Evening star., 1909-05-31
01 1.Epr1rN Il. HoLBRooK
DEPARTMENT 6rIr1ANpER.

progress, or breed degeneracy in the in
dolent atmosphere of too great a wealth.
Changes Brought by Time.
Nor is this the only great change. A
strange new populace fills our streets, a
populace representing a civilization un-
known to your childhood's days. A COM
parison of the names of a regiment re-
cruited from our great cities for service in
| the civil war; with the names that make
up equal number on your poll lists in
some of their wards, will bring this truth
home to you with vivid reality. In the
| former are predominant the old American
names; in the latter are names unpro-
nounceahle by English tongues. Our old
American stock is being swallowed up by
the vast army from southern Europe. In
| the amalgamation, the Americanization,
of all these people. we need to keep
burning. intensely burning, the old Amer
| lean patriotism. Though the blood may
| change, the old spirit must be maintained
| unquenched.
Before another century has passed,
| our great national resources which pro-
| vidence has given us. with the vast OPP
| portunities incident to them. will have
! been practically exhausted. and we shall
| be surrounded by conditions analogous to
those of the congested old world of today.
| The westward roll Of the tidal wave OF
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mountain. plain and valley. But nature S
virgin soil, her primeval forests and her
unopened mines Will not be there.
Thirty Thousand Newly Dead.
To-day the Grand Army of the Republic
lays it's tribute Of flowers on the thirty
thousand new-made graves. Next year
| the death list will be still more. This is
the silent slaughter as you walk into the
oll hI,t k wi a ca
undaunted hearts, with the same brave
step, and at night you sing the same old
songs-soldiers to the end. And those who
watch you, and those who walk with you
as deeper and deeper into the valley or
night you go. with tears that we'll from
the heart, with gratitude ineXpre ssible
can only murmur. God be with you to
the end
Following Senator McCumber's address
there were musical selections by John
Waters. the Marine Band and the choir.
Col. John Tweedale gave selected read
ing; Rev. John Reid Shannon pronounced
the benediction. and a bugler sounded
TAPS" lights out.
The officer Of the day and marshal at
Arlington today was Maj. f. R. Camp
bell. Capt. John c. Maynard was off,
Ger Of the guard. and Maj. Fred S..
Hodgson and c. o. Howard were aids.
Spanish War Dead Remembered.
| IHc SHlIeQ spanish war veterans
held impressive services in their sec
| ton at Arlington today.
Headed by the National Guard band
whose services were rendered through
the courtesy of Gen. George H. Harries,
a member Of Lawton Camp the process
ment about 1890 o'clock. The line
was headed by Department Commander
Gustav f. Rausch and Department
Chaplain Rev. Henry A Brown, U. S. 4.
me rltualistlc service OF the dead of
the Z. s. w. V. was read by Commander
Rausch. Chaplain Brown andothers
Commander Rausch told how "the ster-
ling young American manhood from the
east. the west. north and south had wiped
out the insult to the honor Of the nation
by Spain in 1893. Chaplain Brown spoke
of the devotion to duty of the fighting
men of 1898, who faced the blasts of
Spanish rife fire and shrapnel fire at
Santiago. and taught the world such a
ha lesson sna,1ad that the old flag will never again
The band of the District of Columbia
National Guard played appropriate airs.
Capt. Lee NJ. Lipscomb and Maj. Fred S.
Hodgson assisted Department Commnder
Rausch in conducting the ceremonies
Floral pieces were placed on the Spanish
war monument by the Legion of Spanish
War Women; the Department of the Dis
trict Of Columbia. United Spanish War
Veterans, and the auxiliaries to the
| Spanish War Veterans.
| Capt. Daniel V. Chisholm was in charge
| OF the marching column on its solemn
parade from the tomb of the unknown to
the Spanish war monument and thence to
| the lunch stands.
Exercises by New Legion.
| Special services were held by the mem
| bers of the recently formed organization
the Legion of Spanish War Women-in the
Maine section and at the graves of sew
| eral individual officers who served in the
war with Spain. Mrs. Kathryn Hodg-
| son, president, being in charge.
Luncheon for Veterans.
| At the conclusion Of the ceremonies at
| the Spanish war monument the veterans
| Of 1898 and their friends were given hot
| lunches at refreshment tents, conducted
/ by the Spanish War Veteran auxilares,
Mrs. Ida NJ. Galloway in charge, and the
Lineal Society Of the Spanish war. Mrs.
Fred S. Hodgson in charge. The lunches
We're served after the ladies had decorat-
ed the graves Of the dead Of the war with
| Spain.
| The ladies on duty at the tent of the
| auxiliary were Mrs. Julia NJ Sidman,
| Mrs. Lucille Fell, Mrs. Phillips, Miss
Grace N Pierce, Mrs Cora NJ. Campbell,
| ing, Mrs. Lillian Carr, Mrs. Lucy Russell,
1 Miss Elizabeth Hurdle, Mrs. Ida Hum
| phries and Miss Jennie Day.
Those who served the veterans at the
Iinea tent We're:
/ Floral committee Mrs. l. N Dolph Mrs
| Clarence Adams, Miss Carrie DuvaH Mrs
/ George Nairn.
Committee on refreshments-Mrs. l.. NJ.
/ Ferguson, Mrs. F. S. Hodgson. Mrs. Allyn
| Capron. Mrs. George Driver, Mrs w.