The record-union., 1896-05-31
Gray as Well as Blue Figure in the
Chicago Exercises.
The Monument Erected i'm Faiffnount
Park, Philadelphia, in Memory OF
General Garfield, and the EqueS-
trial Statue of William Henry
Harrison at Cincinnati Unveiled
Services at General Grants Tomb.

WASHINGTON, May 30.-MemoriaI
Day was observed here with the usual
ceremonies attending the decoration of
the graves of those who fell in the civil
war. Arlington National Cemetery was
the main attraction. The graves OF
General Sheridan, Admiral Porter, Gem
eral Walter Q. Gresham and General
Gibbon were profusely covered with
floral tributes. A salute by battery OF
the Fourth Artillery, U. S. A, music by
the Marine Band and singing by the
Mozart Club preceded the delivery or
the Grafton of the day by Congressman
Marriott Brosius of Pennsylvania
At the Soldiers Home Cemetery spe-
cial services were held at the grave OF
General John a. Logan.
BLUE AND GRAY.
CHICAGO, May 30.-The Gray as
we'll as the Blue figured in the usual
elaborate memorial exercises. Under
escort of the Sons of Confederate Vet
Grams and other friends the surviving
members of Camp No. 5 of the United
Confederate Veterans went this morn
ing to lakewood Cemetery, on the south
ern extreme of Worlds Fair grounds,
and after short exercises decorated the
graves of 5000 Confederate dead and
of the Union dead also. A beautiful
fraternal spirit was shown by the
Grand Army posts doing service at the
cemetery, and who after decorating the
graves Of their own dead assisted the
ex-Confederates in their labor of love.
GARFTELD'S MONUMENT.
PHILADELPHIA, May 30.-The
monument erected by the Paramount
Park Art Association to the memory of
the late General James A. Garfield was
unveiled this evening with appropriate
exercises. The monument stands upon
the banks of the Schuylkill River, be-
low Girard avenue bridge. 1t is the
work of the famous st. Gaudens and
bears a lifelike resemblance to the
assassinated President.
Ex-senator Edmunds of Vermont de-
livered the Grafton of the occasion.
| Several members of the Garfield fam
| lily, Governor Hastings and staff and
other State officials, the Mayor and
members of the two branches of the
municipal government and a number
Of prominent citizens occupied the plat
form reserved for distinguished guests.
After the unwilling there was an illum-
mated land demonstration, including a
fine military display, and also a pro-
cession of Illuminated boats upon the
river.
HARRISON'S STATUE.
CINCINNATI, May 30.-The eques-
trian statue of William Henry Harrison,
the ninth President of the United States,
which has been erected on Garfield
Place, in the center of the city, was I'M
yelled this afternoon in the presence
of an immense throng and with appro-
pirate exercises. Prior ito the cere-
monies there was a parade of the Grand
Army Veterans and municipal bodies.
General Hickenlopper was master. of
ceremonies. Hon. John f. Dollett pre-
sented the statue to Mayor Caldwell,
who accepted it on behalf of the city.
Louis Rebisso, the artist, performed the
act of unwilling.
The movement for the memorial be-
gan five years ago with the organization
of Harrison Memorial Association.
The association secured some funds by
subscription, supplemented by a bill in
the State Legislature authorizing a. tax
levy that warranted the expenditure of
$4,000. The association was afterward
merged in the Harrison Statue Com
mission, which carried the work to COM
pletion after much aggravating delay.
The statue as it stands has cost about
SIS, 900, but the extra amount has been
provided for. The statue is the work of
Rebisso of Cincinnati, who designed the
equestrian statue of General Grant at
Chicago and the Mcpherson statue at
Washington. 1t is in bronze and repre-
sents the hero of Tippecanoe in the mill
tary accouterments of the period in
which his reputation as a fighter was
made.
AT GRANTS TOMB.
NEW YORK, May 30-There was an
immense throng of people at the tomb
of General Grant this afternoon to par
ticipate in the Memorial Day services
which We're held under the auspices of
Z. S. Grant Post No. 357 G. A. r The
event of the day was an grafton bv ex-
United States Senator Charles F. Man
derson of Nebraska. The United States
steamship Newark was in the river
below, and fired a salute Of twentv-one
guns in honor of the occasion. The
Grant tomb was handsomely decorated
by several posts of the Grand Army.
and a large number of people assembled
the steps to pay their respects to the
memory of the deceased. MANY promi-