The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-31
Officers of the Day.
Regimental Band.
Governor Richards and Aids.

Company g. Capt. Byron II. Cook.
Women's Relief Corps.
Christoforo Colombo Society.
Ancient order United Workmen.
Select knights.
Butte city Fire Department.
Volunteer Fire Department.
Hook and Ladder Company.
Juvenile Fire Company.
Mayor, Aldermen and Other city ON
GERS i'm Carriages
Citizens I'm Carriages.
| The hose carts and engines OF the fire
department were decorated with ma
| tional colors and evergreen, intermin-
glcd with black in memory OF the dead
| fremen. and the words I'm Memory OF
! our Comrades" were formed Of ever
green on the sides of the engine.
| At the conclusion Of the parade the
memorial exercises were continued at
| the Auditorium and were very interest
| ing, though the hall was not more than
| half filled, a fact that was not at all
| to the credit of the people OF Butte ana
| was rather severely commented upon
| by Department Commander Doiman In
his opening remarks. THE Grand Army
| of the Republic is not a political organ
| ization," he said. ION the contrary we
| do not allow politics or sectionalism to
| enter our organization. We are simply
| American citizens who meet I'm loyalty
| and once each year pay our respects TO
| the veterans who have passed away,
not only those who wore the blue. but
| those who wore the gray. on this sol
| emn Memorial day we all join In that
loving duty and the mother. the father.
| the brother and the sister, meet with
| us to scatter flowers upon the graves
| of departed loved ones. and even heaV-
| en- has opened it's gates To shed Hood
| of tears over the memories OF the day.
There is i'm the ceremonies of this day
not even n flavor of sectionalism. The
memories of the war and its causes
| are buried and almost forgotten, and
| the day but cements the love among
men and helps to bridge all feelings of
sectionalism. You may not know that
| nine years ago the Confederate Home
at Richmond asked Lincoln Post of
| Butte for assistance i'm caring for the
| Confederate wounded at that home and
that Lincoln Post sent them Si35. That
| but shows that the feelings cngendered
by the war have been buried and that
we are one people of one glorious
| country.
Memorial day Is a day of education.
and If any people on earth need edu-
cation I'm the lessons taught by the day.
| It is the people Of Butte. | know that
i'm the town Of Livingston every per-
son I'm towc is celebrating the day,
while I'm Butte, a city of $4,000, we can
not fill this small hall Are we afraid
To say we are Americans? There are
n few among us who are not. | feel
Inundated and / believe that the
Grand Army feels Inundated at this
| exhibition of lack of public interest
i'm the duties of this day. In all the
South. dare say, there is not a place
| that is worthy the name of a village
where the people are not observing this
day"
At the conclusion of Colonel Dolman's
address male quartet rendered
Rest. Soldier. Rest" after which Mas
ter John VI. Curtis. a born orator. was
introduced and recited with thrilling
and dramatic effect
THE Blue AND THE GRAY.
By the flow OF the inland river
I Whence the fleets OF iron have fed,
Where the blades OF the grave-grass culver,
Asleep on the ranks of the dead
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the Judgment day;
Under the one, the Blue.
Under the other, the Gray
These in the robings OF glory.
Those In the gloom OF defeat,
| All with the battle blood gory
| In the dusk OF eternity meet
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day;
Under the laurel, the Blue,
Under the willow, the Gray.
, From the silence OF sorrowful hours,
The desolate mouTacrs 20,
= Lovingly ladened with flowers,
} Alike for the friend and the foe:-
> Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day;
Under the roses, the Blue,
Under the lilies, the Gray.
; So. with an equal sp.endor,
The morning sun-rays FAN,
! | With touch impar;ially tender,
On the blossoms blooming for all:-
Under the sod and the dew,
Wait Nc the Judgment day;
: Broidercd with gold. the Blue.
! Mellowed with gold, the gray.
I So. when the summer calcth,
, on FOR Il and field OF grain,
: With an equal murmur fallcth
e The cooling drip o. rain
3 Under the sod aad the dew.
/ Waiting the judgment day;
Wet with rain. the Blue.
. Wet with rain, the Gray.
sadly. hut not with uubraidlng.
The generous deed was done.
In tie storm ~ the years that are fading,
& No drawer battle was won
= Under the sod and the dew.
! Waiting the judgment day;
, | Under the bios sons, the Blue.
, Under ths garands, the Gray.
No more shall the war cry sever,
= or the winding rivers be red:
J. | They Danish our anger forever
- When they laure the graves o. our dead
Under the sod and the dew,
waitin. Judgment day;
- Love and ar for the Blue.
Tears IN oy' for the Gray.
4 Commander Dolman introduced MAI
,r rice ID. I.athey. the orator Of the da!
and said il gave him great pleasure I
introduce him as the son OF a hraN
/. | Union soldier. who was memper Z
4 Company + Of the gallant Hst lowe
and wounded in the battle or NlcA'