Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-05-30
CEREMONIES COMBINED.
Commander E. P. Seavy of g. 81.
Thomas Post, No. Is, Conducts Services


The exercises at Glenwood, Prospect Hill,
st. Mary's and Mt. Olivet cemeteries. We're
conducted under the direction of Com
mander E. P. Seavy of Geo. H. Thomas
Post. No. 10. Junior Vice Commander H.
H. House and detachment from the post,
assisted by Sons of Veterans, assembled
near the corner of 18th and H streets
northeast at $50 o'clock this morning and
proceeded to Mt. Oivet and decorated the
graves there.
Members of the post, of the Woman's Re
lief Corps, of the Sons of Veterans and the
public assembled in the chapel at Glenwood
cemetery at IL o'clock for the formal OBJ
servance of the day. Bugler Elmer E. Gill
sounded Assembly and Commander
Seavy introduced Chaplain w. H. Honn
who invoked Divine blessing To the organ
accompaniment of Miss Gussie Palmer the
assemblage sang Nearer, My God to
Thee" Next, Adjutant Samuel Beight read
the orders relating to the day, and also
Lncoln's Gettysburg address. A tenor solo,
calvary by Mr.. ]. H. Maxwell, was then
in order. Mrs. Agnes Keller recited THE
Last Review after which former Leuten-
ant Governor Hart of Ohio, the orator OF
the day, addressed the gathering.
ut Is now forty-three years since Fort
Sumter was fired upon" Governor Hart
said.
Startled the Nation
THAT was a shot that startled the nation
and echoed around the world. 1t was the
beginning of the greatest civil war in HUI
man history. The people, accustomed to
the arts of peace, were suddenly precipi
tated into awful and bloody struggle.
The story of events during that period has
not only been written and read, but it is
personally known to very many who are
assembled here today. You and your COM
rades helped to make that history.
You were participators in the tragedy
and now almost half century afterwards
when the graves of your comrades are
grown over and green with the verdure of
spring, when the scars of war are becom-
ing obliterated, when a new generation
has come upon the stage of action, you the
remnant of that mighty host, the grizzled
veterans of battle and conflict and storm
come together here to pay loving and ten
der tribute to those who have gone before
you. 1t is a solemn, beautiful a sacred
service. 1t may do no special good to the
dead. but l am one of those who believe
that from their tents and camping grounds
on the other side of the river they are not
unmindful of their survivors and their
friends, and it is no stretch of imagination
to feel and believe that their spirits may
be with US here today. If this is true 1t
viii comfort them to know how well and
kindly they are remembered, to know the
results of their work and the immea surable
blessings which have come upon the coun-
try and Its people on account of their labors
and sacrifices. But, however this may be,
the effect of these exercises upon the living
is UNNECESSARILY blessed What country
we have How wonderful it has become.
How glorious is its record. How i'm
measurable are its benefits to mankind
This is the land you fought for; the gov
eminent you saved. But for your services
there would be upon this continent no re-
public, no union. no constitution, no great
world power. no home of liberty, no refuge
for the oppressed and downtrodden, no
mighty national union whose arms req III
to the uttermost parts of the earth: whose
commerce covers all the oceans; whose flag
floats on every sea- and everywhere Is an
emblem of the power, the glory and the in
dependence of the greatest and freest peo-
pie earth. The nation and the world
may thank the soldiers of the Union army,
for all this"
Continuing, the speaker said it was not
his purpose to review the the great events
which TRANSFERRED between 1861 and 1865
but he alluded to the state of public mind
during that period He said further that
the dead should not be forgotten. Their
glories should he perpetuated not only in
history and song and story, but by living
monuments attracting the eye-great object
leSSonS-reminderS OF the Unreasonable
wealth we possess in the memories and
deeds of our great men"
Benediction was pronounced by the chap
lain. Bugler Gill sounded taps" and the
committee proceeded with the decoration
of graves in Glenwood, Prospect Hill and
St. Mary's.
The committee of Geo. II. Thomas Post,
No. 10, that served IN connection with the
ceremonies today, included Edward Web
ster, William Hawthorn, 4. B. Crisp, w.
F. Reed, II. H. House, b. P. Entriken, VIM.
H. Littlejohn, Daniel S. Welker, j. j.
Stretch, w. H. Honn, 1. B. Thatcher, L. w.
Stone.
Woman's Relief Corps. No. II, was rep
resented by Mrs Nora B. Atkinson, pres-
dent; floral committee, Miss Tillie Dun
ham. Mrs. Mary Thatcher. Mrs. Mary
Honn, Mrs. Clara MCGEE, Mrs. Mamie P
Dorsey, Mrs. Rosamond y. Meacham, Mrs.
Matte Mcclure and Mrs Mary c. Hanen,
with all members of the corps as assist
ants.