The evening times., 1902-05-30
GRIZZLED VETERANS ON PARADE
Make Annual Pilgrimage to
Commemorate Deeds
of Comrades.
UNFAILING IN PATRIOTISM
Youthful Participants in Spanish
American War and Newly Organized
Minute Men Swell the Grand Army
of the Republics Thinning Ranks,

Never before since May 30 was ses
aside as the day to honor the memory,
o. the brave men who were the SAFE
guards of the Nation In her hour oe.
need. and to deck their graves with
towers, has Memorial Day at the Ma
lional Capital been observed with the
SINE degree Of dignity and spIendor aH
vas the present anniversary
The program arranged and carried out
under the auspices of the Department.
of - &C, Grand Army of the Re-
put arvices at all the sur
roun, cemeteries. At Arlington,
where President Roosevelt delivered an
address, the throngs Of people were
dense, and there were also large crowds
at all the other cemeteries. where speak
ers national prominence paid their
trU 5nce and sentiment to
the lallen soldiers OF the Republic
Observance Of Holiday.
The complaint has often been made
that Decoration Day in the last few
years was losing its distinctive char
acter and degenerating into a holiday
given over to field sports and random
jubnation instead of the more solemn
purpose for which it was intended
At the end OF May-when the flying
shuttIes Of the seasons loom have
woven a tent cloth of fower-Iaced green
above the buried soldiers heads-there
is a note of gladness in the throat Of
Nature. and it seems easier to be joy
Gus than to fall into the sadly reminis-
cent vein Perhaps this is the reason
that many people use the holiday for
recreation instead of for its intended
purpose Today, however, there was
noticeable less than usual Of this whole
sale abandonment to pleasure.
The parade this year was not so prom
inent a feature as it has been in years
past. The veterans who followed the
battIe-fags through the long marches
and stubborn conflicts Of forty years ago
are slowly failing in energy, and their
feet are growing heavy with age. Under
the circumstances long march would
have been inadvisabIe.
The Presidents Trip to Arlington.
President Roosevelt was accompanied
to Arlington by Brig Gen. George H.
Harries and his staff, who acted as a
special guard OF honor. It is said TO be
the first time in history when the COM
mander of the National Guard OF the city
has acted in this capacity. and the first
time since the civil war that the Presi-
ent has been accompanied on such a trip
by guard of the kind. The President
was driven to the National Cemetery
in his carriage. starting about noon, and
General Harries and his staff accom-
panied the carriage on horseback
Besides the ceremonies at Arlington,
which naturally attracted the greatest
degree OF popular interest services Of
an elaborate character were held at the
Soldiers Home. at the Congressional,
Oak Hill, Holy Rood, Mt. OIivet, Glen
wood, Graceland, Prospect Hill, ST.
Mary's, ST EIizabeth's Asylum. Ft.
Stevens Battle Ground, Rock Creek and
Harmony Cemeteries. The services al
Special committees and posts designated
by Commander Benjamin F. Bingham, OF
the Department OF the Potomac.
The Parade of Veterans.
With a step hardly as sprightiy az
that taken by them in the SOS. When
they answered the country's call to
arms. hundreds Of veterans. crippled and
otherwise. fell into line this morning tC
parade up broad Pennsylvania Avs1-z-
before leaving for the various ceme-
teries to spread the garIands Of Na5
Ger the graves of their dead comrades
With the survivors of the grim contest
Of a third of a century ago marched the
! veterans of the Spanish American war
one and all bent upon the same sacreS
mission. in remembering their comrades
/ who sleep the sleep of the dead in the
/ various cemeteries surrounding Wash.
/ ington. Time has played havoc with the
ranks Of the old gray-haired veterans
! as one b. one they have passed away
so that the lines this morning were de
cidedly thinner than those of last year
! The parade was formed on the north
4 side of Pennsylvania Avenue with ths
right resting en- Fifteenth Street and tht
/ organizations participating marched IL
/ sections Of four. Promptly at 10 o'eIocE
/ trUnpeter sounded Attention, - and
/ few minutes later the veterans. headed
/ by the Marine Band, in charge OF Lieu
| tenant SanteImann, swung into Fifteenth
| Street northwest TO the air of 8 stirring
/ march.
The route Of the procession was "
! Fifteenth Street to Pennsylvania Ave-
nue.. up Pennsylvania Avenue TO Jack
son place up Jackson Place 10 4 Street
down II Street TO Twelfth Street. themes
down Twelfth Street TO the Avenue
again. and up the Avenue to the electric
cars bound for Arlington The line O