The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-05-20
TO HONOR
MEMORY
OF. HEROES
Program Of tha Exercises for
Memorial Day Is Issued by
Department Commander.

department Conmanocr Charles l..
Moies of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie. has issued the orders for the obser-
vance OF Memorial Day. and an invitation
has been extended 10 the department. OF
Rhode Island. Spanish-American War
Veterans. TO join the parade.
The exercises will commence at $50
O'Clock on Thursday, May 30 at the SOL
diers' monument on Exchange Place. the
several posts to report there At SIS
O'Clock The program at the monument
will be as follows;
Dirge, Reeves American band prayer,
Rev J. ). A'Veeiies-5 der7rrrur1Tr cHapfHtu;
national salute, Battery A. Light Artil-
ley. Il. I. M; decoration of monument
and Burnside statute; taps. Bowen r.
Church.
Post commanders. with the exception of
the commander or the Rodman post. are
to detail four comrades from their re-
spectiye posts, supplied with flowers, who
Will under the direction OF Vice epart-
rnent Commander Hudson, decorate the
monument, while Rodman post will dec
crate The Burnside statue.
ORDER OF THE PARADE.
After the conclusion OF these exercises.
the parade will take place, moving in the
following order:
Department commander. Assistant Ad-
jutant general.
Department officers and department STAFF
Past department commanders.
Officers of the United States army and
navy.
Division commander of the Rhode Island
Sons of Veterans and STAFF.
Reeves American Band.
Troop b, First Battalion Cavalry. b. r.
J. NJ dismounted Captain Maynard
Prescott Post No ]. Commander Edward
Wilcox.
Church's Second Regiment Band.
Co. g. First Regiment infantry. b. r.. l.
NJ Capt Harden.
Slocum Post, No. 10, Commander Ed
mund j. Monroe.
Gen. A. F.. Burnside camp, No. 5, S. of
", Capt. c. II. Hoadley.
Band
First Separate Company Infantry. r. r.
/. NJ, Capt Blunt.
Ives Post. No. 13. Commander James X.
Polk
Col James Barton Camp. No. 10, s. OF
", Capt. Howard S. West.
Band.
Co d. First Regiment Infantry, B. =, I.
NJ, Capt. Skedgell.
Arnold Post, No 4, Commander John VI.
Gilbert.
Marine Artillery Military Band. 49,.
Garfield Council. 13 o. L. A. NJ.
George II. Brown Post. No. %, Command
er Lewis Holey.
Rodman Post. No. u, in carriages. Com
mander Thomas j. Griffin
Carriages with disabled comrades.
Spanish-American War Veterans
Department Commander Arthur Il. Sphinx
staff.
Fairman's First Regiment Band, Ros-
well H. Fairman. leader
Allyn X. Capron Camp. No. 3, George A.
FORSYTH. commanding.
Charles V. Gridley Naval Camp. No. y.
Gardiner c. Sims. commanding.
Ex-soldiers and sailors of war win Spain.
Battery A. Light Artillery. b. 1. NJ.
Flower Wagons.
Other organizations desiring TO join in
the parade will be assigned positions upon
reporting 10 the adiutant general.
The route OF march will be Dorrance,
Westminster. Summer. Broad. Weybosset
and Exchange streets TO Exchange Place.
The department commander will review
the column at Franklin street as IL passes
up Westminster street Upon arrival at
Exchange Place the parade will be dis
missed, and the posts with their escorts
and Camps Of Sons of Veterans, will pro-
ceed TO cemeteries as follows:
Prescott Post. No. !, North Burial
ground and Catholic cemetery. Slocum
Post. No. 10, Rodman Post. No. IL. Swan
Point cemetery. Ives Post. No. IL. Grace
Church cemetery Arnold Post. No. 4Lo-
Gust Grove and Pocasset cemeteries.
George ". Brown Post. No. %. Oakland
cemetery Posts 13. T. and %. with their
escorts are granted permission to leave
the column al corner Broad and Summer
streets.
Department officers and staff will report
I'm full uniform dismounted. the officers
A. n.
belts without SwOrtE. vtrrT tU1Vp Ur
mourning on left arm and sword hiit,
10 Senior Aide de Camp Theodore r Dey-
ter. in front Of City Hall nj sis a. m.
Past department commanders. national
officers. aides-de-camp, officers OF the
United States army and navy. and divi-
sion commander OF Rhode Island. s or
V. and staff. are cordially invited 10 Join
IN the parade.
II Is earnestly requested that flags he
displayed az half-mast during tho day.
aud business suspended during the pa
de