The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-05-30
FTELDMASS IN THE NAVY YARD
NINTH N OCR HISTORY SAID
~ TINE OPEN Arr.
Private Nuicahy Of the TloSs % 81. Who
Heard One In the civil war. Attends
After SEINE Diriculty NJ Military Or
Eaniiatiuns aud 90 OOD Men Present

Over 10 the Brooklyn navy yard yester-
day went Private Mulcahy, who marched
out IN Al with thu old SiIty-ninth. lie
went % something the ike u which they
didn't have IN his day save only once,
and h. took with him his grandson Peter
II was the military h-ld mas. and Il
filed the parade ground 20 fuIl-besides
the uniformed organizations that went
90 Il there were a good % 900 persons who
wanted tO So the mAsa celebrated IN
honor of tho men who died in the wars
Of 'ai and as-that Private Mulcahy and
Peter couldn't get past the main gate.
And Il was warm. The bree1s was 20
shght that Il scarcely gave a autter 10
the signal flags that thu marines had
strung from THAR barracks 10 the north.
ward Of the parade ground and the
banners that hung from tho staiIs danEled
hstlessly. ffi,ais IUlarhy. standing In
the crowd outside the main gate. couldn Z
80 the altar wound In tina yellow and
white Of the Catholic Church which they
had set up in the shadow Of the barracks
He simply knew that there Was some-
thing going on inside which he wanted
% see. for her could hear the contra
bases in the hands grunting an accom-
paniment 70 MY Country. lis u Thee. :
and the trumpets running the scales u
The star Spangled Banner The music
blurred. but the effect 20 Private MulcAhy
and Peter Was martial -
Still, standing there in the preas. there
Was no hops of understanding whittier
the course o. the service was tending.
SOHO. Petite says he. where's tho
good Of ~ let's be going home
They started back down Flushing
avenue. thinking 20 take a trolley car
back 70 the bridge. They got two blocks.
possibly three. when young Peter hegan
tugging al his grandfather's hand. Peter
sAW another gate leading into the parade
ground near an officers house There
wasn't a crowd there and people still
paHssd through II. When Peter and the
cid man got there they fell IN behind a
man in a military hat 10 whom the gliard
ualuted. They started ~ 60 through the
gate.
Hold On. there. said an orderly With
red stripes down his trousers. Where's
your tickets'-
Private Mulcahy didn't have any and
the veteran's SLOUGH hat wasn't enough
20 pass him. The guard was sorry. but
he had hts orders The odd man would
have 20 20 away. that's all there was to II
And u was very hot
Bat just then the man IN the military
hat looked over his shoulder. What's
that corporal?- said he. That man.
q friend Of mine. Pass him.
Private Mulcahy looked up. surprised.
Don't know me, do your said the
oiicer. I'm well acquainted around
here though. and Id like 20 have you
come IN. as a friend, YOU know
Private Mulcahy went. and Peter too
The man in uniform handed them over 30
another young man lon stripes, with orters
% put them in the balcony where there a
be place 70 81 down out Of the sunshine
and then he went away
The marine guided the old man and his
younGHter TO the far side of the parade
ground, where the barracks rise four
stories. with balconies az each floor and
the balustTades bright with bunting. he
found them chairs whore they could look
down upon the altar aud 80 the marching
orders drawn up m military formation.
covering the parade ground az FAR as
their eyes could reach.
When the marine turned 10 90 Private
hulcahy thanked HIM
hank the Major said he
HIN said Private Mulcahv. 'lt's him
u was, was IT.
This j. what Private Mulcahy saw
Some thirty military organ AIT Ons. com
prising a good iiOOn uniformed men
There were men from the ships IN thu
navy yard, the Connecticut the Nebraska.
The Rhode Island, the Iacoma. Nanktnu
and Hancock both blue Jackets and
marines There Nere Nj nihtiamen
from the Sixty ninth. Forty-seyeuih aud
Fourteenth regiments. \ q \. Y 500
men from tho Police and Fire depart
ments. letter carriers and officers OF the.
Street Cleaning Department The Unitrc
spanish War Veterans the knights o.
Columbus. the Forerter-. The Ancient
Order Of HibernIan-. the Catholic Bensyo-
eat Legion and the IRISH Volunteers had
7,nO more. aud there were others reside
-lts a grand mas. said Private Mu.-
eahv. a very grand mas
He told Peter Ia a whisper that be- had
been az the first field uas- they ever had
IN this country. back 900 the bR wrr.
HInce then they've only uBi eight others
counting the one 81 YESTERDAY and they
have been said on m, o.. Rde ground 90
the navy yard or elss. when the weather
vent wrong IN the Church It the Sacred
Heart near by
The Rev Father Matthew g. Glepsun.
I $. \. was Calehrant II the mas. YES
terday The Rev Father Thomas 3
McGTonen. rector IT ~. Ambrose . Church.
Brooklyn, and chaplain IN the Fire Depart
ment. was deacon The Rev Father
Francis J. sullivan, rector 81 ~. AIMS
Church, Manhattan chaplain in the P1licp
Department. was sIb-deaCon The mas
ter n ceremonies was the Rev Father
John :, Nash. rector Il the church 1T the
Sacred Heart Brooklyn
The Very Rev John p Chdwick. who
was chaplain 81 tho Maine a. the time she
Was sunk In Havana harbor preached the
sermon. Father ChidWick told the mill
tary orders NJ the sort u patriotism that
ought % actuais them that II was their
duty ~ follow the examples ~ the men
who had died m the wars love peace
while Il lasted. and then h. willing ~ die
N need be for their country
John Fitzgerald, commander ~ GlOuoes-
ter Camp No S. United spanish War Vet
Grams. was the chairman ~ the commit
he having the ceiebration IN charge
He said Il was the biggest field mass they
have ever had here. Others on his com
mfttee we're John Daily. Lieut. John =
Dryer. Walter y Allen. Frank n. viii
eon. " j. Burke. William Macauley and
james > Long The altar was provided
by the Long Island Chapter of the knights
Of Columbus. who CoOperated with the
spanish War Veterans in the prepara-
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