Evening journal., 1910-05-28
HONOR MEMORY
OF VETERANS
Members of Grand Army at
Church Tomorrow, and
Will Parade Monday
Afternoon
FLAG PRESENTATION
AT SOLDIERS PARK

Members Of the Grand Army of the Re
public have about completed plans for
their Memorial Day parade and obser-
vance Many buildings were decorated to-
day with flags in honor of Memorial Day.
on Sunday morning the members Of the
G. a. r. will meet at the Irish-American
Hall at $50 o'clock when they will march
in body TO Scott NJ E. Church. where
the pastor the Rev. William G. Koons.
viii preach a sermon appropriate to the
occasion Department Commander George
C. Morton will marshal the veterans for
the church service
Representatives Of tho G. A. r. posts
will assemble at Irish-Amerioan Hall on
Sunday afternoon at o'clock and will
be taken in hacks to LombaIdy cemetery,
where they will decorate tine graves of
dead veterans. on Monday morning Smyth
Post and the First Regiment Band will
hold exercises over veterans graves at
Newport. From there they will go TO AS
bury cemetery, Old Swedes. Riverview
and Wilmington and Brandywine At VIII
mington and Brandywine there will he a
service at the grave of General Thomas
A. Smyth
Post No 2 will go TO Mt. Salem and du-
Pont cemeteries, and Post No. % accom-
panied by school children of No. 8 School.
will visit the Wilmington and Brandy
wine cemetery Post No. l8 viii visit the
Cathedral cemetery.
The members of the Jr o. U. A. NJ,
accompanied by a firing squad, will also
hold services over the graves of their
members in the different cemeteries.
The veterans will gladly welcome
, donations Of flowers, which will be re-
ceived at dupont Post. headquarters
in the Central Bank building, at Fifth
and Shipley streets, early Monday
morning
The parade will start at $50 o'clock
on Monday afternoon.
The formation Of the parade will be
as follows:
Detail of police headed by Chief
| George Black and squad of officers.
form or King street, south of Seventh
street, with right resting on Seventh
/ street; the chief marshal General Will
I liam A. Reilly, William II. Blake chief
aid; Nathan Levy Of Post No. .; Dan
iel Ross. Post No. 1; Moses We'll, Post
No. %; r. w. Karschner, Of the p. O.
5. of A. and George 4. Lyon. of the
Jr o. u. A. NJ; Smyth Post No. 1 with
its escorts. the Boys Brigade of the
Peoples settlement, forming on French
street, north of Seventh street, right
roqtfnrr IN Seventh ctra,t. Al,,,froIa :,
F. DUPONT Post No. ., escorted by the
Sons of Veterans, on French street,
south of Seventh street. right resting or
Seventh street; p. o. S.sof A. on Wal
nut street north Of Seventh street righ.
resting on Seventh street with
George Austermuhl i'm charge; the Jr.
| O. Il. a. NJ on Walnut street, south
of Seventh street. right resting in Sew
enth street. in charge of Fred c. Nc
Call. and the Mayor. City Council,
Water Department, Street and Sewer
/ Department and other city officials in
carriages on Walnut street south of
Sixth street right resting on Sixth
/ street.
/ There will be plenty Of music in line
/ the First Regiment Band being with
/ Smyth Post, the Brunswick Fife and
Drum Corps with dupont Post, the
! Mechanics will have their own fife and
/ drum corps and the Sons of America
will also have a drum corps
Route Of Parade.
The route of the parade will be-.
/ Seventh, to Lombard. to Fourth. TO
Market to Tenth. TO Delaware avenue.
to Eleventh, TO Jackson, to Delaware
avenue, TO Eleventh north of the Gar
field monument to Washington. TO
I Fourteenth. to West, 70 Park Drive.
to old Soldiers park and dismiss for
exercises there.
At the park the Junior Order United
American Mechanics viii present a
flag in honor of the veterans for whom
the park has been named. Mayor
| Spruance will formally present the
flag, and General George c. Morton.
will preside. The flag will be received
on behalf of the old soldiers and the
Park Commission by Samuel H. Bay
nard. The two flags donated to the
schools for adult foreigners by Nathan
levy and the G. A. r. will be presented
by William d. Bogia and received by
Or, George w. Twitmyer in the name
of the Citizens Schols for Adult For
eigners and William +. Kurtz will re-
ceive the flag given the schools by the
Junior Order American Mechanics
Each will make a ten minute address
Following the presentation. firing
squad from Diligent Council, Jr. O.
u. A. NJ. will fire a salute and school
children will sing patriotic airs.