The Washington times. (Washington [D.C.]) 1901-1902, 1902-05-31
4ONORS FOR THOSE WHO SLEEP I'M SHADOW OF THE FLAG

Hcme Band. under the direction of Prof.
5. NJ. Zimmerman and by the choir
from st. Peters Church. of which Mr.
lrcius Il. Randolph. jr. is conductor
The choir is composed of:
Sopranos-Niss Hattie NJ Richie,
Miss Ellen McCaffrey. Miss Mary NJ
Mahon. Miss orel b. Briggs. Miss Lucie
Edwards. Miss Mary Walsh. Miss Bessie
Sweet. Miss Marie Biggans. Miss Annie
Smart and Miss Katie Dant.
Altos-Miss Lillian Mapes. Miss Mamie
llufrio, Miss Mabel Martin. Mrs. Charles
McGill. Miss Elsie Hancock. Miss Daisy
Stockbridge.
Tenors-Mr. Arnold s. Condoy. Mr.. G.
ID. Kehoe. Mr. Loren Nelson, Mr.. ]. +.
Weber and Mr.. Lucius T. Randolph, ir.
Basses-Mr J. Walter Hicks. MIR.
Louis Walsh. Mr.. Louis A. Radcliffe. Mr..
John II. Pellen. Mr.. Ed. B. Fox. MIR. ].
c. Copenhaver. MIR. Englehart C. Grau
and Mr.. Claude Gather.
General Ruggles' Address.
Gathered around the speakers stand
as General Ruggles arose we're nearly
al of the veterans of the Home. aug
mented by large number of friends
and visitors. General Ruggles said:
MY Comrades-The Grand Army has
given to America, by the institution of
Memorial Day, the analogue of All Souls
Day of the Christian calendar. that we
may call to mind and venerate the
memory of departed patriots. enshrined
in our hearts by exalted records and
heroic deeds. Appointed for the month
OF May. it comes TO us when Nature
has burst the bounds of the winters
death and bloomed into new and charm
ing life, typical of that brighter and
better state beyond the grave, in which
humanity trustingly believes.
With reverence in cur hearts for the
mighty dead, We come to do them honor
From the soldier and statesman, once
the commander of the Grand Army,
whose mortal remains rest in yonder
mausoleum, from the other general Of
fioers VINO lie beyond, of whom three
served in succession as governor of this
soldiers horle-one the artillery chief
tan of the Army OF the Potomac. an
other veteran of the Civil War and
subsequently adjutant general of the
army, and the third the commander of
the Fourth Corps, for whom we so re-
Gently sounded the soldiers requiem. to
every man behind the gun of the six
thousand eight hundred and eleven who
here sleep the sleep of death, we strew
their graves with flowers, the silent but
earnest expression of our tribute TO their
records and their memory.
President Mckinley Eulogized.
From this cemetery and this cere-
mony our thoughts now turn, with one
accord, to rest upon the memory of our
late commanders in chief. the loving and
the lovable man; the man without fault
or blemish in all the ways of life. as
soldier. as citizen, as statesman, and in
the home circle; the President who at
the zenith of his career fell. murdered.
in September last, by the hand of the
ani .chistic assassin.
SO perfect was his life and SO
beautiful were the incidents of his
last hours as he languished unto
death that princes and potentates and
the peoples of the earth came. sor-
rowing. as mourners at his bier As the
setting sun illumines with his departing
rays the clouds that gather upon the
horizon so. as he sank from our sight,
eAA Lii t2-OlttHIt VI ElS SteIu
to gid the stormcloud that hung for the
moment above the nation
With the example CT such a man,
wi h III examples of TIE other illus
trious men who have graced our history
from its inception. through the trials
and suferings OF colonial times, through
the achievements OF ctr national exist
ence-with such examples for the emu
lation of American youth lie; us hope
that. as the years roll into the ages of
the future American character may con-
tinue TO grow in favor with mankind
and ever in the kindly countenance of
Cod
Closing Exercises.
The decoration OF the graves was
completed in time foT the line to be
reformed and to return to the Scott
building for the closing exercises Fe-e.
at the stroke OF noon. on a signal from
the governor of the Home, the ceremony
of raising and salutilg the rag was
gone through with.
The committees were: Arrangement s.
!. G. Kimball. senior vice department
chairman; Charles II. Pres
ton. commander; J. 5. Hoover. C. Ley
burn Shorey, and William L. Badham,
adjutant Henry Wilson Post, No. II;
William n. jones, superintendent Ma
iional Soldiers home Cemetery. Prof.
John NJ. S. Zimmerman, leader Soldiers
Home Band; Michael Heens, Post No II. I
Gen. George d. Rug
giles. 4. S. r.. Brevet Brig. Gen. r. +.
Bernard. L. 5. 4, Maj. Louis 4 La
Garde, U. S. A, Maj. Henry NJ. Kendall. 1
U. :. A.. Sergt. Maj. Henry Kerr, Sergt.
JoeeDh Mass Sergt Richard Bauyis
Past Post Commanders Patrick Ford.
Jacob Moore and John S. Hoover, Henry
Wilson Post. No. II. Decoration of
and members of La
fsyeite Corps. No. 10. W. X. c.. Irs. /
Lulu HauDtman, president; Mrs. Lucy
b. Graham. secretary.
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