Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-30
Crowds Cheers Are
Stilled When the
Z Chiefs Death Is
Learned.
THINNING OF VETS RANK
MOURNFULLY OBSERVED
Pathos Accentuated When
Little Child, Here and There,
Ran to Present Parader With
Flowers.

With tbinned-o ranks and waver-
ing steps, but just as proud and
valiant as when they marched down
Pennsylvania avenue in the grand
review at the end of the War of the
Rebellion in 1865, forty-eight years
ago, Newark's Grand Army men
paraded Broad street today to the
blare of bands and the waving OF
banners.
Aiding the rapidly decreasing num-
Der of veterans in making the Me-
mortal Day parade success were the
troops of the New Jersey National
Guard, Essex Troop. a regiment of
the Jr o. U. A, NJ, and a host of in
dependent organizations and boy
scout and playground companies.
Memorial Day parade of late years
has come to be full of meaning. as
the public gazes on the fast thinning
ranks of the men who preserved the
Union in the troublous days of 1851
1865. 1t means more than pageant
of soldiery. 1t means the nearing of
the end of the veterans of that great
war
Chiefs Death stills Cheers.
Today an added note of sadness
was given the parade by the sudden
death of Police Chief Michael Cor
bitt just as he was about to take
his place at the head of the line:
Chief Corbitt, himself a veteran of
the war and member of the Grand
Army always took keen delight in
the Memorial Day parades.
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Captain Oscar Vogei Leads Battalion.
Including the veterans there were
probably 5000 persons. marching
Leading the line of march was a
squad of mounted police, followed by
the full Police Benevolent Associa-
tons band. Then came a squad of
police from each precinct under com
mand of the different captains. , 1t
was this battalion of police that Chief
Corbitt was to have led, but death
prevented. Captain Oscar Vogel, of
the Fourth precinct, headed the line
with company of men from his sta
tion.
Essex Troop, in their brilliant yell
low trimmed uniforms, headed by
Captain R. R. Roome. followed the
police, and then came the First Reg
iment, National Guard of New Jer-
sey, under command of Colonel
Fraser
The citizen soldiery acted as escort
to Grand Marshal DR.. James z. Cor
lies, of Lincoln post, and his aides,
T. A. Blauvelt, OF Phil Sheridan post
being the adjutant-generai, as well
as being escort to the Z. A, X. posts
that were next IN line.
The posts represented were Lincoln
Post No. II, Phil Sheridan Post NO,
11O, Hexamer Post NO. "a, Phil Kear-
Post No. 4, Isaac nj. Tucker Post NO
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