The San Francisco call., 1905-05-31
Jfrewing Floral Tokens of Remembrance on

At the Presidio National Cemetery a
small flag f1uttered against every white
stone that marked the grave of pa
triot gone. and garlands lay all about on
the green lawn above the sleeping ones
who had worn the army blue. From an
early hour people began ffockirlg to the
military metropolis bearing blossoms as
their tributes of affection to those who
had carried arms that their country
might survive in the full freedom given
lit by its forefathers and bring the boon
of liberty to others that were oppressed.
Over the wooded inclines of the reser-
walton foated the strains of me-
mortal music and the measured
boom of guns was heard on
the slopes and far down into the city and
out on the waters of the bay. The dead
slept on, unconscious that their deeds had
brought thousands in reverence to the
spot where all that was mortal of them
had been laid to rest.
The parade that formed on Lombard
street and marched to the cemetery was
imposing. Grand Army posts, National
Guard companies, blocks of artillery,
regular infantry and cavalry and bands
and citizens in carriages, including vet
Grams too old to march, moved in pro-
cession through the wooded ways of the
Prcsidio to the green slope dotted with
the white stones. On the platform there
gathered Grand Army and other notables,
including Brigadier General Funston,
commander of the Department of Cali
fornia. A programme of unusual excel
lence was carried out and few of the
throng departed before it was over. One
of the features was the singing of a
chorus of school children whose tender
voices rose in unison in the lode to the
Nations Dead" They were from the
Clement Grammar School, and were led
by Miss Esther Simms. The California
quartet, composed of c. l.. Goetting. G.
l.. Gage, w E. Smith and c. l.. Parent,
rendered "Blest Be the Ground and ITO
Thee, o Country"
PASTOR SPEAKS FOR PEACE.
The sacred music of the band of the
Third United States Artillery, Armand
Putt, leader, that had mingled with the
solemn firing of the minute guns DIED
away, and General c. A. Coolidge, chair
man of the day, began his Introductory
remarks to the throng that had gathered
around the stand in the cemetery. Gen
eral Coolidge spoke of the heroic deeds
done on the various bloody battle helds
of the Civil War by those who lay sleep
ing in the many national cemeteries
throughout the country, and said IT was
yearly work of love to honor their
HleIHOIy ny lcIlOCIly oCpOoAtiiio SAOSSNA.-S
on their graves. He spoke in kindliness
of the brave soldiers in gray who had
opposed the army of the republic, and
said that in the Spanish-American war
the youth who had carried the stars ana
stripes to victory on land and sea had
sprung from both Union and Confederate
ancestors
! The Rev. William RAIDER, in delivering
the invocation, expressed hope for the
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men and nations would cease to meet in
bloody conflict As Christ said TO the
| waves of Galilee, Peace, be still, SO
would He say when trouble arose be-
tween militant nations, and he hoped that
the invocation of the Savior on the ris-
ing waves would ring in the ears OF the
peoples of the world that would take UP
arms against each other.
William H. Langdon, superintendent
of Schools, read Lincoln's Gettysburg
address in an impressive manner and
Major Charles Wesley Kyle delivered an
original poem, s"Our Loyal Dead the
burden of which was that the brave sol
diers who fought to save the Union had
kept the Stars and Stripes in the air
and that those who follow them would
still keep the starry banner floating.
Given in a dramatic manner, the poem
reused the enthusiasm of the veterans
present and they cheered the reading
heartily.
HEROES OF THREE WARS.
Congressman Julius Kahn, orator OF
the day, was introduced and spoke in
part as follows:
To-day a nation mourns its patriot
dead From the rock-bound coast Of the
Pine Tree State to the rropic islands
that nestle under the Southern cross on
the other side of the broad Pacific our
countrymen this day gather at the graves
of the brave defenders of Old Glory. te
place upon the lowly mounds which mark
the last resting places of our soldier
dead heartfelt tribute of love and af-