Bisbee daily review., 1911-05-31
MEMORIAL DAY Is 2. OBSERVED IN B|SDEE Flowers in Great Quantities Laid on Graves of
 Veterans

Business was suspended in Bisbee yesterday while hundreds of people visited the cemeteries, carrying wreaths and boqusts of flowers, with which to decorate the graves of vete rans of the civil war. All morning. searately and in groups. people visit ed the cemeteries and paid honor and respect to the memory Of departed soldiers who lie under the sod and the dew, waiting the judgment day" All of the flower shops in the city did a rushing business Monday and Tuesday morning, while many others ordered their flowers direct from Pacific coast cities.
 Cars Are Crowded.
 The street cars that ran to Lowell yesterday morning were veritable flower floats. The cars were crowded with people with flower wreaths and many others went to the cemetery in private or livery conveyances.
 The surviving members of the G. A R. and number of veterans of the Confederacy, together with veterans of the Spanish American war. went to the cemetery in body, gathering at the Cyppdr Queen library. As woman contributes her tears and her nursing in time of war, so does she contribute her prayers and flowers In times of peace. when the living pay tribute to the dead. The bare mounds in Evergreen cemetery are abloom with beaudful flowers this morning. placed there by woman's hands, and though the sun will wilt | fHn, vrrfI dust, the fountain of love which prompt9i their giving, woman's s heart, will never cease to flow. Denny Twomey's Grave. The freshest grave decorated yes terday was that of Denny Twomey, | late constable, who was a veteran of the Spanish American war. A l beautiful bouquet of carnations and lilies was placed on Twomey's grave ] by several of his friends. There were no formal exercises at the cemeteries, but people were goins and returning all during .he day. II was a general decoration day, Tela tiyes joining in the observance of the day by placing flowers on the graves of their dead loved ones. Notwith standing that there were no lorna , exercises. the day was never more ! generally observed in Bisbee than . yesterday hv the dscorating of graves with flowers, without parade Or pomp but in silence and sincerity.
 Business Suspended.
 ' Up town was where the outward observance of the day was in eyi dence. At the city hall ali Of tho d0 The postoffice was closed. the dal being q legal holiday, as were th' banks. The stores that remained open in the forenoon closed in the afternoon, only saloons, drug storei and cigar stores remaining open al day.
 Every available flag pole futtereC the stars and stripes to the mountain winds, from Main street, where tn, postohiee, bank buildings and Othe blades displayed the national fag to patriotic Warren, where a large banner on the Calumet and Arizoni . general office buildings caught th' winds that swept across the flats. flag waved over the buildings at th' Junction shaft and all along the cal line, espe ecially in Upper Lowell. pas ! sengers going 10 anr returning t' the cemetery were reminded that thu nation was respecting the memor, of its heroes.
 Last night the theaters were filled with tPe holiday crowds and other. attended the band concerts at Lowel and Bisbee, given by the militar! band. The soldiers arrived in tho suburb ot Warren yesterday abou noon and during the afternoon man! of them came uu to Bisbee. adding a touch Of bright color to the holida, crowds that paraded the streets.
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