Evening journal., 1921-05-30
DRUMS BEAT
NEW TATTOO TODAY
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Commandery No. 81, p. o. S. OF A
Camps Nos. 4. G. 13 and 21
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Commandery No. 81. p. o. S. OF A
Camps Nos 4, G. 1S and 21
p. o. S. OF A.
Troop A, Junior Mechanics Guards.
Councils OF Jr. o. u A. NJ
Salvation Army Band.
Salvation Army.
Mayor Taylor and Members Of City
Council
Other City and County Omcials.
The parade formed at l o'clock on
French street from Fourth street
north. Its route is as follows:
West on Fourth to Market, to
Tenth, to Delaware avenue, to Van
Buren. to Gilpin avenue. to Broome,
to Thirteenth, to Pennsylvania ave-
nue., to Van Buren,, to Cool Spring
Park.
Detour has to be made up Gilpin
avenue because Of repairs being
made to Delaware avenue.
on arriving at Cool Spring Park.
the exercises will open with a COM
munity sing.
Miss Mary Dorsey will recite
FLANDERS Field" and addresses will
be made by j. S. Litzenberg OF the
G. A. r.; w. w. Knowles. of the p.
o. S. Of A. and Junior Mechanics,
and Edwin c. Irelan of Baltimore.
Nd, Past Senior Vice Commander
in-Chief Of the Sons of Veterans
Mayor Taylor will preside over the
exercises and the Rev. George c.
Williams. chaplain in the World War
will deliver the invocation and bene-
diction Members of City Council
and other officials will occupy seats
on the speakers platform.
The Grand Army conducted SER
vices in the local and outlying ceme-
teries this morning. Appomattox
Camp, No. 2. Sons OF Veterans. pro-
vided firing squads for each post.
The following schedule was carried
out at the various cemeteries:
Smith Post, No. /. G. A. r., at
Newport, $50 o'clock; Asbury, s.
o'clock: Old Swedes. 3 O'Clock; River
view. east side, 10 o'clock; River
view. west side. 1O.45 o'clock; Will
mington and Brandywine cemetery
at the grave of General Thomas A.
Smyth, at noon.
DUPONT Post, No. 2, G. A. r., du-
Pont cemetery. 7.3O o'clock; st JOS
eph's. SIS O'Clock: Greenhill, 9
O'Clock: Mt Salem. 10 o'clock.
Sheridan Post, No. %. G. A. r.,
Wilmington and Brandywine ceme-
terry, 10 O'Clock: Sons of Veterans at
Lombardy cemetery. 7.3O o'clock;
Silverbrook cemetery. Q o'clock; New
Cathedral cemetery. 10 o'clock.
Imposing Military Funeral.
To the accompaniment of impos-
ing military ceremonies. the body of
James Paul Arthur, who died in
France October 3, 1918. was buried
today in the Cathedral cemetery,
after solemn requiem mass in st.
Patrick's Roman Catholic Church,
Fifteen and King streets.
Arthur was the son of Mrs. Mary
A Arthur. 1909 Church street. lie
enlisted May / 1918. and was a
member of Company X. 18th Infan-
| try, goth Division. The body was
7 me of the 5000 brought to this
,ountry last week, and rested at the
| Hoboken pier when President
Harding delivered his memorial ad-
dress.
At S.45 o'clock this morning.
members OF the State Militia and
american Legion assembled at the
state Armory. Twelfth and Orange
streets. Led by a band they marched
to the Arthur home. There the cas-
ket, draped with an American flag.
was borne from the house by former
comrades of the deceased soldier to
a waiting hearse. The cortege then
proceeded to St. Patricks Church,
Y here the requiem mass was sung,
after which the remains were es-
corted to the cemetery and inferred
with military honors.
Mayor Taylor and four Of his pred
ecessors in office, Messrs Bird, How
ell. Price and Lawson, attended the
mass.
Graves Decorated This Morning.
This afternoon, members of the
Navy and Army posts, American Ie-
gion, will decorate the graves of
service men in local cemeteries
AS its part in celebration Of Me
mortal Day, Laurence Roberts Post.
No. 21, American Legion. will erect
a temporary shaft this afternoon i'm
mediately in front of the base of the
future Caesar Rodney statue on Mar
/ nv 81 'ANt 1HhA THIS "A WIRAIn Will
be placed in memory Of Lieutenant
Laurence Roberts. who fell in Au-
gust 1918, in an air engagement
with Germans over Cambria
Red Cross nurses i'm the city will
hold exercises in memory OF nurses
who made the supreme sacrifice
These exercises will be held at Red
Cross headquarters, 911 Delaware
avenue.
Detachments OF the Veterans of
Foreign Wars and the Spanish War
veterans decorated the graves of
overseas veterans Of the Spanish
Philippine and World wars this
morning. Firing squads from the
two posts visited the graves and sa-
luted with three volleys.
The two organizations paid a visit
to the grave in Cathedral Cemetery
Of George V. Farrell. who lost his
life in the Boxer campaign in China
and for whom the Spanish War Vet
Grams Post is named. Commander
Anders, of the Speer Post. was in
charge of the firing squads while
Commander Dougherty. of Farrell
| Post, was in charge OF the exercises
a. Farrels grave
Negro Veterans Marching.
Colored Grand Army Veterans and
members OF the American Legion
also are holding a parade this after
noon. The route is as follows
Starting from headquarters, 913
Walnut stret, the parade will pro-
ceed to Ninth, to Wilson. TO Elev-
enth, to Poplar, to Twelfth to Wal
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