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Newspaper
Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel
Location
Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1906
Page
14
Fort Wayne’s Deco ration day observance honored living and dead veterans with flowers, pageantry, and an address by Edward G. Hoffman. The program included a parade, graves decorated at Lindenwood and other cemeteries, and a ceremonial rereading of Gettysburg and Lincoln passages.
After a patriotic recitation fair republic forever the crowd heard My country tis of thee and The Star Spangled Banner sung by Miss Mary D Bohling with band accompaniment. Rev Frank M Fox of the Third Presbyterian church gave the benediction to close the exercises.
Claude F. Baker a Fort Wayne union labor leader and Democratic figure died May 28 at his Ellensburg Washington home from heart failure following influenza. He was born in Warsaw and moved to Fort Wayne fifteen years ago later relocating west. He led labor groups and wrote about baseball and helped organize a Michigan league with George Miller. He leaves a widow and child with brothers Eldon S. Baker Warsaw O K Baker Warsaw and James Baker Naples.
Denver dispatch reports Frank Palmer known as Deadwood Dick dies of pneumonia in Cripple Creek county hospital. He drifted from Illinois to Deadwood and Chicago, later returning west and selling chewing gum for eight years. Undertaker Hunt seeks relatives in Illinois for the funeral arrangements.
Seventy five men and nineteen teams are at work on the Fort Wayne and Springfield interurban railroad. Steel rails for five miles are being laid with more arriving next week. The first car will arrive soon and service to Fort Wayne is expected within weeks. The effort is led by W H Fledderjohann.
Lafayette May 20 memorial day services featured Governor J Frank Hanly delivering a Purdue university address. He warned of a social and political revolution fueled by wealth power and corruption and urged legal safeguards and moral courage to curb graft and protect human rights.
Memorial day services in Washington drew thousands to Arlington Cemetery for wreaths and speeches. The Grand Army of the Republic and relief corps prepared graves, with 20 000 Arlington plots decorated. Birdsall of Iowa spoke. Rev Stratford delivered the main oration as a floral boat was launched on the Potomac. All government departments closed for the day.
The bucket shop business is unprofitable at Bluffton and Kelly and Chronister have abandoned the field there. Six hundred skilled workers are displaced by the closure of the American Window Glass Company plant in Hartford City. Lawrence Templeton of Elkhart pleads reform school until 21 after nearly harming his mother. Esther Butler, eight, of Decatur, severely burned when her clothing caught fire from a trash pile in the yard on Tuesday.
In Chicago on May 30, veterans of the Grand Army rode in carriages to the Decoration Day parade for the first time as many felt unable to march. The procession included regular troops from Fort Sheridan militia Grand Army posts and naval reserves, with numerous services attended.
The article notes varied Grand Army posts and graves of all known Civil War and late Spanish American War participants were properly remembered. Chicago observed the day as a holiday with most businesses closed.
Cincinnati on May 30 held a memorial day parade with veterans and many school children marching. Civic groups, military cadets and a Salvation Army band joined the procession while graves were decorated by the G. A. R. and memorial exercises conducted in the afternoon by orator George L. McAdams of Ludlow Kentucky.
Memorial day ceremonies began with school children strewing flowers at the soldiers and sailors monument. Thousands joined in the day as veterans from the Mexican, Civil, and Spanish wars decorated graves. The parade had four divisions at 4:30 pm, led by Chief Marshal Colonel Harry Sheets, with Crown Hill cemetery hosting the main program and Capt. William H. Myers of Anderson delivering the address.
On May 30 in Nashville and Murfreesboro cemeteries flowers and flags marked the graves of federal dead. Survivors of the blue and gray united in decorating comrades’ graves at Hopkinsville Kentucky, amid ideal weather.
Memorial Day services were held at Marietta National Cemetery in Atlanta area with thousands of Union soldiers buried there. Major Elijah Halford of the Department of the Gulf delivered the day’s address.
Graves of the federal dead were decorated at the National cemetery in Knoxville Tennessee. Ex Congressmen A H Pettibone of Bristol Tennessee delivered the Memorial Day address.
In Canton Ohio on May 36 the president’s memorial day tribute to William McKinley featured a wreath of white carnations and hydrangeas. Mrs McKinley carried the floral piece to the tomb this morning with Vice President Fairbanks and Judge Day each sending remembrances.
In Chicago on May 30 a massive blaze destroyed Armour & Co. elevator D along the riverfront, with one million bushels of grain burned. Sixty fire engines and several fire boats fought the flames. four workers were injured, one fatally, as explosions from grain dust spread the fire. The loss is estimated between 500000 and 1000000 dollars.
Prominent stockmen from the west met at the Brown Palace in Denver and formed the Organize Commission Co with capital of 100000 par value 10. Shares capped at fifty per holder. Articles signed by Murdo McKenzie J M Wilson A B L Ames and others. First commission house expected to open within three or four weeks with offices to be in Denver.
Fort Wayne marked Decoration Day with a new flag atop the Lawton Park soldiers' monument, gifted by Alice Stuart Knight. Col R S Robertson spoke on patriotism and sacrifice as Arion Band led a morning procession and community crowd gathered in peaceful rain.
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