Perth Amboy evening news., 1919-05-31
KEYPORT SEES
VETERANS MARCH
Holiday Event Wonderful Sue
ceSS--G. A. R. and World War
Men Parade

KEYPORT, May 31.-The veterans
of the present war and other organi-
cations pal dtribute to those who fell
and to III veterans of the Civil Wa
who have passed away by acting as
escort to the G.. A. r.. yesterday
morning. A great many had pre-
viously sent in their names to the
committee. but more than we're ex-
pected were in line on Friday morn
ing.
The special marshals of the Dor
ough wero uniformed police. The
line of march was under the direc-
ton of Fire Marshal Latham. The
line of march was from the borough
hall along Front street to the inter-
section at Broadway. At this point
the c.. A. r. was met from their re-
turn from out of town cemeteries,
Headed by the G.. A. r. and borough
officials who were in autos the line
OF march turned and proceeded up
Broad to Front, where 1t proceede to
Main street to Elizabeth and down
the Post rooms where a chicken din
ner was served.
Major clyde Winterton was In
command and had a his staff. Lieut..
j. Leon Schanck, Lieut.. Harvey w.
Hartman, Lieut.. walling and DIR.
James f. Hines. The colors were
guarded by two returned private.
Lieut.. Morales vas in command of
the returned soldiers. Sergeant
Frank Sandowski of whom the bor-
ough is most proud, because of the
fact that he wears a Distinguished
Service Medal acted as first sergeant
on the occasion and Sergt. Sidney
Huntington was also in line. Other
sergeants noticed were Arthur Prots,
Remsen Beers, Joseph Langan. Wei
gand, Kenneth Rowser, Chief Elec-
trician Seabrook Schank and Master
Engineer. senior grade, Henry Il.
Hopkins were also in line as was
Corporal Lloyd Cokelet.
Among the privates in line were
Privates Hubert, Levine. Walling, c..
Walling. E.. Walling, W., Walling, s..
Walling, H., Barnes, Costa, Morrell.
G%oidschmidt, Disbrow. Thistle. Purdy'
Rappleye Newman, Smith. Mott. Ko-
tack. Bauer. Mathews, Piney. Clark,
Phillips. There were many more in
line whose names could not be OBJ
tanned at this time.
The returned sailors were under
the command of Chief Petty officer
Charles Sproul. Among those in line
were Fred Kruser, Raymond Kruser.
Smith, Baldwin, Water, Mcfarland.
Green and Manion. A platoon of
members of the Companies b and G.
of the New Jersey State Militia fol-
lowed the veterans under the COM
mand of Lieutenant Arthur S. Van
Buskirk. The scout troops of the
borough followed the militia.
All along the line of march many
beautiful flags were unfurled and
never in the history of the borough
has such an impressive ceremony
taken place.
Directly after the serving OF din
|ner. the G.. A. r. and the veterans
of the later wars which formed the
guard of honor visited the local GEM
eteries TO strew flowers on the graves
Of fallen cvomrades after which the
services of the afternoon concluded.
In the evening an interesting en-
tertainment took place in the high
school auditorium at which time Rev.
f. It. b. Reynolds gave an illustrated
lecture entitled THE Five Great
Wars" This was we'll attended and
proved very instructive. Members of
the Red Cross attended in uniform as
well as the community chorus which
rendered selections under the direc-
ton of Mr.. Ballou.