Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1904 — CHILLY WINDS AT CHICAGO [ARTICLE]

CHILLY WINDS AT CHICAGO

Bnt the Veteran* IMd Not Fell In Their Tribute of Honor. Chicago, May 31. —1 n spite of a chilly wind which swept across Lake Michigan and made the weather decidedly uncomfortable the ceremonies in which Chicago honored its dead heroes of the civil wal were carried out faithfully. The morning hours were set apart for the decoration of graves by the posts of veterans, aided by their wives and daughters. This was followed by tbe annual parade of the soldiers of ’6l. As a tribute to the sailors and soldiers who died on the sea the survivors of the posts of naval vetenins marched to the edge of the lake at Grant park, and amid appropriate ceremonies strewed flowers upon the water. In Oakwoods the resting spots of the Confederate soldiers who are buried in Chicago were not neglected. With the old soldiers at all tbe cemeteries trudged arm-in-arm their wives and the widows of their former comrades, who are banded together in the Woman’s Relief Corps. Tbe Sons and Daughters

of Veterans accompanied their elders in these real memorial parades. Other points where the celebrations were notable were: Washington, where the ceremonies were at Arlington cemetery and tbe Soldiers’ Home, and where Commander-in-Chief Black was the orator; New York, where Mrs. Nellie Sartoris, General Grant’ daughter, put flowers in the crypt of Grant’s tomb and “Corporal” Tanner was the orator; Topeka, where Secretary Taft was the orator; St. Paul, San Francisco, Cleveland. Duluth, Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia—in fact, hardly a town in the country was without its celebration of the day.