The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-05-31
The DEAD BRAVE.
HonOred in the Land They
Saved.
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN.
Grateful Flowers Placed Upon
Their Graves.
OLD HATREDS PASSED AWAY.
Only From One Spot Comes an
Echo of the Bitterness
of War.
ONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN.
OLD HATREDs PASSED AWAY

WASHINGTON, May 30.-Congress rested
to-day and all the Government depart
ments 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
veterans3aud sightseers. President Cleve-
LAND set the example in observing the day,
which was generally followed by the Cit
izens. Several members of Congress took
part In the exercises in the different ceme-
teries, while among the onlookers were
some statesmen who had fought for the
Confederacy.
Whatever of bitterness may have been
the inheritance from the war seemed to
have been forgotten, and the Con-
federate 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 long parade in the morning,
participated in by the district military.
under command of General Albert Ordway,
and the 6. a. r. posts. and the ceremonies
at the cemetery began at noon. Slight
showers fell at intervals, but the rain was
not sufficient TO interfere with the pro-
gramme announced. The day was sunless
and chilly.
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 $1,000
Union soldiers are buried. Every grave
was marked with flag and bouquet of
roses, and thousands of people crowded
the grounds, among them many members
of Congress and some representatives of
foreign legations. At noon a national
salute was fired, and the tombs OF the un-
known, where the bones of hundreds of
soldiers taken from the battlefelds are In
TERED, we're decorated by the G. A. K.
posts, the Woman's Relief corps and Sons
OF Veterans. In the amphitheater where
religious services were held on the Lee
plantation on Sundays, the bugle sounded
assembly. Music was given by the Marine
band and the G. A. K. Musical Assembly.
President Cleveland arrived shortly
after u o'clock, accompanied by Secre-
taries Gresham and Morton. The party
took seats at the front OF the speakers
stand and were applauded.
General Black and Corporal Tanner,
both eX-Commissioners of the Pension
Bureau, were in the stand, and later Sec
retary Carlisle and Hoke Smith arrived.
Hon. a. L. Martin of Indiana, chair
man of the Committee on Pensions, deliv-
cred an eloquent grafton and Colonel John
A. Joyce read poem.
Representative Bryan of Nebraska
aroused much enthusiasm by his appear
ance. He began: THE only sxcuse one
of my generation can offer for speaking
here is to assure the veterans that this
day shall not die with them. When the
nation has forgotten the battlefields where
it won it's greatest victories it will not for
get the burial places where its greatest
dead rest"
Speaking of results of the war he said
ut would have been defeat to have held
together in iron bands two estranged Sec
tions, but it is glorious victory to have
been able to bring back an unwilling
brother and make him happy brother"
President Cleveland sat through the en-
tire programme, which lasted six hours.
but did not speak. After the ceremonies
be drove back to the city with the men,
bers of his Cabinet, meeting thousands Of
people no wore driving to Arlington.
CINCINNATI, May 30.-Governor Nc
Kiney made memorial address at Music
Hall tonight aud was listened to by over
5000 people. His theme was the duty of
this Nation to care for its defenders, the
surviving soldiers of the war and the5'
widows and orphans.
ST. LOUIS, May 30.-Memorial day was
observed here to-day 10 the usual manner,
the graves in the National Cemetery at
jefferson Barracks and those in the great
city cemeteries being lavishly decorated.
SALT LAKE. May 30.-Decoration day
was observed here by thousands of people
who scattered flowers in memory of the
dead The soldiers monument, erected
by the efforts of the Women's Relief Corps,
was unveiled and decorated with appropri-
ate ceremonies.