Evening journal., 1904-05-30
OLD SOLDIERS DECORATE
DEAD COMRADES GRAVES
GRAND ARMY PARADE O'CLOCK THIS AFTERNOON
PUBLIC OFFICES AND BUSINESS PLACES ARE CLOSED
BRANDYWLNE SPRINGS AND SHELLPOT PARKS OPEN FOR


c. A. Elsmere quarters. Sports will be
the features as several match games
OF baseball tennis and hand ball have
been arranged.
Omclals OF the association expect
several hundred young men on the
grounds this afternoon.
Golf at Country Club.
There will be a golf tournament at
the Country Club this afternoon at .
o'clock. Two teams will be chosen from
the members ON the grounds which in
cludes women members.
The scoring viii be according TO the
system prevailing this year. one
point win be scored for the winner OF
the first nine holes; another for the
winner OF the second nine holes am
other point for the winner Of eighteen
holes. This win make it possible to
win three points. An entrance fee Will
be charged. and the winner OF each in
dividual match will receive a medal.
These medals win be OF bronze, APP
proprlately embellished. and to contain
the name Of the winner and the date
OF the match.
There will also be tennis but no
match game has been arranged.
Veterans at Church.
Members of the various Grand Army
posts and OF the different camps of the
Sons of Veterans attended the patriot
&c service I'm Delaware Avenue Baptist
Church yesterday held In memory OF
departed veterans OF the Civil War.
The old soldiers marched from their
headquarters TO the church IN a body
and upon entering stacked their colors
on either side OF the altar rail.
An eloquent sermon, appropriate TO
the occasion, was preached by the Rev.
W. w. Sherwood. of the Second NJ. r..
Church. His text was Greater Love
Hath No Man shown that He Lay
Down His Life for His Friends" Dur
in the course of his remarks. Mr.. Sher-
wood took occasion to remind the vet
Grams that they should be broad-mind-
ed and give glory also TO the men who
fought for the South. He told them
to strike out an the differences between
the North and South and to remember
the men who went through battle after
battle and who followed their army
throughout the whole four years OF
bloodshed. 81
you come here this afternoon" con.
tinued Mr.. Sherwood, ITO hear few
words IN memory of those men wh'
died on the field and It is a grand Ahinl
TO commemorate their deaths" III
told them they should also. remembe
those other men who have fallen am
who have been forgotten save by
mother or a dear wife and tomorrol
! as they lay "a tribute on the graves o
those known. lay also a flower here am
there IN memory Of the unknown dead
Forget not the ones who wore the gray
, for they too fought for principles tina
] they thought were right. Noble it !
to decorate the graves Of those w
know who fought for their country AM
remember those whose graves hav
been forgotten.
Pennsylvania railroad employees wer
/ presented with bouquets by the w. C.. 7
H. this morning Mrs L. W. Emcrso
and Mrs. Tageart were at French sire,
station distributing the flowers. Atiache
to each bouquet was an appropriate sorll
tural verse. Miss Rietta Emerson pr'
scented flowers 70 tho freight cmploye.
The plant of tho American Car an
Foundry Company Is working today G.
are also the clerks Of the Repanno Chen
. ical Company