The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1897-04-24
MEMORIAL DAY.
How II VIII Be Observed by the
Grand Army Posts.
General Orders Issued by Department
Commander Scott.

Department Commander Livingston
Scott of the Grand Army has issued the
following general orders:
In accordance with invariable custom
and i'm compliance with general orders
from national headquarters, the depart
ment commander hereby announces that
throughout this Department. Monday,
May 81, 1897, Will be observed as Memoir
ial day.
Each post will make suitable arrange
ments for proper observance OF tho day
by patriotic exercises appropriate 10 the
commemoration of the valor patriotism
and noble self sacrifice of our dead COM
rades.
Any person desiring to have a wreath
or other floral Offering placed upon the
Soldiers and Sailors Monument or on the
Burnside Statue can have IT so placed by
forwarding the same on the Saturday pre-
ceding To the assistant iajutant general.
The department. commander having
accepted invitations to attend, divine
services on Sunday, MAY 30, lS97, depart
ment officers and staff will report NJ
form, with white gloves, but without
side arms, at 10 O'Clock, a m, to accom-
pany Prescott Post, No. l. To Mathewson
Street M. T. church, and again ut
o'clock, p. M, To accompany Siocum
Post No. 10, to Broadway Nj. II. church.
Posts throughout tho department arc
earnestly urged To attend and participate
in appropriate religious services upon
that day. and To invite the sons and
families of veterans 20 join with them
therein.
Post chaplains will Immediately after
Memorial day report To the department.
Chaplain, Rev. Hopkins Is. Cady, Woon-
socket X. L.. the services performed hy
their respective posts upon that occasion,
giving full particulars as to the number
of graves decorated, the names Of cene-
teries visited, and any other information
which in their opinion Will be OF value
To the department. They will also report
In detail as To the observance of Memorial
Sunday by their respective posts.
A ttention of post officers and comrades
throughout the department is called To
the approaching national encampment
to be holden at Buffalo, N. Y, during the
week commencing August %, 1897, and
all who may find 1t practicable are ear.
nestly urged TO attend the same. Ii
promises To be the largest and most en-
thusiastic of all recent encampments.
| The cost of transportation and entertain
ment will be- very low and reasonable.
| Comrades wishing to secure accommoda-
tions can and should ut once make ar
| rangements by application direct to
| Edward G. Shafer, chairman, 2l2 Elliott
| Square Buffalo N Y. Further and more
| detailed information will be given here
| after
| Attention is particularly called to the
request for contributions in said of our
comrades whose duty requires them tC
I visit the national cemeteries on Memorial
| day General orders, No D. paragraph Ill,
| C. T., from national headquarters, contains
| the appeal, AMI directs that remittance'
! be made to Charles Il. Burmester djutant
! general, Omaha, Neb. All posts of this
department are urged to respond to The
appeal. ,,, -
Arnold late private Co. 9, eth Rhode
| Island Volunteer Infantry, Is at thes'
headquarters awaiting delivery to the
! person entitled thereto.
The following appointments on the stat
nounced. They will be respected accord
ingly:
Michael jacobson, Post 0, Senior Aid
| de-Camp.
Aids e-camp-Charles p. Moies, "A lire,
w. Stoddard, George A. Pritchard
Marinus w. Hudson, John y. Case
Leonard ;. Allen, Erdix /. Dustin, "A
William q. Saunders Nahum A. Kelton
Edward ii. Burdick. Charles A. May
Benjamin III. Iourtellotte Robert Nj
Pollard, Charles Ii. Burdiok, William II
Boyer, George II. Randall, Alfred Fry
David NJ. Coggcshall, Thomas f. Usher
George H. Nichols, Charles ". Bowen.
Assistant nspectors-Leander \. Val
lette, Jared L. Wilson, Cornelius Chap
man, Jere /. Greene, John Il. Delano
Orsmus A. Taft, James o. Chandler
William A. Robinson, Edmund j. Nun
roe, Albert Potter.
A ssistant mastering officcrs-Albert G
Bates, Fred A. Burt, Edwin Northron
Edwin j. Tilley, Lewis j. Matteson
Ansel l.. Sweet, William III. Boyden
Sr., Thomas A. Barber, Albert Potter.
Charles A. May, A. ID. c., is detaile
for duty AS department bugier