The Savannah morning news., 1902-04-26
HONOR AND SORROW
NEED OF ONE, TRIBUTE OF THE
OTHER, TO SOUTH'S HEROES.
MEMORIAL DAY PROGRAMME.
EXPRESSION OF CITY's REVER-
ENCE FOR CONFEDERATE DEAD.

The Day to Be Generally Observed
by the People of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,
Courts and Public Offices 10 De
Closed, while Many Private BUSH
ness Houses VIII Remember the
Day Monuments and Soldiers
Graves 10 BE Tended With Loving
Care-Parade of Confederate Or
CARNATIONS and Address by Rt.
Rev. b. j. NeiIey-Prescntatio of
Crosses of Honor.
Memorial Day will be generally OBJ
served in Savannah. The courts,
banks and public offices will be closed,
the postoffice will observe Sunday
hours and many business houses will
give their employees holiday. The
exercises in honor of the Confederate
dead will be especially elaborate.
The programme for the days public
observance is as follows:
MISUNDERSTANDING of the Confeder-
ate monument, the Gettysburg monu-
ment in Laurel Grove and the graves
of the Confederate dead, by the Daugh-
tiers of the Confederacy; parade of the
Georgia Hussars.
Noon-Annual meeting of the Confed-
crate Veterans Association, election of
officers nominated at ante-anniversary
meeting and addresses by soldiers of
the South.
Afternoon-Paradeo of the veterans
and other Confederate organizations of
the city, escorted by provisional COM
pany of the First Regiment of Infan-
try; services at the Confederate mon
ument and final honors to the dead in
the soldiers lot at Laurel Grove.
Evening-Memorial Day address by
TT. Rev. Benjamin ]. Kelley, Bishop of
Savannah, at the Guards Hall; presen-
tation of Southern Cross of Honor to
Confederate veterans.
Wreaths still to lie Made.
The manufacture of wreaths and gar
lands for the decoration of the graves
of the dead soldiers of the South went
on steadily all of yesterday, and until
late last night, but when the tired
members of the band of devoted women
at last put by their needles and thread
there was still much to be done-many
wreaths yet to be made.
Already 1000 have been completed,
but 200 more are needed and must be
made to-day. The ladies will meet at
the armory this morning to complete
their task, while others of their num-
Der are engaged in the care of the
monuments and of the graves in the
several cemeteries about the city.
Committees have been named to
take charge of the several departments
of the work, and the members of these
committees are expected to meet at
the places to which they have been
assigned at 10 o'clock. This
with the exception Of the committee
to care for the Confederate
Monument, of which Mrs. ]. II. Estill
is chairman. This will meet during
the early morning and the decoration
of the monument will at once begin.
Those who have flowers they desire
to donate for the decoration of this
stately memorial to Southern valor
are requested to. send them to the
monument as early as possible.
The chairman of the other commit
tees, whose members have been noti-
fed of their appointment and are re-
quested to assemble at 10 o'clock, are
as follows:
Soldiers Lot Laurel Grove: Miss
Mary Wagner Maccaw.
Manassas Dead, Laurel Grove: Miss
Jane Kollock.
Bonaventure Cemetery; Mrs. Ed
ward Karow.
Cathedral Cemetery-Miss Katherine
MeIntire.
The meeting of the Confederate Vet
Grams Association at noon will be one
of the events of the day. At this meet
ing all the present officers of the as
sociation. headed by President Louis
G. Young, will be elected to serve for
another year. They were nominated a
week ago and the nomination is always
equivalent to an election
At the meeting Mr.. G.. N. Saussy will
deliver an address upon THE Services
of Lees Cavalry" and it is expected
that Maj. Robert Stiles of Richmond,
If he can be induced to do so, will also
address this gathering of his old COM
rades.
Parade of Veterans and Sons.
The parade will form on the west side
of Wright Square at 4:S0 o'clock in the
afternoon, and at o'clock promptly,
the line of march will be taken up.
Capt Louis G.. Young, president of the
Confederate Veterans Association, will
be marshal of the parade.
The line win be headed by the First
Regiment Band. The military escort,
under the command of Capt. ]. 7.
West of the Savannah Cadets, will fol-
low and then in turn, Francis S. Bar
Tow camp VI oOllS VI NGbCl ans AiAC
Confederate Veterans Associations and
Lafayette McLaws Camp of Confed
crate Veterans. The line of march will
be out Bull street to CASTOR, to Dray-
ton, to the Confederate Monument in
the Park Extension.
The chapter of Children of the Con-
federacy will form in the grounds of
the Savannah Hospital at 4 o'clock,
and as the line passes the children will
join the parade. At the monument
they will receive the wreaths the vet
Grams will carry in the parade and
place them on the sides of the mound
from which the shaft rises.
From the monument the line of march
to Laurel Grove will be taken up and
in the soldiers lot there, at the foot
of the Gettysburg monument, the con-
Guiding exercises of the parade will
take place. A prayer will be delivered
by Rev. DR.. William c. Schaeffer, the
flag of the Confederate Veterans AS
ISOLATION placed upon the monument
and taps sounded. Then the parade
will be dismissed.
At night Bishop Kelley will deliver
the address at Guards Hall. The ex-
ercises there win begin at $50 o'clock
and the public is extended a cordial
invitation to attend The Children of
the Confederacy will sing Confederate
songs during the evening. and the
Southern Cross of Honor bestowed
upon twenty-five veterans. 1t is ex-