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MONDAY
May 31, 1915
EXERCISES AND SPORTS OF THE NATIONAL HOLIDAY ARE RECORDED HERE BY THE CAMERA
VETERANS OP ALL UNITED STATES SERVICES OBSERVE THE DAY OF MEMORIES WITH VARIED EXERCISES
""iJ Dny services between Independence Square and Hillside Cemetery. At
Independence Square, after the reading of Lincoln's Gettysburg address and other exercises. Colonel George Burnett Garrison No. 80 fired a salute over the statue of George Washington, which stands before the Hall. The Department then formed at Fifth
and Chestnut and marched by way of Market street, as shown above, to the Reading Terminal. There the members entrained for Hillside Cemetery where a monument to George Poinsett, who was killed at Vera Cruz, was unveiled
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ji The U. S. Naval Veterans this morning consigned to the waters of the Delaware the
fl flower-ship "Maine" in memory of their dead. The salute over the shin was fired bv
" sailors from the Philadelphia Nayy Yard.
CHINESE VISITORS SPEND QUIET MEMORIAL DAY
President Cheng Hsun Chang (in Oriental costume) and Secretary Li Chi
Chu, of the Chinese Commercial Commission, now in this city, spent this
morning at the Commercial Museums, 34th and Spruce streets, where this
picture was taken. The president is said to bo the richest man in China.
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'fha sailors sra from the Philadelphia Navy Yard. They came from there to take
pt in the- parade jtt tbs,Naval Veterans. Behiid,tha detachment shown -above'eame
Iha nwtt dragging the cannons which were later discharged as shown in the picture
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this morning's game,at Sbibtf'Park Tris" Speaker, of the Red Sox, mad his accustomed bit. He is shown here making a quickdUgefcaway!
. to flrst sending bi useful bat spinning back in the direction of Catcher McAvoyand tfmpire Connolly, . 'yl.. '
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