The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-05-28
HONOR To
j ABRAHAM
LINCOLN
Grand Celebration To-Day
in All the Public
Schools.
GRAND ARMY VETERANS
TO PARTICIPATE.
A Comrade Will Visit Every
School to Address the
Children.
BIG PUBLIC MEETING IN THE
EVENING.
Army Veterans Will Take Part in
I Tableau, Tenting on the Ga
Camp Ground"
A Comrade Will Visit Every
School to Address the
Children.
BIG PUBLIC MEETING IN THE
EVENING.
Army Veterans Will Take Part in a
Tableau, Tenting on the GA
Camp Ground"

GriZZled veterans OF the G. A. R., active
workers of The Lincoln Monument League,
girls and boys OF the high schools and
grammar schools, and tiny toddlers from
the primary grades join to-day in a grand
celebration In honor OF Abraham Lincoln,
the great emancipation and the great
martyr.
In every one of the sixty-eight schools
III the City fitting exercises will be held in
the dead Presidents honor. The exer-
cises will begin at l oclock in the alter
noon. In some of the larger schools diyi-
sions have been made including several
classes each, and each division will have
its separate programme.
At least one comrade from each of the
G. A. r. posts of the City will be present
at every school to address the children.
The local posts have entered zealously
into the idea, and men have been detailed
from each organization.
Lincoln Post has been among the most
energetic in volunteering its services.
Ihtrty-three of the mem bers have been
assigned to the various schools as follows:
lie Conte Primary. Comrade H. W. Luther;
Lincoln Grammar, Posi- Commander 7. Ii.
Mass, Major Sherman, Chaplain Macon Der;
Longtellow Primary, Comrades L Howell, 6.
rades Rev. DR.. Ollie and William Burge SIS I;
Madison Primary, COmrade G. +. johns on ;
Marshall Primary, Comrade NJ. ). Ri ack-
burne; Mission Grammar, Colonel J. j. Lyon,
Comrades J. {, Bolles, Jonn Ryan, Charles NJ.
Cook; Monroe Primary, Comrade w. Hatch /;
Moulder Primary school, Comrades Colonel j.
A. NhItesldes, Abe Loapo; Sherman Primary
school, Comrades W. II. Wharf, Luke
Dumphy, r, B0rgou, E K. Laws; Spring Val
ley Grammar School, Comrade Judge II. c.
D4bble; Stanford Primary school, Comrade T.
L. Schuek; Starr King Primary school, Com
rade George IL. Stevens; Sunny Vale Primary
school, Comrade DR.. n. A. McLaug Min; Sutro
Washington Grammar school, Comrade W. E.
Reid, J. Y. C; Webster Primary School. Com
rade j. G. Innes: Whittier Primary School,
Comrades Joseph Steele, j. II. Lakin; Winfe Id
Scott Primary School, Comrade Hoffman; jeff
ersOn Primary School, Comrade H. T. Ho b.
bert; Lafayette Primary School, Comrade NJ
Slegel.
General G. G. Meade Post No. As has de-
tailed the following comrades:
Normal SchooI-W f Howe, William Moore.
Adolph schander. Pacific Heights School
c. NJ Leayey, p Z. Walsh, H. T Smith. James
Lick Grammar school--W: S. Small, 8. w.
Knowles, Comrade Wardel. Jefferson
Primary-RopeFt Graham, Commander.
The mem oers of Garfield Post who have
been detailed and the schools to which
they have been sent are as follows:
Gustave Mark. Douglass Primary; Thomas
Cain, Dudley Stone Primary; a. Z. Conn,
Everett Primary; R. B. Woods, Emerson
Primary; Frank L. Myers, Deuman Grammar;
r. r. kilgore, Horace Mann Grammar; James
Herman, Croker Grammar.
Cass Post has detailed the following:
Past Post Commanders George W. Arbuckie
and James II, Riley, Rineon Grammar; Cap
tain a. B. Donndly and Frank J. Miller,
ocean View School; Past Commanders John
Massey and John ONei, Monroe Primary.
Thomas Post will send between twenty
and thirty men 10 the schools situated
north of Geary street, and both ii berry,
and Garfield posts will contribute their
quotas.
In the evening Lincoln night will be
celebrated on grand scale at the Girls
High School. The meeting will be called
20 order at o'clock by Mayor James D.
Phelan, chairman of the advisory board
OF the Lincoln Monument League. In ad-
dition 10 a selected musical programme,
there will be short addresses by General
W. H. L. Barnes. Colonel Henry c. DID
bIe Hon. Charles II. Darlington, Judge
N. Cooney, Superintendent K. II. Web
ster and others.
Tha concluding event OF the programme
and of the DAYS celebration viii be real
site tabieau, ''Tenting on the Old Camp
Ground" The large stage in the audito-
rum OF the school will be set with the guns
and flags OF the different army posts, and
veterans in their uniforms will group
around the bayonet stacks as they did
three decades ago on the Potomac.