The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1909-06-02
IN REMEMBRANCE
H0neSdaIe H0nOrS Her
Dead Heroes.
A FINE MEMORIAL DAY PARADE
Eloquent Speeches by Hon. w. H.
Dimmick, Andrew Thompson
and Others-The Cemeteries
Decorated With Flags

Memorial Day, last Monday, was
fittingly observed in our borough.
The day was ushered in with can
| non salute by the G. A. R. gun squad.
and the customary order of exercises,
! as previously announced, was follow
! ed. Capt. James Ham Post, No. 1913,
! G. A. R., formed in front of the Post
Room little before 10 o'clock a. NJ,
with the drum corps on it's right,
! while on its left were carriages con-
,taining the officers, the orator of the
day, the clergy, disabled veterans,
| Burgess Kuhbach, ex-burgess T. J.
. ham and Hon. L. Fuerth; the town
council, and others. Next, Company
; E, 9Th Regiment n. G. P, command
t ed by Lieutenant Dony, came up
Church street from it's armory, pre-
ceded by the Honesdale cornet band,
turning at the corner of Eighth street,
and marching into position at the
right of the line on Main. At ten
O'Clock, w. w. Wood, Marshal of the
day, had everything in marching or
der, and put the column in motion
The usual route was followed until
the bridge over Park Lake was
reached; the teachers and pupils of
the various Sunday schools and the
graded schools, joining the column,
between Company E and the drum
corps, at the High school building.
At the bridge Hon. William H.
Dimmick delivered stirring and elo-
quent address in memory of the sail
ors and marines who served during
the war for the Union, and the
! school children strewed the river
with flowers. Mr.. Dimmick said in
part
My Friends-The nation, ninety
millions of people, meet to-day to
pay their homage to the men who
! fought on sea and land to maintain
preserve, and perpetuate the Union
TIE part assigned to us at this
/ time is to pay tribute to those
whose bodies were laid in the bosom
of the sea while defending the cause
of Union and Liberty.
AS our school children scatter
their choicest gifts-beautiful flow
ers-upOn the waters of this charm
! ing lake, whence they will soon min
gle with the pillows of the mighty
ocean, they symbolic the realization
of our faith that in the unity and
continuity of human life those who
served their God, their country and
humanity can never die.
The bridge upon which we stand
brings to our mind most wildly the
erection of the grand and noble
structure by which a million faithful
soldiers crossed the dark and dismal
chasm of disunion, secession and hui
man slavery, and upon it's lasting
foundations constructed the Temple
of Liberty, where rest enthroned the
immOrtals Lincoln, Chase, Stanton.
Grant, Sherman and Sheridan, Far
ragut and Porter and lesser orbs,
from whom issue life, liberty and
happiness, freedom, progress and
plenty.
The six days battle at New Orleans.
the surrender of the city and the
opening of the Mississippi while the
waters ran red with the blood of the
slain; the Battle of Mobile Bay; con-
fiicts with the blockade runners, and
other notable engagements, all are
lustrous pages in the history of the
civil conflict in which our naval he
roes so bravely and effectively par
ticipated. Let us glance for an in
stant at the Battle of Hampton
Roads, where was first planted the
tree of American civilization. Alb
raham Lincoln and John Ericsson met
at telegraph Office in Washington,
and the latter was given by the
President, written on the back of a
telegraph blank, addressed to the
superintendent of the Brooklyn navy
yard, a peremptory order for au-
thority to build battleship
according to plans designed by him.
One hundred days from the date of
the order, the Merrimac, the Confed
crate battleship, appeared at Hamp-
ton Roads, and commenced the sea
fight which destroyed the Cumber-
land and Congress, with the prospect
/ of the enemy entering the harbor the
next morning. The Monitor left the
navy yard March 9Th, looking like
"a cheese-box on a raft" and on the
! following morning, Sunday, COM
menced an attack on the Merrimac,
and drove the formidable battleship
from the sea. On the result of this
sea fight depended the recognition of
the Southern Confederacy as an indie
pendent nation. The Monitor saved
the day, and possibly the Union.
Theodore Roosevelt, listening to
the voice of the great English poet
Let the feet of the men who wrought
| for you,
Let the feet of the men who fought
for you,
Echo round the world"
Assembled the great battleships of
the American navy, and sent them
around the globe on a journey of
$4,000 miles, an object lesson of the
work the soldiers and sailors did in
preserving the American Union.
We will now follow our surviving
veterans and the flag they loved so