Omaha daily bee., 1912-05-30
Appropriate Services Morning and
Afternoon in Auditorium.
TO SEND BAlTLEsHIP ADRRT
In Afternoon All Forms Of Sports
Will Be Witnessed in Parks.
CYCLE RACES AT SPEEDWAY
severrSS Prominent sammer Resorts
wini. Open for season, with
Games. Music and yariou.
Forms of Amusement.
MEMORIAL DAY ACTIVITIES.

Graves OF old soldiers will be strevn
with flowers during morning hours
General Memorial day parade Of civic
and military bodies starts promptly at
o'clock. forming at Seventeenth and
Capitol avenue.
Brief march will be followed by exer-
cises for veterans at the Auditorium.
Al conclusion OF ceremonies miniature
battieship will be launched at foot Of
Douglas street
Knights Of columbus will conduct serv-
ices at the Auditorium at 10 o'clock In
the morning,
All day shoot OF Nebraska sportsman's
association on Omaha Gun club range.
Rod and Gun club opens for the season
at 2 o'clock In the afternoon with pro-
gram Of sporting events.
Miller park viii open at o'clock In the
afternoon with a program Of sports. and
will continue with music and entertain
ment In the evening.
Motor cycle races begin at Speedway al
Q O'Clock In the afternoon.
Aquatic races begin at o'clock AZ
Manawa park and there will be dancing
and music in the evening.
American Federation OF Musicians will
conduct memorial for Titanic victim-mu-
sicians in the afternoon at Washington
hall.
Ball games will be In progress at the
various amateur parks
Business will be generally suspended
during the day,
Police Relief association will visit var
ious cemeteries In the morning TO place
flowers on the graves OF their fallen
comrades who have lost their lives In the
line OF duty
Krug park opens the season at
o'clock with music and program continu-
ing throughout the evening
Graves cf the soldier and saror dead
will be decorated today by the sur
vlvors OF the Civil and spanish wars.
Members Of the Grand ARM of the Re-
public and women OF the Relief curps.whl
gather at the several cemeteries OF the
city at 10 o'clock to hold memorial SER
vice. The day will be generally observed
by business houses and public officials
as q holiday.
Under the direction OF . Joint commit
tee OF the Grand Army OF the Republic
and United Spanish war veterans, pro-
gram viii be given at the Auditorium In
the afternoon. William Jennings Bryan
will be the orator OF the day. w. H. Rus
sell, Grant post No. no. will preside.
Green's band will furnish music. Major
r. $. Wilcox will read the roll OF the
years dead.
Preceding the afternoon memorial ex-
ercises at the Auditorium. parade will
form on Capitol avenue and sixteenth
street. In the parade will be platoon
OF police. Green's band. United States
naval veterans. Nebraska National
guards, high school cadets, Grand Army
Of the Republic. United spanish war
veterans. speakers OF the day. chairmen
Of committees. chaplain, military and
civil guests, mail carriers and other semi
organizations the womens Re-
lief corps the Ladies' OF the Grand Army
Of the Republic. the Henry W. Lawton
auxiliary. United Spanish war veterans.
will form on Howard streets facing FIJI
teenth.
Line OF hnrch.
The line OF march will be from Sixteenth
street south to Douglas. thence east to
Fifteenth and south to the Auditorium.
Following the exercises at the Audi
lorIum a miniature bsttIeship Will be
In the Missouri river at the
foot Of the Douglas street bridge. This
service will be conducted by the Navy
,lub. assisted by the Women Of the Relief
corps. The battleshlp will be carried in
the parade.
Knights Of Columbus will hold services
AZ the Auditorium in the forenoon. tn
aud Reese will lead chorus OF 800 from
farious churches. Several hundred school
children from parochial schools will at
lend. General John l.. Webster will be