Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-12
WITH MILITARY DISPLAY
DEDICATION OF MONUMENT IN
ARLINGTON CEMETERY
To Memory of Deceased Members OF
the Rough Riders--Inscrip-
ton on Monolith.

With an elaborate military display and
appropriate exercises, the monument
erected to the memory of the men of the
Rough Riders who served during the war
with Spain will be dedicated in Arlington
this afternoon. In addition to the regular
troops stationed in this vicinity and a part
of the National Guard of the District of
Columbia, the ceremonies will be par
ticipsted in by President Roosevelt, who
was colonel of the LIST Volunteer Cavalry,
or Rough Riders. and many representa-
tives of the diplomatic corps and officers
of the army and navy Rev. d. ]. Stat
ford of st. Patrick's Roman Catholic
Church will make the dedication address
and the invocation and benediction will
be pronounced by Chaplain Brown. United
States army. formerly chaplain of the
Rough Riders Regiment In addition II
Is expected that President Roosevelt will
deliver an address. large number of
former members of the regiment from out
of town have signified their intention OF
attending.
A trust fund is in charge of a committee
whose duty 1t will be to add the names Of
all the members to the list of dead chiseled
on the shaft until the roster Is complete.
The monument Is the design of Mrs. Ca
prom. widow OF Capt. Allyn X. Capron.
who fell at Las Guasimas. While not the
largest monument in the historic cemetery,
1t is the largest monolith, being fourteen
feet high on base six by six feet, and
bears the inscription:
In Memory of the Deceased Members of
the LIST Volunteer Cavalry, Spanish-Ameri-
can War. Erected by Members and Friends
of the Regiment
Spanish War Veterans to Attend.
Capt J. Walter Mitchell. commander of
the Department of the District of Column
bia. United Spanish War Veterans, has is
sued an order directing attention to the
ceremony of unwilling the Rough Riders
monument in Arlington national cemetery
this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock. In the
order it is stated that all members of the
organization are requested to be present
and to rendezvous at the Fort Myer en-
trance to the cemetery not later than
o'clock. 1t is also stated that members
in government employ will be excused at
, O'Clock in the afternoon Mrs. Lizzie w.
Calver, department commander of the
Ladies' Auxiliares of the United Spanish
War Veterans, asks all members of the or
CARNATIONS under her direction to be pres
ent at the ceremonies.
Among the specially invited guests are:
The minister of Denmark, Mr.. Constantin
Brun. the French ambassador and Madame
Jusserand: the Russian ambassador Baron
ROsen; the minister of Norway, Mr.. c..
Hauge; the minister from Panama. Don j..
Domingo de Obaldia Lieut.. Col. B. r.
James, military attache. British embassy
Lieut.. Commander Naomi Taniguchi l.
]. N, naval attache japanese embassy;
Colonel Raspopoff. military attachc, Rus
sian embassy; Major Kunishige Ia
naka, military attache. Japanese en-
baSSy; Mai Cheun, attache, Siamese lega-
ton; Mr.. Robert Centaro, attache Italian
embassy; Mr.. Sylvanio Gurgel do Amaral of
the Brazilian embassy; Mr.. II. A. Grant
Watson of the British embassy; Mr.. f. l..
Chermont of the Brazilian embassy Brig.
Gen J. Franklin Bell: Mr.. Loeb, secretary
to the President; the Commissioners of the
District of Columbia and Commander and
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