Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1899-05-31
MEMORIAL DAY
Inspiring Ceremonies at the National
Cemetery by Carleton Post, G.
A. R., and Its Friends.
A FINE PARADE YESTERDAY
Three Hundred Indians in Blue and Gray
Took Part in the Parade and Exercises
Citizens Decorated Freely and
Everyone Had Holiday.

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Memorial day was observed with
great enthusiasm and solemnity at San
ia Fe. Business houses and private res
licences. as well as the monument in the
plaza, were decorated with greens, flags
and bunting. In the afternoon a large
crowd gathered to watch the formation
of the parade, and followed the process
sion to the cemetery.
About 500 men were in line in the pa
rade. While the line was forming ladies
were busy pinning boutonnieres to the
coat lapels of the veterans of the war
of thirty-tive years ago, and of the war
of the past year. The parade formed
with Major Fritz Muller on a %prancing
steed, and his interesting little son in
uniform on a burro in the lead. w. e.
Griffin, Samuel G. Cartwright and Mar
celino Garcia were his aids. chief Mar
shall S. S. Beatty was kept busy riding
arranging the formation of the parade.
The territorial band, in it's snowy uni
form, was at the head of the parade. 1t
played remarkably we'll yesterday, and
Santa Fe can we'll be proud of Professor
Perez and his band. About a dozen vol
unteers of the late war, including sever
al rough riders, with Lieutenants Page
Otero and Sherrard Coleman in COM
mand, served as a guard of honor to
the members of Carleton Post, G. A. r.,
and visiting comrades. The sight of the
old veterans was rather a pathetic one.
While some We're strong and erect like
sturdy oaks, yet others were tottering
along. and all showed that age was
making inroads upon the survivors of
that magnificent army which responded
to the country's call several decades
ago.
The veterans We're followed by sons
of veterans and members of other civic
societies.
About $50 Indian boys in uniform,
headed by the Indian band, were a
unique sight. The military bearing and
their skillful evolutions evoked applause
along the line. The band played well,
and the young Indians seemed to enter
thoroughly into the spirit Of the occa-
sion.
There were 80 Indian boys and girls
in line altogether, in charge of Superin-
tendent Vietz. Half of them We're clad
in blue, and the other half in gray, SYM
bolical of the good feeling existing be-
tween the north and the south.
The rear of the procession was
brought up by Aid Charles Dudrow and
his assistants, Frank Davis, H. s.
Kaune, Evaristo Lucero and Jose Segu-
ra. This division consisted of carriages
containing disabled soldiers, in charge
of Captain H. M. Davis; floral wagon,
carriages containing ladies of the floral
committee and a choir; invited guests
in carriages, the hundred girl pupils of
the Indian government school, the
smaller Indian boys, and citizens in
general.
At the cemetery the procession formed
around the square in which the late
Governor Bent and the late G. A. r.
Commander Francis Downs lie buried.
The G.. A. r. ritual for Memorial day
was read by Post Commander Genera
J. P. Victory, after prayer had been said
by Post Chaplain J.. 7. Steele and Adju-
tant w. S. Fletcher had read the orders.
The Downs monument was decorated
by Valentine Herbert. Post Chaplain J.
T. Steele read the responses.
Hon. A. L. Morrison read the famous
speech of the immortal President Lin
coin on the battlefield of Gettysburg:
"Fourscore and seven years ago our
fathers brought forth upon this CONT
nent a new nation, conceived in liberty
and dedicated to the proposition that
all men are created equal. Now we are
engaged in a great civil war, testing
whether hat nation or any nation SO
conceived and so dedicated can long
endure. We are met on a great battle
field of that war. We are met to dedi-
cate a portion of it as the final resting
place of those who here gave their lives
that that nation might live. 1t is alto
gether fitting and proper that we should
do this.
But, in a larger sense We can not
dedicate, we can not hallow this ground.
The brave men, living and dead, who
struggled here, have consecrated it far
above our power to add or detract. The
world will little note or long remember
what we say here, but it can never for
get what they did here. 1t Is for us, the
living, rather to be dedicated here to the
unfinished work hat they have thus far
so nobly carried on. 1t is rather for us
to be here dedicated to the great task
remaining before us-that from these
honored dead we take increased devo-
tion to the cause for which they here
gave the last full measure of devotion;
that we here highly resolve that the
dead shall not have died in vain; that
the nation shall, under God, have a new
birth of freedom, and that the govern
ment of the people, by the people, and
for the people, shall not perish from the
earth"
A choir of picked voices sang a selec-