The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-05-30
Burial Places OF Those vino
Fell in Spanish War
Receive Same Tender Care as
Those of Older Dead.
GOTHAM TURNS OUT.
Every body KonOrs the Day in
His Own Way.
Parades Reviewed by Miles and
Roosevelt.

New York, May 30.-W1th holiday
making, parades, the flying of flags,
sports of all kinds, the usual decorat-
ing of graves and speech making, Mem
orial day was we'll celebrated in New
York and vicinity The sun shone bright
and a light breeze kept the heat from
becoming oppressive. Early in the day
thousands of excursionists We're throng-
ing at the exits of Manhattan island,
pouring over in ferry boats to Long
Island and New Jersey, some bound for
the seashore, some for the farms and
some for the cemeteries where now, in
addition to the dead of the civil war,
there lay, in few instances, the dead
of the war with Spain. The graves Of
these received the same tender care that
for years has marked those of the
older dead. But though the exodus,
both from Manhattan and Brooklyn,
was of more than the usual proportions,
there remained an urban contingent
that did full justice to the parades that
filed through the city streets.
There were several professions in
honor of the day, but the more i'm
portant were the military parade in
New York city proper, reviewed by Ma
jor General Miles, and the military pa
rade in Brooklyn. reviewed by Governor
Roosevelt. The New York parade,
consisting of every national guard regi-
ment in the city, three companies of
regular engineers, eight batteries of
regular artillery and forty-two Grand
Army posts, started at o'clock and
marched in excellent formation from
Fifty-seventh street down Fifth ave-
nue. to Washington arch, where it was
disbanded. The national guardsmen
were under command of Major General
Roe. the sailors under Captain c. D.
Sigsbee. U. S. N.,and the grand marshal
was John B. Hyde.
reviewing stand P6
in Madison Square and from this Ma
jor General Miles watched the troops
swing by.
The Brooklyn parade started at 10
O'Clock. 1t includes marines, several
batteries of regular artillery, the naval
militia, Grand Army posts and other
organizations Governor Roosevelt re-
viewed the procession from stand
erected near the soldiers and sailors
memorial arch in the park plaza.
AS in Manhattan the streets were full
of sight seers and cheers for the vet
Grams were coupled with cheers for the
younger soldiers who had won their
veteranship under the heat of a Cuban
sun.
These two parades constituted the
best military features that have mark
ed Decoration day in this city for years.
In Jersey City the chief event was the
dedication of a new soldiers and sail
Ors monument in front of the city hall.
This monument cost about $12500. A
large parade, composed of military and
ed by the city hall. These religious ex-
ercises were performed by Mgr. Seton
and school children sang patriotic
SONGS. The Grafton of the day was
made by Former Assistant Secretary
of the Navy McAdee.
The more serious exercises in Manhat-
tan were held in the afternoon in River
side Park, under the shadow of Grants
tomb. There the Grand Army ritual
was performed and speeches were made
by Governor Roosevelt and others.
The battleship Texas lying in the
Hudson. opposite the tomb, fired a
salute.
At New Brunswick, N. J., a monu-
ment erected in honor of those who
went down in the battleship Maine was
unveiled after a parade of the G.. A. r.
and civic societies.
At Orange, N. J., there was also un-
yelling of a soldiers and sailors monu-
ment. The monument cost Sc, 600. One
of the most remarkable features of the
day was the extraordinary reception
afforded the Seventy first regiment in
the New York city military parade. Sew
eral officers of this organization have
been subjected to inquiry regarding
their conduct in Cuba, but the men
were greeted today with enthusiasm
that has seldom been seen in New York
All along Fifth avenue the crowd
yelled and cheered when the Seventy
first passed as they did for no other
regiment. Women tore off sashes rib
bons and even caps and waved them
in the air