The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-06-04
THEIR TOKENS OF LOVE
PEOPLE EVERYWHERE LAY BIOS
| SONS ON GRAVES OF DEAD.
Cemetery at Arlington Transformed In
to a Flower Garden; Taft at
Gettysburg; Day Elsewhere.
Especial to The Free Press.l

| 600 who lie in Arlington cemetery are
today sleeping peacefully beneath a
wilderness of garands and festoons of
flowers Thousands of army and navy
officers, veterans and Washington Off
Gals and citizens today visited the vast
burial ground of the soldiers dead and
/ left behind veritable avalanche Of
/ fragrant tributes to those gallant her
oes who surrendered only to death.
Arlington is the camping ground of
an army-an army that never again
will hear arms. The national GENE
terry is perhaps the most beautiful
! burial ground in the whole country.
1t lies upon hilltop where grow
mighty forest trees, and where the
view is unbroken to a point far of
down the broad Potomac. The care
taker of Arlington will tell You that
no soldier ever saw the place in life
without expressing the wish that he
might lie there after DEATH
Some time it may be that the fed
eral and confederate memorial cere-
monies will be held upon the same
day. The government at present cares
for the graves of many thousands of
the confederate dead and it is but a
question OF few years probably when
the north and south will agree that
one memorial day will be the part of
the better patriotism.
In Arlington today soldiers of the
r1'o lar
union army of the civil war remem-
bered alike the graves of northerner
and southerner.
Grant and Sherman the two greatest
of the northern war chieftans. sleep
elsewhere. One on the shore of the
Hudson and the other in that beau
tiful cemetery in the city of st. Louis.
Their place is in Arlington
Generals, colonies, sergeants, corpor-
ais and privates are side by side in
this encampment of the dead. The
silent tents of uniOnists and confeder-
ates are pitched not far apart and no
guard stand between Schofield. feder-
al; wheeler, confederate; sleep almost
side by side. They were friends. then
enemies in war and then friends again
serving under the same flag. Both
died while in the service of the Uni
ted States.
There are soldiers of many wars
resting in Arlington. Revolutionary
veterans lie under the same trees that
sheltered their descendants killed in
the Philippine Islands. Soldiers who
were the victims of the Seminole and
the Sioux are asleep side by side, and
with them are the men who fell at
Moline del Rey and Buena Vista.
| Sailors who served on the constitu-
ton and on the Maine are in port in
Arlington. 1t is camping ground for
the men of the united services.
The Day in Chicago.
Chicago, May 3l.-Headed by Gen
eral Frederick Dent Grant, the twenty
seventh United States infantry. two
batteries of artillery and troop of
United States cavalry marched in to-
days memorial day parade. A large
number of veterans and Illinois guards
men were also in line. Governor De-
neen and his staff reviewed the pao-
enat which was one of the most i'm
pressive of its kind ever witnessed in
the Windy City.
President Speaks at Gettysburg.
Gettysburg, Pa, May 3l-President
Taft today made the principal address
at the unveiling of the monument cree
ted at Gettysburg in memory of the
regular soldiers who participated in the
famous battle. Miss Helen Taft. daugh-
ter of the president, unveiled the
memorial. Two thousand regular troops
and thousands of veterans of the
Grand Army took part in the exer-
cises. This is the first monument
erected at Gettysburg to the regulars
of the union army, while nearly all
of the state troops have memorials of
some sort
Unveil Lincoln Tablet.
Louisville, KY, May 3l.-With an at
tendance almost equal to that at the
corner stone laying of the Lincoln
memorial by President Roosevelt last
February, the monument erected at
Lincoln farm by the Lincoln Tablet
Commission was unveiled today. The
sculptor who created the memorial is
A. A. Weinman, of New York, favor
lite student under st. Gaudens.
Remember Molly Pitcher.
Carlisle, Pa, May 2l.-The grave of
Molly Pitcher the heroine of Mon
mouth was covered today with scores
of wreaths and boquets of flowers by
| the patriotic citizens of Carlisle.
Porter at Harvard.
Cambridge, Mass, May 3l-General
Horace Porter, former American Am
bassador to France, delivered the prin-
| cipal address at today's exercises at
| Sanders Theatre, under the auspices
of the Harvard Memorial Society.
Memorial Day" Correct.
Washington, May 3l.-This is mem
orial day, and not Decoration day, as it
is sometimes enormously called, accord
ing to the first of the officials of the
! Grand Army of the Republic. st is
| noted that some comrades will persist
in calling this day set apart for decor
| ating the graves of our deceased com
| rades Decoration day" says the other
This is an error. We understand how