Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1894-05-31
A LABOR Of LOVE.
Memorial Day ApprOpri-
ateIV Celebrated.
A LONG LINE OF BLUE.
Bright Skies Greeted the Veterans on
Their Tender Mission.

Ii was somewhere about 1869 that one of |
the best nurses the United States Army |
ever had, having observed how the women |
in the Southern States every year would /
decorate the graves OF those who had
gwen up their lives for the Coniederacy,
brought the matter TO the attention of |
Gen. Logan and persuaded him to intro
duce n bill in Congress setting apart the |
30th OF May as a day to be kept In memory |
of those who had died that their country |
might live. This woman has just passed |
away and now that the day has also just
passed away that she was instrumental In
establishing, the little fact ought not to
be forgotten.
And how beautiful the custom isl How
IL brings back forgotten memoriesl And
how the scenes OF thirty odd years ago
crowd upon the brainl All over the coun-
try the same services were held as here.
But the lesson IL should learn Is not of
self laudation or glorification, not of sec
tional pride and prejudice, not OF rejoicing
at the discontinue OF Imillions of people.
| But IL should be the lesson OF thought
fulness that the country is united from
one end to other, bound by the iron bonds
OF friendship and brotherly love. The
day Is not set apart AZ many imagine to
| fight over again the late war, but To re-
member the dead and by their lives teach
| a story of patriotism and self sacrifice to
| the living.
In this city the day was appropriately
| celebrated.
1t is not a day for the glorihcation of
the Grand Army of the Repub bile, or to tell
what they did; 1t Is for the dead alone.
The story OF the dead is book rich in in
struction to every right minded child
| I'm whose heart Is even the faintest spark OF
| love for country while the story of he liv-
| ing is but fleeting and passing show.
| IL IL into the future one must look, not
| into the past. But the story OF the past
| may inspire as TO higher and holier
aims. And may the story OF the dead
teach US and every one OF US the story OF
| individual duty which Is to cherish In our
hearts our native land, not one part OF 1t,
| but the country from sea to sea, the coun-
try such as Webster and Choate and Clay
would have tour whole country and
nothing but our country. lesson such
as that Is worth learning and what every
mot her should teach every young heart
that clIngs in childish gleefulness to her
| knee.
The local veterans, sons OF veterans and
members OF the relief corps were early at
work yesterday morning, the latter ar
ranging the flowers while the details of
| the former decorated the graves in the
| outlying cemeteries.
specisI Services.
| At St. Francis cemetery to the services
OF decorating the raves was added that OF
blessing the burial lot recently donated
to the Grand Army posts In Providence
and vicinity by Rt. Rev. Bishop Harkins.
| A goodly NUMBER OF citizens, as well as
/ comrades and Sons OF Veterans, gathered
at the burial lot, where there was singing,
"Our Soldiers Caves" by double quar-
tette, the service OF blessing the lot and a
brief patriotic address by Rev. Father
| Lennon OF st. Mary's Church; singing,
| "rhe Memorial HYMN" by the double
quartette, and "taps" by the post bugler.
The detail was In command OF Adjt. Orris
T.. Huntley.
Those In Line,
In the afternoon the line was formed
on Summer sire 4, under the direction
OF Comrade Charles f. Fisher, Chief Mar
shal, assisted by Comrades Orris r. Hunt
ley and Jasper A. Partridge as aids, in the
following order
Platoon OF Police. under command OF Onlcer
Gardner.
chief Marshal and Aids, mounted.
Pawtucket CITY Band. r. II. tairman, leader,
2s pieces.
| CoLA, First Battalion Cavalry, II. |. 3, Capt.
Edward 4. Jones; % men.
Co. II, First Regiment Infantry, X. /. NJ,
Capt. william McGregor; ~ men.
Nelson A. Mnes Garrison. No. Z, Il a. n.
Capt. James T. Flynn; Is men.
Tower Post, No. II, G.. A. r., Commander
Lewis j. Matteson; 81 men.
Capt A. X. TiltOn Camp, No. 0, 5, OF ", Capt.
Franklin \. Blake; 20 men.
Carriages containing comrades OF Slocum
Post. No. 10. Providence.
Barge containing dlsal led comrades,
Barge containing pupils OF the High school.
| Flower wagon.
CarriaVe containing the officiating clergy.
| men.
Three carriages containing the members Of
the double quartet.
Carriage containing His Honor the Mayor
aud Aldermen cotton and smith.
TAroc carriages containing Aldermen and
Common COunctlmen.
Carriages contaiDlng clergyTnen.
Carriages containing city officials.
Carriage containing superintendent Of
schools and grammar master.
Carriage containing members of the Patria
CLUB.
Route of March.
The long line OF blue was started
promptly on time and proceeded through
the following streets which were crowded
with people:
Summer, North Union, Main, Broadway
and Cottage street to Oak Grove cemetery
where the services were held "a follows:
Dirge, by the band; prayer by Rev. Alex
ander McGregor; singing, "With Sad
dehed Hearts We Gather Around" by
High School pupils, under the direction
A - Az A =
Graye," by the dou ble quartette, consist
ing OF Albert &. White, John A. Jerauld,
Jonn X. Trafton, Walter Rogers, Charles
T.. Tracy, Ernest j. Clarner, William II.
Tracy, William II. Trafton, Carroll j..
Pullen, William Il. Rogers, w. Bsrrows
and $. Fleming; music by the band; sing
ing, "rhe Memorial hymn" and "The