The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-05-11
A GREAT CROWD
WAS AT LAKEWOOD.
Several Thousands of People Attend
the Exercises.
GRAFTON BY. Mr.. MONTAGUE
Several Thousands Of People Attend
GRAFTON BY Mr.. MONTAGUE
The Attorney-General Pays !. Pretty
Tribute to the Dead and
Gives Advice to the
Living.

There were at least eight thousand per-
sons who gathered in beautiful lakewood
yesterday to pay tribute to the memory of
the heroic dead. Everything seemed in
keeping with the season, ard more de-
lightfui day could not have been desired
Shortly before O'Clock the veterans of
the various Confederate camps, the Sons
of Veterans and local military orsaniza-
tons began to gather at historic ST JOINS
Church The ladies, members of lakewood
and Hollywood and Hebrew Memorial as
socations, also gathered at the chapel. pre-
paratory to moving to lakewood cemetery,
where the memorial exercises were held.
1t was just half-after o'clock when the
order TO fall in was given and veterans
who wore the Gray, nearly two score
years ago, their sons. and many others,
marGhed 10 the sound of mutfied drum to
the last resting place of the noble, fallen
brave, to do honor to their valor and pay
tribute 10 their memory.
The procession was formed at Twenty
fifth and Broad Streets in the following
order:
ORDER OF PROCESSION.
Detail of police under Captain Whitiock
and Sergeant Otey.
Citizens Band.
Chief-Marshal Hughes and aides.
Company B, Captain Miller; Company D,
Captain Vaughan: Company f, Captain
Hardwicke. The battalion under Captain
Miller
Richmond Howitzers. three guns, Cap
tain Williams.
Lee Camp. Commander Richardson.
Pickett Camp, Commander Bass.
Veterans from Soldiers Home, Colonel
Governor ]. Hoge Tyler and staff, and
Hon. a. j. Montague.
The ladies of the Oakwood Hollywood
and Hebrew Memorial associations.
AT THE CEMETERY.
Just as the procession reached the gates
at the cemetery they were joined by
detachment of seventy veterans under com
mand of Colonel Charles P. Bigger, from
the Lee Camp Soldiers Home
The procession then passed into the cenle-
terry and at the Soldiers Monument the
exercises We're held. The musical pro-
gramme was in charge of Captain Frank
Cunningham, and the Richmond High
School chorus, seventy voices under direc-
ton Of Prof c. Curtis Munson, led the
singing. The exercises were formally
opened by the singing of the hymn. Dread
Jehovah, God OF Nations, after which
Rev A. II. Kippan. pastor of the Third
Presbyterian Church. led in prayer.
Prof. James C. Harwood then made an
address introducing Hon. x. J. Montague
Acknowledgement OF Virginia, the orator
Of the occasion. Mr. Montague said, in
part:
Eve come not to consider constitutional
doctrines, neither Go We gather 10 discuss
questions of State, but to tell the children
of the faith of their fathers-a faith as
profound and as everlasting as the hills
faith as luminous as the light OF day.
No soldiers as those who wore the gray
were ever so gallant and no soldier ever
knew so we'll the cause for which he
fought so herocally. There was no trea-
son in no stain on the heart of a single
one Their faith was stainless; their pa
triotism unsullied. The men in the ranks
were men of intelligence and Of patriotism
Their leaders were geniuses and patriots.
For coura ge, for genius, for pura. spotless
private lives, for virtue. honesty and no.
bility We need but point to Lee, to Jack
son. TO Johnston. to j. z. 3. Stuart. whose
memories Will live forever. Character
and only character, ever made or ever
will make a civilizations"
The exercises We're concluded by the
singing of "Blast Be the Tie that Binds
and the pronouncing Of the benediction by
Rev. r. II. Bennett.
At the ceremonies yesterday the men,
bers of Company placed a wreath on
| the grave of Mr.. Arthur Leslie Everett,
one of the men who was killed by the
| falling Of the traveller engaged in the
Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina con-
struction work, at Sixteenth and Main
| Streets, short time ago.