The Washington herald., 1913-05-29
PLANS TO HONOR
NATIONS DEAD
Decoration Day Exercises Will
Prove that Republics Are
Not Ungrateful.
PROGRAMME ELABORATE
Younger Generation Takes Up Burden
of Decorating Work Too Ardu-
Gus for Survivors.


the supreme sacrifice in defense of their
country will be honored tomorrow by
exercises more elaborate than those OF
any other Decoration Day. Washington
school children will assist the depleted
army of veterans in decorating the
graves of men who died without knowing
that their efforts had not been in vain.
The aging members of the Grand Army
of the Republic, of course, play the larg-
est part in the ceremonies. Veterans of
the Spanish-American war, most of them
now in their prime, will take some OF
the burden from the shoulders of the men
who refer to the Revolution as having
occurred eighty-fve years before and the
recent change of administration as the
political upheaval of forty-eight years
subsequent to the civil war.
Although Decoration Day has become
an institution and descriptions of the
"white-haired men with empty sleeves
and wooden legs have been repeated I'M
til il seems it would be advisable to keep
the stories in type. the fact that year by
year the veterans who remain lean just
a little more on the canes that take the
place of crutches. has, apparently, urged
younger persons TO take the part former
" PLAYED by survivors of the civil war
Patriotic societies Of Washington will
recognize the occasion with ceremonies
more complete than those of former
years.
Services Mt Arlington.
The principal observance of Memorial
Day will be at Arlington National Gene
terry under the direction of the Depart
ment of the Potomac, Grand Army OF
the Republic. Services will start AT
noon.
Members of the G. A r. will assemble
at HEADQUARTERS in Pennsylvania Avenue
near Fourteenth Street, at $50 O'Clock.
They will form a line of march which,
at 10 o'clock, will proceed west to the
Avenue of the Presidents, north to Penn
sylvania Avenue, east to Thirteenth
Street. and south 10 special electric cars
which will carry the veterans TO Ar
lington United Spanish War Veterans
will he in the parade. as well as the
Regular Army and Navy Union ana the
Army and Navy Union.
Services start at noon. when a battery
Of artillery will fire the national salute
Then will follow decoration of graves.
committee has been appointed to
decorate the tomb of the unknown dead,
where are buried the Northern victims
of the civil war who left behind them
no trace Of their existence as individuals
Music will be furnished by the Marine
Band. Thomas H. Mckee. department
commander of the G. A. R., will open
the services with an invocation. Orders
will h. read. and the past department
commander. George II. Slayhaugh, VIII
read the order by Gen. John A Logan
which established Memorial Day. Charles
B. Hanford will rad the Gettysburg
speech Of President Lincoln. Rev. James
Shera Montgomery will deliver the prin-
Cipal address.
Services under the direction of officers
assigned by the q. a. r. Will he held
at the following cemeteries in the Dls-
trict: United States Soldiers Home,
Congressional. Battle Ground, Glenwood.
Prospect Hill. St Marys, Harmony, !
Northeast arlington, Holy Rood. Oak
Hill Mount Olivet and ST. Elizabeth :.
Exercises on Sunday.
Spanish war veterans will hold their
exercises at o'clock Sunday at Mount |
St AIban. Wisconsin and Massachusetts /
Avepues The peace cross erected by the |
late' Bishop Satterlee at the close of the !
Spanish American war will be the center |
of the services
Rev. G Livingston Bayard. Chaplain L. !
E. n. chaplain of the United Spanish /
War Veterans, will conduct the services, |
in which $40 members will participate.
The Marine Band will head the marchers
Mai. J. orion Kerbey. Of this city.
who was detailed To tap wires of Con-
federate armies at the battle of Gettys-
burg. will conduct party through the
battlefield at Gettysburg on Memorial |
Day.
The Navy League OF the United States
will hold celebration at Scranton. Pa.
Washington members of the organization
will take prominent parts in the exer-
cises. which will he national The Navy
League plans to inaugurate a fight for
recognition of sailors Ii is claimed that
although sailors were material factors in
every war in which this country has
been involved, the navy has been neg
lected.
Members of Washington assembly of
the fourth degree of knights of Column
bus will observe Memorial Day at their
hall. 6fS E Street Northwest. at o'clock
tomorrow evening. Besides musical num-
bers there are TO he speeches by Rev.
a. J. Donlon. president of Georgetown
University; John Burke, Treasurer of
the United States, and Charles W. Darr,
master of fourth degree Knights in the
District of Columbia and Maryland.
The Irish-AmeriCan Union will hold
services at Mount Olivet Cemetery at
3 o'clock in the afternoon. Graves of
Irishmen who have distinguished them
selves will he decorated. There will be
several speeches.
Exercises will be held in the public
schools OF this city this afternoon.
Pupils in the schools have been re-
hearing patriotic songs recitations and