The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-06-01
THE DAY IN FAIR HAVEN
THE EXERCISES IN FAIR HAVEN
 CEMETERY.
The Processlon-The Exercises at the Hall --Address by Rev. Percy Barnes-Other Notes of Interest.

--Address by Rev. Percy Barnes--other | Notes of Interest.
 Seldom on Memorial day has the | weather proved so forbidding for dec- ] oration exercises as yesterday. Despite | the rain, however, the exercises were | carried out, with the exception of the services in the Fair Haven cemetery which were held in Polar Star hall,
 Members of the Woman Relief corps, with assistants, assembled at Polar Star hall at an early hour and received flowers, making them into bouquets and set pieces. The flowers were in great profusion and were made into 320 large bouquets and eighty small bunch es At the usual hour for starting for the cemetery rain was pouring hard, and the start was delayed until 10:3O, and during g. lull in the storm the vet erans and their young friends had op- portunity to decorate the graves of 122 soldiers and sailors.
 In the absence of Colonel William E. Morgan, who has been in charge of the exercises for several years, Comrade John W. Hill commanded the process sion. The procession was escorted by the Boys brigade of the East Pearl street M. D. church, Captain E. F. Goodyear, with drum corps. Then came about one hundred Fair Haven veterans, members of the several G. A, R. posts, and about 100 children bearing flowers.
 At the cemetery, under the direction of Comrade Henry A. Loveland, squads of five members of the Boys brigade were detailed to assist the c. A. R. men in decorating the graves. Owing to the storm there were but few spectators at the cemetery. The decoration exercises over, the veterans returned to Polar Star hall to listen to an address by the Rev. Percy Barnes, rector of Grace Episcopal church. Giles w. Clark pre- sided and introduced Rev. Mir. Barnes, who, in the course of his address, said: Our nations history seems to have repeated the history of Gods own peo- | pie in the carly days of their formation as nation; of how in their disunion and disruption they became gradually | thing of naught, rather than people of power, so long as they adhered to the principles of brotherhood and fel- 1 lowship. The true sentiment as exem- | plifled to-day is not that of glorying in | a conquest, but In the fact that the principles of right and equal justice | govern men, even though at first they may be oblivious to their best inter- | ests.
 Tn the different conquests of the world the actuating principle seems to have been the desire for grasping and for possession. But in our great strug- l gle men contended for that principle which is the foundation of true re- public-equal rights and brotherhood
 MT. Barnes then briefly touched upon ! the memories of some of the more iin- portant conflicts of the rebellion He paid a tribute to the memory of the | departed, cautioned his hearers to stand firm for interests for which they once contended, laying aside all party and sectional feeling and holding fast l to the principles of our Union-brother- hood and fraternity.
 The committee in charge consisted of 1 William E. Morgan, John w. Hill and 1 W. E. Crockett
 The members of the Womans Relief corps and ladies assisting, who arrang ed the flowers, were:
 Mrs. Fannie Bradley, chairman; Mrs. James Clark, Mrs. s. Dayton, Mrs. c. Jacobs Mrs. M. Howell, Mrs. Hume, Mrs. Swan, Mrs. J. K. Jones' Mrs. F. D. Phillips, Mrs. s. Hopkins, Mrs. J. R. Smith, Mrs. J. Ross, Mrs. M. J. Bas- | sett, Mrs. J. W. Hill.
 The list of contributions of flowers Is as follows:
 Fred Darby, Charley Darby, Fred Duffy, John Lunbacker, Winfred War her, Rubie Warner, Frank Chapman, Clarence Hurd, Charles Connors, Char 1 ley Provost, Louis Smith, Norman Whitney, Louis Granniss, Carl Bishop, Charles Theisa, August Erich, Frank Nettleton, Arthur Durant, John Hal pin, Philip Borst. Arthur Borst, Bruce Warden, Nelson Shredder, Edgar Stone, Eddie Muckemore, Walter Egan, Har- old Egan, Peter Roberts, Clarence Scranton, Edward Roberts Carl Lis ley, Robert Sutcliffe, William Wickman, ] Bertie McArthur, John Wickman, Will lie Murray, Willie Rudolph, John Grant, Willie Connolly, John Connolly, Henry l EuuOlpi, fkdy MdlDeWS, billOlL tldSB, Nelson Ffagg, Herman Carlquist, Clark | Burwell, David Blomgran, Charles Haegele. Henry Blomgran Harry Da- ton, Clifford Ingham, Ernest Cooper, Allison Thrall, Donald Warner, Clifford Hurd, Carl Shaver, Arthur Powp, Leroy Manwarren, Anil Schlegel, Willie Gage, Herbert Storey, Clarence Hegner, For est Smith, Robbie Rose, Charley Hayes. Willie Johnson, Maurice Hatfield, Owen Hatfield John Dunivan, Willie Bom- star Clifford Barrows, Howard Horton, Tom Miller Frank Jones, Albert Jones, John Allen, Curtiss Ford, Joseph Bish- op Lester Wadham, Herman Cook, George Westerfeld, Harry Dill, Lor- ing Burwell, Eddie Andrews, Miles Matthews, Norman Shepherd Frank Spains, Arthur Horton, Archie Baird, Warner Boynton, Frank Nettleton, Georgie Johnson, Charley NettIeton Clarence Fisher, Clarence Barnes Har- ry De Manning, Louis Burness, Fred Schwanfelder, Almond Kellogg. Harold Kellogg, Germaine Crosley, Carl Bish- op Leslie Tyler George Mallory, Will ie Mallory, John Legrand, Carl Le- grand, Lyman Baldwin, Leonard Brown, Howard Baldwin, Earl Me-