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syvj.'V.explained, an exceptional profusion of flowers, many of the latter in the form of elaborate designs suggestive of notable events in his military career.The last resting place of General Logan is admirably chosen with reference to opportunities for keeping green the memory of this fiery warrior. The body of General Logan lies in a handsome private vault, occupying the most prominent place in the national cemetery connected with the United States Soldiers’ home, near Washington, D. C. Among the thousand inmates of the home are a number who fought under General Logan, and naturally it is a work of love for them to see to it that his tomb bearsevidence of the undying admirationof his “boys” of half a century ago.At the Soldiers’ Home cemetery the veterans do most of the scattering of flowers on Decoratiou day, there not being sufficient children on hand, as a rule, to place blossoms on so many graves. But the posies which thesoldiers carry to the Logan tomb are by no means the only ones that come thither on this festival of remem-home. Grant hall as the new structure has been named in honor of the Union leader, is a splendid marble structure that will cost, with its furnishings, close to one and one-half million dollars. It is designed for inmates? of the home, and a large proportion of the windows in the big j building will command a view of the last shelter tent of Genera! Logan and the floral tokens banked behind its iron gates.It may, perhaps, strike the reader as a trifle odd that there should be need of a new building to enlarge the quarters of a soldiers’ home, whereas the old soldiers in the national and state homes in all parts of the United States are rapidly responding to their last roll-call. The explanation of the situation at the institution on the heights beyond Washington is found in the fact that this refuge is absolutely unique among all the soldiers’ homes in our land. Whereas the other homes are supported by the national or state | governments as havens for volunteer veterans (principally of the Civil war)when overtaken by ill health or ad-brance. Floral designs are sent from I vancing yeais, the institution where
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Blue Island Sun
Blue Island, Illinois, US
Fri, May 23, 1913
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