The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-06-01
MEMORIAL DAY EVENTS.
NOW THE DAY WAS COMMEMoRA-
TED,

Features of the New York Parade-The
Gallant ty-ninth-Several Thousand
school Cadets-The Girls Parade-Two
Deaths in Brooklyn-one in the Parade
and One IA Spectator-Impressive Scene
ven.
New York, May 30-Outside of the
parade of the veterans Of the Grand
Army in this city yesterday three feat
ures of the parade attracted the atten-
ton of the observers on the grand
stands. These were the corps of school
boy cadets, the reorganized Sixty ninth
regiment of the National Guard of the
State of New York, three squads of the
new woman" in the form of daughters
of veterans, clad in uniform skirts of
military cut.
There must have been several thou
sand cadets in the line of march drawn
from the public and private schools and
~>SANA eAS PliNdLG IHlIildly dNduGIlllGS
around the city. They marched in good
step, with the quick imitativeness of
their age, and they carried heavy rifles
with fixed bayonets without allowing
any sign of fatigue to appear. Not
the least attractive of these cadets
were the colored companies, fully equal
in bearing and equipment to their white
ar,, Il IT,,
ored companies marched seven stout
colored men who were evidently clergy
men by the way they carried their UNI
4 brellas
No section of the parade received
more applause on passing the grand
stands than the fighting Sixty-ninth,
which had been ordered by Adjutant
General McAlpin to form the local mill
itary escort of the veterans of the
Grand Army. The pleasure which the
members of the Sixty ninth took in
marching again as full regiment was
evident from the spick-and-sp uni
forms and accoutrements, their soldier
ly step and their proud bearing, as be-
came their Celtic traditions of martial
deeds. Colonel George Moore Smith,
the commanding officer, had the right
to look proud of his regiment.
The first of the Airls' companies to
4 appear in the parade was that Of the
daughters of veterans, accompanying
the Robert Anderson and A. S. Williams
post, No. 1874, G. A. r. The girls seemed
4 all over fourteen years of age, and wore
u gowns of light-blue cloth, with fDgs
n across the front. Their reception at the
n grand stands was of an undetermined
n character, as the spectators had not
& made up their minds whether to APP
prove or condemn the innovation. The
n second company consisted of colored
n girls, who followed the John A. An
n drew post They We're tastefully clad
u in blue blouses, with white skirts and
red shoulder sashes. and each carried
n small American flag at shoulder arms
Il across her right shoulder. The third
III company of girls came in the eighth di-
"A vision Of the parade; they were dressed
FL in blue-black costumes with numer-
Ii Gus brass buttons, and were the most
q military looking company of their sex.
81 The procession took little more
HI than two hours to pass the reviewing
III stand. Governor Morton, apparently
Il in excellent health, stood in the review
y ing box during the whole time occupied
by the passing of the parade. The mem
q bers Of his staff, dressed in their gor-
NJ geous uniforms, which look as new as
Nj ever and were In marked contrast to
III those of many of the veteran posts,
81 stood upright in two rows behind him
& and looked almost like waxworks.
II Among others present on the grand
n stands were Major General r. Fl. Ru-
Il ger, commanding the department of the
n east; Commodore Sicard Of the navy,
y General Franz Sigel, General Horace
s. Porter, General Daniel f. Sickles, Gen
a eral Arson G. McCook Colonel S. V. R..
III Cruger, President Jeroloman of the
Fl board of aldermen, Judge Van Hoesen,
II Adjutant General McAlpin, and James
81 S. Graham, commander Of the depart
ment of New York.
ri The parade was dismissed after it
II had passed through the Washington
NJ arch, at Washington square, where
Ell George Van Setback, grand marshal of
1.-THE Grand Army of the Republic for the
II day, was saluted.
1.-THE BROOKLYN PARADE-TWO
DEATHS
RI The Memorial day parade in Brook
Ellyn caused the death Of one veteran and
Ia serious injury to another, and a spec
II tator who had been watching it, died in
1.-THE street after it had passed. Two vet
Grams died during the parade last year,
and the year prior veteran dropped
| dead in front of President Cleveland
while the president was reviewing the
men, The line of march was from the
sfountain at Bedford avenue and Clymer
street to the Eastern Parkway, and the
aentrance to Prospect park at the Me-
morial arch.
John Matson, a member of German
Metternich post, No 122 while march
ling with his post on Bedford avenue,
became i'll. He was carried to the side
led, and before it arrived he died. He
was seventy four years old, and lived at
k246 Central avenue. His wife was told
of his death when his fellow veterans
reached the Lutheran cemetery, where
she was awaiting his coming.
While the members of William Lloyd
Garrison post, No. 207, were returning
from the parade coach driven by John
Finn of IA Bergen street ran into the
line, and John Robinson, forty nine
years old, of 400 Marcy avenue, men,
Der of the post was knocked down and
received severe decorations of the
knees. The veteran was taken to his
home in the ambulance.
80. GxyD