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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON.
0 ONE can say for certain
just where and when the
Memorial
A recent
Lewis,
the
the nation
jdea of day
originated. his
torian, Lloyd
tributes it to
which swept
at the death of Abraham
Lincoln. Writing in Lib-
erty magazine two years ago under
the title of “Memorial Day is Born”
be says:
at-
grief
“Always there will be a dispute
over where the day began, because the
day itself came from nowhere and-—
everywhere. The greater the num-
ber of claimants for Its birthplace,
the plainer the proof that the Repub-
lie with
ness to
years of killing. Seven hundred thou-
1
sand men, Blue and Gray, were dead,
guely eager-
grief er four
was aching va
speak its
“The funeral of the war's greatest
figure pol
“Each
graves
springing from
harrowed
coln funeral
crystallized as
with its
fitted into the mood of the moment.”
As for the various
can regarded
their observances,
tained the germ of the
chronological order without attem
ing to assign any priority to any one,
On June 1, 18681, Warrentown, Va.
held memorial services over the grave
of a Confederate hero,
Marr. On May 1, 186 memorial
service was held In
which had been
Redpath (war
Inter founder of
nted the way.
little
ACTOSS
fugitive decoration o
the
eround
grroun
f
land was a seed
had been
Lin-
Sentiment
that
into fertility by the
spectacle.
that
pomp and storms of
burial drama,
flowers,
claimants, there
the facts of
each of which con-
only be
idea, in th
John
sino
Quincy
i
organize«
correspondent
Redpath Lyceun
Bureau) who was then superinten
of the freedmen’s schools in tha
That =
gpring of 1865,
bus, Ga., had
of their war dead and the fo
January the the Ladies’
Ald society there decided to perpetu-
sate the custom. They picked
April 26, 1866, the anniversary of the
surrender of Gen. Joseph Johnston,
the last formal act of Civil
as the date for their Memorial day
celebration. Montgomery, Ala, ob-
served the same day, April 26, 1806:
Fredericksburg, Va., decided upon
May 10, 1866, and Camden, Ark. dee
ornted graves in November, 1866. Up
North at least one memorial service
was held In 1868. Gen. John J. Mur-
ray of Waterloo, N. Y., and some of
his comrades in the Union army are
egald to have decorated graves in
their home cemetery on May 22, 1806.
jut even though It is impossible
to establish definitely any exact prior-
ity in the matter of the origin of this
day, It is possible to trace a sue
cession of events which led to the ob
servance of what, perhaps, may be
characterized as the “first Memorial
day” In its close resemblance to the
event as It is now celebrated. On
April, 1866, the women of Columbus,
Miss, held memorial services In the
cemetery of that town and decorated
not only the graves of the Confed-
erate war dead but also those of
some Union soldiers buried there.
ame vean
1 ey #
decorate
members of
HOT
pon
the war,
The next spring there appeared in
a New York newspaper a brief para-
graph which stated that “the women
of Columbus, Mise., have shown them.
selves Impartial In their offerings
made to the memory of the dead.
They strewed flowers alike on the
graves of the Confederate and of the
Naglonal soldiers.” Among those who
pend that item was a young lawyer
" ndined Francis Miles Finch who was
liylng In Ithaca, N. Y. It inspired
him to write the following verses:
THE BLUE AND THE GRAY
By the flow of the inland river,
Whence the fleets of iron have fled,
Where the blades of the grave-grass
quiver,
Asleep are the ranks of the dead:
Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day;
Under the one, the Blue,
Under the other, the Gray,
These in the robings of glory,
Those In the gloom of defeat,
All with the battle-blood gory,
; an the dusk of eternity meet:
fos
* i A
pen FAL ETT Paare
nt with upbraid
ig deed was
of the yea
sttle was won:
1 and the
judgment-day;
Blue,
e
tara y.
dew,
geoms. the
Yamadl
pariands, th
» shall the war-cry seve
winding rivers be red
gh ir anger forever
ey laurel the graves
and the dew
Union veterans wi
1
i
Army of
short
f the Grane
and within a
of men
{ime
who had worn
’
R., as
186%
members of the 6G. A.
familiarly known. In
nal commander of 4. A.
en, John A. Logan of Iii
a cold, raw day In March
year a party from Washington
visit the battlefields around
The leader
Charles L.
cago of that
him were his niece, flancee and Mrs.
John A. Logan. They rode from one
scene of desolation to another,
touched by the poverty of the region,
the proud the Con-
federacy. And above all they noticed
the numberless Confederate graves,
most of them decorated with faded
flowers and bunting, with here and
there an improvised gravestone,
Returning to Washington, the Rich-
mond pilgrims went to the rooms of
General Logan, who had been unable
to accompany his wife on the trip be-
cause of the pressure of
sional business. The war-torn coun-
try about Richmond was described to
him : the rows of graves, each marked
by some loving hand, now covered by
Aa gentle snow that, nevertheless,
could not dim the tokens of devotion
left upon them,
“The Greeks and Romans,” sald
General Logan, “in the day of their
glory, were wont to honor their hero
dead by chaplets of laurel and
flowers, as well as bronze and stone”
And he added that this thought
should be carried over to the United
States. It could be done, he believed,
by the issuance of an order from him,
as commander in chief of the G. A. I.
to the posts established throughout
the North,
General Logan Immediately sot
about writing the order and the fol.
lowing night called a meeting of the
G. A. I. staff officers In his rooms at
the old Willard hotel, Washington,
where the order he had written was
submitted for their approval, The
staff was unanimous in agreement and
not long thereafter “Order No, 11"
was broadcast from G. A. R. head-
quarters all over the country. In
part that famous order reads as fol
lows:
the
Richmond.
wns Col,
of the group
Wilson, a Chi-
and with
editor time,
once capital of
congres-
GENERAL ORDERS
NO.
rand Arm :
arters ¢
mrades in all
for simulianecous com-
h
partment commanders will use
make this order effec-
parts of
every effort to
tive
By order of John A. Logan,
Commander-in-Chief,
Chipman,
Adjutant General.
Official: N. P
As a result of this order formal
exercises were held at Arlington, Va,
(later the site of the present Arling-
ton National cemetery) on May 30,
1808, the principal ceremony being the
decoration with flags and
the monument to the
Dead,” a memorial that
erected to the memory of
identifi
“Unknown
had
2.111 un-
dead found on the flelds of
nock. The principal address was de-
livered by James A. Garfield, twelve
years later elected President
United States, As yet the term
Memorial day, or Decoration day, had
not been linked with the observance,
and his address, afterward printed
was simply entitled:
Hon. James A. Garfield, delivered at
Arlington, Va., May 30, 1808, on the
Occasion of Strewing Flowers on the
Graves of Union Soldiers.”
The idea spread rapidly and at the
ceremonies held by the G. A. RR. In
Monument cemetery in Philadelphia
on May 20, 1875, It was recorded that
“the annual floral decoration of the
graves of our dead soldiers has be-
come a national custom.” For it was
doing much to heal the wounds of the
war and, in uniting to honor their
dead, the North and the South were
forgetting the bitterness of a few
short years before. One of the most
significant bits of evidence of this
occurred in Brooklyn when on the
eve of May B80, 1877, a great throng
assembled In the Academy of Music
to hear the chief orator of the day
Judge Roger A. Pryor, formerly brig
adier general In the Confederate army,
Beautifying of Homes
Kansans City has had a worthy re.
better-homes movement
n the exposition that was conducted
This type of loeal
each year by national observ-
better-homes week.
The purpose is to carry into every
the United States, If
convenience and good order
This is effected through
with the
and other organization leaders,
sourl, it .is reported
City, more than 150
ready | sted In
for this That |
oumber than hi
it this time
in home life,
co-operation gchools, clvie
In Mis-
Jeff
communities al-
rom son
ave the enterprise
year. larger
become
l
a growtl f the movem
towns, cities
counties are ing organized.
Beautifien
ment
other
kinds ull are in-
ucational lan. It
kind of endeny
of the
It
innit
Money Well Spent in
Remodeling Old
i It
Built-In Garage
City Planning Increasing
A total of nearly 700
now have adopted
conters
varying sizes
city-planning idea.
these have a populs
more, Population of
down to 1.000 or even less,
Communi
especially active in this undertaking;
but it Is not confined to areas,
In view
reasonable to expect that within an.
town or city
such
Daily Fire Toll
A small city burned today—031
homes, five schools, five churches, fif.
teen hotel buildings, one hospital, four
printing plants, three dry goods stores
This same destroyer day after day
ages can be controlled. Washington
Star.
Shade Trees Important
Few features add more to the yard
than well-placed shade trees. It is
not necessary to plant so many trees
that a crowded appearance results but
a few in proper locations add accent
to the landscape and an atmosphere of
security to the home. Trees may be
considered for shade as well as orna-
ment and In making up planting lists,
Prosperity’s Foundation
It is seldom that the home owner
has room to regret his ownership.
Once he reaches this state he may
then seek other fields of investment
to his advantage.
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