Los Angeles herald., 1906-05-31
PASADENA STREWS
FLOWERS FREELY.
SOLDIERS MONUMENT is FOR.
MALLY UNVEILED
Grown cltyites Decorate Graves Of
the Fallen and Dedicate Mag
nifieent Shaft In Library
Park
Pasadena Agency.
16i5 East Colorado Street.
Telephone Main G52.


PASADENA. May s0.-The formal un-
yelling and dedication of the beautiful
soldiers monument in Library park to-
day, the customary decoration of the
soldiers graves i'm the cemetery and the
final impressive services in the First NJ,
~. church this evening were carried out
without a hitch and in the presence of
an erroneous crowd.
AS predicted the combined ceremonies
will long be looked back to as the most
interesting as well as most important in
the citys history.
In the morning parade a thousand
school children, wreathed with fragrant,
bright-hued flowers. carrying flags and
keeping step to the music of drum and
fife, were in line behind the halting ranks
of the remnants of that grand army Of the
civil war.
Two companies of the state troops
A and !, representatives of the civic and
commercial bodies, the Sons of Veterans
and tile members of the w. r. C.-these
helped to make up an extended and i'm
pressive parade as the veterans of the
c. A. r. were escorted to the Library
park.
Wrapped in Flag
Here stood wrapped in the United States
flag the magnificent bronze monument
erected by the citizens OF Pasadena ito
perpetuate the memory of the defenders
of the union, 1S6l-65."
Seats were placed in a semicircle in
front Of the monument, the formal exer-
cises taking place on platform at the
On this platform sat those who took
part in the program, together with the
city officials and the mem bers OF the
monument committee, through whose ac-
tivities the great work was conSummated.
This committee consisted of John Nc
Donald, 10th Pennsylvania infantry,
chairman; exS-Mayeor w; "; II; Vedder, 6sIs
infantry. secretary: A. K. Nash. 95th Hi
nois infantry: Hon. H. Fl. Markham, 93d
Wisconsin infantry; Benjamin Jarvis, 5th
n ID a.,
Massachusetts, light battery, and Willis
B. Smith, 14th Illinois infantry.
Music, Speeches, saIutes
The program consisted of formal dedi-
cation and memorial services by the
members Of John f. Godfrey post, G. A.
r.. the unveiling of the monument by
John Mcdonald, ir., firing salute by the
militia companies, prayer by Comrade
r. r. Meredith singing by a quartet
composed of Messrs. Jepson, Gates, Pou-
lin and Chick. floral offerings by the w.
r. c., bugle calls by Frank Raynesford,
patriotic music by the Pasadena band
and an address by Comrade Bob Bur-
dette. late of the 47th Illinois infantry.
In beginning his address Rev. Mr.. Bur-
dette read a portion of Lincoln's Gettys-
burg oration, then proceeding to picture
the peaceful days before the war and
the young farmer lad in the fields at his
plow Then came the gunshot in Charles
ton harbor. reverberating around the
world, startling the farmer lad and de-
StroyinE the peaceful scene Is with thC
crash of the thunder and the flash of the
lightning
Rev. DR.. Burdette's EIoquence
The speaker described the young lad as
a soldier. similar to the noble features
delineated in the bronze statute just un-
veied, and told of his trials during the
campaign of the great civil war, CAM
pagns ending as they too often did in an
unknown grave in southern soil-but his
life and sacrifice a deathless star in the
crown of liberty. The lessons of this
young soldiers devotion to his country
were dwelt upon with impassioned elo-
quence and the poetic perora tion was one
of the most impressive this gifted speaker
had ever given before his townsmen,
This evening Rev. Stephen Northrop
pastor of the First Baptist church of Los
Angeles, was the orator at the final SER
vice Of the day in the First NJ. e. church,
the commodious auditorium being packeo
to its doors with attentive people
The interior of the church was beauti-
fully and effectively decorated and spe-
cial program of music was rendered The
address itself was very eloquent and
helpful one, fully sustaining the reputa-
tlon of DR.. Northrop as a pulpit orator.