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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1910
Page
8
Gray haired veterans in blue braved cold rain and muddy roads to memorialize fallen Civil War, Spanish War, and other service members. At gravesites, they saluted with taps and volleys while families and societies laid flowers and honors.
Hundreds attended ceremonies at Holy Cross Cemetery for Civil War and Spanish American War dead. G I Stearns Post 149 Charles Town led a service with Commander Warren A Holmes and others. Dr F P Burchmore spoke. Spanish War Veterans camps honored commanders at graves with prayers, orations, and a rifle volley.
Colonel Thomas Wentworth Higginson, aged 88, joined the thin blue line in the Harvard ceremony unveiling a Spanish War tablet. He called the day one of his pleasantest memories and praised the youthful generation for their Memorial Day observances and respect for veterans.
Harvard presents a gold eagle tablet by Bela Lyon Pratt in the Union to honor twelve Harvard men who died in the Spanish American War. Professor I N Hollis led the ceremony with Henry Jamies Jr presenting, and President Lowell accepting the memorial listing the fallen.
In Ashland New Hampshire on May 30 during a G. A. R. parade Ernest Nichols drove an auto that struck Philip Spaulding aged 10. Spaulding uninjured but Nichols faced a mob as Gil bert Jones a New York millionaire in the front seat was struck with canes. About 600 people threatened Nichols but the car finally moved on.
Massachusetts Civil War veterans and auxiliaries honored the dead in cemeteries statewide. Posts of the Grand Army of the Republic marched to drum and bugle, assisted by Sons of Veterans and Spanish War Veterans, with 18,492 living veterans still able to attend.
Edward W. Kingsley Post held a crowded service at Tremont Temple Albany Street with 300 attendees. Veterans filled the front, banners draped balconies, and a 1000-strong school choir joined the oration by General John C. Black praising the Union, liberty, and the lost soldiers.
Relatives and admirers decorated graves at Mount Auburn Cemetery on Memorial Day honoring notable figures from science, literature, politics, architecture, and the arts. Attendees included descendants and prominent citizens despite cloudy, rainy weather and a steady stream of automobiles and electric cars entering the cemetery.
The Kearsarge Association of Naval Veterans and E W Kinsley Post 113 held memorial exercises on Boston Common with 150 Naval Veterans marching to the Soldiers and Sailors Monument where Chaplain Freeman A Langley gave prayers. The Ninth Regiment M V M decorated Colonel Thomas Cass’s statue in the Public Garden and laid a wreath at his base led by Captain Lawrence. Former Mayor Thomas J Boynton and Councilman Curley spoke. Hon W S McNary delivered an address. Burial site ceremonies also honored Colonel B F Finnan in Calvary Cemetery.
Edwin Gould Jr the grandson of the late Jay Gould was found wandering the streets of New Britain Conn and taken to the police station He had left Pomfret school last Friday to walk toward New York with only a few cents and planned to reunite with his grandmother Mrs George Shrady as officers traced his route and notified his family.
A Civil War memorial was unveiled in Westford this afternoon as a gift from Colonel Gawin D. Metcalf, a former resident now in Auburn New York. Speakers included Ex-Governor Long and Hon Charles S Hamlin. The unveiling was led by Hazell B Hartford, granddaughter of Wesley C Hawkes. A band concert opened the event followed by lunch.
George Carpenter 70, a Civil War veteran and G A R member, died after a confrontation with James Crowley at a lodging house. Carpenter fired a revolver wounding Crowley in the ear and causing a scalp wound. Carpenter was arraigned and bound over for the grand jury in $1000 bail, confined at Charles Street jail.
In Newton on Memorial Day gray haired veterans of Charles Ward Post 62 GRA placed flowers and flags on the Charles River to honor sailors who died at sea. A 40 member detail led by Senior Vice-President Albert Plummer was escorted by the Butler Boys to Auburndale with Captain Spaulding Fugenore and 190 children carrying flowers.
Brigadier General Cyrus B. Comstock retired A. B. A. died at his niece Detalleadeth Comstock's home in New York on May 30. The veteran officer, aged 79, served in the A. B. A. and left a long record of service in the Army.
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