The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1925-04-10
$4,000 People Pay Tribute to
Maryland Heroes
CITY AND STATE JOIN HANDS
Military Spectacle, Including Many
Former Service Organizations,
Precedes Ceremonies At
City Hall.

dead, whose blood sanctifies the soil
of France and hallows the ground of
the country to which they paid a last
full measure of devotion.
The ceremonies were beautiful and
impressive. More than $4,000 persons
from the city and all the counties of
the State, who crowded the Memorial
| Plaza and the assembly hall of the
magnificent shrine to patriotism, were
| deeply stirred by the prayer, oratory
and music.
No fairef day ever dawned on Balti-
more. The sun which glistened the
| noric columns of the Memorial shines
warmly on the rows of simple crosses
that sentinel the graves of the war
dead. The April breeze that famed
fathers and gently stirred the sill
| vered hair of gold star mothers signs
softly through the grasses that ripple
above Marylands warrior sons.
The thousands who crowded the
Plaza during the dedicatory exercises
| heard every number on the program.
The music, prayers and speeches were
broadcast from the platform and choir
| loft of the assembly hall. Amplitiers
erected outside carried the sound OF
the music and the voices OF the speak
ers to every corner of the Plaza.
Plans for the ceremonies inside and
| outside the Memorial were perfectly
synchronized and were carried out
! without the slightest confusion. The
| thousands who assembled to witness
the parade on the streets adjacent to
the City Hall and the Memorial were
imbued with the solemnity of the &C.
casion and were docile under direc-
ton Of the police.
| The parade, which was composed
of 5000 soldiers and former soldiers,
was reviewed from the stand at Holli-
day street facade of the City Hall by
Governor Richie, Mayor Jackson,
Major General Hanson E. Ely, Brig
Gen. Milton A. Reckord, Rear Admiral
II. o. Dunn, Col. Harry C. Jones and
Col Hugh H. Young. Besides the re-
viewing officers the stand was &C.
cupied by about 200 Federal, State
and city officials, military and naval
officers, Gold Star Mothers and citi-
gems.
| Official ceremonies were opened
with salute to Governor Richie by
Battery A, One Hundred and Tenth
Field Artillery, in command of Capt.
l.. w. Warner. The salute of II guns,
which was fired at p. M. created a
diversion when hundreds of the crowd
rushed to the rear Of the memorial,
| where the firing gun was stationed.
After the official reviewing party
| left the grandstand and entered the
memorial the thousands who had con-
gregated on Holiday street, Fayette
! street, Lexington street and Frederick
| street, rushed to the Plaza, where they
mingled with the 5000 paraders.
The Rt. Rev. Mgr. Joseph A. Cum
name. who delivered the invocation,
asked a blessing on the magnificent
| Memorial and upon the hundreds OF
Maryland's sons who gave their lives
| for their country in the World War.
Tears were shed as the orchestra
| played the Funeral March in memory
| of the dead.
There was a profound silence of
| nearly minute before Colonel Jones,
chairman of the War Memorial Com
mission, began his address. He said:
| Eight years ago today our country
| stood upon the threshold Of great
event. A great war, prosecuted with
| vigor never surpassed in history,
had reached point where victory
seemed about to perch upon tho ban
ners of common enemy.
"Reputed aggressions against the
sovereignty of our flag had occurred.
but with patience that was crowded
| to the extreme in our efforts to avoid
foreign war, our country waited I'M
| til further delay could only mean the
defeat of those nations who afterward
became our allies and whose destiny
and welfare were inseparably linked
| with our own.
| Colonel Jones reviewed the entry
into the war of the United States and
gave resume of the work of the War
| Memorial Commission. He then pre-
scented Governor Richie, who received
warm greeting.
The Governor said. in part:
From the beginning man has
wanted to be remembered by poster
ity. We see it in the pyramids which
mark the last resting place of the
Egyptian dead and in the catacombs
of ancient Rome. We see it in the
stately mausoleums of our modern
cemeteries and in the country grave
| yards where the rude forefathers of
| the hamlet Sleep"
To-day something deeper still than
that envelopes us, for we dedicate a
shrine to the memory Of men who
nre liu,nrOrfn1 because they died for