The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-05-30
LIS Reviewed by the President of
the United States.
ROUTE is MADE SHORT
SO as Not to Fatigue the Aged
Defenders.
work Horse Parade Takes Place
on Fifth Avenue.

New York, May 3O.-Neu, yort 70
oay observed Memorial dav NOT mere
~ with traditional ceremony bnt wit,,
the unusual honor of the presance in
the city of the president of the TJnitad
states TO review the parade of +ba
veterans Ideal weather conditions
prevailed. Enormous crowds wara
drawn to the streets and avennas
through which marched the ran,dIv
tnlnnlng ranks of blue and eres+
most was massed about the stand a+
lne sold1ers and sailors monument
Where PRESIDENT Taft watched tbe
drdno army men and kindred Other
organizations pass in revia1
ua1 the day was kept as general
Iiolloay ana after the mornings i'm
ptesslve ceremonial was over the
raoro,tin 80 III o.ss gave themselves up to
recreation in the open.
PRESIDENT Taft arrived earIv fror,
washington and was driven fo tha
nome of his brother. Henry Tsft
break1ast there was followed bv
th hee..ns with the other members of
eae IeVlewing party and brief re-
ceptlon at the Sherman SQUARE hotel
Ine Trip to the reviewing stand was
tnen IN order with the old guard &c
ene Presldents special escort and a
an corps, artillery and mi1itarv sooiet-.
OF the war of 1912. The distjneuished
party invited to surround Mr.. Taft on
the reviewing stand comprised Major
GGenerai G DanleI p. Sickles and Major
General Julius H. StahI. Brieadier
General McCook, Horace Porter. Mob
olas w. Day, Walter Howe. John r
Lockman and Thomas H. Hubbard.
logether with a number of congress-
men and other notables.
A detachment of regular arnov yoar
headed the marchers, whose route
was shortened so that the aging vet
Grams would not be too greatly IA
tlgued by their tramp. Followed by
sailors ana marines from the battIe-
sh1ps connecticut and Rhode Island
the mead of the parade moved mn
west eno avenue to Seventy-second
street, and into Riverside drive and
on past the stand at the monument
The state troops, including the Sew
enth, Twelfth. Seventy-first and Sixtv-
nlnth regiments marched next and
then came the veterans.
Numerous other ceremonies of a pa
triotic nature featured the day in the
city. These included services at
Grants tomb on Riverside drive by
U. S. Grant post and decoration OF
| graves of veterans in the cemeteries.
while Grand Army exercises were
planned for tonight III Carnegie haII.
An interesting civic event of the hoI-
iday was the work horse parade nm
Fifth avenue. At New Rochelle. the
home of Thomas Paine, the Paine ma
President Taft planned to return to
Washington this afternoon.
Veterans Ride I'm Autos.
Chicago, May 30.-More careful
preparations were made for the OBJ
servance of Memorial day in Chicago
this year than for many years past.
Ceremonies at practically all of the
score of cemeteries about the city were
the features of the morning while a
| large parade occupied the afternoon.
veterans ro
route in automobile Several hundred
| United States regulars took part in
| the procession. They made a two
days march from Fort Sheridan abour
25 miles north of the city, and en-
camped in Grant park on the lake
| front.
Building a Church IN One Day.
Peoria, ILL.,, May 30.-To start the
/ it in ten hours is one of the features
| of Memorial day here today. The
| work was started at O'Clock this
morning and was in charge of Earl
stout, of the Carpenters union. who
| has rs men under his direction There
will be no labor troubles because one
| hundred and 25 members of the Mems
| Brotherhood of the Central Christian
church will work shoulder to shoulder
with the union carpenters. Rev. w. F.
| Turner, pastor of the mission who has
just returned from a two months
! leave of absence, took off his coat and
! IldTCn6Q the men BTOInernOOQ TO the
scene of a strenuous days work under
| the slogan of:
"A mans work in a mans way,
| 'We'l build church in a single day."
The climax will come at o'clock
| this evening when a praise meeting
| will be held from the fact it will be
clear of all Indebtedness.
The Day at Washington.
Washington, May 30.-The halls Of
| congress and all executive depart
ments were closed today while states
men of the nation participated in the
commemoration of Memorial day. An
elaborate program filled the day, be-
ginning with a street parade of veter-
ans and soldiers and including impress
sive ceremonies at Arlington cemetery,
the National cemetery, United States
Soldiers home, the Congressional and
Battle Ground cemetery and others.
An impressive spectacle was the set
ting adrift of a fiower-laden boat in
the Potomac river by the Spanish war
veterans in honor of the nations naval
dead The orator of the day at Ar
lington cemetery was Senator William
o. Bradley of Kentucky. Senator
Depew of New York delivered the
oration at the Soldiers home, Senator
w. B. Hepburn of Idaho spoke at the
Congressional cemetery and at Battle
Ground cemetery Senator Brown, Ne
hraSIxa was the orator of the daV