The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-05-31
THE NATIONS MARTYRS.
Their Graves StreWn With
Flowers.
How the Day Was Observed at
Washington.
Representative Bryan of Nebraska
the Orator.
A Sensational Speech at Richmond, Va.
Observance of Traditional Customs
at Other California and
Eastern Cities.
By the Associated Press.


WARRINGTON, May 80 Congress rest.
ed today and all the government depart
ments were closed, while private bust.
ness also was generally snspended
Flags hung at half mast on the public
buildings, and the streets were crowded
with uniformed veterans and sight
seers.
President Cleveland set the example
in observing the day, which was gener-
ally followed by the citizens. Several
mem GERS of congress took part in the
exercises in the different cemeteries,
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 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 monu.
ments to decorate.
There was long parade in the morn
ing, participated in by the district
military, under command OF General
Albert Ordway, and the G. 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 programme
announced.
The day was sunless and chilly.
Elaborate preparations had been made
for the observance Of the day. The
moat important ceremonies were held
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Potomac and overlooking the city,
where 16, 600 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 aud
some representatives OF foreign lega-
tiona
At noon a national salute was fired,
and the tombs of the unknown, where
the bones of hundreds of soldiers taken
from battle fields are inferred, were dec
GRATED by the G. A. r. posts, the
Women's Relief corps and the Sons of
Veterans. In the amphitheater, where
religious services were held on the Lee
plantation on Sundays, the bugle
sounded.
Music was given by the Marine band
and the G. A. R. musical assembly.
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after IL O'Clock, accompanied by Secre-
taries Gresham and Morton. The party
took seats at the front of the speakers
stand and was applauded.
General Black and Corporal Tanner,
both ex-commissioners of the pension
bureau, were on the stand, and later
Secretaries Carlyle and Hoke Smith
arrived.
Hon. A. L. Martin of Indiana, chair
man OF the committee on pensions. de-
livered an eloquent Grafton, and Col.
John A Joyce read poem.
Representative Bryan, of Nebraska,
aroused much enthusiasm by his ap-
pearance. He began:
The only excuse ono of my genera
ton can offer for speaking here, is to
assure the veterans that this day shall
not die with them. When the nation
has forgotten the battletieds where it
won it's greatest victories, it will not for
get the burial places where its greatest
dead rest
Speaking of the results of the war, he
said:
at would have been defeat to have
held together in iron bands two es-,
trsnged sections, but its glorious VIC
tory to have been able to bring back an
unwilling brother and make him a hap
py brother"
antira nroa,s,n,ne which lasted si~
honrs hpt did nor speak
Aftey tho caramnnias ha drova hack IN
tho c;tv with tho mamhars nj tho
90 hinet maetipc tbonssnds of naonla
w ho ware divine IN Arlington
an
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RICHMOND Vs'' May oo'-Ihe oeoica'
tion OF monument in memory OF pri-
vate soldiers and sailors OF the confed-
eraev was the occasion of a great cele.
bration TODAY. There was cavalry
reunion. at which Gen. Fitznngh Lee
Wade Hamnton. Governor O'fFerrell
Rev. vii Iam Jones and General Rosser
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