The National tribune., 1894-04-19
NAVAL VETERANS.
Matters of Interest to Our Comrade Blue
jackets.

| Matters of Interest to Our COmrade Blue
Jackets.
Before another General Order will be issued
| from Headquarters in time to be read before q
majority of local associations Memorial Day
| will be reached. The ear-Admiral again urges
| upon each association the i'm portance OF making
| this sacred day memorable in our annals. " Let
| the world witness the fact that we as Naval
Veterans have not forgotten our shipmates who
| have gone before and await us on the shining
| shore beyond. Let every shipmate turn out
| on that day and pay homage to the memory of
| our departed shipmstes and comrades who fell
in the cause of the Union, or who since have
died under the starry flag that they helped to
restore to united country. Let every grave
| of shpmate in your vicinity bear evidence
that their memory still lives in your hearts"
Farragut Association of the Port Of New
York will carry out the following program
next month: Sunday. May Is, decorate the
grave of Admiral Farrsgut, who lies buried in
Woodlawn Cemetery, near New York City.
This has been for years very imposing event.
Sunday. May 20, decorate the Farragut statue
in Madison Square, New York. Hon. Amos j.
Cummings, Chairman of the Naval Committee
of the House of representatives, will be the
| orator of the day. Over 500 Naval Veterans
and 5000 uniformed boys will take part in this
ceremonial. Sunday May 81, with Naval Post
5I6 GAR, they will decorate the graves of
Hospital Cemetery in Brooklyn. The Hon.
VIM. McAdoo, Assistant Secretary of the Navy,
will be the orator of the day. detachment OF
blue jackets and marines will take part in these
| exercises, and several GAR. Posts will join
with them, making very large and imposing
display. On one of these Sunday evenings all
hands will attend divine services at one of the
large churches, TO be selected in Brooklyn or
New York. At all of these ceremOnials dis
tinguished ministers will offer the prayers and
pronounce the benediction, and in some cases
will make brief addresses.
T. s. Osbon, Rear. Admiral Commanding, in
General Orders, No. g. says:
In some sections of this country attempts
have recently been made to force upon peo-
pie the recognition of flags, or rather emblems
OF peoples upon certain fete days. So impertl-
nent has become this demand that the time has
come when the American people, and especially
the veterans of the late war, must rise up and
in no uncertain or unmeaniDg words put down
this unseemy desire to Haunt foreign flags or
meaningless emblems over our public build
iHgs. There is no room nor place for any
flag in this country but for the Stars and
Stripes. and the sooner we teach the people of
other lands who come to our fair Shores either
for refuge or to better their condition in life,
that Old Glory is the only flag to be displayed,
the better it will be for them and ourselves"
The Philadelphia Naval Veteran Association,
of which Jacob Teal is the commanding officer,
will be formally mustered and officers installed
by the Rear-Admiral commanding at their
Headquarters at Meade Post hall, Twelfth and
Chestnut streets. Philadelphia, Pa on the
evening of May next, at which time there
will be notable gathering of distinguished
officers of the y. S. Navy and eminent citizens
present to witness the ceremony. 1t is expect
ed that this function will be event long to
be remembered in the history of Naval Veter-
ans in the Port of Philadelphia.