The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1921-05-30
TRIBUTE PAID
NATIONS DEAD
IN CEREMONIES;
Overcast Skies and Rain Fails
TO Lessen Warmth Of De.
voti0n Of Citizens
MANY WITNESS PAGEANT
Graves in Three Cemeteries Art
Decorated Today by 7
Veterans


. Overcast skies and intermittent rail.
only emphasized the devotion of vet.
Grams Of three wars and citizens Of
the city to the nation and to the mem.
ory of.the heroic dead, Sunday after
A long procession Of gray.haired
Chn var veterans, who occupied
Il honor seats in automobiles; veterans
Of the Spanish.American was in the
blue-dark uniforms and nearly 800
soldiers and sailors of the war Of yes.
teItlay marched through the streets in
solemn procession to the Auditorium,
with hundreds of citizens of various
lodges members of the W0man's Re-
lief Corps, War Mothers, Ladies Aux
f, iliary, and Nurses in the line of march
Included in the linesof World War
veterans we're one or two who served
in the canadian forces in the common
fight Overseas stripes were numer-
two walked with halting steps, re-
minder of the price paid by some who
fought in Flanders fields, and nurses
in their blue uniforms took their
places with the soldiers clad in olive
drab uniforms.
The pageant at the Auditorium was
witnessed by crowd which filled all
seats in the building. The simplicity
of the pageant added to the warmth
of the tribute paid to fallen heroes,
and with it was note which drought
a mental renewal of the vows of fealty
to the flag and nation and promise
Ne Eipvn nation in tho
future. -
Painting in Background
The background of the pageant set
ting was a painting of a section OF
the American cemetery at Belleau
Woods, France, where thousands of
American soldiers were buried. The
scene was painted by H. H. Pilmo0r,'
Of tiso Canadian forces, ana
was Z faithful reproduction Of q part
Of the cemetery. The painting was
made from q postal card photograph
of part of the cemetery and Mr.. Pill.
moor was aided by Prizma motion
picture, shown at the Eltinge, from
which he gained the needed knowf-
edge of the coloring. The film was
run several times by the Eltinge man.
agement to aid him.
The central figures in the pageant
were Mrs. Edward Bann0n, v0icing
the spirit Of the nation, representa-
tives of the North, East, South and
West, who were Misses Julia Weber,
Esther Taylor, Anne Atkinson ana
Mary Parsons; William C. Paulson,
voicing the spirit of the dead and Mrs.
NJ. w. Roam as Liberty in the tableau
which closed the pageant. Soldiers OF
three wars were on the stage. Steve
Welch, w. 3. Hibbs, Wesley Baker
and Mr.. Kistner, Civil War veterans;
L. M. Parsons, E. G. Wanner, J. l..
Kelly and Rudy Patzman, Spanish.Am-
erican war veterans, and Herman Bro.
copp, Elmer Lilleskow, A. Bernstein,
Fred Butler Alexander, Drysdale, P. G.
Harrington, Arthur 'Br0wn, Ray Bur
man. Legionaires. John Slavick, bu-
gler. -
craves Decorated
An orchestra and chorus Of the
Thursday. Musical club, under the di.
Tection Of Mrs. A. G.. Jacobson, fur.
nished music in keeping with the
sDirit of the pageant. The pageant
itself was written and directed by G.
H. Russ, Jr.
This morning representatives Of the
patriotic societies visited Fairview, st.
Mary's and Fl. Lincoln cemeteries and
the Missouri river, decorating graves
and paying soldiers tribute to he
roic dead. The Legion firing squad,
the members of which were on the
stage at the pageant, assisted in the
services at the graves. The Legion
post had recently received new rifles
for the firing squad.
More than 100 graves were decorat-
ed BY the committees. Among these
was a grave in the American Legion
plot in Fairview cemetery, where
bronze Legion marker recently was
placed.