The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1910-06-02
PRESIDENT TAFT
REVIEWS PARADE
OF GRAND ARMY
NATIONS EXECUTIVE ATTENDS
MEMORIAL DAY EXERCISES
IN NEW YORK.
WORKHORSES IN A PROCESSION
Society for Prevention of Cruelty to AMI
mails Plans Novel Event on
Fifth Avenue.
WORKHORSES IN A PROCESSION
CEREMONIES IN OTHER CITIES

NEW YORK. May 3O.-New York to.
day observed Memorial day not merely
with traditional ceremony, but with the
unusual honor of the presence in the city
Of the President of the United States To
review the parade of the veterans. Ideal
weather conditions prevailed. Enormous
crowds were drawn to the streets and
avenues through which marched the
ranks Of blue and great host was
massed about the stand at the Soldiers
and Sailors monument, where President
Taft watched the Grand Army men and
kindred organizations pass III review.
President Taft arrived early from
Washington and was driven to the home
of his brother. Henry W. Taft The
party invited to surround Mr. Taft on
the reviewing stand included Mai-Gen.
Daniel +, SickleS and Maj.-Gen. Julius
ii. Stahl, Brig. Gems. Arson G.. McCook.
Horace Porter. Nicholas W. Day, Wa,
ter Howe, John Il. Lockman and Thorn.
as II. Hubbard.
Regulars Head Marchers.
a detachment of regular army men
headed the marchers. Sailors and ma
rines from the battleShips Connecticut
and Rhode Island. followed the state
troops, the younger men of the Spanish
war and civic societies.
Numerous other ceremonies of pa-
triotlc nature featured the day in the
city. These included services mt Grant 5
tomb on Riverside drive and decoration
OF graves of veterans in the cemeteries.
while Grand Army exercises were
planned for tonight in Carnegie hall. An
interesting civic event of the holiday
was the wOrkhOrse parade up Fifth ave
nue., function under the auspices of the
woman's auxiliary of the Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals A
New Rochelle. the home of Thomas
Paine, the Paine National museum was
dedicated.
Pres .enL Taft planned to return to
Washington this afternoon.
Big Parade in Chicago
CHICAGO, ILL.,, May 3O.-NIore care
full preparations were made for the OBJ
seryauce of Memorial day in Chicago this
year than for many years past. Ccrc-
monies at practically all Of the two score
cemeteries about the city were the fca-
lures Of the morning, while a large pa.
rade took place in the afternoon. Many
veterans were taken over the route in
automobiles Several hundred United
States regulars took part in the process
sion. They made two days march
from Fort sheridan. about twenty-five
miles north of the city, and encampcd in
Grant park on the lake front.
Exercises in Washington
WASH NGTON. -. c., May 30
The halls Of Congress and all executive
departments were closed today while
statesmen Of the nation participated in
the commemuratiOn of Memorial day.
Here an elaborate programme filled the
day beginning with a street parade ut
veterans and soldiers and including ccrr-
monies at Arlington cemetery, the ma
tIoual cemetery, I. :. Soldiers home,
the Congress .onal aud Battle Ground
cemeteries and others. An impressive
spectacle was the setting alrift of a
flower laden boat in the Potomac river
by the Spanish War veterans in honor
Of the nations naval dead. The orator
at Arlington cemetery was Senator Will
liam .. Bradley Of Kentucky. Scna-
tor Dcpcw of New York delivered the
nddrcss Mt the Soldiers home Senator
IIovhurn of Idaho spoke ut the Con
greSsioual cemetery, and at Battle
Ground cemetery Senator Brown Of Ne
bra-ka was the speaker.