Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-06-01 | Page 3 | Memorial Day Address by Atty-Gen. Breeden

MEMORIAL DAY ADDRESS BY ATTY-GEN. BREEDEN Special to Tho Tribune. MANTI,, Utah, May 31. From early yesterday morning the citizens of Manti began wending their way towards the silent city of the dead, laden with floral flor-al tributes to the memory of the departed de-parted loved ones. Mnntl cemetery bus loner boon noted as one of the most beautiful In Utah. Its location is ideal. Nestling in a urove of pines, brought years ago from the Wasatch range, It Is overshadowed by the beautiful Manti temple, whose towers rise majestically some 300 feet above It to the east. The nddltlon of a well designed park, Into which the city water mains hnve been extended, add to Its former benutj'. Memorial exorcises began at 3:30 o'clock. The Temple City band. In Its new uniforms, accompnnled company F, N. G. U in its military salute over the graves of the Union and Mexican war veterans. After each sulute taps were sounded by Bandmaster L. A. Lu uber. A large, appreciative audience listened lis-tened attentively to a patriotic and eloquent elo-quent address delivered by Attorney-General Attorney-General M. A. Breeden, who Is himself a Union war veteran from old Kentucky.