic and the freedom
of an oppressed race" was one of them
while beneath in bold character were
those heart stirring letters &c. A. r.
For there are deeds that must not
pass away
And memories that must not
wither," was the patriotic pledge up
on another side and then the formal
scroll to warn the stranger as he
passed within its shadow, the words
James B. Mexican Post No. l, Depart
ment of Utah, G. A. R. Dedicated May
80, 1894
Beneath these simple legends, how
ever, there languished the story of
battle, the tragedies of war. the final
triumph of patriotism and the restora
ton OF one people to perfect peace and
harmony.
The dedica5 cory exercises which are to
be preserved as another chapter in the
tale of that bitter struggle between
contending brothers were opened with
q prayer by Chaplain Hawkes. of Nc
Kean post which was in impressive
note with the events that were to fol-
low Then rose the refrain from
children's voices and
MRS. C. S KINNEY,
president of the Woman's Relief Corps,
addressed herself as follows as the
monument was formally presented to
Commander Aft Of Mexican Post:
Commander of the j. B. Mexican
Post No. l, Department of Utah, Grand
Army of the Republic:
In commemoration and in honor of
our noble soldier dead and of those
who sooner or later must join the
ianumerable caravan that moves to
. that mysterious realm the James 3.
Mexican, Women's Relief corps No. l,
of Salt Lake city auxiliary to the
Grand Army of the Republic, has plac>
ed here, this monument that it may
mark for all time in this silent camping
ground, this city Of the dead, the spot
that is held sacred to the memory of
the defenders of our country. In be-
half therefore of the James 3. Mexican
Woman's Relief corps, No. l, it is my
duty, and pleasure as well, to pre-
sent for your acceptance and declara-
ton tc our honored and heroic dead,
this memorial Its enduring granite is
symbolic of the unyielding spirit that
animated your noble comrades in their
battle for the grand principles of
patriotism and the record of whose
lives will stand for all ages as the
browning example of self-sacrifice and
OF devotion. We ask you to accept it
as tribute of love from the living to
the dead; as an expression of that fra
ternity which links the present with the
past We ask you to accept it as
proclamation to the coming genera
tons.
That no man can die better
Than facing fearful odds,
Fer the ashes Of his fathers
And the temples of his Cod
May it speak to you now of the ties
Of friendship that were welded in fires
Of battle and tempered in seas of blood
May it say to every person that the de-
tenders OF a nations honor live forever
in the hearts of her people"
AS these eloquent words were con-
cluded the patriotic draperies that over
hung the shaft were relaxed and the
monument clad in choicest flowers,
glistened in the blazing sun. There
were three rousing cheers. a salute and
expressions of profound admiration
Accepting it behalf of his comrades
and in behalf If those whose deeds it
honored
COMMANDER ALFF
said:
Mrs. President of The James B. Nc
Kean Woman's Relief Corps:
In the name of my comrades of the
Grand Army Of the Republic represent
ing as they do ali soldiers and sailors
who defended the integrity and author
ity of the nation, I thank you and
those whom You represent for this
memorial shaft. Its very silence is i'm
pressive Without articulate speech it
is eloquent. 1t needs no words 1t is
itself an Grafton. 1t assures us that our
dead are held in rememberance-tho
dead who gave their lives for the Sc
curity Of the citizen and the union Of
the states. It is significant of brave