Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-05-31
AT ARLINGTON.
Veterans Pay Tribute to the Nations
Dead-Profusion of Flowers. ~

Washington, May 3o.-Business was
suspended in the national capital TO-DAY
while thousands of veterans OF three
wars and their descendants paid trl-
butte to the nations heroic a In
the eight cemeteries services were held
and orations were delivered by some of
the most able orators whose duties call
them each session to the national cap
itad. Upon the graves loving nanos
placed memorial wreaths with "uaps
from a score of bugles as the nation pald
it's tribue to the heroism of the departed.
AS usual the chief ceremonies were at
Arlington. Veterans of the civil wal, the
, Mexican war and the war with Spain and
the district militia participated IN the
procession which marched through the
heart of Washington, led by the Marine
band. The march to darlington was too
long for the old soldiers and electric cars
i were used to convey them to the great
national cemetery. The procession reach
ed Arlington promptly at noon when the
national salute was fired by a battery on
the adjoining heights. The orators and
invited guests assemble in the ITEM
! pie of Fame" Here the Marine band
played a dirge. while the members of the
| various organizations buried the pedestal
of the monument in wreaths and CHAP
lets of flowers. The procession then NOV
! ed along the main road through the
! cemetery and dispersed long enough to
scatter flowers upon thousands OF the
! marked graves. The OF deco
rating finished. the procession re-assem-
bled at the amphi- theater. where the bu-
gler sounded the assembly. and the ora
torical feature of the services began Rev.
! w. G.. Davenport. the department chap
lain, delivered a touching invocation, al
ter which 3. F.. Chase, the assistant al
I jutant general. read the orders Of the
day. Rev. ]. E. Rankin read a poem
III Marine band then played a compost
ton, SLOWLY and Sadly written for the
occasion by Madame Root de L'A1Hni-
tage. The Grafton of the day was denv-
cred by Congressman Brossius, his topic
| being Patriotism"
S. w. McEldery read Lincoln's immor-
tai Gettysburg address. Captain H. A.
Castle delivered an address on Our
Comrades Did Not Die in Vain, I'm
, which he paid a touching tribute to the
; valor of the nations dead and especially
to the success with which those who bore
a prominent part in the civil war had
subsequently carved out names and
regulations for themselves in civil life.
After the benediction the Marine band
followed the long established custom of
closing the exercises with the old IA
miliar hymn, Safe in the Arms Of Je-
sus."
Washington Lodge Of Elks, inaugural
ed a noyel idea in decorating the graves
of it's deceased members. Sixty-five of
these absent brothers" have passed
away since the organization Of the To-
cal lodge and as a number of them
found resting places in various parts OF
the country, large wreatrs of ivy and
amaranth suitably inscribed We're sent
from his city to be placed on their
graves, some of which are located at
Denver, Colo: Philadelphia: Nation,
Ills; Troy, N. Y, and Harrisburg. Every
local cemetery also was visited and each
Elk grave appropriately decorated.