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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (May 26, 1901)
Flowers to Lay on the Graves of Dead Soldiers iMJeI BxKtf?$';v AmrH ''iBBiK sPK I KvlK i ML i rM MASSES OF HAHMONIOUS VKH every soldier's grave In On. aha Hags, will wave Memorial day and Mowers will be mingled .1 with tho Stars and Stripes to show a re public's appreciation of the distinguished military service that bought peace. Veterans of three wars lie burled In Omaha cemeteries. On Memorial day three " generations will gather about these graves and pay tribute to the men who fell at Chapultepec, at Shlloh ami at San Juan hill. All tho world admires a hero. On Me morial day wi tilth ami poverty, youth ami old age unite in paying tribute to the de fenders of the Hag. Class lines will be wiped out. Prejudices will be forgotten and men and women of all stations will meet on common ground. Most of the llowirs used In decorating soldiers' graves art given by the children of the city schools. Tho day preceding the memorial services each Bchool will ho vis ited by a speaker, who will explain tho slg nlllcauco of tho national Decoration day and Inspect tho Iloral girts prepared by ,Jtho children. In former years tho public schools havo frequently given ten wagon loads of cut (lowers and plants for the dec oration of soldiers' graves, l'rovliliniv tin- linni'm, Interest In Memorial day docs not Hag among the school children. Each genera tion seems to take a greater prldo In pay ing tribute to the soldier dead. Various schools try to outdo each other In tho size of their Iloral gifts and tho healthy rivalry fosters tho spirit of patriotism which per vades tho public school system. The members of the Woman's Hellef corps collect tho (lowers and prepare them for use In tho cemeteries. The larger flowers are arranged In bouquets. Tho smaller (lowers are used In set pieces anil grouped In the mrst attractive manner possible. Jasmin'' ami oilier (lowers from the far south are frequently sent to tho local corps and are mlxid wltli the early flowers thnt thrive in this climate. A committee, from the local posts of the (Jrand Army of the Hepubllc will have llag placed on the graves of nil soldiers and will assist the Woman's Hellef corps In decorating them tho morning of Memorial dny. More than 500 graves will bo marucn ,nnd cared for. In tho smaller cemotorlcs thoro will be no ceremonies. At Forest Lawn and I'rospect Hill salutes will be (Ircd over the graves of veterans nnd there will ho speaking and music. Tho Spanish American veterans will havo ceremonies Memorial dav morning In I'rospect IUH cemetery nnd tho drand Army of tho He ' public will have exercises at Forest Lawn. In tho afternoon all military organizations will unite In the services to ho held at Hnnscotn park. SlKiillloiiiiee or the l)u. Whllo Decoration day Is primarily a holi day set asldo for the commemoration of 'the dead who havo distinguished themselves In battle, It has come to havo a wider sig nificance. It Is a day when tho hurrying world stops for a llttlo while in Its mad rush and thinks of tho generations who COLOH A HE I'OI'ULAH. V LILIES ALWAYS LOOK havo gono before. It Is n day when tho living turn to the cemeteries and pay tribute to tho dead. In Now Orleans and many other southern cities where Europeans have had wide In Huencu artificial (lowers and strange em blems In wax and metal are placed on graves, but In the north natural Howers. plants and Hags are the only decorations In common use. For mouths bofoio Memorial day IlorUts dovoto their attintlon to plauis which thoy hopo to have In bloom on May !S0. Hoses, carnations an 1 all hothouse llowers nro In favor, but thero Is a greater donmnd for peonies and other showy outdoor Howers Tito llorlsts receive most of their unlets from lodges iniil fraternal orders atitl from pernios hit desire to decorate grau's tit hur titan those of soldier. All sorts of well grown potted plants ate In ik'tnaitil for .Memorial day decorations I'ansles. verbenas ami othrr plants which can easily bo ttiiusphiutcd art" In puiili'iilar favor for use In reineicrli.t There la also a grmt Milt- of palm and other largo plants suitable for use In vases. In tho larger cemeteries sill planting f discouraged. It Is urged that the nil brolun sod Is more presentable titan ground dotted with plants and shrubs, but the cus torn of planting shrubs U still in great favor ami before Memorial day llorlsts havo many orders for Itoweritig perennials Started In (he South. The custom of decorating soldiers' graves was common In tho couth before It b came general In all parts of the t'nltel States During tho civil war women In many of the southern states l;ept the graves of their fallen soldiers bright with Mowers Their thntighttulncss made a deep Impression upon tho northern forces and In after yeats tho custom spread beyond Mason mid Dixon's line. It was nut until lSi'.S that a day was dedi cated to tho memory of the slain That year (ioneral John A. lAigun. who was cominander-ln-chlef of the (liand Army of tho Hepubllc. Issued an order to all post 4 In the I'nlted States roqiies' lug that May HO bo observed as Memorial day Since that time every dm ml Army post In the I'nlted States has observed the day. Its observance Is no longer routined to the (Jrand Army of the Hepubllc. Of late years tho Woman's Hellef corps, an organ ization whose membership Is confined to the relatives of civil war veteran.4. has raised money for the celebration of Me morial day. On Decoration day the nameless graves In every prison pen and on every battle ground of the south are bright with (lowers supplied by the women of this corps Where there are no Orand Army men to look after the graves of their comrades the women of the Hellef corps send repre sentatives who provide (lowers for the fallen heroes. May "il is a day which Is dedicated In many parts of the south to the soldlera who fought for the confederacy Its ob servance Is similar to that of the Derora- WELL IN WIIEATHS. lion day Instituted by tho drand Army of tho Hepubllc. Hi-IiIucn the riiiiNiu, In many southern cities tho veterans who followed tho Stars and Stripes and those who bled for tho Stars and liars unite in paying tribute to their dead comrades Much has been done to bridge the chasm between the drand Army of tho Hepuhlli and tho United Confederate Veterans and In a few years May HO will probably be observed In all parts of the I'nlted States ns a day when tribute Is to bo paid to all boldlors who fell while fighting for a cause thoy believed to bo holy. Tho Spanish-American war did much to niirf - mam wHtm THE CHOWN DESItlN bring about a change in tho observannu of Decoration day. It carried Memorial day services to Cuba, I'orto Hleo and the Philippines and added Jciiing I1 1 to I lie. army of mourners who decorate the graves of comrades. In the south families that mourned rela tives who fought for different Hags thirty live years ago are now united In doing honor to the memory of young soldiers who died to maintain the Hag of an un divided country. The uniforms of blue and gray have blended Into the khaki suits of the heroes who drove Spain from the West Indies. About Noted People duorgo Lennox Watson, the designer of Shamrock II, began his eateor as a nasal architect in liTl'. Since then he has been responsible for the erection of some famous i raft In his (list year he designed tho Cl itllde, which proved a great success. In 1SMJ he planned the ci.nsl I net Ion of thJ Vandura, which beat the famous Formosa, owned by the prince of Wales, lie fur nished the plans for the America's cup competitors m Thlsll", Valkyne II and Valkyrie III. Hut perhaps his greatest triumph was the lltitanula cutler for the prince or Wales, the best craft of Its kind ever seen in llitish waters. - - Mrs. Louis llotha, the wife or tho liner geuetal, who has become so prominent in her ell'orts to bring about pence, Is of Irish xlractl being the great -grandnlece of Hubert Emmet. "She has been," says tho King, "one of the most beautiful women In the Transvaal, and, though now tin mother of a numerous family, is siill a very charming and comely llttlo w an. She Is a highly cultured woman, well read, mu slcal, of at tlstlc bent, and. In limes of peai e a most successful ami popular hostess DH WILLIAM II ELY, AINSWOIUil Neb I'HESIDENT NEIIHASKA STATE MED ICAL ASSOCIATION 83 m IS DIFFICI LT iiiiisu who knew the HiiIIiin ,u homo befoie the war began diherlht the family as being in habits ami tastis wi similar to a good class English count i l.iniily Mrs. llotha knows England ami the English well. She was in this country a couple of ears ago and has lelalUes In Loudon. When entei tnluid at dinner by Lord Itoberts she sug gestul that temluini lulliiciices would be mvcsxaiy to In lug peai e to Allien and hot recent eltiiiiH to cause a cessation of the war prow iliat she Is as practical In dlplnuinc) as she is apt In point lug a way." Samuel It. Callaway, well remembered In Omaha and the west as general uianager of the Union I'aclllc, h.is retired from the presidency of the New Yoik Cenlral to become president of the newly I'uillied Amiiicaii locomotive liu.il. .Mr. Callaway ontcicd the railway servlie In IM',:1 as Junior iii rl. In I he auditor's oillce ol' Hie drand Trunk railway In .Montreal. Ills priimotion was rapid and In IST1 hi! had reached the position or private sccrctno to the general manager, in 1ST I he became superintendent of Hie Detroit - Milwaukee anil four yeais later was made general superintendent of the Delioit, Saginaw .V Hay lily in 1 1 1 on 1 1 . In ISM he went to Chliano as Hie general manager of die Chicago - (ir.ind Trunk. In ISM he m copied tile position of second vice president ami general manager or the Colon I'aclllc From ISS" mil II iv.i.'i he was president ami leech or of tho Toledo, St. Louis ,K- Kansas Cily. Ill IS'.i.', the Vauderbllts selected him for president of the Nick. I Hole road and two years later he was i lerted piesldeut of the Lake Shore & Mli lilgau .Southern railway. So well were the Vauderbllts hiitislled with his work on these mads tli.it in April. J MLS. they Hclectul him to succeed Cliai.ncey M. Depew as president of the New York Central Hallroad company Mi Callaway was born In Canada and Is ;.n 5 ears old. E LEKE M D FHEMoN'i l'HEsl DENT NEIIHASKA ST VI E DOMED 1'ATIIIC MEDICAL SO( IETY
