The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-31
SOLDIERS AND STUDENTS
REMEMBERED AT LAFAYETTE
Graves of War Veterans and Vic
TINS OF Train Wreck Deco
rated with Flowers.
INSTITUTIONS JOIN HANDS

Special 10 the Indianapolis Journal
LAFAYETTE, Ind, May 3O.-Memorial
day was observed in Lafayette, Purdue
University and the State Soldiers Home
to-day on a larger scale than ever before
in the history Of the city. and this after
noon the two state institutions joined with
the city in holding mammoth parade. At
Purdue University the exercises were un-
usually elaborate, consisting of military
ceremonies by the cadet corps and services
in Fowler Hall. The exercises in the hall
were not only in memory of the soldier
dead. but for those from among the ranks
of Purdue students and faculty who have
been called by death during the past year
Prof. Stanley NJ. Coulter read the necrol-
ogy of the school for the academic year
as follows
Officers and Faculty-Elizabeth Day
Swan. librarian, died in New York, July
q. 1903; Addison w. Bybee, trustee from
1884 to 1892. died Feb. II. 1904: Robert Sample
Miller, ex-professor of mechanical engi-
neering, died March 2S, 1904
Alumni and Student Body in Wreck of
Oct 81, 19OS-Edward Cool Robertson, class
of 1901; Thams Albert Bailey. 1907. school
Of agriculture; Joseph Collins Coates, 1906
school of mechanical engineering; Gabriel
Schuyler Drollinger. 1905. school of science;
Charles Edward Fur, 1905, school of civil
engineering; Charles George CRUDE, 1905
civil engineering; Jay Hamilton, 1906. school
OF mechanical engineering; Walter David
Hamilton, 1906, school of mechanical engi-
neering; Roswell Johnston Powell. 1906
electrical engineering; Wilbert Price, 1904
school of pharmacy; Waiter Lucas Roush
1904. school of science; George Leslie Shaw
1907, school of mechanical engineering
- nal EI
engineering; Samuel Campbell Truitt 1907,
school of science; Harry Otto Wright, 1907
school of civil engineering.
Alumni-Pearl May Hill. 1899, school of
science, July, 1903; David Bethuel Miller
1898, school of agriculture, Aug. e. 1903
Earl De Long Fristoe, 1902. school of cleo
trical engineering, Jam IA. 1904: John David
Minch, 1903, school of Science, Sept. 2S 1903
Frank E. Miller, 1900, class of 1900. school
of pharmacy March "a. 1904; Mrs A. r.
De Costa (Helena X. Cray, 1895 school of
pharmacy; Walter l.. Gerhart, 1893, school
OF pharmacy; William NJ. Ross, 1887. school
of pharmacy
Undergraduates and Former Students
Anna Fulton. 1904, school OF pharmacy.
March 81. 1904; Adm W. Kelsay. 1904, school
OF agriculture, Jan. z. 1904; Charles L.
Dransteld, 1904 school of civil engineering
July 3, 1902; Ebert l.. F'lagg, 1907 school
of agriculture, Nov. is. 1903; Randolph Rail-
ey, 1904, school of mechanical engineering.
Feb. H. 1904; Walter ]. Myers. 1906, school
of agriculture September, 1903; Thomas w
McCauley, school OF pharmacy, Nav g.
1904: George p Miller, 1895 school of me-
chanical engineering, May Is, 1904
The address was delivered by Charles r.
Williams. of Indianapolis, who made an
able plea for civic righteousness before an
assemblage OIL a thousand students and
members of the faculty.
AT the Soldiers Home the services were
impressive The exercises were held in the
assembly hall. After several patriotic Sc
lections by the home quartet Prof W. e.
Bates, of Purdue, gave the invocation
after which the Womans Relief Corps ded-
icated monument to the unknown dead
soldiers. Commander Daniel lie Fevere
read Lincolns Gettysburg address after
which Col. George w. Grubbs, of Martins
Vile, commander of the Indiana Depart
ment of the G. A R., delivered a stirring
address.
The parade this afternoon was a marked
success. In line were the Purdue artillery
and infantry and Battery c, l. N G.. fol-
lowed by hundreds of school children with
, flowers and flags, the various fraternal So
cieties and the veterans. The last named
included the two local posts and the Jasper
Packard Post. of the Soldiers Home. Three
veterans OF the Mexican war rode in a car
rage and the Spanish-American war vet
Grams followed. After the parade exercises
were held at the Coliseum. Col Eli Ritter
OF indianapolis, delivered an eloquent adj
dress before crowd of several thousand
persons. Flowers were heaped on the
grave OF every dead soldier in the city
cemetery.