The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-05-31
CLEVELAND SETS A
VERY GOOD EXAMPLE
Blue and Gray Are Alike FOndly
Remembered.
Most Important Ceremonies Held on
the Heights of Arlington, Where
Sixteen Thousand Union Soldiers
Are Buried-Every Grave Marked
with a Flag and BOquet-COn-
federate Dead at Chicago.

Washington, May 30.-Congress rest
ed today, and all the government de-
partments were closed, while private
business also was generally suspended.
Flags hung at half-nast on the
public buildings and the streets We're
crowded with uniformed veterans and
.sight-seers.
President Cleveland set the example
in observing the day, which was gen
orally followed by the citizens. Several
members of Congress took part in the
exercises in the different cemeteries,
while among the on-lookers were some
sta tesmen who had fought for confed-
eracy. Whatever of bitterness may
have been the Inheritance from the war
seemed to have been forgotten and the
graves were decorated by 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 a long parade in the morn
ing, participated in by the district mil
itary under command of General AL
bert Ordway, and the G. A. r. posts,
and the ceremonies at the cemetery be-
gan 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.
I 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 $4,000 Union soldiers are buried
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and a bouquet of roses.
| Thousands of people crowded the
| grounds, among them many members
of Congress, and some representatives
of foreign legations At noon a nation
al salute was fired and the tombs of
the unknown where the bones of
| hundreds of soldiers taken from battle
fields are inferred were decorated by
| the G. A. r. posts, the Woman's Relief
corps and Sons of Veterans. In the
iamphitheatre 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. R. musical assembly
President Cleveland arrived shortly
after II o'clock, accompanied by Score
taries Gresham and Norton The party
took seats at the front of the speaker 5
stand and was applauded.
General Black and Corporal Tanner
both ex-commissioners of the pension
bureau, were in the stand and later
Secretary Carlisle and Hoke Smith ar
rived.
Hon. A L. Martin, of Indiana, chair.
man of the committee on pensions
delivered an eloquent grafton and
Colonel John A. Joyce, read a poem.
4 Representative Bryan, of Nebraska
aroused much enthusiasm by his ap-
pearance. He began: ''The only ex.
cuse one of my generation can offer foi
speaking here is to assure the veteran!
that this day shall not die with them
!. When the nation has forgotten the bat
tie fields where were won it's creates
victories, it will not forget the buria
places where its greatest dead rest
Speaking of results of the war hi
said:
ut would have been defeat to have
} held together in iron bands TIVE
estranged sections, but it is a gloriou.
victory to have been able to bring bacl
: an unwilling brother and make him
! happy brother"
President Cleveland sat through tn
entire programme, which lasted 81!
hours, but did not speak.
After the ceremonies, he drove bacl
to the city with the members of hi
cabinet, meeting thousands of peopl
who were driving to Arlington.