Omaha daily bee., 1910-05-24
ALLEN TALKS TO C. A. R.
Former Senator Addresses Veterans
at the Auditorium.
SOLDIERS TO GO TO CHURCH
Two Beautiful Services VIII BE HELD
ON the Missouri River Front
soldiers Graves Are 20 he
Decorated.


All arrangements have finally been COM
pleted for the formal observance OF Decora-
ton or Memorial day by the general COM
mlttees OF the Grand Army Of the Republic
having charge OF the affair.
Several changes will be made from pre-
vious years. The parade will be much
shorter as will be the formal platform
services at the Auditorium. Decoration OF
the graves by the Grand Army of the Re-
public will be held Saturday. May %, at the
several cemeteries, assisted by the
woman's Relief corps because 1t is not
thought that the flowers will keep until
Monday The ritiIalistic services, however
will be carried out Monday forenoon In the
cemeteries by the Grand Army and the
Woman's Relief corps. Memorial Sunday
will be observed by the several posts and
corps attending divine service at different
churches In a body,
The platform exercises will be held in the
Auditorium, with ex-senator w. v. Allen
Of Madison as the principal orator. There
will be no ritual services at the Auditorium
aside from a short musical and literary
program, with the roll call OF the dead for
the year. On Friday afternoon the vet
Grams will address the several public
schools,
Sunday afternoon the naval reserve corps
will launch floral boat on the river, as
sisted by the Woman's Relief corps.
The Ladies of the Grand Army will carry
out their usual program OF decorating the
graves of the dead at Forest Lawn ceme-
terry In the forenoon in accord with their
ritual, assisted by thirty young girls in
white, Monday forenoon and will observe
the custom Of decorating the waters in the
afternoon OF Monday. -l
Program for Monday.
The official program for. the observance
of Memorial day has just been issued by
the general committee and Is as follows:
The parade will form at 2:30 Monday on
Capitol avenue, the right resting on Six
teenth street. Naval reserve, National
Guard, high school cadets, mail carriers
and other semi-mlitary organizations will
form on the south side of Capitol avenue
west of sixteenth street and the Grand
Army of the Republic and Spanish War
Veterans will form on the north side of
Capitol avenue west OF Sixteenth street
Carriages containing chairman OF the gen
eral committees and speakers of the day
and invited guests will form on Capitol
avenue west of Sixteenth street, facing
Seventeenth street. The Woman's Relief
corps. the Ladies Of the Grand Army of the
Republic and the Spanish-American War
women's auxiliary societies will form on
Howard street, facing Fifteenth street.
The parade will move at p M sharp.
Line of march will be from Sixteenth
and Capitol avenue south of Douglas east
to Fifteenth and south to the Auditorium.
The order of the parade will be:
Platoon of Police.
Elijah Dunn, Marshal or the Day.
Jonathan Edwards, Chief Aide.
Sixteenth United States Infanry Band.
FIRST DIVISION.
Charles w. Allen, Assistant Marshal
,... Naval Reserves.
National Guards
SECOND DIVISION.
Jonathan Edwards, Assistant Marshal
High School Cadet Band.
High School Cadets.
Mail Carriers and Other SEMI Military
Grand Army OF the Republic and other
Civil War Veterans.
THIRD DIVISION.
Perry Miller, Assistant Marshal.
Spanish War Veterans.
Mlscellar eous Organizations
Carriages.
Decoration of the Waters.
Immediately at the close of the exercises
at the Auditorium. at o'clock the beauti-
full ceremony OF the Decoration of the
Waters in memory of the American soldier
and sailor dead. of all wars buried and
lost at sea, will be observed with appro-
pirate ceremonies. under the auspices of
the Ladies' OF the Grand Army of the Re-
public. at the Douglas street bridge
The ritual ceremony will be carried out
on the river bank at the bridge, and at a
given signal thirty young girls dressed in
white will drop wreaths OF flowers from
the bridge onto the bosom Of the river.
uIra nf ntho Il MiChaaliR Of he
Sixteenth United States infantry will be
the orator. r
In view of the scarcity of flowers for
Decoration day purposes. the Ladies OF the
Grand Army have telegraphed to Texas for
q suitable quantity OF flowers. including
jassaufines.
This organization will also observe it's
ritual ceremony in decorating the graves
of the soldier dead in the several ceme-
teries the morning OF Decoration day The
special ceremony will be carried out at the
Soldiers circle in Forest Lawn cemetery at
10 a. m. Monday.
Several posts of the Grand Army OF the
Republic with their auxiliary Women s
Relief corps will attend services in a body
the morning of Memorial Sunday, as fol.
lows:
Grant post and corps, All Saints church,
Twenty-sixth street and Dewey avenue.
Custer post and corps, Lowe avenue Pres
byterian church, Fortieth and Nicholas
streets.
Crook post and corps. Hillside Congrega-
tional church, Thirtieth and Ohio streets.
Army Notes
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Company d, signal corps, has been or.