The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-08-05
INVITES BIG DAY TO-DAY.
GRAND DEDICATION OF THE
 REGIMENTS MONUMENT


 At Bay View Park, This city-ImposIug g
 Parade and Ceremonies This Fore-
 noon-The monumenf-sISny Notable
 Guests-Incoming Delegations from
 All Over fhe State.
 Interest all over the state will center to-day in the unveiling of the monu- ment at Bay View park, this city, to the memory Of the departed members of the Ninth c. ", who served during the war of '61-'65. The monument is'lo- cated on the very spot where forty-two years ago the regiment of raw young Irish-Amerscan soldiers held it's first encampment before proceeding to the south to enter into that fierce struggle of four years and it also marks the suc- cesssul effort on the part of the sur yiyors to lerDetuate in granite the deeds Of one of the most distinguished regiments sent out from this state.
 The monument is of granite, quar- ried and cut at Barre. Vt.t On the gran ite faces bronze tablets are fastened on which are inscribed the names of 250 members of the regiment who died in the south and whose bodies were not sent home. At the base of the monu- ment are four large Dahlgren cannon fastened to bed plates. This monument is the first of the kind erected in New Haven, the one at East Rock park being a general one to the men who dared and died in the many regiments sent out from this state. It cost complete $4,- BOO. of which amount $1,000 was appro- priated by the state.
 The place where the monument is now being erected was called "The Ce- davs' In 1861. It is now Bay View park, and has from It's military associa- lions become one of the historical spots os New Haven. For not only did the Ninth regiment organize and hold it's first encampment there, but the Sixth and Seventh Connecticut regiments also encamped there before going to the war.
 The programme of exercises at Bay View park to-day will be as follows: tsHail Columbia" ]" by the public schools,
 twenty boys of St. Francis Orphan
 Orphan asylum, under the direction of
 Prof. B. JeDson. supervisor of music,
 New Haven schools.
 Remarks by Colonel John G. Healy,
 president Ninth Connecticut Veteran
 association.
 PrayerThe Rev. James J. Gleeson of
 Willimantic.
 Unveiling of monument-Miss Kathleen
 O'Keefe Master Thomas Marshall
 Cahill Egan.
 Song The Red, White and Blue" Oration-The Rev. William J. Slocum of
 Waterbury. chaplain of the Ninth regiment.
 Surrender of the monument to the city Colonel Richard Fitzgibbon, chair
 man of the monument committee. Acceptance The Hon. John F. Studley, mayor of New Haven.
 Transfer to park commissioner. Song-.U Union Dixie.'
 Remarks by His Excellency Abiram Chamberlain. governor of the state. Remarks by Department Commander Morgan c. Bulkeley. G. A. R. Prayer The Rev. Watson l.. Phillips, chaplain Second company, c. F. G. "Star spangled Banner" Everything is prepared both in the city and at Bay View park for the en- tertainment of the exceedingly large number of visitors and military com panies and organizations who are ex- pected from all parts of the state. The committees have completed their work and all that is now necessary to ,Jr, n ,r;ll be propitious weather but the observer was not very sanguine last night as to the prospects for clear day It is, however, likely that this storm will break early this morning and Old Sol appear to beautify and glorify the day and add his smile to the occasion.
 At the park two large tents have been erected for the convenience of the visitors and veterans of the civil war and the grand stand from which the exercises will take place has been com pleted and decorated. The monument has been covered with canvas previous to it's formal unveiling.
 The parade will form on the Central Green at 10:30 o'clock and will start from there at 10:45 o'clock sharp, pro ceeding over the following line of march: Elm to College. College to Chapel, Chapel to Church. passing in review in front of the city hall, Church to Whit ney avenue, Whitney avenue to Grove, Grove to Orange, Orange to Chapel, Chapel to Church, Church to Con- gress avenue, Congress avenue to Howard avenue, Howard avenue to Bay View park.
 It will take about one hour to cover the line of march and it is expected that the ceremonies at the park will be begun not later than 12 o'clock al- though it may be a little later as some time will be required to place the different divisions in the parade in the quarters assigned for them.
 It is certain that a great majority of
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