Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-02
FULLER CO. OPERATION
PLANS FOR CELEBRATING ME-
MORTAL DAY.
Joint Exercises by G. A. r. and Span
ish War Veterans in Airing
ton Amphitheater.

Important action relating to Memorial
day plans and other matters was taken
last night at a meeting of the officers and
council of administration of the De-
partment of the District of Columbia,
United Spanish War Veterans. The meet
ing was held at headquarters, Tl9 9th
street northwest, and was presided over by
DR.. S. Clifford Cox. department COM
mander.
The announcement was made that the
program of ceremonies as heretofore car
ried out by the Spanish War Veterans at
Arlington May 80 had been changed The
change was brought about through the ef-
forts of Commander Cox, who was compli-
mented upon the proposed arrangement.
Heretofore 1t has been the custom OF
the Spanish War Veterans to separate
from the column of parade after reaching
the amphitheater at Arlington and march
directly to the Spanish war section. There
special services We're held and addresses
delivered in honor of the dead of the war
of 1898.
This year the Spanish War Veterans will
march to the beautiful monument. erected
in their section in honor of the soldiers
of the war with Spain by the Colonial
Danes and after a simple prayer and a
dirge by the Marine Band and the placing
of floral tributes on the high shaft Will
counter march to the amphitheater, where
Of the Republic will be held.
An innovation on the coming Memorial
day will be that for the first time one OF
the speakers at the amphitheater VIII rep
resent the soldiers of the -Ameri-
can war and his address will refer almost
entirely to the dead of that war and their
valor and sacrifices for "Old Glory"
Fuller Cooperation.
Thus. it is said there will be the fullest
co-operation between the grim old veter-
ans of the civil war and the younger vet
Grams of the war with Spain, and the lat
ter will become part, in fact, OF the gen
eral services at the amphitheater lhis
arrangement was made freely py the ". "a.
r. and is regarded as a Splenold tiipu ho
To the Younger soldiers of the republic, VINO
hone to succeed the Grand Army wheh tIe
ranks of that patriotic and now Venel 1i.,i c
organization are so thinned by tne scyt
of Father Time that there Will not Dc
enough of the old fighters to answer re-
yeille call at their post meetings. ~,
Another honor to be conierreu uponi tie
Spanish War Veterans TINS year ny 'Iis
Grand Army is that the guard OF hohor Oh
Nav 70 at Arlington will be composed en-
tirely of Spanish War Veterans, IN their
uniforms of blue and gray. FOR TINS pui
pose Commander Cox has ordered uetaii
Of twenty-five uniformed men from the
seven camps in the District rms detali
will perform the patrol and guard duty at
the tomb of the unknown and elsewhere III
the Enclosure, which was heretofore per
formed by the veteran Old Guard OF the
G. a. r. and the Sons of Veterans.
Ladies to Assist.
The ladies of the Spanish War Veterans
will. as usual, assist the ladies of the Il. A.
r. in decorating the graves. meeting OF
the lady friends of Gen. Nelson A. Miles
Camp. No. /, Spanish War Veterans. has
been called for this evening by Capt G. E.
Rausch. commander of that organization,
and systematic arrangements made for CO
operating with the ladies of the Grand
Army societies
At the meeting of department officers last
night Capt. G. z. Rausch was instructed by
Commander Cox to furnish uniformed
guard of honor for the Spanish War Nurses,
who are holding dedicatory services at their
monument in the Spanish section at
Arlington this afternoon. The guard will
be commanded by Capt. Rausch, and will
wear their distinctive uniform Of blue and
gray.
The members of the other camps were
ordered to assemble at the Virginia end of
the Aqueduct bridge an hour before the
ceremonies of the Spanish War Nurses be-
gin and proceed to Arlington in a body.
Capt. Rausch and Adjt. John Lewis Smith
of Miles Camp announced that John H.
Carter member of that camp, who died
recently a Providence Hospital, had been
buried at Arlington with full military hon.
orS.
Before adjournment the several Memorial
day committees made reports, which indi-
Gated that there will be a full turnout of
Spanish War Veterans on May 80 to do
honor to their late comrades who rest at
Arlington, as well as to the patriots who
gave up their lives under the colors in the
war from 1861 to 1865.