New-York tribune., 1901-05-30
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY.
GRAVES OF HEROES TO BE DECORATED
BY WOMAN'S RELIEF CORPS TO-DAY.

Soldiers graves IN all parts OF this country will
be decorated to-day with flowers and evergreen
Hreaths by the members OF the Woman's Relief
Corps. The graves OF the blue and the gray VIII
be remembered alike. and IN small towns those OF
the heroes Of the Spenish-Amertcan War Will le-
cefve the same attention. The Womans RELIEF
Corps auxiliary the Grand Army of the Re
public has thirrE-five departments, some Including
two States and each comprising from ten 10 two
hundred and seventy local corps. Besides these
there are sixty-two detached corps, nearly all OF
which are coored The latter, for various reasons
cannot successfully carry on a department, and so
work independently, sending reports directly 10
hea dCua rters- The members Of these are teachlng
their children TO remember with love the who
fought and fell 10 free their fathers and mothers
from slavery.
IN most places public school parades have been
arranged and the children. laden with hewers will
assemble al some central school building. The
flowers they viii give 70 the veterans OF the Civil
War as they pass them in parade.
Wherever IN the North there is Confederate
camp. its members VIII receive an invitation 10
toin The parade and the women OF the Relief Corps
VIII pin buttouhole bouquets TO their coats as well
as TO those Of the Grand Army OF the Republic
The teaching OF the proper observance Of Ne
mortal Day is Of the objects Of the Woman's
Relief Corps, and accompanying the general order
for the day is the following admonition:
Bring the children, with hands filled with springs
izes enduring memory anG cover eaCn lo - @ ~
that marks the resting place OF a nero. nave me
over each silent heart see that the flag OF our
Fepubuc floats. for which their lives We're gwen
Thst il might be preserved Unstained- Forget not
the living veteran. Remember him as he les per
Esns on a bed Of suffering Visit him, and with a
Cheering word make him 10 know that the " ON
ans Relief Corps is the soldiers friend WITH re-
reVVed conservation turn We 70 me Iulure ana II
or sacred observance Of Memorial Day keep ever
before Us the thought that are heirs 10 a
heritage bought with price - -
I,ovinglv seek out the honored graves OF our army
r71ITsee-they who batheG the fevered brow and
-sve fbe cup of cold water 70 the dying, penned
rbs last message loving wife and nother, lolded
he hands across the silent heart, oreatheo a
prayer and dropped tear
OF the 1888 graves at Yioksburg, nearly 1900
cover unknown dead: in the 15274 graves at Fred
f.-iol-str,rg nearly % 736 identified;
name tells who lie in eels Of the l3S64 graves az
Memphis, while al SALISBURY cur OF 4ZlS WHO uIed
there only S23 are known
The crave Of every member OF the Womans
Professional League IN this vicinity will be deco
rated to-day with flowers. memorial card and
badge Of the society detachment Of the organi-
zarion will meet al the Twenty-third-st. ferry at
1oso O'Clock this morning and will proceed TO the
Actors Fund pIot IN Evergreen Cemetery, Brock
The NeW-York City Chapter and Mary Washing
ton Colonial Chapter, Daughters Of the American
Peyoluron. have made no plans Tor the day.
The toTnb of the Prison Ship Martyrs IN Fort
Greene Park Brooklyn, viii be decorated on sun
dav hy the Fort Greene Chapter, Daughters or the
l-sUfzariOn will meet in the Wistarla Arbor al .
% m and memorial exercises VIII precede the
ceremony Elijah Kennedy will preside. and the
Rev John Coleman Adams VIII make the address
Members Of the Prison Ship Martyrs, Association,
rhe TdttIe Men and Women Of 20 and the W omen
q '76 have been invited TO be present