The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-05-30
FLOWERS FOR THE DEAD.
The Services at Mount OIivet, Glen
wood. St Mary's. and Prospect Hill.

/ The Services at Mount OIivet. Glen
wood. st. 1Iary's. md Prospect Hill.
Under the direction Of Senior Vice
Commander Wesley Kitchen and a de
tachmeut from Post Il. assisted by The
Sons of Veterans. the Ladies Relief Corps
and their friends. the graves Of the ma
tons dead a GIenU0Gd. Prospect Hill
St MsTy's and Mount OIivet Cemeteries
were strewH with ffcwers. and the deeds
Of valor were again recounted by the
orators Of the day The procession as
sembled at Eighth and II Streets north
west at O'Clock and proceeded to Mount
OGvet Cemetery, where the graves Of the
men who bore arms in the civil war were
decorated This duty done the veterans
and their sons journcyed to Gsenwood
Chapel, where they were joined by the
members Of the Ladies' Relief Corps and
the general exercises were held.
\ bugier sounded assembly at 1880 and
as its music was waited by the gentle
breezes through the trees and died away,
the memorial orders were read by Ad-
jutant Samuel Bright The scene was i'm
pressiye and the words of the adjutant
were listened to with bowed heads. Prof.
wilson Harvey. followed by those pres
sRt, sang America LincoIH's memo
rial address delivered on the battlefield
OF Gettysburg was read by Adjutan:
Bright
The Grafton of Mrs. J. Ellen Foster
was 4 splendid effort The speakers trib-
ute to the soldiers. both living and dead.
WAS Impressive to a degree and her words
viii long be remembered Mrs. Fosters
address in part follows:
Each century is both debtor and cred
ltor 70 the human race On the first
Springtide of the twentieth century. on
the first Memorial Day, let Us enquire
what has the century received. what does
it owe?
Shall we boast OF the physical great
ness of the country; shall we rehearse-as
again and again has been reheaTSed-how
IN q hundred years from the narrow strip
along the Atlantic where the fathers set
tea our territory has grown beyond the
mountains. beyond the valleys Of the
great rivers, on the wide plains. and be
yoaG the Pacific ranges where the Golden
Gate opens out TO the seas Of the Orient2
Snail We tell how COerced by the fate of
war and led by the Providence of Sod.
we have Spauned the earth with army and
navy, so that now Old Glory floats in ev-
cry cline and our ships are at home on
every sea- Shall we count material pro-
greSS as measured by stable government
and large liberty and economic prosperity.
SDdI we enuncraLe nature S ministers.
light, heat, steam electricity, which now
serve in the homes Of the rich and of the
poor which increase domestic comfort
iL-l eltl LlsI SOCIAL Righteousness
or ShaH We listen to the shouts OF the
children at play and to the haIIeIujafls of
WOTShIpers in temples Of religion SHAH
We 90 TO kIndergartens and clubs and SET
Elements and hospitals where charity and
and science crowned with
religion have offered heart and hand and
brain il loyal knighthood under the Gold
en- Ruie2
OR shall We behold the thousands of
young men ami young women, who. under
the luxury Of this early summer are leav-
ing seminary college, and university,
ana with steady nerve and high purpose.
born OF the conscious power Of seif-dfs-
cIpline. are beginning their conquest Of
the WorldE What q glorious scene. what a /
perspective the nineteenth century offers |
to this new cycle Of years.
Changed standards Of life mark the /
advance OF the human race Forty years /
ago, when the men who sleep here and
YOU, my brothers. who remain were bows.
american standards could not tolerate |
African slavery neither would they en-
dure the thought Of disuniOn; the country
Wnlch promised so much for itself and for |
the world must not be rent in twain: the |
seeming interests of sections must Weld /
TO the general interests OF the whole peO-
pie: to maintain these standards the civll |
war was waged. On. the honor and sor-
row OF IT Sons Of the same grand pa
LTiot fathers met on their common heTi- /
.3Se and powder, shot and shell were ar |
JiteTs-
Comrades Of those who lie here. it IS
because you and they bore yourselves as
'u -8J L4lat ille nation IS what II to- I
day we viii not consider what might
have been had you failed We thank God |
that you were true 10 the truth as YOU I
81 W it. and as 1t has been since acknOTvI- !
edged BY all the world. The aggregate Of /
human weakness In the sin and sorrow /
about Us makes one faint at hear. but to 4
contemplate, as one does today. the ag-
STeSate Of strength and honor ard Gevo-
ion to home and country and Coo. makes
)ne proud to be alive IN this twentieth /
century
We do not understand how out of |
coarse clay God makes a man and q hero. !
yut heroes were counted by the tens Of
thousands in the s. and still the count
goes on the sons Of the heroes Of the -6g'S'
we're in Cuba a while ago. they are in the
Dhl8PpIGvs now or they are on trans
ports coming hitheT. or they I'LL soldiers
graves, and have thus become part of the
Stone and mortar IN the walls Of new
foundations Of civilization which this
generation is building The heroic -voll7u-
cor Of 1861 is the father Of the regular
y 81. There was a SubiiTne philosophy I
u those words Of General LAYTON I a-li
40 hero-Im only a regular The heroes
II today are the regulars Of tomorrow
Peace to those who sleep: patience and
oil for those Of Us who remain
At the conclusion Of Mrs Fosters ora
ion, the bencdiCtiOn was pronounced by
he Rev. s. y Seymour