The record-union., 1899-05-29
MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONIES
THE PARADE TOMORROW AND
EXERCISES.
Annual Ceremony of Placing Flow
ers on Heroes Graves-Ser-
mon to Veterans.

Tomorrow the patriotic people of
Sacramento will assist the Grand Army
veterans in the beautiful ceremony of
placing fresh, bright flowers on the
graves of those who served the country
faithfully in its hour OF need. Year
after year this honor is paid to the
memories of the departed heroes, and
as time rolls ON interest in this beautl-
full ceremony seems to be taking deeper
root in the hearts of the people.
Tomorrow there will be a parade
of unusual propoi tions, with the usual
exercises. at the City Cemetery. The
day will be a legal holiday, and no
doubt an immense throng of people will
gather at the cemetery to witness them
and to help the veterans beautify the
graves with flowers. The program Will
consist of these features:
Music, band prayer, Rev. w. E..
Vaughan; remarks, President of Day
A. A. DasSonville; recitation, New Ar
lington," Miss Bonnie Waggoner; or
alton, Hon. Ewood Bruner; vocal solo,
"Star-Spangled Banner" Mrs. j. H.
Coppersnith; music, band; recitation,
Our Ranks Are Getting Thin" Miss
May Powers; quartet, Messrs. Uren and
HILL and Mesdames Uren and Hill; ex-
tracts from Lincolns Gettysburg ad-
dress, w. S. Cannon; America by
the audience.
Besides the exercises at the City
Cemetery the other cemeteries St.
Joseph's and New Helvetia - will be
visited earlier in the day by delega-
tions from the Grand Army posts and
the soldiers graves decorated
A MEMORIAL SERVICE.
Memorial Day services were held at
the Congregational Church last even
ing before the pastor preached his reg
ular sermon. The church was crowded
to the DOORS
The music was of high order and
appropriate to the occasion. Several
selections We're sung by a quartet COM
posed of Mrs. Ross, Mrs. Howard, Mr..
Cohn and Mr.. Genshlea, and Miss
Rebe Nourse and Mr.. Cohn favored
the congregation with solos which were
exceptionally we'll rendered.
The banners of the Ladies of the
Grand Army and of Fair Oaks and
Sumner Relief Corps occupied promi-
nent places in the front of the church,
and flags We're tastefully arranged
about the pulpit, together with floral
pieces III green ana White.
There was a large attendance of vet
Grams and Grand Army ladies' and the
pastors address was received with pro-
found attention. Mr.. Silcox's address
was brief but eloquent. He took for
his text the words, Tell ye your chill
dren of il, and let them tell their chill
dren, and theirs another generation" !"
He spoke of the solemnity of Me-
mortal Day, and told all that it meant
to Americans. 1t was one of those
things rightly intended to keep the
Republic strong and green.
The minister said that while it was
proper that pretty flowers be placed
on the graves of fallen heroes, it was
also proper that those who do so
should devote their lives unselfishly for
the public good, as did they. He spoke
of the acts of Lincoln, who foresaw
that the nation could not exist half
slave. half free-that a divided house
could not stand. And when the hour
of trial finally came it was the man
from the plow and the forge who came
forward. They did not do so for per-
sonal glory, but that the Republic
might live. Those men, he said, de-
serve the lasting gratitude of their
countrymen.
Men, he said, do not do valorous
deeds from mercenary motives, but
from love of country. He held, how
ever. that Shiloh, Gettysburg and the
Wilderness are ahead as we'll as in the
past, and that thoughtful men see ele-
entS at work, in the problem of labor
and capital, which are not conducive
to the good of the Republic. The State,
is as divine as the Church, and both
demand men of rectitude, honesty and
principle new revival of patriotism
he held, is needed in order that evils
of State may be abolished, as was
slavery in 1868. He doubted whether
Justice was being rendered to 'the
brother in black" even though slavery
We're abolished. and mentioned the
murders and lynchings'' in the South.
He said that many white laborers
are now worse clad. housed and fed
than were the slaves before the Civil
War, and held that the heroes could
best be honored by the devotion of the
people to the welfare of the nation.
IN THE SCHOOLS
To-day the pupils of the several CITY
schools will hold their annual exercises
appropriate to Memorial Day They
will take place at 10 a. M, except at
the Fremont Primary, where they will
begin at $50 o'clock.
JAPS IN TROUBLE.