In Kind Remembrance

Detkoit, May 31. - The soldier dead of thie city rest principally in Woodmere, Elmwood and in Mt. Elliott cemeteries. To these places many thou8ands of people went yesterday I despite the rain. At this season of thyear the cemeteries are in the weruit-si and greenest colors of bright and siniling nature. The rolling lawns, the beds of flowers, the wooded slopes, dotted by thousands of gravestones, which gleained the whiter after the showex, gave rest to the eye and peace to the heart. Many a soldier's widow was here yesterday. She found mat I her hnsband's resting place had not been overlooked. The women of the Relief Corps had taken the matter in charge, and had left soine souvenir of remeinbrance on each veteran's resting place. A sinall American flag made it possible to piek out these graves very easily. At Woodmere a pleasing and pathetic ceremony was going on afl day Io7ig. Wheu the women arrived to place their flowers, they found abont 150 school children there ahead of theiu strewing garlands. and as they did so at each grave singing a verse of some patriotic hymn. Fairbanks post jot was made noticeable by a large bed of petunias. In this cemeterj there are 78 graves of veterane. At Elmwood the decorations consisted of bouquets. According to a rule of the place potted' plants are not alloweu. In addition to the bouquets there were crosses and wreathes. In this cemetery are found by far the largest number of soldiers' graves. They represent 350 veterans. At Mt. Elliott potted plants and bouquet8 were placed upou the tonibs. There are 130 interínente of old soldier here. Among the special designs was a flag sent by New York post for the grave of General Romeyn, also a bunch of roses and narcissus" Upon the grave of Ma.ior Fairbanks in Elmwood was a ruaitese cross, roses and carnations. On Colonel Farfuhar's grave were sweet peas and ferus.