The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-05-31
NATIONS CAPITAL
HONORS OUR HEROES
Elaborate and Impressive OBJ
servance of Memorial Day in
the City of Washington.

WASHINGTON, May 3O.-with
solemn and impressive ceremonies,
Memorial day WIS observed in the
National capitol on a more eIaborate
scale than usual. Business was sus.
pended and people Of all classes united
in perpetuating the memory of the
thousands of heroic dead in the eight
National cemeteries in this vicinity.
Soldiers monuments and statues upon
the Government reservations were flag
drapcd; flags on all the public buildings
were at half mast and the National
colors with the folds caught in bands
Of crepe, were displayed from hundreds
of private residences
Notwithstanding the absence of the
President, who has hecn conspicuous
figure in several previous memorial day
exercises, the arrangements al Arlington
were elaborate. The days programme
included parade of the G. A, r. posts,
the Old Guard, Spanish War veterans,
other patriotic organizations and the
militia of tho District of Columbia,
beaded 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 prin-
cipal exercises occurred. There the
patriotic organizations formed in line at
thp gates were greeted hy a national
salute fred by a battery of the United
States field artillery. The $4,000 graves
in the cemetery were strewn with
flowers. and each grave marked by IN
American flag. women societies auxiliary
TO the various organizations having
been engaged in the patriotic work
from early morning. A touching feat
urc of the ceremony was the decoration
of graves in the part of the cemelery
where lie the Confederate dead. The
tomb of the unknown dead was
decorated by a special committee, and
there the marine band rendered dlrge,
the same programme beng folIoWed 2, IN
the section allotted TO the Spanish war
dead and wreath placed upon the
anchor of the battlcship Maine.
Later, in the amphltheatcT, Win n
large crowd present. the impressive
services for the soldier dead WAS con-
Quoted The programme arranged m
tcrspersed by selections Of the marine
band, included singing of sacred and
patriotic songs, reading of Prcsldeh'
Lincoln s Gettysburg address by Rev:
II r. Couden. chaplain Of the House OF
Representatives; reading The Re
viellc." " (Bret Harte). by Colonel John
Tweedle. L. s. A.. Grafton Commander
lanes Tanner. past commander IN cher
of the G. \. f. and - America, by
the band chorus and entre assemoly.,
Following these exercises. the unVeil,
inc of the monument TO the memory or
Major General Joseph \. Mower. by the
Army of the Tennessee, took place
under the auspices of that society
United States Senator sarner OF MS
souri, presided.
Former United States Senator Thurs
tom nf Nebraska was the orator of the
dav al the exercises at the BriCltwood
cemetery.
nosts of the G. A r.. Memorial cXer-
riscs were held in the District Of Colum-
hia m the Soldiers Home. CongreS-
sional, oak Hill, Holy Rood. Mount
Olivet, Glcnwood. ST Elizabeth asylum,
Rock Creek. Harmony, Prospect Hlll,
battle-ground aud ST Mary's Gene
tcTies.