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Show VETERANS I Twenty Thousand Old' H -and Young Soldiers H in Line H New York, Maj- 30. ParadeB of H eterans in both Manhattan nnd Brook- IH lyn and patriotic exercises In various H parts of tho city marked the observ- H ance of Memorial Day in New York. H Theodore Roosevelt and Governor Dlx H arc tho most noteworthy participants. jH The day's events, opened with the filfth annual parade of work horses H up Fifth avenue. Nearly 1,000 of H the pick of the city's draught borsos H wero In lino. H Nearly 20,000 veterans, National H Guardsmen, U. S. Marines and mem- H hers of the various military and civic H organizations formed for the parade H this morning in Manhattan. H The Memorial exercise Included tho H decoration of the grave of Hiram C. H Cronk, tho last surviving veteran of H the war of 1S12. and a meeliug In jH memory of the late Tom L. Johnson, ijl once mayor of Cleveland. Il Memphis, Tcnn., May 30. Memorial H exercises In honor of the 1-1,000 Fed- H eral dead Interred In the 'National H cemotory near hore were held by two H posts of the Grand Army of the Re- jH public today H Columbus, Ohio, May 30. Memorial H Day was more generally observed here IH than for some years. Ex-Senator J IH B, Foraker was the speaker of the IH day. There was a parade- of veterans jH and the McKlnlcy monument In tho jH State Houso yard was adorned with H flowers. , H |