The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-06-15
HEROES MEMORY IGNORED
ANNUAL DECORATION DAY OF
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 Governors Foot Guard and the H. 4.
 RIA PrOfusion of FIowers-One
 Hundred and Twenty-fhree Graves
 DecOrHted-EIoqaent Address by Gen-
 eFnI George IF. Ford.
 General Humphreys branch, Connect lcut Society Sons of the American Rev olution, assisted by the Second compa- ny, Governors Foot Guard, decorated the graves of the one hundred and twenty-three Revolutionary soldiers and patriots who are buried in the Grove street cemetery yesterday after noon at o'clock. Despite the threat ening weather, there were about two hundred present, including a number of the members of the Mary Clap Wooster chapter, D. A. R. It was the annual memorial day of the S. 4. R., and every one of the one hundred and twenty three graves was handsomely decorated with flowers. ,.:
 At o'clock the bugler sounded the assembly, and those present assembled at the grave of Napthali Daggett on Cypress avenue. An invocation was then pronounced by Rev. Dr. Edwin S. Lines, chaplain of the Connecticut so- ciety and of General David Humphreys branch. MT. Daggett's grave was then decorated by Nathan Easterbrook, jr., chairman of the standing committee. An excellent address was then deliver ed by General George H. Ford, presi- dent of tho GaparaI DoT.Id u,IpaJhra1yr branch. The speaker clearly showed that he had thorough knowledge of the subjects on which he spoke, and his remarks were greatly appreciated. General Fords address in full is as fol- lows:
 GENERAL FORD'S ADDRESS. ,,
 Cornpatriots and Friends-History tells us that in the far off times of an- cient Rome, when her empire embraced the whole civilized world, in the imperi7 al city were built, for the heroes of her conquest, the most magnificent temples, columns and altars that the world ever saw. dedicated to those whose valor and wisdom had been of signal importance to the nation.
 A waxen image was taken of the faces of these famous men and rever- ently preserved, and on the anniver- sary of their great achievements hom-. age was paid their memory, the mask being dressed with ceremony and the rank which was worn by each when living being designated. This represen- tation was then placed before the ros- trum and some orator recounted their worthy deeds. Temples were thrown open and flowers placed around the urns containing their sacred ashes, and incense burnt before the altars filled the air with sweet perfume. The no- bles and most famous Roman citizens joined in the ceremony, proud of the privilege of honoring their noble dead,
 The Christian world buries its dead beneath the green sod of earth under. the lofty temple of heavens blue sky, land in America this generation gethers on it's memorial days at the graves of those who by their wisdom and valor established and maintained this nation, and with words and wreaths and flow-. CTS honor their illustrious dead and fur-s nish an incentive to the living to study the lives and character of the noblest heroes that ever existed in the tide of times"
 Connecticut, next to Massachusetts, furnished more men for the continental army than any other state, and this old historic cemetery contains the graves of more Revolutionary soldiers and pa triots than any similar place in the world.
 The names of Roger Sherman, James Hillhouse, Noah Webster, General Humphreys, three college presidents and other distinguished men of their day, making in all total of 123, adorn the muster rolls of the General David Humphreys branch, Connecticut Soci- ety Sons of the American Revolution, and their last resting place is marked by the emblem of this society.
 To-day the bugle sounds the assem-; bly, at the graves of father and son Napthali Daggett, for eleven years president of Yale college, and of his son, Lieutenant Henry Daggett, graduate of Yale and for six years a most valiant Revolutionary soldier and officer, serving in Colonel Heman Swifts regiment. He participated at Germantown, Valley Forge, Monmouth, Stony Point and on the Hudson, re- (Continued Oh Third Page.l