The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-31
HONOR DEAD HEROES
SOLDIERS AND PATRIOTS MAKE
THE DAY MEMORABLE.

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Flowers are Measured by the Bushel--Great
Parade in a Rain Standardization IL
fiiied to OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES stilwel
is the Orator o. the Day--An Incident in
the Military Career of Colonel Dan An
thony ELECTS a Storm of Applause
Graves of the Patriotic Dead are Dec
GRATED With Flowers.
Decoration day is fast becoming a
regular holiday. The stores in Wichita
We're closed in the afternoon and every
body with his wife and children Joined
the old soldiers on the streets.
The lid soldiers wearing their Grand
Army badges collected in groups and
talked of the stirring scenes Of the
SOS and about crops and politics. The
soldiers Of Grant and Sherman and
Hancock and Sheridan and Logan and
the other historic commanders of the
Union forces talk on any subject that
happens TO interest them.
And while the boys of 1860 conversed
town wearing their army badges. They
carried large boquets or a basket OF
flowers and the little girls dressed in
their Sunday clothes carried bopuets
as carefully as if they were something
Of great value that must be preserved
In their original beauty at all hazards
The policemen had on shirts and coll
lars and cuffs that were white as the
driven snow and their shoes were fresh
ly polished. The band boys and the
young men who belong to the military
companies wore their uniforms and
promenaded the streets with their
wives or best girl. A deaf and dumb
man If blessed with eyes could tell in
the early morning that yesterday was
a holiday.
THERE WERE MANY BASKETS
Garfield hall was Headquarters for
the old soldiers and their wives and
children All the flowers were taken
there. There were baskets and baskets
Of flowers everywhere and women were
putting UP dainty little boutiners which
the soldiers and their friends were eX-
pected to wear on the lappels Of their
coats
The children of the old soldiers were
Impressed with the importance of the
occasion and their pleasant faces show
ed when they entered Garfield hall or
the auditorium that they thought this
was their day. There were colorei
children there who said with apparent
satisfaction. my father was soldier"
And then the white children recogniZ-
ed them at once and the eyes of the
colOred urchins bulged out with de-
light when some good old white moth
er pinned a bouteinere over their hearts
These second generations of old sol
dierS would be Mortified if told that every
DID soldier did not go straight to Hea-
ven when he dies
There were two long tables in Gar
field hall where the flowers were depos-
tied and the entire floor of the Scar
gents room adjoining the hall was COW
cred with baskets of flowers. Some of
the people who contributed a basket
of flowers were:
Mrs. Charles Carver, Mrs. Fred HON.
exc, Edwin Bump, Arthur Courtney,
Ray Antrim, Mrs. Yike, Mrs Julia
West, j. o. Hawley. Mrs. J. ". Win
gard, Chaplain Wilkins, J. c. Davis,
Mrs. Anna Brown, Mrs. c. V. Fergu-
son, a. Q Call, Mrs. Boyle, Mrs. Harry
Piper, Mrs. S. a. Miller, Mrs. II. w.
King, Mrs. Mary Botcher, Mrs. w. D.
Moore. Burt. Willie and Carrie Bart
lett, Mrs. Mcbride. Mrs D. 3. Hersey,
Mrs. L. W. Clapp, Mrs. DR.. Owens,
Misses Mabel and Edna Dill, John Mos
ley, Misses Lillian and Lena Dominick
Miss Mabel Richardson. Mrs. Richard
son, Mrs. Anna Everett, Mrs. H. w
Culp, Mrs. Mary Meyers. Mrs. c. \.
Rose, G. w. Hukins. Miss Sallie Payne
of Fort Reno; Mrs. Helena Mason,
Mrs. Emma LaPaZ, Mrs. Kesler. y. c.
Smoke. and AIcCracken Brothers of
Rose Dale contributed four bushels of
roses.
THE LINE OF MARCH
The organization of the line of march
was attended by exciting scenes. a
storm of threatening proportions was
whirling in the sky from the south and
west and apparently intended to con-
verge in Wichita and form a tornado.
The rapidity of the movements of the
clouds, the darkness that prevailed
owing to the suction Of dust from the
ground and everything else combined
brought terror to the women and chill
dren Oh the streets, nearly all of whom
few for shelter fully satisfied of the
visitation Of a cyclone.
The clouds passed away, however,
and the procession formed and moved
regardless of the rain poured down.
That line was a thoughtful thing to
contemplate. Forty four children led
the procession with flags and. flowers,
the great emhlems Of patriotism and
in their hands Their voices
sang the praises of their country and
charmed every nearer.
Behind them came the Queen City
band and that, in turn was fillowed by
the active military organization, the
knights of PythiaS and other civic
organiza tons in uniform.
The great line of all was that formed
by the Sons of Veterans, followed by the
Grand Army of the Republic. The
old. soldiers seemed to be as numerous
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their steps carry them nearer the grave
but they were not as hale and Stalwart
in appearance as they were in previous
years. They could not keep step like
they used to do, nor did they dress right
with the precision of old times. Many
of them were bent over from the weight
of years and the telling effects of their
four years Of campaigning in the south
land. Notwithstanding all this the pa
raCie was A fine one and was very cred
liable TO the patriotism of the Peerless
Princess.
AT THE AUDITORIUM.
When the procession arrived at the
great throng waited on
the outside and all the streets in that
section were nlled with teams and
people.
Guards stood at the doors with orders
TO allow no one to enter until the old
SolditfS i-stu brci >tdNtN- A4LSlN NAS
IN opening made through which the
old soldiers and other orders in the
procession marched into the auditor
Ium and either side was a solid wall |
Of people, extending half way from the !
big building down 10 Douglas avenue !
When the soldiers and other organi- |
cations were seated the big doors on |
the Fourth avenue entrance We're
thrown wide open and the throng on /
the outside rushed in like a mighty
food and whirled in eddieS around /
the sides and poured over the raised /
platform in front like great, mad /