The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-01

Beautiful flowers were placed on
nearly every one of the $4,000 graves
in City cemetery yesterday by loving
hands of relatives, comrades and
friends of departed ones. Early in the
morning floral tributes commenced to
arrive at the cemetery to be added to
the thousands of bouquets, wreaths
and designs that had been placed on
the graves on Sunday.
All day yesterday, even until after
shutdown, men, women and children ar
rived at the cemetery with flowers Of
every size and color. and the city Of
the dead was transformed into a beau
tifuI garden Many of the graves were
literally banked with flowers, while
others were decorated with only few
perhaps only a little bunch of bios
SONS placed by some kind-hearted
child, who had been happier all the
rest of the day by so doing. Many
lodge designs were worked into the
floral offerings.
The cemetery never looked prettier
Flower beds in attractive arrangement
are numerous. One of the most beau
tiful, and the one which attracted the
most attention yesterday, is a large
design on the lawn in front Of the sex
tons Office. The arrangement here was
planned by Sexton John E. Wiscomb,
and is in the shape of a shield set with
five different kinds of flowers and
showing the G. A. r. emblem and the
Grand Army colOrs-
For Slain Comrade.
Maxwell post, assisted by the wo-
mems Relief Corps and the United
Veterans of the Spanish War conduct
ed services at the cemetery at o'clock
in the morning. The exercises were
given in front Of the grave Of Lieuten-
ant Harry A. Young, assistant surgeon
of Utah batteries. who was killed in
Manila during the Spanish-AmeTiCan
war. A squad from company G, I. \.
c., was also in attendance in command
of Corporal Allen Burt.
While gathered around the monu-
ment to the unknown dead, many old
soldiers and their friends listened to
the address of the day by Colonel Maui
rice NJ. Kaighn. The speaker was in
PRODUCED by Commander William Pass
Ter of Maxwell post. Colonel Kaighn
said in part:
Colonel Kaighn's Address.
Comrades and friends: This is Me
mortal day, and all over this broad
land, from the stormy Atlantic to the
peaceful Pacific, and from the lakes
to the gulf, in city and town and coun-
try, on this day, patriotic people will
gather in their cemeteries to do honor
to the dead soldiers of the republic. OF
that mighty host of two and a half
million men, that formed the army OF
the union in the war of the rebellion.
but six hundred thousand, OF less than
One-fOUrth. are now living, and they are
passing away at the rate Of fifty thou
sand a year.
This is a beautiful custom. It is
meet and proper that the people and
all the people who love their country
should. on one day in the year, cease
from their usual avocation and rev
eTently gather to do honor to the mem
DRY of the heroic men, who in the hour
of the nations peril. offered their SER
vices, and if need be. their lives. for
the preservation of her integrity and
unity. And so we gather here today in
performance of this sacred duty, with
music and flowers and tears and ear
nest words, to honor the nations he
rOes whose sacred remains rest i'm the
hospitable soil of Utah. In honoring
them we most honor ourselves. In
May, 1865. at the close Of the war. f
was my privilege to take part in and
witness the grand review Of some
800, 600 union veterans in the capital of
the nation. I well remember how. dur
three days, they marched from the
great white capitol on the hill, I'D
Pennsylvania avenue. which was lined
by thousands of cheering citizens, UP
to the White house, where they were
reviewed by the president and his cal
met I remember Stanton. the iron sec
rotary Of war; Grant, Sherman. Sheri- /
dan. Howard, Slocum. Custer and other
great leaders. Now all, alas! returned
to dust But while their bodies may
moulder I'm the tomb, their fame and
hallowed memory will live forever in
the hearts of a grateful people.
THE brave boys who followed the
flag and served their country in the