Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1899-05-30
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Ale1andria Gazette.
WASHINGTON. Nav 80.

washington, May oU'
President Mckinley was at the Ar.
lington cemetery today. The army
services were held at the ampithestre,
the navy services at the old Custis
house. 4 parade of ex-union soldiers
at 10 3. N. had started from the city
and proceeded to the grave yard. G.
a. r. veterans snd veterans of the
Spanish American war also took part in
the parade. At noon salute was fired
and the graves were then decorated.
The procession OF soldiers snd civilians
then marched to the tombs of the "un-
known" where the marine band played
dirge. The Grafton at the ampbi.
theatre was by Webster Davis, assistant
secretary of the Interior; there was q
recitation, The New Arlington" by
Joseph Wyant, of Toledo, O.; Lincoln's
Gettysburg address was read By D. G.
Haywood. At the Clstis House the
address The United States Navy in
the Revolution" was by Dir. W. D.
Mabry; The Navy in the War Of 1872"
by Assistant Attorney General Henry
N. Hoyi; The Navy in the Civil War"
by Senator John NJ. Thurston; The
Navy in the Spanish American War
by DR.. Frank Bristol. There were ser.
vices also at Soldiers Home, Congress
sional cemetery, Oak Hill cemetery,
Holyrood, Mount Olivet, Glenwood,
Graceland, Prospect Hill, St. Mary's,
st Elizabeth Asylum, Battle Ground,
Rock Creek and Harmony cemeteries.
The Confederate Veterans Association
assembled at Woodside, Nd, and dec
Grated the graves Of comrades who fell
10 Gen. Early's advance on this city in
1864. Rev. r. h. McKim, their chap.
lain. delivered headdress.
The War Department received i'm
portant news from General Otis today
! but refules to make it public. 1t is said
10 be Of a nature which demands execu-
tive attention rather than that OF the
public.
This being Decoration Day.. all the
government departments were closed
! for the entire day and the usual cabi-
net meeting was dispensed with. The
floral displays on the monuments were
by no means protuse, more stores on
Pennsylvania avenue were open, and
the holiday, now national, seemed less
generally observed than usual. except
! by the negroes who crowded all the
excursion cars that left the city. Their
presence in such numbers at all the
public cemeteries is tending greatly to
keep white people away from them.
Not less than fifty clerks, who were
to have done some special york in the
departments here today, applied fol ad-
mission, but es they had no passes,
they were not admitted.
1t is pretty generally believed here
now that, Notwithstanding the late
"peace" jubilee here, the next import
ant thing the President will do will be
to issue a Gail for large number OF
volunteers to reinforce the American
army in the Philippine Islands.
Representative Grosvenor of Ohio ssys he
is glad the President has ripped the civil
service rules down tta back, though he would
have preferred ne had abolished them al.
together, so that all the democrats in office
could be removed and their places given to
republican workers also that the republican
convention Of his State will probably declare
against the civil service law.
Several Winchester people left here this
evening to attend the funeral OF Ex-Governor
Holiday, among them e--Solicitor General
Conrad and Major 2. W. Hunter.
The fact shat secretary Alger has announced
that he will not return from Michigan Tor q
month, induces some people here TO imagine
that he may not return at all, but remain
there to prosecute his night for the Senator
ship from that State; but othere ssy he will
not willingly give up his present place until
he is sure OF another.
pension OF So month has been given to
Bridget Agnes Tridel of Fairfax county, Va,
widow of soldier of the Mexican war.
The employees Of Mr.. Frank Hnme in this
city went to Wal wick, his country residence,
in Alexandra county, Virginia, today, and
presented him with large United States
flag. As Confederate soldier, Mr.. Hume
used to take such things. but they are given
to him now. Several of his personal friends
were al the presentation, and the occasion was
q very agreeable one.