The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-26
MEMORIAL DAYS PROGRAMME.
PARADE OF VETERANS WILL TAKE
PLACE AT 4 O'CLOCK.

Day Promises to BE One of the Most
Interesting in the History of Its
Observance in Savannah-AIl Con-
federate Bodies VIII Participate.
Daughters of the COnfederaey VIII
Look After Monuments and
Graves-Exercises VIII BE Held at
Park Extension and Laurel Grove
Cemetery-Son& of Veterans and
First Regiment to Act as Escort.
Mr. Beckwith to Deliver the Men,
OriaI Day Address.
The loving reverence and fiiial devotion
of the Southern people for the memories
of the old heroes who wore the gray find
expression to-day throughout the South
land, where their praises are sung by
thousand tongues and their graves decor
ated with wreaths of roses and of laurel,
fit embleuis of the beauty of their lives
and the deathless grandeur of their deeds
and names.
In Savannah the day is always observed
with fitting ceremonies, and to-day will be
no exception to the rule. The various bod
les interested in the observance of the day
has each its assigned function and all of
them will respond with full ranks to this
call wherein inclination and duty for once
unite. The care and decoration of the
monument and of the graves of soldiers in
the several cemeteries have been confided
to the local chapter of Daughters of the
Confederacy, or rather they have gladly
assumed this duty, and it is safe to say
that they will not leave a grave INTENDED
or stone undraped with the wreath of
laurel which is the annual tribute of the
beauty of the South to its sleeping valor
The parade of the Confederate Veterans
Association and McLaws Camp of United
Confederate Veterans will take place at
O'Clock this afternoon. The veterans will
assemble at Wright square at $3.50 o clock,
where they will be met soon after by the
escort, Francis S. Barlow Camp of Sons
of Confederate Veterans and the First
Regiment of Georgia Volunteers. The Sons
of Veterans will be under the command of
Commander U. H. McLaws, and the reg-
ment of Col. A. r. Lawton. The entire
parade will be in charge of the grand mar
shall, Maj. G. NJ. Ryals.
The line of march has already been given
In the Morning News. Incident to 1t will
| be ceremonies at the Confederate monu-
| ment in the Park extension and al the
Confederate Hot in Laurel Grove cemetery.
| The parade will be met at The monument
| by the monument committee of Daughters
| of the Confederacy, who will receive the
| Wreaths that the veterans will carry
| through the parade, and at the lot by the
entire chapter of Daughters, who will as
| sist in the ceremonies at that point. At the
| cemetery the parade will be dismissed.
AT $50 o'clock in the evening Mr.. j. F.
| b. Beckwith will deliver the Memorial day
| address at the Guards hall. He will be
| introduced by the first vice president of
! the Confederate Veterans Association,
| Judge Robert Faligant. Mr.. Beckwith is
a polished and graceful orator and the ad-
| dress is certain to be at once thrilling TO
| the patriotic hearts of his hearers and in
teresting from the view point of historical
accuracy and excellence.
| The Daughters of the Confederacy were
| busy Monday and yesterday in the making
of the wreaths and garlands that will be
used in the decoration of the graves and
| monuments of the Confederate dead. There
| is work still to be done that must be fin
| ished this morning, and the invitation to
| assist is still open to all of those who feel
desire to do SO. The ladies will meet at
the armory of the First Regiment, and
| they again urge the attendance of all of
| those who can possibly come.
| Those who have flowers that they desire
used in the decorate of the graves are
| requested to bring or send them to the
! armory at some hour during the early
| forenoon, as they will have to be arranged
| and this necessarily consumes time. Use
| can be found for ali of the flowers that
| all can bring and they will all be CRATE
| fully received and carefully used. 1t is
hoped that this appeal for flowers will
meet with ready response, as it is especial
! ly desired that the day shall not fan short
| of its predecessors in the beauty of the
! decorations, and this end can only be gain
! ed through the generous and liberal as
sistance of the people of the city.
In the number of those who will par
| ticipate in the ceremonies OF the day and
| In the general interest that is being ex-
| hibited everywhere in its observance is
encouraging evidence that the loyal de-
votion of the people of Savannah to the
! old memories and the Old traditions is as
| steadfast and as true as 1t was of yore,
and that the years have brought no d.
mlnution In the strength of the loving
reverence for the old heroes that sleep
| beneath the sod of the Southern hills and
| plains On the contrary is realized the
| fulhllment of the invocation carved on the
| Confederate monument, Come from the
four hills, o Breath. and breath upon
| these slain, that they may iive"
|
ALL EXPECT TO GET THROUGH.