Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1901-05-30
MEMORIAL DAY!
Appropriately Observed
in This City.
Most Imposing Procession
Ever Witnessed Here.
Grand Program Rendered Through
out in Fine Style.
JUDGE MORRIS0N'S ADDRESS.
JUDGE M0RRIS0N'S ADDRESS.

To-day, all over the United States
In every city, town. village and ham
let, the dead soldiers are being re
membered, and by kind and gentle
hands their graves are being profusely
decorated with sweet-scented flowers
and evergreens.
school band dispensing appropriate
act of congress, and considered legal
holiday throughout this free and
peace-loving country.
The weather was all that could be
asked fora little cloudy and cool
,aus hiding once In a while behind a
cloud here and there In the skies
old Sol, and making the day an ideal
one in which to do reverence to the
departed soldiers.
THE PARADE.
At $3.50 o'clock a. m, the marshal
of the day, DR.. l.. n. Chamberlin, and
his appointed assistants, commenced
assembling the various divisions on
Second street and Gold avenue, and
when the line of march was an.
nounced the following order was OBJ.
served: First, In a buggy. was j. w.
Edwards and Adjutant Leverett
Clarke, and then Policemen Martinez
and Cooper, followed by the Indian
school band dispensing appropriate
music.
Next came Dodson's automobile, on
which was seate dthe orator of the
which was seated the orator of the
day, Judge A. l.. Morrison, Post Com
mander j, NJ. Moore, Dr. q. w. Har
rison and the owner of the rig, X. l.
Ia
decorated with bunting and flags.
Corporal a. J. Lamb and his firine
squad followed. and in the rear o
the squad. following in three divisions
as to age and size were the child
school, each and every one carrying
a small flag and waving them in the
air as they marched along.
This was followed by the lndiar
school wagon loaded with the smaller
tots of the school, and then followed
the older girls marching on foot, al
dressed in white, and they, too, car
rying small flags and waving then
over their heads.
A small band of young soldiers
who saw service in Cuba in 1898 ant
recently in the Philippines, followed
on foot. and then the veterans OF the
civil war, led by General l.. A. Carr
came along, WITH Isaac Jackson, the
colored veteran carrying aloof the hi
Carson battletorn and scared flag.
The Old Albuquerque brass bant
and the Mutual Protective society o
that place were here In line and made
a grand display, as the band played
some patriotic tunes.
Chief Ruppc and hremen, with tn,
hose wagon and the hook and ladder
trucks followed, leading directly II
front of the &. Colombo Benevolen
society, each and every member II
uniform and the leaders carrying large
flags OF both the United States ant
Italy.
At the corner of Fifth and Sixtl
breets, on Copper avenue, the process
sion came to halt to allow th'
children of the city public schools, ST
Mary's and st. Nincent's schools ant
the Old Albuquerque schools to fal
In line, and the two thousand children
al carrying small flags and all wav
ing them over their heads as they
marched along to the park made one
of the grandest and most imposing
spectacles ever seen In the city.
THE PROGRAM.
The G.. A. II. committee had erected
a stand on the south side OF the park
across the street railway tracks ant
underneath two large cottonwood
trees. The seats were given up to thu
school children, while in front of thu
stand were seated the orator OF tn,
day, Judge A. l.. Morrison, DR.. G.. w
Harrison, members of the G. X. War
rep Post No. and members of tn
Women's Relief Corps, and monu
ment representing THE unknown
Dead"
At l0:30 o'clock the first number o.
the program was the singing of tn
"Star Spangled Banner" by the child