The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-05-31
VETERANS DECORATE
 GRAVES OF COMRADES Citizens Join in Paying Re- spect to Heroes of
 Civil War.
MAYOR REVIEWS VETS
Patriotic Exercises in City, Fair Haven andWood-
 bridge.

Yesterday was an ideal Memorial day and large crowds turned out to view the parade of the c. A. R. veterans ot their march to decorate the graves of the heroic dead. Besides the members of the G. IA. R. there were in line 100 of the Edwin Bancroft Foote Boys club, who helped the veterans at the ceme- teries,
 In front of the city hall the mayor and the city officials reviewed the vet erans on their march On the stand with the officials were several of the veterans who were unable to walk.
 In the parade there were l5O veterans headed by a cordon of police and a drum corps, Behind the veterans were the various patriotic organizations.
 After the parade and exercises in the center of the city many of the specta- tors went to East Rock, where Nathan Hale camp, Sons of Veterans, decorat- ed the Soldiers monument there. Del egations from the Grand Army posts, then Women's Relief Corps, and school children assisted in the programme, which was under the direction of Com- rade James D, Hislop, assisted by Chaplain Wallace s. Bassett, After the decorating exercises addresses were made by Major John Anderson of the United States army. Comrade John Mccarthy for the Grand Army, William Q. Dickinson for the Sons of Veterans. and Chaplain J. s. Siebold, United States army. The exercises took about an hour and were attentiyely listened to.
 The Westville Decoration day cele- bration held under the direction of the G. A. R. was one of the most successful held in years. The line of march from Masonic hall to the Westyille ceme- tery was decorated profusely with flags both at the residences and stores. At an early hour yesterday morning a committee of ladies opened Masonic hall and received flowers, which they separated into boquets and distributed among the G. A. R. and school ohl- dren,. The procession headed by drum corps and followed by the G. A. R., the WestvilIe Hose and Ladder company No. 1, under Chief Murdocls Dingwall the Co B of the Boys Brigade of fhe Congregational church under Captain Elton Dons, the Crusaders of the St. James Episcopal church under Captain Sexton, and about 300 school children left Masonic hall at about 10 o'clock and marched directly to the cemetery where appropriate ceremonies were held
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 1.-The services were conducted by Rev F. Lincoln Davis, pastor of the Congre- gational church; Rev, W. B. Slaght, pastor of the Methodist church, and Rev. J. Frederick Sexton, rector of St. James Episcopal church, and Willis L. Isbell. prominent in the affairs of the state G. IA. R. gave thrilling poem of the war days. Concluding the exercises and decorating the graves the process sion returned to Masonic hall, where it was disbanded.
 Tn Fair Haven a short street parade was held previous to the exercises and decorating of graves at Union ceme- tery. About fifty veterans and several hundred school children formed on Grand avenue and East Pearl street about 30 o'clock headed by Lanctaft's drum corps and marched through Grand avenue to Quinnipiac avenue and countermarched to the drawbridge where the procession stopped and flow CTS were thrown on the water in honor Of the sailor dead of the nation, Rev. Dr, I. W. Sheath then made a few re- marks on the deeds of the navy. The procession then continued to Union cemetery, where Rev pr. Sheath delv- cred an address.