The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-05-29
our DEAD HEROES
Patriotic Exercises Will
Mark the Celebration
of Decoration Day.
VETERANS AND THEIR SONS
New Generation Taking Up
Its Fathers observances
In the Schools.
VETERANS AND THEIR SONS

Decoration Day will be observed to-
morrow in this city in a most patriotic
manner. Indeed, it seems that the fewer
of the old veterans of the Civil War
that are left the more patriotic become
the obseryances of the day. The Sons
of Veterans are taking up the loving bur-
remnants of the Grand Army posts, es-
corted by sons of veterans and cadets,
many of f-whom are their grandsons, will
assemble at their various headquarters
and parade to various cemeteries, where
they will scatter flowers over the graves
of their beloved comrades and hold in
teresting Grand Army exercises.
Throughout the city today beautiful
and patriotic, to say nothing of educa-
tional exercises are being held by the
children of the public school. The whole
mind of the populace is being trained
on the patriotic services of those men,
who, in the hours of the country's peril,
went to the front and endured the shock
of battle with brethren in an effort tt
save united country.
Tomorrow, as they wend their way to
various cemeteries bearing beautiful hued
flowers while the splendid green foliage
of nature along the roadside will drop
their night accumulation of watery pearls
like tears, if tears do not proverbially
descend from the clouds, the eyes of
posterity will become dewey in remem-
brances of noble deeds wrought by the
SCARED veterans.
The Union Veterans League, as inti-
mated in yesterdays "News" will, prob
ably occupy the centre of the stage.
But the numerous ~rand army posts will
carry out their original Decoration Day
programmes of past years. Not a,single
grave of one of these veterans who fought
for his country is to be left without flow
ers sprlnkled upon his grave. After
noon the streets~in all parts of the city
will be alive with the marching hosts of
even the remnant of the Grand Army,
but escorted by their sons and grandsons
in uniform.
unique feature of the day will be a
parade of the famous regiment Of the
New York Irish Volunteer Rifles, which
are to be received by the local companies
of Irish rifles at Pavonia ferry early to-
morrow afternoon. They will come over
1000 strong. The regiment will parade
up Pavonia avenue and through the lead
ing thoroughfares of me Horseshoe. 1t
will be reviewed on its way to the West
Side Cemetery, to which it will march,
escorted by the local Irish Rlne Com
panies. Here interesting exercises will
be held. Orations will be delivered by
noted local Catholic clergymen The
graves of the civila war heroes in that
cemetery will be decorated. After the
exercises at the cemetery the visiting
regiment will be entertained at big pic
mic of the local Irish rifles at Baldwin
Park.
At today's exercises in the public
schools programmes were rendered as
follows:-
SCHOOL NO. Salute to the Flag,
School; song, America, School; dialogue
Customs of Memorial Day, Seven boys,
Grade s; song, Comrades, Bring the
Buds Of Spring Time, School; recitation,
Love of Country, Eddie Gross; Our Flag
Ida Spiotta; Decoration Day, Clara
Hunt;i song. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
School; recitation, The Little Black
Eyed Rebel, Gertrude Baum; recitation,
Flowers For the Brave, Thos. Joyce;
recitation, Wake Them in Peace Today,
Bonnie Kotlicki;. song, Tenting on the
Olu lamp 1rouhu, scnooi, recltaIloi,
Memorial Day Offering, Lester schell;
recitation, Wen Gather Earth's Fairest
Blooms, Dorothy Knecht; recitation, We
Old Boys, Lewis McGee; song, When
Johnny Comes Marching Home, School
recitation, Bring Blossoms Faid and
Sweet, Katherine Miller; recitation,
Scatter Flowers, Blanche Angel; reci-
tation, Our National Banner, Kazmir
Polenski; song, Red, White and Blue,
School; recitation, Memorial Day, Chris
tine yalleau; recitation, The Worlds
Hero, John Jones; song, Soldier Rest,
School; recitation, The Volunteer. Her
man Levine: recitation. Drafted. Isabel