Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1919-05-29
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Home Coming of Soldiers Adds
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Parade

With every indication that tomor-
row will be clear and warm the OBJ
servance of Memorial Day in this city
is expected to far exceed anything ever
seen here in the past several years.
Not only will the heroes of the Civil
War be honored on this day but those
who gave their lives in the recent
worlds war and that of the Spanish
American war. Great preparations
have been made to observe the day
in some fitting way for those that
have laid down their lives for their
country.
Besides the parade and the memoir
Ial service of the Grand Army of the
Republic there will be other events in
the city. The annual inspection of
police department will take place at s
O'Clock tomorrow morning in City hall
park
There will be other ways of observ-
ing the day. Members of the various
fraternal organizations will go to the
various cemeteries in the city to place
flowers on the graves of their departed
members and this coming Sunday
| memorial services have been planned
to be held in some of the churches for
those in the worlds war.
At st. Peters Episcopal church a
memorial will be held Sunday night
and a special program Is being ar
ranged and patriotic organizations
will attend.
Major James III. Dandy Post No
43. Grand Army of the Republic
whose thin lines are seen more plain
| ly each year, will visit ST. Peters
cemetery early in the morning before
the parade starts for Alpine and St.
Mary's cemeteries. The parade, which
has been arranged by Captain Joseph
l.. Crowell Camp, Sons of Veterans,
will form at City Hall park at s
o'clock and the start will be made at
$3.50 o'clock Headed by a platoon
of police and the Westminster Cadets
Fife. Drum and Bugle Corps. the
procession will proceed out High
street to Smith, to New Brunswick
avenue to Amboy avenue to the cem-
eteries. where the graves of the de-
parted comrades OF the Civil War
will be decorated and the memorial
service held at the Soldiers monu-
ment at Alpine cemetery.
Mayor Frank Dorsey, who has
been asked by the committee of the
Sons of Veterans, will deliver the or
alton and Past Department Com
Commander William Wilhelm of
Dandy Post will have charge of the
ritual of the Grand Army.
The formation of the parade will
be the same as that outlined yester-
day with the returned soldiers and
sailors in the recent war as honored
guests in the line of march. The
school children, which will be a fea-
ture again this year in the parade,
will each be provided with a flag and
there will be wagons and automobiles
to take all out to the cemetery where
they will take part in the program.
AS there has been no general order
for the members of the Perth Amboy
Battalion of the New Jersey Militia
Reserves to parade it is requested
that as many as will, come out to
join in the procession. All members
of the battalion who are to take part
in the parade will meet at the high
school at o'clock tomorrow morn
ing for the parade.
Police Inspection.
Attired in their new summer uni
forms, and standing rigidly at atten-
tion with the police rifles on their
shoulders. lined up along the curb
ing in fI~nt of City Hall Park, the
entire police force of the city will be
| Inspected and reviewed by his honor,
Mayor Frank Dorsey, the Aldermanic
Board and all interested citizens,
promptly at the stroke of 8 o'clock to-
morrow morning.
This is an annual Memorial Day af-
fair with the patrolmen and they have
been strenuously preparing for the
event during the last month under
the direction of their drill master,
Frank Seiboth. whose recent training
/ in the navy enables him to instruct
, his fellow cops in the various drill
formations.
The Garretson medal, presented 10
that patrolman who, during the last
year has performed the most heroic
act while on duty. will be awarded al
the close of the inspection. There is
considerable question as TO who will
receive this award since several OF
the force have done brave deeds
/ throughout the twelve months.
The drill will last about fifteen min
utes because a platoon of the patrol
men are to march at the head of the
Memorial day parade.