The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-05-31
STORM OF HAIL
STOPS SERVICE
Memorial Exercises In Holly
wood Are Brought TO
Sudden Close.
BRILLIANT MILITARY PARADE
Grays, Blues, Howitzers and
Signal Corps Win Great
Applause.
BRILLIANT MILITARY PARADE

Soldiers, citisona. Confederate voter
ans and children to tn, number OF sew
eral thousand wero drenchod to tho
| skin and pelted with hail an largo as
Mimic balls whom they gathered yos-
tcrday afternoon in Hollywood Come
terry to pay annual tribute to tho Con-
fedorato doad sleeping In the famous
grounds.
.Brigadier- General W. B. Freeman.
OF tho United Confederate VetsransI
judge John T. Goolrick. OF Fredericks-
| burg. who was to have delivered tho
| memorial speech: Row. james Power
Smith, D. D.. aldo to General Stonowall
Jackson: Aoutenant-Governor J. Tay-
| lor Ellyson and others were In tho
speakers stand. and the military had
just gotten within tho gates whom the
black cloud. which had q fow minutes
before flashed forth Its warning. burst
upon them Rain came down In blind
| ing sheets. and In 4 few moments was
| followed By ono OF tho heaviest storms
| Of hail seen in Richmond In many
years. Tho soldiers marched Grimly
| forward; with the bands playing On
| ward, Christian Soldiers." rain soak
ing through their uniforms and hail
beating In beneath their helmets. But
tho crowd. one OF tho largest over to
DO Bsen In Hollywood on Memorial
Day. scattered like prairie rabbita TO
| their burrows, taking refuge beneath
| the trees and behind tho shelter OF
/ tho larger tombstones and oven crawl
\ INA beneath the bushes-anywhere to
avoid tho terrible hail And in ell tho
\ melee and the uproar of tho fleeing
crowds tho Confederate Veterans Of Il
E. Loo Camp No. mover loet step
| marching as they had marched In
other days into a storm OF shriektng
lead. Unfalteringiy they nled by the
reviewing stand. where sat a few of
! their comrades, who. because OF Grip
| Piled limbs and tho weight of many
years. had been unable to take part
In tho parade
THUNDER AND LIGHTNING
FURNISH GIANT SALUTE
For a time the trees and bushes af
| forded shelter to the crowds and TO
| few soldiers who remained. but within
n fcw minutes the leaves turned with
tho weight OF tho rain and hail.
branches snapped of like dried reeds
| before n wind, and the stor mswirled
In 80 that every man. woman and child
1 in nil parts Of the cemetery were soak
| cd Just as the troops filed by tho
reviewing stand lightning famed
! across the Hky and peal OF thunder
roared out n giant salute. Children
crouched in their mothers arms. and
| eNcn men, hh tno iuiA ~thiAio
more furiously down
There was no attempt at speech
milking. When at last the sun shone
sorth again. the cemetery was almost
empty OF the living, and Judge Cool
rick. who was also tho chief speaker
on last Memorial Day. when It rained.
turned sadly away. A few veterans
remained about tho stand. and. with
| heir clothes streaming with water and
their gray felt hats limp and sodden,
went up to shake hands with Judge
Goolrick, and to sympathize with him
that second time nature had inter-
vened to prevent him from speaking.
The military. procession was ono of
the finest ever seen hero on Memorial
Day. shortly after 4:3o o'clock. for
! he IIuwitzcrs were late getting into
! inc, the parade moved from Third and
Franklin Streets. Mounted police. fol-
loved by Brigadier General Freeman
with the Richmond Light Infantry
Blues, under Major E. W. Bowles. i'm
mediately In their roar. Next came
tho Richmond Grays. the First Bat
TALON OF tho First Virginia Regiment,
under Major J.. T. Price respondent
In their new uniforms. and more SOL
dierly looking than the Grays have
ever appeared before. Following was
tho signal corps. under command of
Lieutenant Earl Lutz, making its flrst
appearance In public. The men have
been whipped into fine shape, and made
an unexpectedly good showing
GREAT crowd VIEWS
BRILLIANT PARADE
The Richmond HowitZers under COM
Hand of Captain w NJ. Myers. brought
up the rear Of the military. and be-
hind them filed old and grim visaged
mon In gray. They marched slowly
and steadily. keeping we'll behind the
| ighter-footed and younger men in
| ront. and not q man dropped from the
ranks The procession was brought
up In the rear by long file OF car
'Iages and automobiles. bearing MEM
bers of the Hollywood Memorial As
sociation, Daughters OF the Confed
eracy, and guests OF the Confederate
organizations.
Thousands gathered at the point OF
assembly. ana In every street through
which the procession passed homes
were decorated ahd thousands lined
| he curbing TO watch the soldier boys
md veterans proudly sweeping by.
| j was by far tho most splendid mill
itary spectacle seen in Richmond In re-
cent years Violent contrasts Of color
caught tho eyc AM kept attention, and
tho troops marched with q precision
and bearing that would have done
credit to veteran commands. The
Richmond Grays received great APP
plause for their martial appearance. and
they did. indeed. reflect great credit
on Major Prico. who has placed the
command upon n we'll organized foot
ing.
| People followed in street cars. auto
mobiles. carriages and nfoot, stirred by
the same music which animated the
soldiers Westward on Franklin Street
the procession moved to Floyd Avenue,
and thence southwark into Cherry
4 nat .trIt
sounded tho storms frat grim warn
| Ing. when q clap OF thunder shivered
across the sky. few OF tho on
lockers changed their minds. and turn
cd back. But most OF the crowd moved
with the procession. From Cherry
street the parade moved into the
cemetery, marching between dense
masses OF people on either side. Oyer.
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