The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-05-31
WITH u.UE and GRAY
SCENE AT ANTIETAM, WHERE
THEY SOUGHT EACH OTHERS
LIVES, TO BE HISTORIC
HET II GOOD FELLOWSHIP
SHOOK HANDS AND FORGED NEW
LINK IN CHAIN WHICH BINDS
NORTH AND SOUTH
ALL CITIES OBSERVED THE DAY
Ceremonies at Arlington Were of
the Most Impressive Sort-Bus-
mess Was Abandoned and
Heroes HOnored.

HAGERSTOWN, Nd, May 30-At An
tietam battlefield, where they sought each
other lives thirty-eight years ago, the
men who wore the blue and the men who
wore the gray met today in good fellow
ship and brotherhood.
AS friends who have forgotten and for
given, as citizens of one nation and fol-
lowers of one flag, they shook hands and
forged a new link in the great chain
which binds the North and the South.
The scene on Antietam battlefield. as the
monument Of the blue and the gray was
formally handed over by the represen-
tatives of the people of Maryland to the
representatives Of the entire people of
United States, was one which should and
will become historic. 1t marked an epoch
In the life of the American republic.
AT THE! NATIONAL CAPITAL.
WASHINGTON, May SO-Business was
suspended in the national capital today
while thousands of citizens, veterans Of
three wars, and their descendants. paid
tribute TO the nations heroic dead
Washington is encircled by cemeteries
each the resting place of departed SOL
diers-GlenWood, Oak Hill, Holy Rood
st. EliZabeth's Brightwood. Soldiers
Home, the Congressional cemetery, with
its acres of soldiers graves, and Airing
ton where thousands upon thousands
have their resting places, marked with
imperishable granite and where still
other thousands are grouped about the
single, imposing monument with it's sad
inscription: ITO the Unknown Dead. - In
each of these cemeteries today, memorial
services were held, and orations delivered
by some CT the most able orators, whose
duties call them each session to the ma
tiOnal capital.
Upon the graves in each Of these cities
of the dead, loving hands today placed
memorial Wreaths, and through the chill
gray air the mournful sound of taps
foated from a score of bugles as the
nation paid its perennial tribute to the
heroism of the departed.
AS, usual, the chief ceremonies were at
Arlington. The veterans of the civil war
and the rapidly decreasing contingent of
the Mexican war were Joined this year
by the veterans of the war with Spain.
The veterans and members of the dis
trict militia participated in the process
sion which marched through the heart
of Washington, led by the Marine band
The march to Arlington was too long
for the old soldiers and electric cars were
used to convey them to the great ma
tional cemetery on the old Lee estate, be-
yond Fort Myer. The procession reached
Arlington promptly at noon, when the
salute was fired by a battery on
the adjoining height. The orators and
invited guests assembled in the amphi-
theater, generally known as "the Temple
of Fame" while the procession deployed
south of the Mansion, about the tomb of
the Unknown Here, the Marine band
played a dirge while the members of the
various organizations buried the pedestal
of the monument III wreaths and chapels
of flowers. The procession then moved
along the main road through the ceme-
terry and dispersed long enough to scat
ter flowers upon thousands of the marked
graves.
The ceremony of decoration finished,