The Washington times., 1908-05-30
Old and Young Bow Heads
Over Graves in Washing
toms Cemeteries.
Brilliant Addresses and Mus
ical Features Add to the
Tributes of the Day.


feet. the strains CT martial music. the
tributes OF orators whose voices choked
because OF feeling, and with q baptism
Of tears and flowers the Capital Of the
nation paid homage today to the un-
forgotten dead who died upon its fields
OF battle Forty thousand graves. dot
ting the hills and wales of dozen ceme-
teries, felt the caress of loving hands
and forty thousand heroes sleep this
afternoon beneath the benediction OF
another Memorial Day.
Never before has the day been so
reverently. observed in Washington.
Never before has the thinning ranks
or the veterans spoken so elOQuently
OF the days that tried mems souls
and of the fact that one by one the
survivors are answering the last roll
call. So, appreciating this, the thou
sands who lined the path of march to-
day gazed with misty eyes upon the
handful that remained awhile from the
ranks. broken though they were and
faIteringIy formed, welled answering
| tears as memory Travelled backward
over the years 10 the days when the
step was lighter and the ranks were
/ full. It Is little wonder then that the
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1 barred heads and quickening hearts its
veneration for the silver-haired vet
erans who stlu feebly march within
the ranks. as well as those whose
graves. some unmarked, but none for
gotten. are the spots 10 which all
I Washington turned its face today.
WashingtOn's Own Day.
Decoration Day is an occasion pc
/ culiarIy WasaingtOn's own. II was
J here that the savlOurs CT the natiOn
| planned and prayed for its sulvasioni
/ IL was here that the eaemy's goal lay.
I il vas here that the martyTed Lincoln
/ fell and where afterwaTd Grant lived
/ 10 moull anew a nation. which IN the
words Of the martyred Prosider-, shall
not perish from the earth"
Therefore. II was fitting that the fac
tory should be still. that the shop should
be closed, that the workman and the
capitalist might be idle, and that those
who have learned either through eX-
perience or tradition of the travail
through which their ancestors passed
in the sixties might again immortal
lie the custom OF keeping green the
graves OF sleeping patriots.
In every cemetery there were gathered
appTeciatIve. earnest throngs- Almost
every hand bore a wreath and over
every marble slab at some time during
the day bent a form perhaps. that Of
! a fellow comFade, perhaps that Of a
little child. which left on the grave
Of some hero a simple but eloquent tri-
( butte that he had not died in vain.
Visit All Cemetries.
To Arlington. Congressional, Soldiers
/ Home. Oak HII, Lake Forest, Holy
Rood Mt Oltvet, Battle Ground, 81
| Mary's GIenwood, St. Elizabeth. Pros
/ pect Hiu, Rock Creek, and Harmony
/ cemeteries the adoTiug pilgrims came,
and from the most elaborate ceremonies
At Arlington 10 the more simple ones
! that marked the observance Of the day.
where fewer or the nations dead aTe
buried. the day was one never 10 De
/ forgotten.
/ Al 10 o'clock this morning the Grand
Army of the Republic, the United
/ SPANISH War Veterans, and the Army
and New Union Veterans formed at
| Pennsylvania avenue and Fourteenth
| street ana headed by the Marine Band,
1.-THE National Guard Band, and detach-
/ ments from the District National Guard,
! began TO parade through the city.
/ Watched by thousands the old soldiers
marched up Fifteenth street 10 the Ave
nue.. thence 10 Seventeenth. up Seven
teenth 10 Il and down Il to Twelfth
| street, thence back 10 the Avenue,
| where, on account Of the heat, bands,
! soldiers, and veterans took cars for Ar
/ lingIon.
Line of March.
The line was formed as follows:
John Finn, officer of the day at Ar
! llngton; u. c. Rausch and Charles A.
/ SIdman. officer OF the guard; cetach-
InenJ OF mounted police; Brigade Band,
! y. G. y. e., Donald q. Macleod, leader,
/ Fourth Battalion, National Guard Dis
/ trlct OF Columbia, MAJ Anton stephan
! commanding; United States Marine
Band, Lieut.. W. II. Santelman, leader;
| Old Guard, Capt. James N. Edga-, COM
/ mandlng; department commander, de-
| parLmeut officers and official stan. past
| department commanders members Of
| the staff of the commauder-in-chief;
John A. Rawlins Post, No. /. Samuel ".
Snow, commander; Kit Carson Post.
No. ., John Middleton, commander. Lin
colin Post. No. 3. W, II. Ray
/ mond, commander; George @. Meade
Post, No. ., William J. Breed
| commander; L. S. Grant Post, No. g.
! Burton r. Ross, commander James A.
| Garfield Post No. Z, John G. Maynard
! commander, Burnside Post. No. s. III.
l. Dean, commander; Potomac Post
No. IL JOnn II HanQOlpns comma 1derS
Phil Sheridan Post, No. IA, Charies r.
Garrette, commander; Lafayette Post
No. 20, George H Fehl, commander;
Frederick Douglas Post. No. p, b. F.
| Davis, commander; Charles Sumner
Post No. 9, r. d Goodman, commander;
FaTragut Post No. 10. a. T. DInsmOre,
comma nder; John A. Logan Post, No. l3,
A. 3. FTisbie, commander George II.
Thomas Post, No. IS, Edward Webster,
commander; Henry Wilson Post, No. II,
Thomas Day, commander; George U.
Norris, Post, No. ~ Asa II. Kedney.
lc commander: are assigned for memorial
service at cemeteries other than Airing
} ton, and did not appear in the parade.
/ Drum Corps Of the United States Ma
rine Band; United Spanish War Vet
erans, Department Of the District Of CO.
umbia; the department commander; the
department officers and staff; past de-
partment commanders: Camp No. J. D.
J. Leahy. commander; Camp. No. 2. w.
II. Henderson, commander; Camp No. 3,
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