New-York tribune., 1921-05-31
Cruiser SGI4tes Veterans on Driue.;
FLOWERS Stream on River for Sailors

The principal Memorial Dav exer.
cises of the Grand Army OF the Repub.
! lie were held at the Soldiers and Sail,
ors' Monument following the parade
AS salute doomed from the cruiser
Rochester in the Hudson below, the
Rev, A. Edwin Keigwin said in his in
vocation:
above the sounds of the guns, God
is louder sound-the sound in the
hearts of the people who pray for uni
versal peace and unity among ma
tions that shall forever still the voice
of strife"
Major General Billiard, who re-
viewed the parade, and members of
his party attended the services, which
were in memory of both soldier and
sailor dead. Commander Kirchner of
the Grand Army presided Rabbi Solo
mon Foster, of B'nai Jeshurun, New
ark, N. j., in an address, said that the
country mourned with sorrow and
pride its fallen sons, and urged that
the lesson of their bravery and sacri-
fee be not forgotten.
the chorus of Ella Bixby Tent, 18,
Daughters of Veterans, under the lead
ership of Miss Ethel V. Coolidge, closed
the brief ceremony.
Service at Grants Tomb
Ceremonies at Grants Tomb were
conducted in the afternoon under the
auspices of U. S. Grant Post, S27,
G. A. R. During the day thousands
visited the tomb, which was decorated
with floral tributes. The cruiser
Rochester fired q salute as the cere-
monies opened with an address by Fem
wick Y Hedley, past commander of the
post, who said that the day before had
witnessed the death of General Horace
Porter, to whom was primarily due
the erection of the monument. He said
the occasion was not only in memory
of General Grant, but also in memory
of those who had given their lives for
the perpetuation of American ideals.
Judge Frederick L. Crane, of Albany,
Judge of the Court of Appeals, deliv-
cred the grafton. Loyalty cannot be
disclosed in words" he said, wet all
can feel it. Decoration Day is Amer
ica's national day of worship, the day
on which we express our devotion to
American ideals of loyalty. 1t is not
the grave we decorate, Instinctively
we have a feeling that we are adding
our mite to some great and powerful
NduoS VI WHiCn Is WOEhlHS
among the living and not the dead.
And so we are decorating in this sim
pie way our ideal of loyalty"
Following the address of Judge
Crane the veterans marched into the
rotunda, where the ritual of the Grand
Army was pronounced.
Flowers Strewn on River
One of the most beautiful cere-
monies of the day was the tribute paid
to members of the United States mer-
chant marine who died in service.
While the national salute of twenty
one guns was being fred flowers
were strewn upon the waters of the
Hudson by gold star mothers and
members of w. H. McCulland Post,
l, United American War Veterans.
Relatives of lost seafarers reviewed
from naval launches the destroyers
lying at anchor and later went aboard
the cruiser Rochester, where brief ex-
ercises were held.
A memorial tablet, bearing the
names of the members of Delta Kappa
Epsilon who died in the uniform of
the United States or the Allies during
the war, was unveiled at the frater-
nity's club, 30 West Forty-fourth
Street, yesterday morning. Above the
list is the inscription, "For they are