New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-30
FEWER IN FADED BLUE
G. A. R. Parade Contingent To-
day 200 Under 1918.
WOMAN'S P0SY ON EACH
Mrs. LOOMS to Give Boutonnieres
-McAneny to Review Column OF
10,000-Exercises in 7rooklyn.

| Eight hundred men OF the Grand Army
| of the Republic, two hundred fewer than
last year, will march ride in the annual
Memorial Day parade this morning from
| I'D street to S9th street in Riverside Drive
About hundred veterans too far along in
| years 10 risk sha ring In the twelve block
| procession will be on duty about the re-
viewing stand at the Soldiers and Sailors
| Monument. where Borough President Nc
Aneny will review the parade.
| With regular troops, national guards
men. United States sailors and marines and
| the Spanish War Veterans and many other
! semi military and patriotic organizations.
| the column will be built up to marching
! strength Of about ten thousand.
| The regulars. the sailors and marines and
| the militia will tramp I'm three big divisions
preceding the Grand Army men, while the
! Spanish War Veterans and all other 6gan-
| izations will march behind the boys OF
| the Civil War" Colonel s. II. Mildenberg.
| the present commander Of John r. Bendix
] Post. Grand Army OF the Republic, is the
grand marshal, and his immediate staf Is
| composed OF Colonel John w. England.
| Colonel Harvey Dennison and Comrade Ed
ward Fitzgerald, bugler The Grand Army
men will compose the first four divisions
| OF the parade, because the regulars Of the
| army and navy, together with the national
| guardsmen, who march ahead OF them, are
designated as the escort"
Colonel Frank Huntoon, Captain c. B.
| Hebble, Colonel Adam Brown and Colonel
! Charles T. Dickinson are the four division
marshals Of the Grand Army men: Major
Joseph Wheeler jr.. from Fort Totten, Will
command the regulars; Lieutenant w. g.
Roper will lead the sailors and marines,
and Major General John +. Organ, the
new head of the national guard, Will COM
| mand the first division Of that body.
The two hundred fewer men in the Grand
Army section of the parade compared
with last year does not mean that that many
comrades have answered their final taps
it was explained yesterday, but that many
of them were not strong enough to with
stand the excitement Of participating in the
parade even from the vantage of car
riage.
Most of the veterans. by the way, refuse
steadfastly TO have anything to do with
carriages They insist that they will march.
and il is only when they are positively or
dered by family and doctors not TO walk
that they can be induced. 10 ride I'm car
riage Just two posts will, as body, ride
in carriages this year and even with them.
il was said at the headquarters in the city
Hall the chief reason was not the inrrmty
Of the members. but the fact that so very
few OF them were left that they could not
make a satisfactory display If they were
afoot.
Following her annual custom, Mrs. Sarah
J. Loomis. Of No. 1S2 Ninth avenue, mem
Der of Lafayette Circle. Ladies OF the
Grand Army Of the Republic, will see that
each veteran is supplied with a boutonniere
lust before he starts to march. Daughters
of veterans detailed for the purpose from
each post will attend to the distribution "
Mrs Loomis's bouquets.
At the end of the parade. which ia sched-
uled TO start about o'clock and will prob
ably be over BY noon, exercises under the
suspices of the Grand Army will be con-
Quoted at the Soldiers and Sailors Mont
ment. Colonel Joseph A. Goulden, who IL
nast commander Of W. s Hancock Post
az we'll as an ex-Congressman. will de-
liver the Grafton Of the day. At o'clock
in the afternoon L. s. Grant Post will. a.
usual. conduct exercises at Grants Tomb at
which General John c. Black will be ne
sneaker. John A. Dix Post will follow its
the end of the parade to Trinity Cemetery.
where exercises will be conducted Al 'he
grave Of General DIX
On the reviewing stand with Borough
President McAneny will be notable as
semhlage of city and military offlclalS,
among them President Mitchell Of the Board
of Aldermen. Commissioners Waldo, StoVer.
Tomkins and Drummond, General Daniei
General J. II. Stahl
There will BE- further exercises. also uhher
the auspices OF the Grand Army OF the Re-
public. at S o'clock In the evening at Car
negie Hall Congressman Sulzer Will deliver
the main address. and the o9th regiment
band will give a special musical pro-
gramme.
Brooklyn will have parade OF It's own
made up largely OF national guardsheh
and local semi-military and patriotic organ
izations Various exercises VIII ne held III
different parts OF the city To commemorate
events. not all of which are connected with
Civil War times.
Public memorial services will be held IN
Hamilton Fish Park in memory OF the noole
bravery OF Mr.. and Mrs. lsidor Straus on
the Inflated Titanic. The Order OF the Al
hambra Will unveu memorial ldplel az
the main entrance Of the United states
Custom House TO commemorate the frst
mass said in New York. which history re-
cords was said in Fort James, on what Is
now the site of the Custom House ~
Father Harvey in 1888. He was chaplain TO
Governor Dongan.
The City History Club will add to the at
tractiveness Of the grounds of the Jumel
Mansion by replacing the old milestone
there with granite stone. suitably IN
scribed. as was the old one. with the words:
"Eleven miles from New York.
ON Long Island and along the Connect-
cut shore people may have the privilege or
remembering this holiday by the flight OF a
woman aviator across the Sound. Miss Har-
riet Quimby. who flew across the Enghsh
Channel on April Is. has scheduled SKY
trip for herself. starting from Mineola ana
proceeding across the Sound TO Larchmont,
TO Bridgeport, Conn, back over the sound
TO Port Jefferson, Long Island, across inc
island to the south shore, then to Patcn-
ogue and back to MneOla.