The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-05-13

ticipated in this solemn ceremony one year ago have gone down into the dark valley and shadow, and are lbivouacked with our Great Comrade Day let every Comrade do what he can on the other shore. On this Memorial to honor and keep green the memory of men so many of whom gave up their lives that the Nation might live. Soon other hands than ours must perform these sacred office6-and other voices recall the story of their heroisn and loyalty to the Nation.
 The attention of Posts is called to a copy of General Orders No. Il issued | by CoInmander-in-Chie John A. To- gan, May 5, 1868, and which by an act l of the Forty-Fifth National Encamp- ment is required to be read as part of the public exercises on each Memo rial Day in addition to Lincoln's Get 1 tysburg address
 Republic, Washington, D. c. May 5, 1868.
 General Orders No. II:
 The 9oth of May, 1868, is designat- for the purpose of strewing with flow CTS. or otherwise decorating the graves of Comrades who died in defense of their count during the late rebellion, and those bodies now lie in almost ev- l cry city, village and hamlet church l no form of ceremony is prescribed, but Posts and Comrades will in their own way arrange such fitting services and testimonials of respect as circumstan- ces may permit.
 We are organized, Comrades, as our Regulations tell us, for the purpose, among other things, "of preserving and lstrengthening those kind and fraternal feelings which have bound together the i soldiers, sailors and marines who unit i ed to suppress the late rebellion. What can aid more to assure this re- suit than by cherishing tenderiy the i memory of our heroic dead, who made their breasts barricade between our country and it's foes? Their soldier lives were the revei1le of freedom to a race lin chains and their death a tattoo of 1 rebellious tyranny Iin arms. We l should guard their graves with sacred i vigilance. All that the consecrated i wealth and taste of the nation can add to their adornment and security is but a fitting tribute to the memory of her slain defenders. Let no wanton foot 1 tread rudely on such ha1lowed ground Let pleasant paths invite the coming and going of reverent visitors and fond nnourners. Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming I generations that we have forgotten as Ia people the cost of a free and undi- vided republic.
 If other eyes grow dull and other
 hands slack, and other hearts cold in the solemn trust, ours shall keep 1t
 we'll as long as the light and warmth of life remain to us.
 Let us then, at the time appointed
 gather around their sacred remains and garland the passionless mounds
 above them with the choicest flowers
 of springtime; let us raise above them LI, q Sfes.
 honor; let us in this solemn presence ;. renew our pledges to aid and assist those whom they have left among us
 a sacred charge upon the Nations
 gratitud de--the soldiers and sailor s
 widow and orphan.
 It is the purpose of the Command er-in-C Chief to inaugurate this observ- lance with the hope that it will be kept up from year to year, while a survi-
 vor of the war remains to honor the memory of his departed Comrades. He
 earnestly desires the public press to cali attention to this Order, and lend it's friendly aid in bringing it to the
 notice of comrades in all parts of the
 country in time for simultaneous com pliance herewith.
 Department Commanders will use every effort to make this Order effec- tive.
 By comand of JOHN A. LOGAN, Cornnaander-in-Ch Chief IN. P. CHAPMAN,
 Adjutant General,
 Flag Day. June 4th is the anniversary of the adoption by Congress of the Stars and Stripes as the flag of the Nation-and | is designated as Flag Day. It is ex. pected that veery Con1rade will on thai occasion display the Nations emblem I-the flag for which he fought an6
 for which so many thousands of hii : Comrades gave up their lives. It is 2 fitting occasion for the work of Pos Patriotic Instructors.
 At a meeting of the Council of Ad ministration held in the City of New Haven, April 27. the Lehigh Valley and Santa Fe Railroad were selected as the official route of this Departmen to the Fiftieth National Encampmen 5 to be held in Kansas City, Mo, Au gust 9 to September 3.
 Itinerary will be published in sub
 sequent General Orders. In ATe1nOria7n. It is with deep sorrow that we arr
 called upon to record the death O
 Post Commander; Orson c. Rogers, O
 TrumbuIl, Post 82, Stonington, whc
 died on Tuesday, April IS, after i'll . ness of but 3 or 4 days. Comrad ) tended the 49th Department Encarnp 3 ment at GuiIford, April 3 and l 4, ant s took an active part in the work. B. s his death the Grand Army has lost r tried and true Comrade and the com