The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-05-31
MEMORY Of DEAD HEROES
HONORED BY THE LIVING,
DESPITE FALLING RAIN
Memorial Day Marked by Beauti-
full Ceremonies, Marred Only by
Weather Conditions.
SPEECHES ARE ELOQUENT
Services at the Monument and at
Four Cemeteries-Flowers,
Speech and Song.

Despite the inclement weather the vet
Grams of two wars. assisted by the citizens
Of indianapolis, gathered yesterday under
the folds of many rain-drenched banners to
pay tribute to their comrades who had
given their lives for their country. Every
where some evidence of the grateful love
In which the memory of the countrys mar
tyrs is held was TO be seen. and the rain
washed graves in the city's cemeteries were
beautiful with burdens of flowers. All of
the public schools held impressive exercises
in the morning. and at Greenawn. Crown
HILL Holy Cross and Mount Jackson ceme-
teries touching memorial services were
held. The lawns at the base of the monu-
ment were made beautiful in the morning
by mantle of mowers. placed there by the
school children of the city.
rhe most elaborate and solemn service of
the day was held in the afternoon at Crown
Hill. where nearly 1900 dead soldiers lie be-
meath the green sod of the soldiers plat.
Though heavy rain came up just at the
time the service was to begin, ii had only
tine effect of delaying the ceremonies slight
ly, and many hundreds of people stood pa
tiently beneath the dripping boughs of the
trees waiting the coming of the veterans
from the Grand Army posts. with their es-
cort formed of Companies A, c. d and III
OF the Indiana National Guard. Owing to
the threatening weather the other civic and
military organizations which were 10 have
taken part in the parade were not in at
tendance. 1t was after o'clock when the
veterans and the military companies ar
rived at the east entrance on street cars
The line was formed at once and The gray
haired survivors of the Grand Army. pre-
a nc 0f hn 1aYd fp.rra Ii
ately marched to the soldiers plat
ADDRESS BY CAPT. KETCHAM
After music by the Indianapolis Military
Band and a song. There's a Friend in the
Homeland by choir of women's voices
the Rev. Michael NJ. Lawson pronounced
the invocation. Following another song by
the choir, THE Veterans Last Song" by
Chaplain Lozier Capt. William A. Ketcham.
of this city, delivered the grafton, plead
ing that the memory of the Nations dead
be kept always fresh in the minds of Amer
leans, and recounting the deeds of the
soldier and sailor dead.
AT the conclusion of Captain ketcham's
address the choir sang Cover Them over
with Beautiful Flowers" and Chief Mar
shall w. ID. Green formed the battalion of
the Guard around the plat and to the ac-
compartment of the wind signing In the
trees and the patter of the rain upon their
leaves school children strewed the
graves WITH mowers, ana a detail or the
living comrades of the dead placed ever
green's upon the graves The singing of
America" was followed by a salute from
a firing squad detailed from Company H.
and when a short benediction pro-
nounced by Chaplain NJ. NJ. Lawson the
solemn procession marched from the silent
place OF rest In the address of the day
Captain Ketcham spoke in part as fol-
lows:
"The nineteenth century is dead and bur-
led and the twentieth century born since
the war drums ceased their throbbing and
the battle flags were furled. On this
threshold of another season, in this glad
springtime, when nature is at its best
with smiles in the trees and tears in the
skies, we have come 10 drop tear and
to pay tribute TO our honored dead; to
honor the comrades who still survive, and
TO commune with another to see IL
haply we may draw some lessons from
the honored dead and the honored still
living that may tend to lay stronger and
deeper the foundation of civil liberty and
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