The Morgan City daily review. (Morgan City, La.) 1916-1920, 1919-06-04
MEMORIAL DAY IN
NATIONAL CEMETERY
THIS YEAR THE CEREMONIES OF
MAY 80 AT ARLINGTON WILL
BE MOST IMPRESSIVE.
AMPHiTHEATER TO BE USED
Magnificent Marble Pantheon Of Amer.
lea, Nearly Completed. Will Contain
Remains Of Our Famous Soldiers
Great Oaks Modest Monument.
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.


Great Oaks Nobiest Monument
BY EDWARD 3. CLARK.
Washington. - Memorial day IL
Washington Is to be memorial anC
memorable day in one. Preparation:
are now being made for the impressive
ceremonies of May 30.
Arlington National cemetery, pos
sibly the most beautiful burial ground
of the world. Is today in the cOlors OF
spring. There is nothing somber about
Arlington except the thoughts which
come to one as he threads his way
through the paths which border the
resting places of the fallen.
The color scheme Of the place Is
beautiful. There is the purple of the
wistaria, the pink and white Of the
dOgwood, the subdued radiance of the
redbud, the yellow of the dandelions,
/ the white of the daisies, and the pur-
/; pie of the violets which there mingle
with or glow beneath the coming green
Of the great tulip trees and the great
er oaks.
There are newly made graves in Ar
lington, those Of the few victims Of
the great war who already have found
rest in this section of flames eternal
come to the surviving veterans Of the
wars, and to the widows and children
Of the dead. The Memorial day Of the
future will find a greater host asleep
which must be remembered with the
hosts which had gone before.
Amphitheater Nearly Completed.
1t Is probable that on the coming
Memorial day the great marble amphi.
theater which has been erected in Ar
lington will be used for the first time.
1t stands in state Of near completion.
its white walls shining under Poto-
macs sun. Before long in the great
corridor Of the amphitheater there
will repose the disinterred remains Of
some Of Americas greatest heroes, for
this amphitheater In a sense Is to be (
the Pantheon Of America.
On the wall Of each amphitheater
tomb will be placed a tablet upon
which in simple phrase will be detailed i
the deeds of the hero thus remember
ed. In some cases 1t will be impossi.
BILE to place the bodies Of the dead !
within receptacles. because Of the dis |
inclination of families to sanction the
removal. or, as in one or two cases.
because the transfer would be an ac-
tual physical impossibility. In such
cases where the mans deeds have been
admitted as deserving high recogni-
tiOn, the story of what he has done
will be told on tablet. while the
hero himself still rests far away
OF the three great northern mill
tary figures of the Civil war period
only one rests in ArlingtOn-Sheridan.
Grant lies on the banks Of the Hud
son, and Sherman on the banks of the
Military thought always
has held that all three Of these Fed
eral soldiers better might have been
given resting place in this national
burial ground.
The military thought has gone farther
than this in these recent days Of re-
union and Of the softening of Civil war
animosities. Arlington was Robert e.
Lees home prior to the outbreak of
the war between the states. It was
the hope, and perhaps still is the hope,
that one day Lee and Jackson and
others Of the Southern army may rest
beneath the oaks Of Arlington.
Noble Oaks Of Arlington.
The great trees Of Arlington have
shaded generations Of men. Some OF
them were growing when the son Of
Martha Washington built the great
still standing today. and
which overlooks the Potomac river.
They are by far the noblest mOnu.
nents Of the cemetery. Under one Of
he oaks which has withstood the
ightnings and the winds of many
Years rests Maj. Gen. John NJ. Scho-
1eld. This soldier Of the Union has a
marble shaft rising above his grave,
,ut the noblest monument BY far is
he great oak which spreads It's shade
'ver his last tenting place.
Not far from the grave of Schofield :
s that Of Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler, :
he great Confederate cavalry leader l
n the war between the states. In
S9S this former soldier Of the Confed.
racy entered the service Of the United
states as volunteer and was COM
nissioned major general and assign
d to Cuba where In the Santiago
he participated in the battle c
( Las Guasimas and San Juan Hill.
.ater he served in the Philippines as
commander Of the First brigade of
he Second division. and still later he b
7as made a brigadier general In the
ocular army Of the United States.
Wheeler died In 1908. III
Not far from Wheeler's monument T. IN
nat Of Gen. Philip 81. Sheridan. It q
granite block with a medallion Of the
reat soldier on its face, and the one =
ord sheridan" an all-sumcient iden- q
fication Of the great cavalry leader Of 81
le Union forces. George Crook, major a.
sneral In the days Of the Civil war. m
I'D who later achieved additional n
me in campaigns against the In g;