Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-05-17
MEMORIAL DAY PLANS
PRELIMINARY ORDERS FOR OBJ
sERvANCE ISSUED.
Legion of Loyal Women, With g. A.
R., Makes Arrangements
The Committees.


issued by Commander A. p Tasker of the
ders have also been issued by Mrs. Ida J.
Hart, department president of the Women's
Relief Corps of the Department of the Po-
tomac. The annual memorial religious
services will be held at Metropolitan NJ. E.
NJ. Bristol, pastor of the church, will
preach the sermon, and invitations have
been extended the members of the Union
Veteran Union, the Union Veteran Legion,
the Sons of Veterans, the Spanish War
Veterans, the Army and Navy Union, the
Loyal Legion, the Women's Relief Corps
the Ladies of the G. A. r., the Legion of
Loyal Women. the Daughters of Veterans
the Spanish War Ladies' AuXiliaries and
all other patriotic organizations to partici-
pate in the exercises. In his orders Com
mander Tasker states:
I'm compliance with the rules and regu-
lations Tuesday, May 30, 1908, will be OBJ
served as Memorial day.
THE true spirit of this day is not that of
the holiday, but of a holy day. consecrated
to sacred memories and lofty and patriotic
sentiments.
LAS our Savior. nthe night before His
death, instituted the solemn eucharistic
feast and said to His disciples This do
in remembrance of Me- SO our departed
comrades from their ashes, mingled with
every stricken field of the war. and from
every resting place in this our land, saved
and redeemed by their valor and patriotism
call US to a patriotic and sacred obServ-
ance of the day dedicated by our order to
their memories.
Memorial day should inspire in every
loyal breast gratitude to the God of bat
ties, who made and preserved a
tion,' and who inspired in the hearts of
our comrades that spirit of devotion to
right which made them offer their lives
willing sacrifice on the altar of their coun-
try's integrity and unity We should cher
isl the memory of their devotion and do all
in our power to make that memory AN
ever living influence for good in all our
hearts and an Indictment to coming gen.
erations to noble sacrifices for the public
VIC al"
An original poem has been written for
Memorial day by Mr.. Harry o. Hail. as
sstant librarian of the surgeon generals
office. The poem is published as part Of
Commander Taskers order.
Mrs. Harris Orders.
The orders of Mrs. Hart to the members
of the Women's Relief Corps include all
the arrangements for Memorial day.
I'm grateful recognition of the heroic
acts of those who gave their lives upon
the field of battle to preserve human liber-
ty and perpetuate the union of this glo-
rious nation, the order recites, 'let us
unite with the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie to commemorate their deeds of valor
and place upon the tomb the grateful trib-
ute of loving hearts"
The memorial committee of the corps
consists of President, Ida J. Hart; Sc
nior vice president, Marian B. Parker jul
nior vice president, Fannie E. Worden;
treasurer, Sarah Beach; chaplain, Julia
West Hamilton; executive board, Alice
Burke, chairman; Lucinda Gruber, Caro-
line Fisher Gertrude Morgan, Mary A.
Dow; delegate-at-large, Isabel w. Ball;
delegate, DR.. Carrie Thomas; alternate to
delegate, Hattie Saunders; secretary,
Emma c. Littlejohn; inspector, Anna E.
Hoagland; counsellor, Ida A. Oldroyd;
triotic instructor, Emma L. Newton; press
Isabel w. Ball; past depart
ment presidents, Ida V. Hendricks, In
diana Cowling, Anna s. Hamilton, Anna
Peck, Matilda r. Sprague, Margaret B.
Tew, Ida A. Oldroyd, Rosamond B. Me-
cham, Ida L. Chase.
o. P. Morton, No. 1-Annie Cromwell
Maria Jordan, Julia Collier, Christianna
Sumner No. ELLA F. Watkins, Mamie
E. Dent Josephine Fowler, Emma Ardell.
Burnside, No. 4Gertrude Strickland
N. ]. Ayers.
Farragut, No. 5Sarah Bunyea, Julia
Roberts, Mary A. Dow, T. E. Gunzenbach.
Jessie Bruner.
Lincoln NO. 6-Jennle thompson, MARY
E. Hall, Katie Philips, Martha Johns
Mary V. Gormdie.-
Logan, No. ELLEN D. Mclaughlin, Mary
Simpson, Emily Frisibe, Emma Emo. Carrie
King.
Lafayette, No. 10-Hester A. Wyman,
Lucy Graham. Mrs. Wilmot, Vina l.. Cal
houn, Mary Mcintosh.
Geo. Fl. Thomas, No. 11-Mary Thatcher,
Mary Honn, Jennie Cusick, Emma Webster,
Alice Burgess
Geo. L. Morris, No. 12-Augusta Raab,
Mrs. Shillo, Margaret Bradt, Margaret
Traver, Ida Fowler
Mrs. Hart has also been appointed chair
man of the floral committee by Commander
Tasker, and she has been also designated
as chairman of the committee on decora-
ton of the tomb of the unknown dead.
Corps presidents are urged to secure the
attendance of all their members on Me-
mortal day and at the memorial service
conducted by the various Grand Army
pests. The following assignments of the
various corps have been made to ceme-
teries:
o. P. Morton, Sumner, Burnside, Lincoln,
Arlington; Farragut. Congressional; 1t Is
further recommended that this corps re-
member the sailor dead with appropriate
ceremonies. George II. Thomas. Glenwood,
Prospect, Mt Olivet, ST.. Marys: Logan,
ST. Elizabeth: Lafayette, Soldiers Home,
Rock Creek; George U. Morris, Oak Hill,
HOLY Rood