The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-05-30
NEW Y0RKs CELEBRATION.
Great Crowds witness the Memorial
Dnr FentureN.

NEW YORK, May 3G--Programu7es 10
celebrate Memorial Day were carried out
without much alteration today, despite
the uuDropitious skies
The opening Of the Hall of Fame and the
unveiling OF twenty-nine tablets there late
this afternoon was not the least consDicU-
Gus Of the features Of the days c0mmem-
orative programme. but the ceremonies OF
the Grand Army OF the Republic and Of
the Veterans of the Spanish War over
shadowed all other peculiarly memorial
events, for the day was set apart for them
and there were many impressive remind
eTs Of the nations struggles and triumphs
from the big parade Of the morning to the
separate exercises Of individual posts aft
erward.
There was a notable parade down Fifth
Avenue this morning when veterans Of
two wars, with Regular and National
GuardsTnen. marched in honor Of the
countTy's dead It was a large turnout,
and the dense crowds which wit
messed the parade from sidewalks,
porches, windows, and roofs were
no mean and unimpressive part
of it Governor Oden. who came down
from Albany for the purpose, reviewed the
parade from grandstand near the Worth
monument He was escorted there by the
Mayor. As they drove down Fifth Ave
nue. in the vanguard of the parade Gov
ernOr Odell received an ovation all along
the way and his hat was OF most of the
time.
The feature of Memorial Day in Brook
lyn was the parade Of the National Guard
and war veterans, about 5000 strong. No
incident was overlooked and every. oppor-
tunity to cheer was eagerly seized upon.
Particularly was this so when Gen. Ed
ward L, MoIineux, father of Roland Mol
ineux, passed at the head of the war vete-
rams brigade, leading the famous 159th
| His was prolonged ovation, the cheers
being tax IN up and carried all along down
| the line.
The Z. s. Grant Post. No 3S7. of Brook
| lyn. held services at Grants tomb. and a
particular interest was lent by the an
| nOuncement that WI Ting-fang. the Chi
| nese Minister, and representative of the
| people whose great man, Ii Hung Chang,
| delighted 10 honor General Grant, would
deliver the principal address. Naval Post,
! No. 516, of the Grand Army of the RepUb-
| lie, was ordered to march 10 Trinity
| Church yard, after the big parade to hold
/ services at the tomb of Captain LawreuCe
| and had also arranged for exercises at the
| Ericsson statue at the Battery IN which
| the United Swedish Singing Societies of
| New York and Brooklyn, were to join
/ Memorial exercises in the Metropolitan
! Opera House tonight viii end the
| Grand Army Of the Republic share
OF the celebration Commemorative
| exercises were held today by the Irish
| Society, which decorated the monu-
ment OF General Montgomery and the
| Irish RFvoIutionists of I79S in St Paul
| church yard. a mass for deceased com
| rades of the veteran corps of the Sixty
ninth Regiment was sung this morning
| at the Mission OF the Immaculate Viz
| gin The graves OF Or. McGlynn in Cal
| vary and Henry George in Greenwood
| were decorated by friends
| Among other events not Of a eomme.ao-
I rative nature will be the opening Of the
| Country SanitarIum for Consumptfves of
the MontefiOre Home at Bedford Station,
at which Vice President Roosevelt and
/ Bishop Potter are announced TO speak,
Club 10 Cardinal MartfreIIi, Archbishop
| Corigan, Archbishop Ryan, OF Phiiadef-
pTlia, and other prominent clergymen as
well as distinguished layTnen to be in at
tendance. There was also Henry George
Memorial meeting at Civic Hail. and ms SIS
for the dead alumni of Manhattan Col
Iege was sung at the Church OF the An
nuaciation-
There were many events of an athletic
/ or sporting nature on today's programme
and in particular the Observation-Disclosures
road race. the Harlem rowing regatta, and
| the Knickerbocker Athletic Club games
a: Baycnne attracted crowds.