Virginian-pilot. (Norfolk, Va.) 1898-1911, 1900-05-31
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ance- Funeral To-day Memorial Day
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Observation-Disclosures of Or. Owens Stray
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In keeping with the National spirit
that pervaded the land. yesterday was
appropriately observed in Berkeley as
confederate Memorial day. All the
down town business houses closed at
noon and numerous residences were be-
comingly decorated with bunting and
old Glory and flags of the Confeder-
acy noated from various porchcs. and
mouse tons and on several of the bust
ness places on Chestnut street From
the early morning hours the ladies of
the town could be seen vending their
way toward the Silent City of the dead
heavily -iaden with flowers OF various
designs to be deposited on the graves
oil some departed but remembered loved
one. Unlike last season, flowers were
more IN abundance. and on the graves
Oh Doth the blue and gray were strewn
roses. tulips and other flowers by fair
ana impartial hands. until those who
offered up their lives for n country's
cause sleep beneath n canopy of flowers
Inc day was indeed beautiful and the
cause of the fallen seemed to be more
reverenced by the large crowd than on
any previous occasion. The process
sion formed on Chestnut street about
$50 o'clock In the following order:
Lamberts Point brass band: members
OF Underwater No. 80 and Thomas Jerfer-
son. NO. 1o9, Jr. o. u. a. NJ. Councils:
representatives of Pickett Buchanan
camp, Stone Wall Camp. Niemver-
SHAW Camp of Berkeley; jackson Ligh,
! !iy OF Norfolk. Captain T. ]. Not
tlngham: Lee Rifles. Norfolk. Cnntoin
Burroush: Portsmouth Rifles. CAPTAIN
.. w. Leigh, with Captain L. w. Owens.
o, portsmouth Rnes in command of
the battalion, headed by the no,ice
force and followed by a long nrocn $50,
OF CARRIAGES containing the speaker. the
u.s.ihsusshed guests and the daughters
Oh the Confederacy. with Mr.. John p
Margan Mashall and Mr. w. l.. Moore
B Hrnahoer of the Sons OF Veterans a 9
inc march was along the following
s.4ee's; Pine TO Liberty, to Sharp md
Maple avenue, to Main. 10 Berklev ave
nue., TO Seventh. thence to tine stand
that mad been b coming,y decorate |
wfh bunting and drared with a large
American flag for the occasion.
me services there were presided over
by MIR. John b. Morgan, commander of
Niemeyer-S Shaw Camp. and after su,t-
npie remarks he introduced Comrade
W. a. Slaymaker. pastor of Armstrong
Memorial Presbyterian Church. who
opened the services with n feeling invo-
Cation. while the audience stood with
| uncovered heads in silence
The next persons introduced were two
grandchildren of Colonel Whenever.
Master oscar V. and little Miss Marie
Niemeyes'. and Mr.. w. B. Shaw. SON OF
Colonel Shaw. in whose honor the Be
ley camp was named Nlemeyar and
Shaw.
Mr.. Shaw spoke for several minutes.
referring to the cause for which the
veterans fought. bl, d and drei in touch
ing language. and received frequent APP
pause. In roncluS on, he introduced the
orator of the day. Rev. a. e. Owsn. d.
d., who spoke about n half an hour.
and received unstinted applause. His
address was as follows:
There are days whose suns glow with
special splendor. and the annual re-
turn of which awakens the noblest SEN
tlments and the suhlimest purposes
Days that mark the birth of liberty
that tell when national life sprang into
being. that proclaim when great princi-
pies trfumDhed over error, that tell of
the victories secured by human PROV
ess and recall to the memories of men
the achievement Of heroic valor. This
is such a day with us--a memorial
day." a memorial to the Confederate
dead. A day that does not tell of tri-
umph, but OF graves. It does not tell
of Il nation born, but it does tell of i'm
perishable heroism. We come not to
put garlands UPON the brows of con-
querors but to lay wreaths above the
dust of our dead
This Memorial Day-not the same
twenty-four hours. but Memorial Day
is observed from one border of the
South to the ether: on the banks Of
the Potomac. the music of whose
waters blended with the roar of battle:
in North Carolina. whose moaning
pines tell OF her children dead, and
whose mountain cliffs stand like senti-
nels TO guard their fame: in South
Carolina whivh State was first in the
strife and the last to break her sword; ;
in Georgia, the Empire State of the
South. whose commercial activity is
surpassed by the valor of her sons and
the purity of her daughters; in Florida.
whose everglades, in the profuSion Of
their ficrai splendor, are emblematic of
the faultless glories that hang around
the deeds of her dead: ri Alabacrla.
whose capital was the first home of
the Confederate government: in Louis
lana, though inhabited by different ma
tionaliIes. united her symDathies and
her actions in defense of the sun-lit
land; in Mississippi, whose ablest citi-
zen. Jefferson Davis, was the President
OF the Corfederacy; in Tennessee. from
whose beautiful valleys and cerulean
hills came the men who saw danger
but felt no fear; in Texas, tine greatest
territorial republic in the world. which
was triumphant as Lone Star State
and was mighty when she lent her
hands to help her Southern sisters. In
all these great Conmonwealths. from
the Potomac to the Rio Grande. our
women, with beautiful ard willing
hands. are bringing flowers With which
To decorate the graves of the soldia-e