The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-05-30
SERVICES At FORT STEVENS
An Grafton by the Assistant Secre-
tary of Agriculture.

! He Sounds a Note of warning
Against Opposing Industrial Prog
! ress-Husic by school Children
One OF the Textures of the Day.
! Memorial Day services at Battle Ground
! National Cemetery on Brfghtwood Avenue
/ have always been of great popular inter
/ est and today attracted the usual
/ large crowd 1t was at Fort Stevens that
! President Lincoln stood on the paTapet
/ Of the breastwOrEls, exposed to the fire
of Confederate sharpshOoters in 1864 This
fact made doUbiy interesting The services
( which were conducted at Fort Stevens
/ this afternoon IN the presence Of hun
dredS OF battle-scarred veterans OF the
civil war, their younger comrades Of the
Spanish-American war and a large as
sembiy OF patriotic men, women, and
children, the following programme was
rendered: Sounding assembly, Soldiers
Home bugler; music, Departed Days"
Soldiers Home Band; invocation, calling
assembly to order by presiding officer,
Gen Thomas NJ Vincent. Z. S. A; ad-
dress, Blair Lee. Brightwood Citizens As
ISOLATION; recitation, Major John Twee-
dale, Z. S. A; song. Brightwood public
school children; music, Schubert's .-Sere-
made" Soldiers Home Band: followed by
an Grafton by Col }. H. Brigham, Of Ohio,
Assistant Secretary OF Agriculture.
Colonel Brigham congratulated the IS
sembIage upon being permitted to gather
ugain beneath the flag of the richest,
strongest, and freest nation OF earth Il
is hard to realize, he said, the wonderful
change that has taken place in thirty
seven short years Continuing, he said:
I'VE have no means of knowing whether
our comrades have any knowledge of to
days ceremonies and that the nation has
gathered to cover the resting places Of
her dead with beautiful flowers; but we
do know that it is d comfort and consola-
ton 10 their surviving friends TO realize
that the nation appreciates the sacrifices
made to save it from dissolution our
children should be taught the terrible
price that was paid to estabhSh ana pre-
serve the Republic. We should ali learn
the lesson of patriotism.
-'Oue Of the greatest dangers that con-
front Us is indiffepence-a lack of appre-
citation OF the privileges we enjoy Every
citizen IS sovereign in this Republic. and
every citizen should use his sovereignty
wisely and well
There win be other battles to fight;
other victories 20 win The boys who /
wish to earn fame and distinction need I
not be discouraged. Recent events have !
proclaimed to the world that the Republic, /
once = feeble infant, has become giant :
power Great national problems confront |
Us. We must not throw obstacles in the /
rot permit the humblest and poorest enid !
to suffer wrong or oppression at the hands I
Of powerful combinations of wealth The
freedom Of the citizen has been secured
at price Of blood and sorrow, and no /
association under any form can be permit (
ted to interfere with this priceless boon
Courage viii be required TO meet new
issues, and the surviving comrades must /
not shrink or waver in any struggle NO
breath Of oppression must be permitted
to blow across the graves that hoId the
sacred dust of our heroic dead.
Colonel Brigham told several humor-
stories and said. we are growing old
together, boys 4 few more years and
the congregations that gather on Decora-
ton Day VIII look around IN vain for a
survivor Of that great war, but the pleas
ant thought will come to US in our last
hours that even If we have missed wealth
and earthly honors the record we made
in defence Of our country will never be
forgotten. but VIII always be kept fresh
in memory by the ceremonies Of Decora-
ton Day"
The colonel referred to the brave sold
iers Who met the flower of Lees army |
and barred their way to the Capital of
the Nation" and concluded by quoting !
from O'Ffara's beautiful poem, The Biv-
ouac of thu Dead"
Colonel Brigham's Grafton was followed
by the singing Of America by the school
children and the audience After a diTge
the dacora ton Of graves by school chill
dren began and was followed by the bene-
diction and music by the Soldiers Home /
Band. Taps were sounded by the Soldiers
Home Bogler.
There are buried in this cemetery forty
soldiers from the States Of Massachusetts,
Pennsylvania, Maine. Vermont, and Rhode
Island, who fell in the battle Of Fort
Stevens on July l. and Z. 1864.
The services were very impressive and |
were IN charge Of u committee consisting
Of Gen Thomas n. Vincent, Chairman; 1
Nathan BiCkfOTd. Vice Chairman, A S /
PeTham. Secretary Gen Frank Wheat
Dr. Charles Y PeJtsys. President Sixth
Army Corps Association; Louis P Shoe
maker. President BrightwOOd Citizens
Association; J p kinnear. President Ia
Soma Park Citizens Association W
Mex Clayton, President Brightwood
Park Citizens Association, Prof " E
NatIey. Superintendent BrightwOOd and
TahOua schools; ". Y. Cox. Chairman Of
local committee; Dr.. Charles G. Stone
Chairman Committee on Seats and
Stands: Edward T Bates. Chairman Com
EaitJse on Flowers and Decorations. Col /
D. W. Greene Col G. G. Kniffin Capt /
Charles Sick!es, and Col. r. s. Brown.
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