Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-27
BLOOMS FOR HEROES
Honors Paid to Memory of the
Dead at Sea.
FLOWERS UPON THE WATER
Tribute to Maj. Butt, Col. Astor and
Others of Spanish War.
PATRIOTIC SERVICES HELD
Programs at Capitol, McKendree
Church, st. Joseph's Church and
Elsewhere Yesterday.
FLOWERS UPON THE WATER
PATRIOTIC SERVICES HELD

AS part of the memorial services at
washington barracks held yesterday,
members of the Women's Auxiliaries of
the United Spanish War Veterans strew-
ed flowers upon the waters of the Po-
| tomac, in remembrance of Maj. Archi-
bald Butt, Col. John Jacob Aston and
| other Spanish war veterans who went
down with the wrecked Titanic.
| The service was held by the District
camps of the United Spanish War Vet
| Grams and the women's auxiliaries of the
camps, in honor of United States SOL
diers. sailors and marines who lost their
| lives at sea while in the service of their
country. The feature of the service was
the launching of a floral boat in tribute
to the memory of those whose graves are
in the sea, and the strewing Of blossoms
on the water.
Representatives Rainey Of Illinois and
Dyer of Missouri were the principal
speakers at the services. In his address
Representative Dyer referred to the pres
ent disturbed conditions in Cuba, and pre-
dicted that the time is not far distant
when the United States will be compelled.
in the interests Of peace and advance
ment. to make the Pearl OF the Antilles
a part of this nation and to add another
star-that of the state of Cuba-to the
flag Such a contamination, he said,
would be the greatest result of the war
with Spain.
In his address Representative Rainey
eulogized the valor OF the American
sailors. paying high tribute to the MEM
DRY of John Paul Jones. At the conclu.
sion of the ceremonies the Engineers
Band sounded taps" the floral ship
was launched and members of the wom-
ems auxiliaries cast armfuls of blossoms
upon the bosom of the river.
Services at the U. 8. Capitol.
Grand Army of the Republic. assembled
In Statuary Hall, at the Capitol yester-
day and listened to an address on Lincoln,
delivered by Representative James H.
Graham of the Springfield. Ill. district,
in which Col. Roosevelt. though not men
toned by name, was criticised for his at
tempts to compare his course with that
of President Lincoln.
IF President Lincoln was fond Of Of
flee and sought it somewhat persistently,
said the speaker, he never changed his
views to win popular favor. If he took
a stand he set out to win tine public 20
his views; he never abandoned those
views when he discovered they We're Lot
popular. If greatness is to be measured
by service to ones fellow-alan, then. in
deed, was Lincoln great FITS only weak
ness was his excessive human sympathy
The services were hell before the statue
of Lincoln, the sculptress Of which, Mrs.
Winnie Ream Hoxie, Is president of the
circle. The statue was draped with the
colors, and a wreath of roses, the tribute
of Gen. Richard Hoxie, was placed on the
pedestal. Others who took par. in the
ceremonies were Rev. c. Rockford Ste.-
son, who pronounced the invo cation, ard
Mrs. Helen DOGGY. Mrs. Mida PEABODY
and Miss Mary Glennon, who presented