The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-05-29
School Children To Sing At Monument

Impressive services in. memory of the Soldiers and Sailors of the Civil War will be held at the Soldiers and Sailors monument at Seaside park on Monday. The usual solemn tribute paid each year to the patriot dead will be made more touching by the fact that in the past year the ranks of the \ old veterans have grown much more thinner. The Citizens Corps of Elias Howe post has arranged to have 8 number of chairs at the monument so that the old veterans can be seated during the exercises.
 Members of Franklin Bartlett camp, Sons of Veterans, according to their custom. will place a large wreath at the feet of the soldier on the mon ument in honor Of 11eut. Franklin Bartlett of the 14th Conn. Vols. for whom the camp is named. Members of AngeIine Bartlett camp, Daughters of Veterans will place a wreath at the feet of the sailor in memory of the Bridgeport sailors killed in the war. The program of the exercises at the monument follows:
 Dirge. Coast Artillery Corps band Prayer by Rev, J. McIaren Richard son, pastor, First Presbyterian church.
 Singing, s.My Own United States by children of the public schools sun- der direction of Miss Cora M. Pur- viance, supervisor Of music, accom- panied by the Coast Artillery Corps band.
 Reading of first official order for the observance of Memorial Day, is sued by hIajor-G General John A. Lo- gan, mmander-in-chtef, G. A. RR., 1868, by Rev. A. c. Thompson. patrio- tic instructuor, Elias Howe, IT,, Post No. 8, G. A. R.
 Address by w M. Barnurn. com mander, Elias Howe, Jr., Post. l Reading .'Lincoln's Address at IGettysburg'' by A. F. Fargo. AdJutant. Elias Howe. Jr.. Post
 Singing. "Star Spangled Banner by school children and audience. accom- panied by the Coast Artillery Corps Band.
 Dirge by Coast Arti1lery Corps band tand depositing flowers by comrades | of Elias Howe. Jr., Post. Singing America" by the school children and audience. led by the Coast Artillery Corps Band.
 Benedichon by Rev. c. H. Beard. pastor. Park Street Congregational church.
 Taps by J. L. Palmer, official
 Retreat at flag staff; music by the Coast Artillery Corps band and the Wheeler & Wilson band. consolidated Commander William M Barnum of Elias Howe Post will direct the exer- cises.
 The Memorial day committee for the Grand Army is: Judge Alfred B. Beers. Henry J. Seeley and Francis M Wilder; for the Sons of Veterans, William H. Hart, Judge Patrick Kane and Edward L. Graves. Details from EliaS Howe, IT,, Post, No. 3, G. A. R., and Franklin Bartlett camp, No. Il, Sons of Veterans. will visit every cemetery in the city and the burying4 grounds in Long Hill, Trumbull, Fairfield, Aspetuck, Easton Stratffeld, and Stratford at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning to place flowers on the graves of the nearly 1,250 soldiers and sailors of the Civil war who are buried in this vicinity.
 The general chairman for the Grand Army is Ebert L. RuggIes; assistant, Charles B. Moore. For the Sons of Veterans, A. R. Holbrook; assistant, Judge Paul l.. Miller. By vote of Elias Howe post the grave of Fanny J. Crosby, the blind hymn writer, in section 8, lot 139, Mountain Grove cemetery, will be dec- orated like the graves of the soldiers. i There are nine soldiers whose place of burial in Bridgeport are unknown. They are:
 Henry Lawton. 1st c. V. l John werkmeister, Co. E, 41st N. r. V. Died July, 1863.
 l George A. Drew, 5th N. Y- V. James Seward; 22d N. Y. V. 1 Thomas Line, 10th N. '. v.
 Jeremiah Johnson. Co. B, 14th R. I. Ev. Art
 l William H. Moore, Go. A, 18th c. V. l John A. Young, Go. c, 20th c. V. l Any information concerning the bur ia1 places of these men will be than4z- l fully received by the members of Elias Howe post and the Sons of Veterans. l Rev. A. c. Thompson. patriotic in lstructor of Elias Howe post. has re-