The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-05-30
NO CRAVE MISSED
The Homes of $4,000 Dead
Strewn With Flowers
AMI Decorated With American
Flags at Arlington.
IN BANDS OF CREPE
National COlOrs Are Displayed
From Thousands of Homes
And the Public Buildings of the
COuntry's Capital.

| Washington, May 30.-With solemn
and impressive ceremonies, Memorial
Day was observed in the national cap
ital on more elaborate scale than
usual. Business was suspended and
people of all classes united in per-
petuating the memory of the thou
sands of heroic dead in the eight ma
tional cemeteries in this vicinity. Sol
diers'' monuments and statues on the
government reservations were flag
draped; flags on all the public build
ings were at half mast and the ma
tional colors, with the folds caught in
the bands of crepe, were displayed
from hundreds of private residences,
Notwithstanding the absence of the
president, who has been conspicuous
figure in several previous Memorial
Day exercises, the arrangements at
Arlington were elaborate. The days
programme included a parade of the
G. A. r. posts, the Old guard, Spanish
War Veterans, other patriotic organ
izations and the militia of the District
of Columbia, headed by the United
States marine band; decoration of
monuments and graves, and addresses
by men prominent in public life.
At the national cemetery at Airing
ton, overlooking the Potomac, the
principal exercises took place. There
the patriotic organizations formed in
line and at the gates were greeted by
national salute fired by battery of
the United States field artillery. The
49, 900 graves in the cemetery were
strewn with flowers and each grave
mrked by a tiny American flag, wo-
men of the societies auxiliary to the
various organizations, having been en-
gagged in the patriotic work from early
morning A touching feature of the
ceremony was the decoration of graves
in the part of the cemetery where lie
the Confederate dead.
The tomb of the unknown dead"
was decorated by a special committee
and there the Marine band rendered
dirge, the same program being fol-
towed in the section allotted to the
Spanish war dead, and a wreath plac-
ed on the anchor OF the battleship
with a large crowd present, the inn
pressive service for the soldier dead
was conducted. The program arrang-
ed interspersed by selections of the
United States Marine band included
singing of sacred and patriotic songs
reading of LfncoIn's Gettysburg
address by Rev. H. n. Couden. chap
lain of the house of representatives,
read THE reveille," (Bret Harte) by
Colonel John Tweedale, L. S. A; ora
tion by Comrade James Tanner, past
commander-in-chief of the G.. A r.,
and America" by the band, chorus
and entire assembly.
Following these exercises the un-
ory of Major General Joseph A. Now
er by the Army of the Tennessee, took
place under the auspices of that So
ciety. United States Senator William
Warner of Missouri presided Former
United States Senator John NJ. Thurs
ton, of Nebraska, was the orator of the
day at the exercises at the Brightwood
cemetery.
Under the auspices of the various
posts of the G. A. r., memorial ex-
ercises were held in the District of Col
umbia at the Soldiers Home, Congress
sional, Oak Hill, Holyrood. Mount
Olivet. Glenwood, st. Elizabeth asy-
lum, Rock Creek. Harmony, Prospect
Hill. St. Marys and battle-ground GEM
eteries.
Official. programs were carried out
at each cemetery