New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1910-05-27
VETERANS TO HARK BACK |
Review by President Will Make
Them Think of 45 Years AGO.
THEN A VICTORIOUS HOST
Parade of Monday Will Be Short
est G. A. r. Has Ever Held,
but VIII Be. Impressive.

Most OF the veterans Of the Grand Army
Of the Republic who march or ride in the
Memorial Day parade on Monday will COM
pare the scene On Riverside Drive to that
OF May e, 1856. On that day and on the
day before the Armies of the Potomac and
the troops Of Sherman, 10000 strong and
thirty miles in length, marched in tri-
urnphal procession through the broad ave-
nues Of the capital of the Republic and by
the reviewing stand OF the President.
IT was e vast host OF moving heroes
united as It were into one-najestic IN
sweep. resistless in momentum. graceful IN
might. Bayonets and gun barrels, sebres
and spearheads g1istened with iunumerabls
jets and sparkles of light. The lines of
soldiers undulated to the cadenced march
They passed under q banner which ex-
tended across Pennsylvania avenue. on
which was inscribed:
1.-THE only debt which our nation can
never repay is the debt it owes its vio-
torious Union soldiers.
A request has gone out from headquarters
for automobiles for the surviving heroes on
Memorial Day.
A veteran, who was a part OF that grand
review. but who is Ole and decrepit now
10 Z SoIlfaOS yesterday.
Colonel, viii never march again
You viii be in the parade on Monday,
won't you. old boy7'' inquired the colonel.
kindly.
mo. 1 won't do it I'll never go into q
Grand Army Of the Republic parade again,
so help me. You are going to have an ex-
hfbit OF horses IN it,
He was told that the horses would be
A. re
The G. A r. ceremonies would have moth
ing to do with the workhorse parade. But
the old soldier maintained that he had seen
it stated otherwise In the newspapers and
It made him disguised.
The colonel said he would convince him
Of his error, but at the same time he felt 1t
was too bad that the workhorse parade
should be permitted TO confuse any old
soldier.
First Of all. President Taft will review
the parade at the Soldiers and Sailors
Munument, Riverside Drive and Ssth street
The President viii arrive st Jersey City at
$50 q n. on Memorial Day and go at once
10 the home Of his brother, Henry W. Taft,
at MOI Sc West 4Sth street General George
B. Loud. chairman Of the memorial COM
nittee, viii call for the President at $50
o'clock and take him to the Hotel Sherman
at Broadway and list street, where the re-
viewing party will form In carriages
Among the reviewing officers VIII be Major
General Daniel E SickIes, Major General
julius H Stah1 Brigadier General Arson
G. McCook. Brgad1er General Horace Por-
ter, Brigadfer General John T. Lockmau.
Brigadier General Walter Howe, q. S. A..
Brigadier General Thomas H Hubbard and
Brigadier General Nicholas W Day.
Colonel George E Dewey viii be grand
marshal
The carriage in which President Taft will
ride 70 the reviewing stand vii be drawn
by four horses. General Loud will be the
speaker at the monument The United
States warship Salem, in the Hudson River,
will fire twenty-one guns to signalize the
opening Of the services.
The different posts Of the Grand Army Of
the Republic Will hold their services
throughout the day. John A Dix Post 135
Will assemble at its headquarters, Madison
avenue and 18th street, at a. m It will
act as special bodyguard to the grand mar
sbaL The steamer Albertina will leave her
pier, at West 10th street at noon for the
accommodation Of invited guests.
u s Grant Post S27 will meet at Grants
tomb at p. m. and hold special services,
including the reading Of Lincoln's address
at Gettysburg, by the Rev. Dr. William N
Richie, chaplain.
Wreaths Will be placed on Farraguts
statue In Madison Square by the Associated
Veterans Of Farragut's Fleet
The parade will be the shortest that the
Grand Army of the Republic has ever held.
Il viii start at I'D street and continue out
Riverside Drive TO 91st street.
A delegation Of eight members OF Con-
gress, with the general in command Of the
Department of the East and staff, will be
in the reviewing stand The commander Of
the North Atlantic squadron and the COM
nandant Of the navy yard in Brooklyn will
form part Of the reviewing officers. There
will be in the parade eight companies Of
United States troops, with full band, and
a large number Of marines and sailors from
the feet lying in the North River opposite
Grants tomb, and between 1900 and 1900
militia, in command Of Major General Roe,
There will be four divisions Of Grand Army
comrades, one division Of Spanish War Vet
Grams, one division of the Army and Navy
parade.
Grand Marshal John Murphy has ordered
the parade In Brooklyn to form head Of
column on Bedford avenue, at South 9th
street 70 move at 10 a m. There will be
seven divisions
At the evening exercises in Carnegie Han
Henry C1ews will preside