Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-05-27

n ", SONS OF veterans, cnndfen- etc.,
Committee Of George H. Thomas Post
Post Commander VIM. H. Honn, chairman:
Edward Webster, w. F. Reed. H. H. House.
Tooley, Theophlie Tieverney. J. J. Stretch.
Wesley Kitchen. Theo. Fitzgerald. Samuel
Beight and A. H. Feathers.
Sons of Veterans-Edward K. DePuy,
Harry Honn and Samuel Croft.
Woman's Relief Corps-Mrs. Matte e.
Mcclure, president; Emma v. Webster.
Agnes Keller. Lizzie Crisp, Frances e.
Lowell. Tillie Durham. NJ ]. Kitchen.
Mary thatcher and Rosa B. Meecham.
Services at St. Elizabeth.
Sounding the assembly, II am, bugler;
Star Spangled Banner" Asylum Band:
opening remarks by chairman. Post Com
mander James H. Dony Invocation, Post
Chaplain Rev. N. H. Miller; song Tent
ing on the Old Camp Ground" St. Eliza
beth choir: address. A. B. Richardson, NJ.
D.. superintendent; poem, Comrade D. ].
Evans; Our Lincoln's Act Immortal" a
national jubilee song, music by Reuben M.
Price. arranged for band by Jerome An
derson. esq, leader. Asylum Band; read
ing President Lincoln's Gettysburg ad-
dress. Comrade VIM. H Peck; song. He
Giveth His Beloved Sleep" banks. st.
Elizabeth choir; Grafton. VIM. e. Andrews;
song, requiescat, Now the Laborer's Task
is Ger, Now the Battle Day is Past. ;"
words by ]. Ellieton, 1891; music by j.. B.
Dykes. 1875. St. Elizabeth choir; Amer
ica," by all present; benediction, Rev. Geo.
Bowman; taps bugler. -
Committee-James H. Dony. post COM
mander chairman.
John A. Logan Post, No. 1s-Rev. N. H.
Miller, Adolph S. Gertman, A. B. Frisbie,
DR.. Edwin H. Grant, Alpheus Dawson.
Arthur Schatz, VIM. H. Peck, Clarence A.
Smith, Charles F. Watson, Thomas J. Put
nam.
John A. Logan Corps, No. Mrs. Jane
s. Mclean, Miss Annie Anderson, Mes
danes Eliza P. Watson, Mary E. Simpson.
Julia A. Dony, Nina r. Smith, Mary E.
Crawford. Carrie M. King. Emily Emo.
Sarah T. Grant, Bithia Dawson, Emily
Frisbie.
ST. Elizabeth choir-Mr. Samuel g. Young.
precentor; Mr.. E. T. Davis. organist; So
pranos-Miss Bertha Richardson, Miss Mar
garet Quaid. Mrs Oxford French. Mrs
Joseph Clugg, Mrs Grace Leitch. Mrs. F.
L. Jecko Miss Katie fudge. Miss Frona
Matthews. Miss Ethel McLanahan; con-
tIaltos-Miss Emma Dodge, Miss Nancy E.
Gouger, Miss Elizabeth Gouger; tenors-
Mr.. Clarence Green. Mr.. s. 8. Perry. Mr..
E. T. Davis; bassos-Dr. c. H. Clark. Mr..
A. w. Leonard, Mr.. H. w. Conrad. Mr..
j. v. James, Mr.. r. L. Green.
Services at Harmony cemetery, by Fred
erick Douglass Post No l, John w. Hun.
ter, commander-Exercises commence at
1870 o'clock-Orator Of the day. T. w. Al
len. ESQ.,; address. ex-Representative George
H. White Of North Carolina; address, Mrs
Mary Church Terrell: address, Rev. D. F.
Rivers; address Dr. John P. Turner: music
by a choir of 100 school children, under the
direction Of Comrade John T. Leighton:
Memorial committee - Comrade Charles
P. Douglass. chairman; w. H. A. Wormley,
Alexander Oglesby. Louis A. Cornish, John
T. Layton, Alexander Freeman John Saun-
ders; Lewis H. Douglass, master of cere-
monies; John w. Hunter. commander.
Oak Hill Cemetery.
Salute to the dead: Company H. Western
1~an
Charles Robinson, post commander; music,
band: Invocation, Rev. Stanley Billheimer:
solo, "Tenting on the Old Camp Ground
Miss Gertrude Stewart; reading Lincoln's
Gettysburg address, A. B. Grunwell quar-
tet, Nearer. My God, to Thee Mr.. and
Mrs. J. Albert Houghton. Miss Gertrude
Judge Edward P. Seeds; Quartet sleep
Thy Last Sleep" Mr.. and Mrs. 7. Albert
Houghton. Miss Gertrude Stewart and Mr..
LIE Roy Birch; music, band; chorus
Church. J. Albert Houghton. precentor;
benediction, Rev. Frank H. Havenner.
Committee from George U. Morris Post,
No. &c. M Robinson chairman; b. r.
Janney. A. B: Cromwell. George w. Flstch-
er. w. G. Cronkite, Mrs. Barnard Mrs.
Bradt.
Holy Rood Cemetery.
Music, Nearer. My God. to Thee" band:
prayer, Rev. Father McAttee. late chaplain
31st New York Volunteers, civil war; ad-
dress, Ashley NJ. Gould; song, "Tenting on
the Old Camp Ground" Georgetown Uni
versity Glee Club, G. Herbert Wells. d.
rector; selection, band song, choir Trinity
Sunday school; salute to the dead. Com
pany H. Western High School Cadets;
taps, bugler.
Commttee-Rudolph Ullm-r chairman;
Martin B. Lichty. Henry Williams. W. B.
Sebastian. Mrs. Thompson. Mrs. Walden
Fort Stevens.
Program-sounding assembly, Soldiers
Home bugler; music. Departed Days.
Soldiers Home Band: Invocation, Rev.
Charles e. Buck; calling assembly to order
by presiding officer. General Thos. M. Vim
cent, U. 8. A; song. children Of Bright
wood public school, address, Mr.. Blair Lee:
song. children Of Brightwood public school:
recitation, Major John Tweedale, U. 8. A.:
music, Schuberts Serenade. Soldiers Home
Band; grafton. ]. H. Brigham of Ohio;
America" school children and audience;
dirge, decoration Of graves by school chill
dren; benediction, Rev. o. c. Beall: music.
La Salome" Soldiers Home Band; taps,
Soldiers Homo bugler.
Memorial Day On Battlenelds.
At the final meeting Of the memorial
committee held Saturday night at G. A. R.
Hall decision was reached to hold exer-
clses on Decoration day at Fredericksburg
and Culpeper. Va R. B. Hill. superinten-
dent Of the cemetery at Fredericksburg.
communicated with the Department of the
Potomac and invited some Of the members
to hold exercises on the scene Of the mem
orable battle on Decoration day. Past
Department Commander John McElroy,
with an escort. will go to Fredericksburg
to observe the day there. and M. NJ. Lewis
and Frederick B. Calvert will organize a
detachment to proceed for q like PURPOSE
to Culpeper.