Decoration Day At Chicago

Chicago, June 1. - Decoration Day ia this city covered three days. Priday of last week the schools celebrated. Sunday was the day for decorating thegraves, and Monday the veterans, military and civic societies held the annual parade. Sunday song and religious services were held in all the cemeteries in the city, at which the membcrs of the various G. A. R. posts assigned to decórate the graves were present. Special sermons were preached in most of the churches in honor of the occasion, and vocal and instrumental music, essays and recitations, appropiiatfe to the day were heard. All over the country the day has been observed, both in the large cities and the smaller towns. Saturday celebrations were held at many points in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Wi.sconsin and other states west and east, in the latter case, in some states, the law requiring the holiday to be celÊbrated on the day preceding the 30th when that day falls on Sunday. Here General John McNulta Sunday dellvered the oration at the Grant monument at Ijincoln park. The arrangements were in charge of U. S. Grant post, Ño. 28. It assembled at 9:30 a. m. at the mal entrance to the Academy of Sciencebuilding and marched to the monument. In the afternoon the post went to Rosehill. During the day all the cemeterie in which the dead of the war areburied were visited by posta assigned' to the duty and apppropriate memorial seivicea were held. Llncoln's monument was profusely decorated.