Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1906-05-31
Grand Army With
Cadets Marched
To Cemetery.
DAY OF SPORTS.
Events at Raritan Yacht Club
With Dance at Night----High
School Athletic Contests
With Ocean Grove
Students.

Memorial Day was never more gen
orally observed than yesterday, and
it was notable from every standpoint,
patriotic, social, yachting, athletic
and others. The sound of the fife and
drum, the sight of the hoary headed
veterans and of "Old Glory" above
them and displayed in every street,
made the hearts of watching thou
sands glad, and in the afternoon and
evening people turned to social en-
joyment and the day ended finely,
before the shower, which commenced
about 12:45 O'Clock this morning. In
and near this city the day was fit
t.agly marked and 1906 will be re-
membered long by hundreds here.
The parade here in the morning
was viewed by thousands. 1t was
headed by the Westminster Cadets
fife and drum corps, followed by the
cadets-infantry and artillery-then
a number of small girls dressed in
white and wearing garlands of red,
white and blue, and then the Thin
Blue Line of those who, in smaller
number each year, go out to deck
the graves of their sleeping comrades
who fought under the glorious flag
in the civil conflict of the sixties. All
but few marched and those unfit
for the long march were borne in car
riages.
The Parade Starts.
The parade started from the G. A.
r. barracks in the Odd Fellows bull
ding, Smith street, shortly after eight
o'clock and went to st. Peters GEM
etery at Rector and Gordon streets,
where the service was read and the
salute fired. The decorated wagons
loaned by local business concerns had
meanwhile gathered around City
Hall Park and in Market street and
were filled with children. When the
paraders returned from st. Peters,
the wagons fell in behind and the
march out Woodbridge road was be-
gun. Hundreds followed them At
Alpine cemetery, Rev. Dr. w. G.
Snodgrass, pastor of Simpson M. E.
church, delivered fine address.
Spanish War Veteran.
A touching feature of the days OBJ
servance by the veterans of Major
Dandy Post was the decoration of the
grave of Thomas Hoy, the young vet
eran of the Spanish-American War,
who met a tragic death by a fall at
Tottenville last Friday night, and
who was buried Tuesday When the
G. A. r. was decorating the graves
of veterans Tuesday they placed
a4x :ol,
slept the veteran of a later and less
terrible war.
When the paraders returned from
the cemeteries an elaborate dinner
was served to them at Odd Fellows
hall by the Women's Relief Corps.
Cadets Went to South Amboy.
In the afternoon the cadets, with
the members of Major Dandy Post
as their guests, went to South Am
boy and paraded with General Truax
Post, G. A. r., to the cemetery, where
a service was held over the grave of
Stoddard Dayton, a former member
of the cadet body. Rev. j. H. North
rup spoke appropriately. 1t was six
O'Clock when they reached their head
quarters In this city after the days
marching.
A Fine Day.
The splendid weather conditions
were ideal for outdoor pleasure Hun
dreds spent large part of the day on
the water and the resorts were crowd
ed Boynton Beach was the rendez-
vous of swarms of pleasure seekers
all day and last night, when the dane
ing was the feature. The smaller
parks and groves were also scenes of
pleasure, among them being Loeser's
Excelsior Grove at Maurer, Esberg's
Raritan Park at Keasbey, and Union