The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-05-30
VETERANS DAY.
Preservers of the
Union Remember
Their Dead.
GRAVES TO Be DECORATED.
Old and Young Heroes to
March Side BY Side on
This Occasion.
GRAVES TO Be DECORATED.

Today Worcester will pay fitting tri-
butte to those of her sons who served
as sailors and soldiers in the war for
the preservation OF the Union, and to
the younger heroes who fought for the
cause of humanity in Cuba.
The members of George H. Ward Post
10, G.. A. r., will assemble at Z a m,
at headquarters, in full uniform, under
escort of companies A, c and II, Sec
ond Massachusetts, G Co., Ninth Mas
sachusetts, and B battery, Massachu-
sets volunteer militia, Maj. II. B. Fair
banks commanding. Leave headquar-
tiers and march to City Hall, where
! they will be Joined by His Honor Mayor
Rufus B. Dodge, Jr., and members of
the city government. Thence to the
soldiers monument on the common,
where an address will be delivered by
Charles NJ. Smith Of Post 10, after
which the column will proceed to
Washburn hall to receive flowers for
the purpose of decorating the graves
IN the several cemeteries.
The first division, r. B. Edwards COM
manding, under escort Of Co. and B
battery Of Massachusetts militia, Maj.
H. b. Fairbanks commanding, will
march to Rural cemetery, where, under
the direction of the committee, the
graves Of the soldiers Of the civil and
Spanish wars viii be decorated each
( company decorating the graves of their
late comrades.
The second division Jas. Armstrong
commanding, escorted by A and H Cos,
NJ. V. NJ, Capt c. S. Holden com
manding, and A A Goodell camp .,
Sons of Veterans, Capt A. D. Stone
commanding, will march to Franklin
square, where transportation will be
furnished to Hope cemetery. At Hope
cemetery, prayer will be offered by Rev.
T. D. Penney singing by the Woodland
and Freeland street schools, under the
direction of Seth Richards.
The third division, ]. V. c., M. A.
Maynard commanding, escorted by G.
Co, NJ. V, M, Capt. ]. ]. Moynihan,
Willie Grout camp % Sons of Veterans,
and Capt. Z. II. Gleason, will march
TO Park street, where transportation
will be furnished to st. Johns ceme-
terry, where divine services will be
held; singing by the pupils of the
grammar schools, under the direction
of Francis P. McKeon, after which, I'M
der the direction of the committee on
decoration and detail Of G Co, under
the direction of Capt. Moynihan, the
graves Of the veterans of the civil and
Spanish wars will be decorated.
The music for the day will be fur
nished by Battery B band and the En-
met Guards drum corps.
Since last Memorial day these 10
members of the post have answered the
final roll call: George w. Wakefield.
Joseph c. Rice, George II. Scott, James
Dunn, Warren W. Morris, Humphrey
S. Leach, Edwin D. Mcfarland, Curtis
Dickinson, Charles B. Fay Eli B. Fair
banks, Nathaniel S. Liscomb Nathan
Taylor, Charles D. Robinson, BENJAMIN
S. FarnswOrth, George f. Batchelder.
w. H. Warren, Joel K. Parker, DR.. Ben
Jamin f. Clough, Charles Herbert
Bemis.
Company H, Wellington Rifles. will
take cars for the graves of their com
Tades after the exercises in Mechanics
hall are over The car will be accom-
panied by a wagon load of flowers The
bodies of Anston D. Kimbau and Chas.
z. Buck, are buried in Hope cemetery;
Corp. Charles NJ. Hay in Cypress Hill
National cemetery, Brooklyn; Corp.
Marvin F. Ames in Santiago. Cuba
Musician Harvey Randall in New York
state; William c. Green in Spencer:
Silas Undergraves in MiIlbuty; Fabian
Hokanson in Swedish cemetery; G.
Warren Hodgkins and Earle Clark at
sea; John NJ. Moran, John J. Moore and
ALE Farmer in st. Johns cemetery.
Flags with the names Of those buried
outside of Worcester will be arranged
in circle about a mound on a lot at
Hope cemetery, dedicated by the G. A.
r. to the unreturned. Within the cir
Gle of flags and names will be placed a
floral mound
Lieut. Harry c. Young has forwarded
a marker for the grave of Corp. C. NJ.
Haye, who died at MOntauk. The lOca-
ton of his grave has been unknown for
some time, but a letter was received last
week locating it at Cypress Hills Ma
tiOnal cemetery, Long Island, where the
body was removed from MOntauk. Ed
ward Tauhenspeck, superintendent of
the cemetery. in a letter promises To
have the marker placed over the grave
Memorial day. and To see that it also
has flag and flowers. He says the
marker will remain over the grave until
a government headstone is placed there
which will probably be in the fall
The marker was forwarded Thursday
The Emmett Guards, Co. G., Ninth reg
iment. win look after the dead Of the
Ninth regiment buried in this city, ir
conjunction with their own. All theiI
dead are buried al St. Johns cemetery
Their graves VIII be marked with d
bastiOn star of the same design of the
Fifth army corps. and will have a rec
facing showing that they We're in tbs
First division The graves Of those tC
be decorated at St. Johns are Corp
John F. Koran. Corp. John d. Me
Sweeney, Privates James T. Nc
Herman, John T. Keegan George N
Brossnan, John J. Creaven, Henry N
Sullivan and Private William
Montgomery of Co. II, Ninth regi-
ment. The grave of Ragrer Nelin at
the Swedish cemetery will also be dec
GRATED. A marker Will be sent to Now
Haven for the grave of Joseph NJ
COfey. A grave will also be decorated