The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-27
Impressive Parade through Streets Of City. HALTED AT THE CAPITOL E ss en-c setfht essar Floral Designs on Davis Star at state House. Military Fired volleys Over Many Graves at Cemetery and Old Soldiers Raised Their
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march the weary distance to the cem- special street cars which were in walt ing for them.
 The rear of the procession was brought up by a hne of carriages. The occupants of the carriage were:
 First Carriage-Mrs. M. D. Bibb. President of the Ladies' Memorial As- sociation; Mrs. J, c. Lee, vice presl- dent; Mrs. Geo. R. Doran, Treasurer. Mrs. I. M. P. Ockenden, Secretary. t
 Second Carriage--Major B. R. Brick en, orator of the day; Judge T. M. Richardson, alternate; Miss Kettle May Graham, recitationist; Mrs. w. A. Ges- ner assistant secretary.
 Third CArriage-Ldeutenant Cover nor Cunningham, Rev. o. F. Gregory. and Judge J. M. Carmichael.
 The Ladies' Memorial Association. the various Chapters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the Children of the Confederacy. the D. A. R. Mayor Carr and city officials. NJ
 It was a historic line of march that the Memorial Day procession of yes terday followed In going from the place Of assembling down Blob to Commerce, up Commerce to Court Square. from Court s,Quare up Dexter avenue to the Capitol, from the Capt. tol down Bainbridse to Jefferson and out Jefferson to the cemetery.
 Great Crowd at 0akwood.
 4 great crowd had assembled at the cemetery before the procession came into sight. The space in front of the gate was black with humanity. The approach of the parade was heralded by the boom of a minute gun, fired every minute by a detachment of the Montgomery Field Artillery. The gate of the cemetery was decorated with a tasteful and pleasing arrangement of flowers, evergreeas and Confederate flags.
 The arch of the gate bore this leg end. They showed us. when called, how to die" .S detachment of police kept the gate clear for the free en- trance of the procession. Behind the gate the Confederate veterans who had ridden in the street cars,arrived be- fore the procession, were lined up on either side of the driveway entering the cemetery.
 The procession halted at the speak CTS stand in the cemetery about 100 yards from the gate, a stand which has been dedicated to Memorial Day exercises, to song and to oratory, in memory OI Lne SOnLSu6EAte SOlutcEb.
 Here the procession was disbanded The military companies marched aside, stacked arms and were dismissed. The stand was taken possession of by the participants in the exercises. the mem- bers of the Ladies' Memorial Associa- tion and Confederate Veterans. Cover nor Cunningham occupied seat near the center.
 The stand was beautifully and artis. tically decorated. The dominant note of the decoration was the entwined white and red of the Confederacy. In artis- tic contras. co these were the tasteful ly arranged evergreens and flowers. A striking picture of Robert E. Lee, the great and beloved leader of the South. hung from the center of the stand.
 The exercises began with reveille from the band.
 AS soon as this had been completed Judge J. M Carmichael stepped to the front of the stand and called the great crowd which had assembled to order. Several hundred people packed about the stand had waited eagerly for the beginning of the exercises. They fen into a hushed silence as Judge Carmichael, himself one-arm- ed Confederate soldier. asked for or-