The age-herald., 1901-05-31
The Grafton Was Delivered by Senator Chauncey M,
 DepeW
MINISTER WU ALSO SPOKE
The Hall of Fame Was Formally Opened and the Tablets un- yelled by Various Societies,
 Schools and Families.

New York May SO.-The important events on the Memorial Day programme were the military parade which was re- viewed at Madison Square by Governor Odell and Mayor Van Wyck the exercises at Grants tomb, where Wu Ting Fang made an address. and the dedication of the Hall of Fame at the New York Uni versity, at which Senator Chauncey M Depew delivered an oration. The parade included the old guard acting as an es- cort to Governor Odell, several detach- ments of United States regulars, num- Der of military organizations, a battalion of United States marines and all of the local posts of the Grand Army of the Republic. In all, there were about thir- teen thousand men in line. feature of the parade was the firing of the salute by the naval post opposite the statue of Farragut in Madison Square.
 | At Grants tomb Wu Ting Fang, Chi | nese minister, in accordance with instruc- tions given by Li Hung Chang. placed an | offering of flowers on the stone coffin con taining the generals remains. MT. Wu also delivered an address.
 The ceremonies at the dedication of the | by the Rev. Dr. N. D. Hilns. Senator Chauncey M. Depew delivered the ora l ti,n:
 Following the oration. Chancellor Me-
 Cracken of the New York University, in
 an address, made formal declaration of
 the opening of the hall. The tablets were
 then unveiled by representatives of va
 rious societies. schools and families in the following order:
 Washington tablet. by the Society Of
 the Cincinnati; Lincoln tablet. by the
 military Order of Loyal Legion; Webster | tablet by the Daughters of the Ameri- | can Revolution; Franklin tablet, by the 1 Colouial Danes; Jefferson tablet by the | Sons of the American Revolution; Clay
 tablet, by the Daughters of the Revolu-
 tion; Adams tablet. by Sons of the Revo- 1ution; Grant tablet, by the Grand Army | of the Republic; Farragut tablet, by the
 National Association Naval Veterans Lee tablet. by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, represented by Mrs. Ed win G. Weed, Miss M. F. Mears, Mrs. W. W. Reade and Mrs. Parker. Marshall l tablet, by the American Bar Association
 Kent tablet, by the Bar Association of New York. Story tablet, by the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Peabody tablet, by the Peabody Educa- | ton Fund. Cooper tablet, by 7Edward 1 Cooper. Abraham S. Hewitt and R. F. l Cutting Stuart tablet by the National l Academy of Design. Fulton tablet, by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
 Morse tablet by the American In-
 stitute of Electrical Engineers Whitney
 tablet by the American Society
 of Mechanical Engineers; Uadibon tab
 let. by the American Society of Natural ists; Gray tablet. by the Botanical Socie- l ty of America; Edwards tablet, by the Society of Christian Endeavor; Mann tab let, by the National Educational Associa-
 tion; Beecher tablet, by the I'M c. A;
 Charming tablet, by the New England So-
 ciety; Emerson tablet, by the New York
 Normal College; Hawthorne tablet, by l the Peter Cooper High School; Irving
 tablet by the Wadleigh High School;
 Longfellow tablet. by the Brooklyn Girls | High School.