The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-05-31
SOUTH SIDE CEMETERIES.
Services Held Over tho Graves OF Buried
Comrades.


Comrades.
To the soldier dead marked honors
were paid by residents of the South
Side. Business was practically sus-
pended and the houses were DECORATED
In patriotic colors. Services of the'day
were conducted at Pittston avenue and
at the Twentieth ward German ceme-
teries.
At Pittston avenue cemetery de-
tachment from Colonel Monies Post,
No. 319, conducted the exercises. Line
OF march was formed at headquarters,
42l Lackawanna avenue, and led by
the Citizens band, OF the North
End. the veterans paraded to the
cemetery. Carriages containing At
torney A. V. Bowers and Rev.
August Lange, pastor OF the
Hickory Street Presbyterian church,
and disabled veterans had the position
at the head OF the column. Comrade
E. l.. Haas was In command.
The exercises at the cemetery were
most impressive and were watched
with interest by large number of
people. The veterans lined around the
grave of the late John Rosen and there
D'S III 'iI' ne run thiI VI
the dead showed that the comrades
who lie sleeping in Pittston avenue
cemetery are: Bartholomew Gredlcin,
Charles Marker, Leopold Schmipff,
Christian Robinson. Charles Ethardt,
Charles +. Ardt. Christian Hoffman,
Paul Herr. William Bodtke, Jacob
Gable. Charles Hartman, Jacob Stein
haucr and John Rosen.
selections nv the Choir.
Under the leadership OF Professor
John Lcntes, the choir OF the Hickory
Street Presbyterian church sang the
two hymns, at Is Well with My Soul"
and Cover Them oyer with Beautiful
Flowers" The Memorial Day services
Rev. August Lange, being introduced,
spoke briefly and impaired the bene-
diction. The orator OF the occasion,
Attorney A. V. Bowers, began his ad-
dress and delivered an eloquent and
patriotic one. He paid n glowing trlb-
ute to the men who marched on the
battle field and fought that the Union
might be preserved. This country, he
said, is foremost in religion and gov
ernment among the nations of the
Garth, and too much honor can not be
done to the memory Of those heroes
who laid down their lives as sacri-
flee.
The success of the past and the hopes
OF the future are to be attributed to the
coalescence of religion with the gov
ernment. When the hardy band of
Puritan pilgrims came to this country
in fhair oh
wild and wintry ocean, their prayers
went up to God, and Plymouth was
dedicated with religious fervor. In the
dark days of the Revolutionary war
when the blood stains of the soldiers
naked feet could be seen in the snow
and ice, the immortal Washington did
not despair, but he retired to the Sc
clusion of the forest and poured forth
his supplication to the Almighty for
the success of the Continental army
And in the late civil war the honored
Abraham Lincoln in the White house.
sought the assistance of his Heavenly
father for the preservation of the
Union. The veterans again fell in line
and marched back to headquarters
where they dispersed.
At German Catholic Cemetery.
At st. Marys German Catholic ceme-
terry the exercises were conducted by
the detachment from Lieutenant Ezra
S. Griffin Post. No. 1885, in command of
Comrade l.. L. Adams Comrade l.. D.
Powers was officer of the day. The
exercises began at II o'clock and con-
tinued until noon. Rev. George G.
Stopper, of st. Mary's German Cath
olic church, was the orator of the day,
and he also conducted the religious
exercises.
The roll call of the dead was as fol-
lows: John Lockro. Fridolin Renk,
Casper Schaf. Matthias Schneider and
Jacob Relper. Father Shoppers ad-
dress was patriotic and eloquent one.
The children of St., Marys German
Catholic parochial school, under the
leadership of Organist Alderman, of
the church, sang beautifully America"
and Columbia the Gem of the Ocean"
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