The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 31, 1899, Page 1

This Paper not to be taken from the Library.++++ VOLUME LXXXV—NO. 182. PRICE FIVE CENTS. rday the streets ed to the steady ing Th a holiday; men front, where flags waved »r and peor | sheer enthusiasm, and to is playing their live- up the column moved on ver it W alf-mast, and f the cheer still in formed the flag-draped ren who a rought told tter thar t they had seen something in > day that was new to ficance songs blue, no gray; the dead, ; their Since M d the only Bay was fille L W wrecks and wn with Sy id South shores of Cut both North 2 r tt get what hand thes them; and it was-in people turned tc yesterday and fc ciety of the depar At the Presidio George Post of the Grand Army h fes more of pr e than the soldiers’ plat the Cemetery the other posts gathered and dre rom their surrot ings lessons of patriotism and of hood, but not of gri of mourning in either pl H. 1d ¢ Thomas remon- w; in 0Odd Fel of of ws’ ing ; those not weeping over men who They were swayed by the cently filled memory, had gone. A - at y was not at the ceme- r. There were those who as a holiday and acted The hvenues of egress whole ci , howe from were thronged in the mornir 1 they caught the crowds reversed in the evening. The bay was dotted with yachts and the park had its moving s 3ut with it all it was Memorial ¢ and it has taught a better lesson an many that have pass HOW' THE PARADE WENDED ITS WAY Notable Absence of Military Bodies, and an Unusual Number of Chil- dren in Line. There were two features of the pa- rade noticeable to the crowds which thronged street and sidewalk. One was the small portion of.the column occu- pied by the military and the other was the rge portion devoted to children, The first may be explained by the war 1 the second as well by the war, for . parade had all of the Fourth of ly flavor and the children’s enthu- m was one of its principal charms. as unlike former Memorial day pa- There are not many troops here now, and all the available men are leaving for the Philippines, so but a portion of the Twenty-fourth Regular Infantry, the militia, cavalry and the Naval Militia were the only military organizations represented. It rades, They started | w. le shouted and | ent the flags flut- | t, unmindful of the | ¢ tones | There was noth- | thered around were doing honor to a | | T with the best blood of the States | —the idea that a hero’s death is worth \\ \ ) AN N | of police under command of Chief Lees. | Following these were | shal and his aids and staff, and then | came the militia cavalry. ‘ The Twenty-fourth Infantry, under command olonel H. B. Freeman, marched after the caval and after the Twenty-fourth was the al Mili- A feature of the parade of the Na- | val Militia was the battery of four guns furnished by the divisions of San Fran- cisco, under command of Lieutenant Burke." Tt was in just such a formation as appeared in the parade A - | . - & * - \ \ R e ¢ UREAS @+ o0 0 ieioieieied yesterday that the Naval Militia of this State desired to be mustered into serv- ice during the late w The battery is as powerful a one as any that served, and from the peculiar tactics that ob- tain in the navy it can be made much more efficient than such a battery formed under the army regulations; in fact, the army tactics provide for no such formation. In the column of the Naval Militia there was also a detach- ment from the division at Santa Cruz, which came up on a special train to take part with the city divisions. The civic bodies, independent com- panies,. the semi-military organizations and the children then took up the line and ran from the Independent Rifles down to the Board of Supei ra. At the head of the children’s part of the column was the Columbia Park Boys' Club, with nearly a hundred in uni- form; then after the Native Sons of Vermont, the State of Maine Associa- tion, the Ohio Society and the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the various companies of school children came. They all wore distinctive uniforms, and in many there wag an evident desire to have arrange- ments as nearly military as possible. The Columbia School showed its origin- ality by having at the end of its com- pany an ambulance drawn by two The parade was headed by a battalion | goats, and following it a Red Cross | Liberty—and the grand mar- | | nurse, little Sophle Newman, dressed | in the uniform of the society. There was no end to the line of chil- | dren, and they marched like veterans. | There were boys and girls by the hun- | dred, and at the head of each school | column was borne a banner telling| | what division was passing. They re- | ceived great applause as they followed | down after the military. The Sons of Veterans were on hand in great numbers and so were the veterans of the Spanish War, and then at the end of it all the posts of the Grand Army took their place. | t was as large a turnout of veterans | en in the city for a long | There were five posts represent- | Lincoln, Garfield, C Meade and the old from the place of rendezvous to the re- viewing station without a falter. The officers of the day, with the Board of Supervisors and the Board of Education, took up the extreme-end of the line. There was no waiting for the start. The parade was advertised to move at 10 o’clock, and at that hour the grand' marshal moved up Market street, led by the police and followed by fully fiv thousand men and children in line. Up | the street went the parade, greeted from every window with cheers and the | flapping of flags and acompanied by the | music of every band the city could af- ed through the cemetery gate, hemmed | in by a solid wall of humanity. e MEMORIAL EXERCISES n | teraz Thousands of patriotic Americans jour. eyed out to the Presidio reservation yi v to view the pageant of marching soldiery and participate in the Memorial George H. A. R., over the d in the National Cem: day exercises conducted Thomas Post 3,60 graves of Its d tery. Long befc vance guard of ground which h: ceive the remains of departed soldier: | saflors had been visited by friends ar men marched [ relatives of the departed, bearing flow i \ B t0e08 0000000000040 0460004000000000e G+ tHe000404540000@Q ford for the occasion. There was plenty | & of music and the bands were willing, | ¢ and the course of the procession was a | o mingled chorus of brazen notes and the { cheers of thousands. By Turning out Golden Gate avenue, the | ¥ parade passed up to Van Ness avenue, | ¢ and on the corner of Turk street it was | reviewed by Colonel Freeman of the | Twenty-fourth Infantry. /Then, while | the various organizations disentangled | % themselves from the column and sought their homes the veterans and those who | ¢ wanted to see and hear what was to happen at the cemetery boarded the ps cars and made their way out to where the speaker’s stand had been erected in the soldiers’ plot of the Odd Fellows. The veterans and a platoon of artillery | ¢ from the Naval Militia were the only | & organigations in formation, but the crowds were large enough to make up any lack of order, and the line of vet- erans, the last of the parade, disappear- @44 04-90-0-0- -0 -0 ? REV. MARLES LOCKE~ ADDRESSING THE VETERANS AT FE THE ODD : LLQO sightseers, been set by e the arrival of the ad- the burying apart to re- WS EMETERY nd + ® + PP RSB AR A SN one AT THE PRESIDIO | ;:\nd the line of march to the taken up in the following order: of all varfeties, which they deposited on the little mounds of earth or entwined about the marble headstones that marked the last resting place of their beloved trarisforming‘the graveyard into a veritable floral garden. When the members of Thomas Post and other organizations who participated in the memorial exercises arrived at the en- trance to the Presidio at 10:30 a. m. the found drawn up to receive them a guard of honor composed of a detachment of the Twenty-fourth Infantry, U. S. A. The procession was immediately formed cemetery GR Major Lewls Smith, CHIEF OF AFF, Major Charles Jansen. A 1AL, A. (retired) A. Mautner, FOURTH U} S TROOPS UNITED & ROSS CADE van, Commandi CHAPLAIN H DICKT OB 2 OF THE HE ERICAN RE Other Organizations and Gues vilians who marched ok, fol- in which were the ented a brilliant and ey slowly wended inding road. Th < s s who thronged the sides of the avenues stood silent, of them with bared head the pr sion moved forward, the mournful music he band of the Fourth United States . which led the seeming to carriag guests of honor, pre sing spectac 1 command reverence, even from those who S O O e e = it g Al | on ordinary occasions are most irrever- n | its been erected, g, | AND ent, Arriving at the cemetery, the detach- ments from the battleship Towa, the T and the regular ceiving ship Pensacola troops deflected toward the monument erected to the soldiers and sailors, where .re held under the direction of itzgerald, while the main body. veterans of the Mexican and the naval battallon and the servi John including th Civil wars, League of the Cro: way u hitheater, p the slope to the little natural wher the remai the Here a stand for » speaker: a more wctive part in the cere nd to it the spe the ucted, while others themselves around and in front. Numer- ous delegations of veterans were detailed to strew flowers over the g s of the hich duty they performed while of the light battery of the Third stationed near the soldiers’ and monument, boomed forth the na- ilute of twe ne guns. The literary es were solemn and impressiv: °h of mor in the re ks akers sery ing to recall the minds of their hearers from thoughts of melancholy and relieve the proceedings from an t too fun- af Tn the absence of ¢ al War dead, R. Smedberg acted seorge presi of the day. The exerci opened with a musical s tion by th urth Cavalry which the president made a of welcome and then intro- Dr. Band, aft brief addres duced offered pray Post Comn then delivered a short addr George C. Adams, who ander ard A. Bullis s, in which | he paid a glowing tribute to_the dead he- | can people loved to che wh memory, he said, the Ameri- h and honc roes, The Nation's De: s " by ank_G. Rohner, was_effectively ren- dered by the Plymouth Quartet. and t! Lincoln’s famous Gettysburg address was | D R e S O s T S SRS SRca siom oean OS2 N W \\ \\ i\ AR B B R O S SRR SRS BSOS 3 & D © ; % B e ek o Sl SURLSOS S0 1 ] s Cadets continued on | 7y AT i "//(‘/ recited by John H. Roberts, adjutant of Thomas Post. fine voice, tyred Comrade Roberts was in and the utterances of the mar- dent on that memorable oc- fell from his lips with thrilling sis and effect. n_anthem by the Cavalry Band fol- and then Nellle Holbrook Blinn re- ‘Beyond verge of Time,” which assembled veterans. Smedberg then introduced Sumner, past commander of as the orator of L was pa- thetic and humorous by turns and an elo- quent tribute to the memory of the de- parted comrades whom they had assem- bled to honer. Charles A. George H. the day “Ladies and gentlemen, comrades and friends,” began Mr. Sum “this num- her on the programme has been a nounced as an oration. Now, there are very few orators in the world. I am not | one of them. t almost every full- grown Yankee is them. “When George H. Thomas Post assem- bled to-day and marched out to pay a meed of praise to our departed comrades we were met at the entrance to the Pre- sidio reservation by a guard of honor composed of black men of the Twenty fourth regular infantry, and I could not help thinking how appropriate it was that the representatives of the race for whose liberty the great ar was fought should a talker. I'm one of be present to aid in the ceremonies in honor of those who shed their ‘blood for them. Sixty en members of George H. Thomas Post have passed away since the post was organized; fifty of them lia h our feet; we stand over the s of our dead to tell of their deeds for the salvation of their souls. it is often said we did not go to war to fight for freedom. I deny it. ‘What were the words that fell from Lin- lips at his first inauguration? [ present and heard him. He said, veaking of the people of the South: ‘Tho te is with you; you have made the ue.” That ue was the slavery of the he people of the South, in ations, had resolved to set up housekeeping for themselvi They aw that the onward march of civilization was threatening to sweep away an Insti- is: black man. several organi | tution that they called by a more eupho- nious name but what we called chattel slavery. Our revolutionary fathers ab- hored slavery so much that they refused to place the word in our constitution, Jeff Davis, Mason and others—and I speak of them with the most profound and sincere respect, although I am glad there is still one hour of one day in the year when we can refrain from bowing down in obsequious courtesies—they stood for slavery, and Mason sald slagery was the cornerstone of the new republic. We went down to Bull Run and sald that with God's help it should not be, and it was not. But_the battle for mankind is not yet over. Not vet “'O, Freedom, may thou unlace thy corslet or close thy eye in slumber.” The speaker then devoted a few re- marks in_glowing eulogy of George H. Thomas Post, which he declared was the finest in the count: ng on its rollsthe names of many whose glorious deeds-are a part of the history of the nation. “There ' is Irwin McDowell,” he con- tinued.- “Have you forgotten that first commanding_general of our army? He was not to blame for the misfortune—as some are pleased to call it—of Bull Run. That battle well planned and _ably, conducted and lost through an unfortu- nate mistake in orders or by treachery, The ashes of that-brave and brilliant man, that grand soldier and polished gentieman, lie buried beneath a shaft in this ground, in this national cemetery, which is ours by the grace of Uncle Sam.” In concluding his remarks Mr. Sumner made particular reference to the war in the Philippines, and paid a neat compli- ment to General James F. Smith of Cali- forni; are all in favor of the present wa he declared, “as we were of tim last and as we will be of the next. Thera is one now serving in. the Philippines who is deserving of our best love and esteem. I mean General James F. Smith of the California Volunteers. I know General Smith well. I practiced law with him at the bar-in this city. He is one of those miracles of God's providence, an honest lawyer and soldier. If it was pos- sible to change the George H. Thomas Pgst charter we would take him into our ranks. There has been a great deal of talk of hei and we are all heroes, but there is a difference between bravery and courage. A cornered rat will fight. A man never knows what he is until just at the supreme test of actual experience. These whom we are assembled here to- day to honor were put to the test, and all the world knows how nobly they ac- quitted themselves.” Plymouth quartet sang “Decora- " taps were sounded by tha h United States Cav- 3 emblage dispersed as the ipspiring strains of *The Star-span- gled Banner,” by the cavalry band, re- sounded over the reservation. ? - EXERCISES AT 0DD FELLOWS’ CEMETERY High up on the hillside in the Odd Fellows' Cemetery, overlooking the city, the bay and the ocean, the veter- ans who had paraded the streets gath- ered to finish their tribute of respect to