Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-30
OVER IN ANACOSTIA
MEMORIAL DAY PROPERLY CELE-
DRAFTED THIS MORNING
John A Logan Post and Ladies' Aux
Hilary Participate In Appro-
pirate Exercises.

ladies Of the relief corps auxiliary to that
organization and school children, gathered
at the Masonic Hall, at Pierce and Jackson
streets, the Grand Army headquarters in
AnacOsta, early this morning, preparatory
TO taking part in the exercises at the Gov
eminent Hospital for the Insane, and there
the cOlors OF the post were unfurled TO the
music of The Star Spangied Banner" as
rendered by the band of the government
asylum. Following this ceremony there
was a concert of patriotic airs by the
band during which there was formed the
procession, where youth and grizzed age
mingled in contrast, with fiuttering flags
and martial music, that took up route to
the institution.
Logan Post. escorted by The band led by
Prof. T.. T. Davis, was IN the van, after
the old soldiers coming four large vehicles
sent down by the hospital and in which
We're seated pupils of the public schools at
AnacOstia to the number of 200 Carriages
in which were some Of the speakers and
some guests, brought up the rear of the
Each veteran bore a flag. while in the
hands of the school children miniature
stars and stripes were held aloft until the
whole line was a mass of waving color
The parade moved down Jackson street to
Monroe, south on Monroe to Nichols ave-
nue. and south on the avenue to the street
cars, which the veterans boarded with the
way TO the hospital. The ladies of the Re
lief Corps had preceded the procession to
the asylum to begin the work of decoration.
Entering the gates of the institution, the
visitors We're met by a line Of 80 ex-sol-
diers, now inmates of the hospital, who,
with the cOlOrs at the head of the column,
stood with open ranks to receive them.
The march was then taken up TO Poplar
Spring. where. in a natural amphitheater.
shaded by stately poplars and towering
oaks, seats had been provided and a stand
erected for the speakers and guests. Sol
diers of the great civil strife with their
younger comrades of the Cuban and Phil
ippine campaigns, whose lives are at pres
ent being spent at the asylum, We're in the
audience. which was also composed of many
female patients from the institution. There
We're about 1000 persons in attendance
when Bugler William Davis sounded the
assembly.
In the meantime committees of ladies
from the relief corps and the hospital
We're engaged in the strewing of blossoms
on the graves of the soldier dead These
lie IN two cemeteries at the asylum, one
mile beyond the institution, where already
Natures Yerdure in the wooded hills sur
rounded them. the other on the main
grounds OF the asylum. which though now
not in use, still has it's daily care. Up
ward of 1900 soldiers are inferred In
these spots, and the burial mound of each
bore blossoms scattered by the hands of
those assigned 10 this loving task From
the hospital greenhouses and from the Ana
costa schools large cOnveyances of flow
ers were sent for the purpose of decorat-
dies assembled at the scene of the exer-
cises, which then proceeded according to
the program. The hospital appointed a
special floral committee for the occa sion
the personnel of which was as follows:
Mrs. S. Meloy, Mrs. Helen c.. Leitch, Miss
Helene G. Tanquary, Miss Mary OLeary,
Miss Nellie Robey.
The Program in Detail.
After the assembly there was music by
the band and an invocation by Rev VIII
lard G. Davenport. Introductory remarks
were made by Mr.. A. B. Frisbee, who spoke
as follows:
l once read some verses by poet whose
name | have forgotten, wherein it was re-
cited, once upon time
That through Alpine village passed
A youth. who bore banner with u strange device,
Excelsior.
We have arrived in our career on an
eminence from whence we can look back
ward to a century and a quarter of ma
tional life Five centuries ago there was
planted on the shores Of new continent
a vine, the fruit of which should be for
the healing of the nations 1t was plant
ed by representatives of two factions,
whose principles were far apart. At
jamestown, In 1907, and at Plymouth, in
1920, these two factions laid the founda-
tons of new nation A quarter of a
ing factions lit the flames of civil war.
The roundhead triumphed over the
cavalier and Cromwell assumed the reins
of power. Less than dozen years later
the great commoner had passed away and
the Stuarts returned to the throne of
their ancestors. a sad day 1T was for
England that saw Charles the II come to
his own. but it proved to be one OF in
calculable benefit to the struggling colo
MES in America. a dissolute monarch
found ii convenient to replenish an empty
treasury by the sale of the charters and
concessions In the new world. Company
after company was formed to reinforce
those already here and to form new colo
MES along the Atlantic seaboard
For century they grew and prospered
The vine that had been planted has
spread its branches till the distance which
divided its widely separated parts had
been annihilated and had brought the
contending factions to realizing sense
that they must unite in order to free
themselves from oppression.
''And can ye deem 1t strange
That from their planting such branch should
bloom nations envy7
Hid by its vale of from the eyes
OF greedy Europe, this bold vine spread forth
In giant strength. Its early clusters, crushed
In Engiands wine press, gave the tyrant host
A draught OF deadly wine.
The independence of these colonies hav-
ing been secured, representatives from all
the colonies assembled TO form a govern
ment that should secure to all the rights of
freedom. constitution was formed and
adopted. that was intended to form more
perfect Union; but 1t was soon found it con-
talued principles that three-Quarters of q
century later brought the former contend
ing factions into conflict, and American
soil the roundhead and the cavalier again
stood face to face on the field of battle.
A conflict ensued the like of which had
not been seen since the armies of Cog and
the armies of Magog contended for the
mastery OF heaven The fiery valor of the
cavalier again went down before the cool
calculating and invincibe courage of the
roundhead The cause of contention was
eliminated from our organic law. and I'M
der the changed conditions the nation went
forward to an enlarged power and in1u-
ence.
third OF century of unexampled pros
perity. and that bright May morning
dawned. when Dewey's guns Numbered
Then it was that the cavalier and the
roundhead We'd with each other for the
privilege of defending the honor and dig
nifty of the republic.
These two factions. which only few
years before had faced each other in battle
array, were now marching shoulder to
shoulder TO free a brave people from their
cruel oppressors, and again the nation
moved onward and upward. to a place
among the nations of the earth. that the
most sanguine and optimistic never dream
ed of In the early days of the republic.
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