San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-29
MEMORIAL DAY.
BEAUTIFULLY O0HMGM0RATED IN
THIS CITY TODAY.
Parade By the Soldiers and G. A, B. and
Memorial Exercises at the Oemete-
y We're Very Impressive,

celebration of such a patriotic event
as Decoration day, and the citizens Of
the city turned out en- masse to do
honor to the dead heroes Of the Blue
and the Gray. The large street pa
rade of government troops and G. A.
R. veterans was a very pretty affair
and the exercises at the cemetery were
short, patriotic and beautiful. The
national cemetery in which the exer-
cises were conducted was crowded
with patriotic spectators and the
streets during the parade were lined
with them. The rush was so great to
reach the cemetery after the parade
that the street cars were taxed TO their
utmost but were so well managed that
every one reached there in ample time
for the beginning of the memorial ex-
ercises. The first three cars out were
chartered cars of the G. A. r., the front
one sarrying out the little school girls
dressed in their pretty white, with
wreaths upon their heads, who were
to decorate the graves, the two latter
conveying the veterans and the men,
bers of the press. They reached the
cemetery ahead Of the regular column
of troops.
The troops formed on Avenue e at
S:45 o'clock and moved promptly at
down Houston to st. Mary's to Com
merce and thence out Commerce to the
cemeteries, reaching there at 9:45.
Following was the order of march:
Mounted Police Mitchell and Van
Ripper.
Band, Fifth U. S. cavalry.
Marshal-in-chief 1t. Col. Whiteside,
commanding officer Fort Sam Houston,
and staff.
Assistant marshals.
Aids.
Commanding general, Department of |
Texas, General Wade.
General Bliss and staff.
General Paul Vandervoort, orator |
of the day.
Capt. Winthrop, Paul Vandervoort, |
Jr., and Capt Rollins, in carriage.
Companies B, A, G, c, E and F of |
the Eighteenth infantry in the order |
named.
Battery K, First artillery, Capt. Dill |
lenback, commanding.
Troops E, F, K and D, Fifth caval- |
~, in the order named.
Woman's Relief Corps.
E. o. c. Ord Post, No. 3, G. A. r. |
Aids-M. ]. Heating, Ord post, G. A. |
r., c. Wentworth, G. A. R., Mrs. j. |
F. Kline, w. r. c., ]. F. Kline, S. ".
Arriving at the cemetery the officers |
of the day took their places on the |
grand stand and the ceremonies were |
opened by patriotic prayer by Chap |
lain Rollins, of Ord post, G. A. r., fol- |
lowed by the national air America"
by the Fifth cavalry band.
This was followed by the reading of |
the orders for the celebration of this |
day from the commandments of |
the G. A. r., by commander John H. |
Bolton, of E. o. c. Ord post, G. A. r. |
Then followed the address of General |
Paul Vandervoort, the orator of the |
day which was a very patriotic and |
brotherly address, telling of the bloody !
battles that had once been fought but |
which were but memories of the past, |
of the brotherly feeling existing be-
tween the soldiers of the north and the |
soldiers of the south, etc.
His excellent address was followed
by the Star Spangled Banner" by the
band after which the memorial servi-
ces were conducted over the memorial
grave, conducted by Commander Boil
ton and Officer of the Day Heating.
There were also recitations by ten lit
tie school children, as follows:
Margaret Little, Katie Dugan, Min
ME Kettle, Alfred Miller, Lena Walsh,
Coney Reddin, Katie Reddin, Lizzie
Burket, Rosa Brennan, Milla Brennan.
The band then played, company B,
Eighteenth infantry fired a salute of
three voIleys and the exercises were
brought to a close by a salute of five
guns being fired by light battery K,
First artillery, each gun being fired in
the order of their number, making a
total of twenty guns.
After the exercises the troops went
directly to the post from the cemetery,
the c.. A. r., Womens Relief Corps,
and school children returning in spe-
cial cars to Alamo plaza where they
were dismissed.
The exercises are being concluded
this afternoon in G. A. r. armory in
the Soledad block.
The members of the G. A. r. and all
old soldiers were furnished transporta-
ton to and from the cemetery free.
The little children who went out on
the first chartered car decorated the
graves before the arrival of the main
column.
General Vandervoort, in part spoke
as follows:
The celebration of today brings
back memories of the past, not in ha-
tired but in the light of Brotherhood
| and charity. There is not G. A. r.
| man who harbors any malice toward
any southern brother in this broad
land. The bloody shirt has been laid
| away by them, the Confederate broth
ers of the Gray have laid aside their
| flag and now we stand side by side. the