Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1910-05-30

street. On us way 70 tns cemetery On
tie Mill
-ror arrival outside the gates HE
esc71t lihsd ur on each ,.da o, the
street ami while etanding at attention,
the veterans and those following
passed through the ranks which did
them honor and into the cemetery.
Upon raised space thu Governor
end stan. Admiral Rees. army repre-.
fentatives and the speakers Of the
Gay had places the Grand Army. Span
ISL War Veterans and band forming
the other sides of hollow square IN
which the stan with colors at hnlf mast
formed the center.
Al during the services Mt the graves
the rain continued and those who had
parts stood under appraised umbrellas
while the crowd gathered on the out
skirts under trees or any shelter avail
able.
The whole cemetery was u mass of
flowers brought by loving relatives and
friends to decorate the graves of dear
ores. there being few graves IN the
whole enclosures which did not bear
some mute tribute that those who
slept beneath the sod had not been
remembered on this day Of days conse.
Grated to the dead.
After the rendering Of dlrgo by
the band Post Commander John w.
Francis read the ritualistic services
OF the day and prayer was offered by
the post chaplain, p. w. Rider, fol.
lowed by further ritual service by the
commander
| Lyle A. Dickey rendered I.inculn's
Gettysburg address and then 1.-THE
| Holy City" was given In an effective
manner by the band ACCOMMODATING the
singer. Adjutant John T. Copeland
called the roll OF dead comrades aDC
following him the chaplain finished
the ritualistic services OF the day.
f. A. Strout spoke few words
opening the solemn service OF lecorat'
ing the graves and other comrades Of
the post with hands full of flowers
scattered them on the graves oil
sleeping brothers.
A firing squad from the guar'l gave
the three yolleys. which was followed
by Taps" from the bugle, endinE the
service of the Grand Army.
Rev. A. c. McKeever delivered the
address of the day and after paying
a strong tribute to the veterans as
| sembled. spoke reelingly OF the boys
in gray who fought on the other eide
even though mistaken, fighting for
their convictions to the last,
Rev. McKeever said In port;
| Gentlemen of the Grand Army and
Fellow Citizens: We stand today In
the silent city of the dead. in a re
public and democracy where all are
equal, the rich and the poor repose In
peace. No matter how poor or how
| insignificant we have been lin the
world, we all wish something to tell
that we once lived here and 10 this
end monuments have been erected
over graves of the dead.
"Monuments will crumble in tint
and become the same as the clay
whose resting place they mark. II |:
necessary TO mark events and dates
as matter of history, but with the
| crumbling of these monuments oil
stone the events and dates which they
mark will pass from human ken.
81 want to congratulate you gentle
men of the Grand Army In selecting q
| day as your monument. II is some
thing that can never crumble or pass
away. On May 30 people of this ma
ton will always gather to do honor to
the nations dead. to scatter flowers
on the graves. II is more lasting thar
marble ana granite. and while time
i shall run May 30 will stand as per
| petual monument.
ut will speak from generation tc
generation of the deeds you did in thu
Cos. Your ranks are growing thin
they diminish year by year and soor
there will be none to respond to the
roll call. Yet when the last of YOU
organization has been laid away ii
his narrow bed, and hundred years
have rolled around, children will ash
the meaning of this day which we here
consecrate and there will be million
lips to tell them the story of how you
saved the nation, died for the Flai
and gave to the world united people
But | am going to say something
now that you may think should have
left unsaid don't forget the boys II