Show GRAVES Of O I N N TON STREWN iY 6 t HANDS Of ONES c i W WASHINGTON May 30 With solemn ri jand and Impressive ceremonies rr Memorial morial day was observed s in the I National capitOl t on ona d f g r. r v a more o elaborate scale than usual s Bust Busl- ness hess was su suspended and people of If f au aU H classes united In perpetuating the memory mem- mem i ory or of the thousands of heroic lend dead lendIn In in the eight national cemeteries in this vit VI VI- t I f Soldiers' Soldiers monuments and statues upon th tho Government reservation were wre nag flag draped rap d flags on all the public buildings buildings' were WE're at mast half and the national colors s with the tho folds caught in hands bands of crepe were ere displayed from hundreds Of C pr private residences Notwithstanding f the absence absen e of th the President who has been a conspicuous figure in several previous Memorial day exercises the arrangements at Arlington were elaborate The days day's program included in in- eluded a parade of the G. G J A. A 5 T n. Gw tr the Old Guard Spanish h war veterans other patriotic organizations organizations' and the militia of at the District of Columbia headed by the United States marine band decoration of monuments and graves graes and addresses by men melt prominent I I in public publIo life lite At the Ute National cemetery at Arlington Arlington- overlooking the Potomac c. c the the principal exercises occurred There e the patriotic organizations formed in line Une and at the gates were greeted b by a national salute fired by y a battery of the United States State field artillery artillery- The graves in the tile cemetery were strewn with and each grave marked by an American flag women societies auxiliary to the various organizations having been engaged in ti patriotic work from early morning A touching feature of ot the ceremony was the decoration of graves in the part of ot the cemetery where lie He the confederate dead I The tomb of the unknown dead was decorated by a a. special committee and there thE the tile marine band rendered a dirge the same program being followed In the section allotted to the Spanish war dead and a wreath placed upon the anchor of ot the battleship Maine Later In the amphitheater with a large crowd howd present the Impressive services services ser ser- vices vice for the soldier dead was conducted The program arranged interspersed sed by selections of the tile marine marina band Included singing of sacred and patriotic songs reading I of sP P President s Lincoln's I Gettysburg Gettysburg Gettys Gettys- burg address d s by the Rev InI H. H N. N c Couden Chaplain of the House of Representatives tives reading The Reveille Bret Harte by Col John U. U S. S A. A oration Commander James Tanner past in commander of the G. G A. A R. R and R.-and arid and America by the band chorus and on entire sn- sn tire tiro assembly I Following these exercises the unveil Ing of ot the monument to the memory of Maj Maj Joseph A A. Mower by the he Arm Army I of the tho Tennessee took place laCe Under tinder the auspices of ot that society United States Senator William Warner Walner of Missouri pre pre pre- sided Former ormer United States Senator Thurston Thurs Thurs- ton of Nebraska was the orator of the day at the exercises at the cemetery Under r the auspices of ot the various posts of ot the G. G A. A R. R memorial exercises were held in the District of Columbia at the soldiers' soldiers home Congressional Congressional- Oak Hill Holy Hob Rood Mount Olivet Glenwood St St. Elizabeth asylum Rock Creek Harmony Prospect Hill Battle BatUe Ground and St. St Marys Mary's cemeteries Official programs were carried carried- out at each each cemetery |