FORMATION OF THE COLUMN.

\t the head of the column were the regulars

from Forts Siocum. Jay. Totten and Scliuyler.

eight companies of them, under Colonel A. H.

Merrill. Trim and ready they looked, marching

evenly with a tree swing. Behind them clat-

tered their caissons, drawn by eager horses.

Following then came the National Guardsmen.

headed by General Charles F. Roe and his aids.

Squadron A. with its cavalry band, led the line.

.; Then cane the 2Sd Regiment, under ColonelFranklin Hart'.ett. the Ist Battery, under Cap-

tain Louis Wendel. and the -d. under Captain

David Wilson. Genera] George Moore BssttHwas at the hand of the First lsrigade. Captain

Oscar K. Erlandsen led the Ist Signal Company.

behind which came the Tth Regiment, marchingproudly to Its magnificent band. A great burstof applause greeted the crack regiment, to bemerged Into a louder one as the COth canealong with Colonel Duffy at its head. Followingcam.- Colonel .lames M. Jarvit- with the Nth.Colonel William F. Morris and his !>th. at th-head of whose enlisted men marched Fir- Ser-geunt Regus, the oldest first sergeant In the Xa-Uonol Guard of the State; the 12th. withColonel George R. Dyer at its head, and theTlst. under Colonel William O. Bates, whichagain caught the throng's fancy.

In th. NHval Brigade were a company ofUnlt*»d States Marines and the Ist Battalion

Continue," on tivrlft'ipage

Past Columbus Honumtju ahnrly marched the

men, while Grand Marshal Frederick L,Behnatn

and Adjutant-Genera] Albert H. Rogers re-

viewed them, out to Central Park West they

went. and up that thoroughfare to Seventy-

second-at. To Broadway, through a constantly

thickening throng, up to Eighty-sixth St.. out to

Riverside Drive «nd up past the reviewing;

stand marched the column. There was sta-

tioned the Veteran Corps of Artillery.Military

Society Of the War Of IM-. under Adjutant

How land Pell. as a special guard of honor. At

the right of the stand, escorted by three troop-

ers was the governor's flog. In the rlewtoastand was Lieutenant Governor BhjSkßS, repre-

senting Govwrnor OdeH At his Bids stood Mr.

Forties, the M;.\or's representative. With them.

resplenden hi btiWani snUfonna smothered mgold braid were General Corbln. General N. H.Henry, chief ol staff to the Governor; the Gov-

ernor's military secretary. Major H. K. Bird,

and Lieutenant Commander A. B. Fry, Lieu-

tenant Colons* Charles Sherrill. Major A. E.

Mclntyre Major John J. Byrne, Major John T.

Soder. Major Charles O. Dovt* Lieutenant Col-

one 1 William Littauer. Captain Edwin Dayton.

Lieutenant John Marrow. Lieutenant Chatneld.

General Wtlsoril. pas* commander-m-chlef ;

General Bnkoweu! past depnrtment commander.

Q A X Colonel J. A. Goulden. Dr. P. H. Mur-phy chairman of the Memorial Committee, and

Colonel l.avid S. Brown. Dr. John H. Flnley.

president of the City College, was made con-

plcuous by a civilian's suit.

Past the reviewing stand they filed, these vet-

erans and their escort troops, and as each handwent to the salute it was the -white

shaft of the Soldiers and Sailors' Monu-ment, glittering above the green of the trees

and grass and the shimmer of the river, and theflag at halfmast beside it. which they saluted,

rather than the reviewing officer and his aids.And as the regimental flags were borne past thereviewing stand It was the memory of what

th»y represented and the memory of the menwho had died which caused the spectators toaland, bats dotted, Pot each flag.

ONE YiITi;RAN FAINTS.

Under a cloudy sicy they marched yesterday,yet. >'ol as was the day and short the march,

OSM "f the veterans fainted from the exer-

tion. Just as John A. Dix Post came to a halt

In Elghty-slxth-st.. Alexander Falk, of No. ><>

Hast UilliHliMiiert and liflliTlat toppled over.

He Is atxty-fou* years old. His comradespicked him up. ami. after he was revived, he was

sent In an ambulance to Roosevelt Hospital,

suffering from heart weakness.

From early morning the streets around the

Columbus Circle echoed to the blare of military

bands, '-he tramp of marching men and the clut-

ter of horses' feet. «iuardsmea and marines.regulars and the O. A. ft men. Infantry, cav-

alry and artillery, slowly they massed in IBS

aide streets, whit- mounted policemen and

scores of patrolmen kept back the throng of

spectators. Hurrying aids ordered the men

Into formation, and fairly on tune mounted po-

licemen moved up the roots they had cleared

ol traffic long before.

I'ctcrans of Tno Wars, Escorted byTroops, Get Cheers.

In loving, reverent memory of their departed

comrades, veterans of two wars—

a handful offeeble, tlmeworn survivors of "»>T» and their sonsof 'i»8, trim and vigorous

—marched in yester-

day's Memorial Day parade. With thorn as es-cort went the regulars and the spruce militia-men who stand ready for any chance of an-other war. Through one long lane of spectators

marched they, from start to finish, to constantapplause; and. while the ulert readiness of theregulars and the military neatness of the Na-tional Guardsmen also drew applause, it was notof the quality of that, delivered with Indrawnbreath and tear dimmed eyes, wiii.-h greeted

the tattered, shot riddU d flags which wentthrough the Civil War. and the men who bore

th'-m.

REVIEW AT MOXUMEXT.

CROWDS SEE FIXE PARADE

prl\ ilogo of transmitting to tho?*> who easseafter ih--i!i, as a h"iitaar<* of honor forever, notonly the memory of their own valiant deeds.;»ut the memory of the •!. Eds of those who. noless valiantly and with equal sincerity of pur-!• se, fought against the stars In their courses.The war left to us all, as fellow countrymen. asbrothers, the right to rejoice that the Unionhas been restored in Indestructible shape in a

>\u25a0\u25a0 itr;. where slavery no longer mocks theboast <»f freedom, and also the right to rejoicewith exultant pride iv th*» courage, \u25a0etf-SSjCfi-Bee and the devotion alike of the men whowore th:- blue aiid the men who wore the gray.

A HISTORIC FIELD.He is hut a poor American who, looking at

this Reid, doea not feel within himself a dei pelreverence for the nation's pas) and a higherpurpose to make the nation's future rise levelto her past. Here fought the chosen sons ofthe North and the South, the Bast and th-»West. The armies which on this field contendedfor tho mastery were veteran armies, hardenedby ions: campaigning and desperate lightingmi \u25a0

such Instruments of war as no other nationthen possessed The severity of the fighting i-5attested by the proportionate loss a loss unrivalled hi any battle <.f similar siz«' sine- Ibedose of the Napoleonic struggles; a loss whichin certain regiments was from fourth! tofour-fifths of the men engaged Every spot onthis Reid has its own associations of soldierlyduty nobly done, of supreme self-sacrifice freelyrendered. The names of the chiefs who servedin the two armies form a long honor roll, andthe enlisted men were worthy, and even morethai: worthy, of those who led them. Everyacre of thi? ground baa Its own associations.We see where the tight thundered through andaround the village of Gettysburg; where theartillery formed on the ritU'.">: where the cav-alry fought; w here the hills were attacked anddefended, and where, finally, the great chargesurged up the slope, only to break on the sum-mit in the bloody spray of gallant failure.

WHAT THE FIGHTING WAS FOB.But the soldiers who won at Gettysburg, the

soldiers who fought to a finish the Civil Warand thereby made their countrymen forevertheir debtors, have left us far more even thanthe memories of the -war itself. They foughtfor four years In order that on this continentthose who came after them, their children andtheir children's children, might enjoy a lasting-peace. They took arms not to destroy, but tosave liberty; not to overthrow, but to establishthe supremacy of the taw. The crisis whichthey faced was to determine whether or not thispeople was tit for self-government, and there-fore fit for liberty. Freedom is not a gift whichcan be enjoyed save by those who show them-selves worthy of it. in this world no privilege?can be permanently appropriated by men whohave not the power and the will successfullyto assume the responsibllty of using It aright.

In his recent admirable little volume on free-dom and responsibility lo democratic govern-ment, President Iladley of Yale has pointed outthai the freedom which is worth anything isthe freedom which means self-government andnot anarchy. Freedom thus conceived is a con-structive force, which enables an Intelligent andRood man to do better things than he could dowithout it; which Is lit its essence the substitu-tion of self-restraint for external restraint thesubstitution of a form of restraint which pro-motes progress for the form which retards ItThis Is th.- ri^ht view of freedom: but it canonly be taken if there bj a full recognition ofthe 'lose connection between liberty and respon-sibility i., every domain «it' human thought. itwas essentially the view taken by AbrahamLincoln, and by all those who. when the CivilWar broke out. realised that In a self-governingdemocracy those who desire to be consideredtit to enjoy liberty must show that they knowhow to use it with moderation ami iustlee inpeace, and how to fight i'oj- it when it is jeop-arded by malice domestic or foreign levy.

FEALTY TO A LOFTY IDKAI..The- lessons they taught us are lessons as ap-

plicable In our everyday lives now as in therare times of great stress. The men who madethis field forever memorable did so because theycombined the power of fealty to a lofty ld«:tl

Continued on- • \u25a0•ml i>ii r

The cause of the Filicide Is a mystery. The

Mayor's wife, whom he married in Washington

only two weeks ago. was asleep la aa adjoin-

lr*room when awakened by the report of the

I>i*tol. Bhe found her husband lyingon the floor

of his room In front of a mirror, blood stream-

tsg from the wounds In his head.Mis. McLane summoned Dr. A-Trego Baertaer,

Wbofour.'l that dM Mayor had shot himself in

the Jp^r part of the right temple, and the

tmllet had made Us exit behind and above the

left ear. The pistol and a white holster were

tmder Mr. McXan-e's right side. Four more phy-

sicians were soon on the scene and the five did

everything la their power, but the Mayor never

spoke after the shot was fired.Though the coroner officially declares the

Mayor's death a suicide. Dr. Claude Van Bibber.

the brother of Mrs. McLantr* first husband, to-

mrht Stated that he believed the Mayor shot

MmseU accidentally, raying that the roursa of

the baoet bo Indicated. He insisted that thex-

sad been no coolness or estrangement between

th» Mayor and his family over the marriage.

end that only last evening he and the Ma)

celled on the Mayor-, father. Kotfrlthatandirigthe statements of members of the family, the

coroner's certificate based on an Investigation

of the tragedy establishes suicide.No one saw the shot fired. The tragedy has

ojii-Hl intense excitement throughout the cltjr.

end by many polltlclana. as •*U a" fri"I"< of•••

Toong Mayor, his death ih regarded as a

•ftp*to the rreat fire which swept a«ay the

business section of the city last February. IbeMayor felt the burden of reapoosibOlly upon

him. —labored In tsssntly. Some of his a. \u25a0..,

were criticised in connection srita making l*n-

prorements to the burned district, but the May-

ore public spirit seemed unshaken. In fa- 1. be

was more praised than criticised, but the weight

of llSJiadinilj undoubtedly worried him.

Tbe Mayor's recent marriage Is heSeved tonay. caused an ertrtngwient with his family.

B« married on May 14 last the widow of It.

Job? Van Btbber. a well known physician.

H- maiden name was Mary I'UsTy. Kh" vas

Isafer so-lally, and for ye*» was a famous

W--r. he was alx>ut forty-five r«*« old.

•Wltthe Mayor waF thirtyH*« Despite the****in their age.v they had be. devot-dly

\u25a0ftlrsM to each other for severa! years. 1heir

'Mlsiuii_l however, was never asmoameO.«ad «:"ii th^y vent to Washington and were. BftdM by the llev. George Carter, of St a;

**•*!i:pisooval Church. t!.at city, the -n-

•eanoHm-ut oaasod a great sorpri»e in <,i:lclal

poittksl circus here, but rot «o moch to

their own social circle. In •«* their attiuh-

\u25a0\u25a0at bad long Ijeen noted.The Mayor had bad politic*] troubles *tso.

Be r.as p. Democrat, and was elected by the

J>mo.raty, hut be was not In touch with th-

Den.... \u25a0 party organi/atio!-, UecauM of UP*toittv poOtldaj-s in i,aking bis appointments

1 «•<«*•«. ne turned down the city bossea, and badbji««eulty wttli th« or/ranizallon UsCUlbers atlk« Onpcus as wen. Mr. .1- l-""- was a man

'"''-*<\u25a0 iilsh»i!t honor and inlegrit.v. and shoreP"'it:<-ai trickrry of any sort, but he was of a highstrung, nervous temperament and sensitive to*•*<riti< of what he believed bis duty to

\u25a0s aablle.Tlit Mayor's father, Jiim<- I>. J.l<l.ai:<\ was

t-r.oriß the first to arrive at the house after the'rag^iy. His distress wan pltlabl*-. Mrs. Mt-««»»is 100 much prostrated to make any state-

I?n4er «'.\u25a0 charter, K. clay Tlmanus. president«*e l*ecor

-branch of the City Council, sac-

y°*M, Melons »\u25a0 Ma»-or for the rest of his=\u25a0•"• Mr. McLaoe wa« elected in May of last11^ ">r four y«ari». His successor is a Kepuh-V.*1 '"''• «• membffr of Hi- regular organization.* • 1-raari'Jß is senior member of the firm of D.

C«iautur<J on kecuoti prta*

Japanese Expect Port 'Arthur*Capture About June SO.

London. May 51.— attack on Port Arthur."The Chronicle's" Tokio correspondent tele-graphs, is expected to begin about June 1«">.Correspondents will leave Japan, it is said, onJune 10. and the capture of the fortress is ex-pected about June •-*>. The correspondent alsosays that 10.000 Russians have been sent up theLfcM River In junks to Tie-Lint,-.

"The Morning Post's" Shanghai correspondenttelegrsiphs that several Japanese transports areSana) SJ Mo. in Northeast Corea.

"The Standard's" correspondent at Japaneseheadquarters indicates the reason for delay Inthe operations. He says that the force thatlanded at Taku-Shan appears to have struck the)fringe •? the rainy season. The downpour i: tobeen heavy.

General Kurt.j>atkin, "The Telegraph's" St.\u25a0Petersburg correspondent says, is fighting twoenemies, it.c at home, the other in Manehuri-t.While his military reputation Is undergoing a.terrible ordeal, he is also accused of failure asMinister of War to make proper preparationsfor war. The Emperor Is alleged to he m dis-satisfied that he would dismiss both AlexlefT amiKuropatkin were it not that he fear* the effecton publicopinion. The general impression nmonTthe highest Hashes is that the fall of Port Ar-thur ought to indicate the end of the war. andthat if the Japanese succeed in this aim Rus-sia's best interest would be to make peace, butnobody, the correspondent avers, possesses themoral courage to make such a msnistlnsi tothe Kmperor.

The curresiKmaeat iiso asserts mat the a#jie«-

DATE SET FOR ASSiI'LT.

JAPANESE LOSSES FEW.»

Four Killed and Tzvcnty- eight

JVoundcd in Battle atI-Yang.

Tokio. May 30— A detach of Japanese

troops attacked and defeated •-•.•XH> Cossacks at

I-Yang-Pien-Xlen. northeast of Feng- 'A

t'heng, on Saturday. The engagement began at

".\u25a0':.\u25a0}•> and ended at 11:150 a. m. The Japanese

lost four men killed and twenty-eight wounded.The Russian casualties are not known.

General Kurokl reports a number of outpost

affairs and the capture of eight Russian scouts.Seoul, May St.— is reported here that Japa-

nese troops, after an engagement with the Rus-sian forces. in which the latter were defeated,

have occupied I-Yang.

St. Petersburg, May 30.—The general staffcannot confirm the reported defeat of 2.000 Cos-sacks at l-Yansr-Pien-Mer;. but a message from•Jeneral Kuropatkin. made public this afternoon.reporting the Japanese advance from Kwan-Tientr> Saimartza. lends color to the Tokio dispatch.

I-Yansr-Pien-.Merj lies between these points.•Jeneral Kuropatkin'3 dispatch follows:Ithis morning received sj report stating that

the J;»i>an»-?<e advance SSJ Kwan-Tlen haswDegunfrom Saftssadsav The numbers of the enemy areBOt know::.

St. Petersburg. May 31.— The reported defeatof Cossacks at I-Yang-Ften-Men was the only

news am! almost the only topic of-'conversationin S>. Petersburg last night. Officers at head-uuarters were reluctant in accepting 1 the Japan-ese dispatches. Th»y think it possible that thiJapanese sssi General Mistchenko's command,which has recently been raiding: InCorea. It isformed of eomparativel> raw recruits, thoughnow hardened by three months' campaigning.

It is conceivable, the officers say, that they

misrht have been defected, but not Rertnen-kampfs force patrolling the I-Yangr region, whoare veterans of the command which accom-panied him on the famous ride through. Man-churia. These men are esteemed here as thehardest riders and the most reckless fighters inthe Trans-Baikal army. Any disaster to themwould have a greater sentimental effect thanthe more serious reverse at Kin-Chow.

A Move on Kzvan-Tien—

Human*Flee Before Oku's Army.

Two thousand Cossacks vrere defeated by aJapanese detachment at I-Yang-I . atown between Feng-Wang-Cheng and Kwan-Tien. The Japanese looses were few. Theengagement lasted only an hour.

General Oku reported that the Russianshad abandoned three towns before the Jap-anese advance on the Kwan-Tung Peninsula.Four more guns, a large quantity of powderand many railroad cars were captured atLiu-Shu-Tun.

Advices received in Washington said thatan army of fifteen thousand men had sailedfrom Japan for Corea to cut off the CoaMstlsiwho are threatening General Kuroki's com-munications.

The Ku?sian Foreign Office termed pri?-

pncT^rous the report that an offer had beenmade to China to evacuate Manchuria in ex-change for the Hi territoiy.

DEFE. IT ?"

COSSACKS.

KIBOKI'S MEN IN ACTION.

POPILAK NEW P.ATES.\u25a0.V1.;;1..,:i. s. rvlcs in Newark. Jersey City, andHoboken. The New York and New Jersey Tele-

Lv'cm.v -alla11.1 MurW-t St

-Xtuart: *\u0084*? St.. J

-DEWEY'S POUT WINE AND QJL&PE JUICKAre superior for your sick ones.

H. T. Dewoy & So-:* Co.. US i'ulton St.. New York,-Ajdvt. vi

Humidity and Heat Disappear intin Rattling of the Rain.

A downpour thai was almost a cloudburst, witha violent electrical display, put an end to theliumiiJit^ and moist beat of yesterday. The threatened rain, which kept many from taking advan-tage of the holiday for an extended trip out oftown. held off until 6 o'clock, when black cloudsIwgan to 1ii<» up above the horizon, and promisedan lu!iii«-diate downpour. A few big drops heraldedthe approach* of the storm by BO narrow a marginthat by i!..- time an umbrella had been raised itwas raining literally In bueketfuls.

The humidity In the early part of the day washigh enougli to be exceedingly uncomfortable, Atthe time hen tin- parade started and nearly \u2666•very-tody was on the ftre<tc, it was S2. a peroentage thattold heavily on the veterans in the parade andwilted collars and spoiled the tempers of the on-lookers.

Few (hat could v ( away stayed in town yes-terday. At the Battery the landings of the twoConey Ilan l lines wen besieged l>j mobs of per-F[>iring. Impatient, thirsty people, seeking relieffrom the heat here in th" noise and confusion an Iworse heat of "the Island." The press of businessnn the new Dreamland line was so great that theboats were delayed. Both lines went out loadeddown to the rail* with perspiring humanity, andthe raiiK for tne "handsome waiter" wim-« nu-merous enough to wear that enterprising personout.

THE KAW TAKES OUT FIVE BRIDGES.

Celebrates the Anniversary of the GreatFlood at Kansas City Last Year.

IST TBXSOaAPfI TO Tin: ratSCKK.]s city, May SO The Kaw Blver. which

has beea bank fun, reached Us crest to-.d^ht and

Is stationary- Three railroad bridges him tw..

n eai'rled <>iit to-day. Ail W'-re. tures. nut ov«r after tba Sood of last

carried out twenty-thres su'ei strii<--

This is th*> ;.ri!!!\f-rs.-i' : of the great flood of l.^^trear. Earl] I •\u25a0- morning great masses of wreck-age, Which (pdged agalnsi the Rock Island pile)irl<i(,'(» after <i(>stn!<Mlon of the Kan«as-ave. wagon

bridge late last nisht. '< .-:..•! to Core* it out or\-:>f and one-half the structure went out with acrash The other '\u25a0; •\u25a0'-\u25a0\u25a0 quickly followed, and allHi. wreckiira moved ondcr the "-v Une, tore \u25a0

bole in the brldre of the Chicago and dr« at West-ern Baliway a.»:«'. passed out Into ih<> Missouri

Ottawa, Kan.. Stay >t—One Missouri Pa< Iflc anathree Santa i- passenger trains are stalled atQuenento, surrounded by lii^u water, li is esti-mated tha< \u25a0' thousand pa sspngfrs are refugeesthere, odd .•\u25a0\u25a0 being car for by the citizens ofQu< :.::-'\u25a0. f

CONSTP.UCTOE'S "AUTO" KILLS GIRL.

Lieutenant Commander of the Navy Arrestedin Lowell, Mass.

Boston. May IB.—Marlon Holder, the six-year-olddaughter of Herbert A. Holder, was run over andkilled by an automobile In Warren-el., Etozbury, <

to-day. •:!!<! to-night Usuteoant Commander Ed- I\u25a0wnii", 11. Bgribner. a constructor in the UnitedSt.-;t' s Xavv. the owner and operator of th" auto-

mobile. • •'\u25a0 arrested on icharter of manslaughter.He»wafl iai'-r releaseed in bonds -if COW. He willbe arraigned in ••\u25a0jun to-morrow. The police say•hat Bcnboer drove quickly away after the acci-dent, but this Scribner denies. He v.as arrested 111

lieutenant Commander Bcriboer resides in Low-ell, but i.« stationed In this city, his duty being theInspection of government work being done at Law-iev'H Khipyards- in South Boston and at the yards•A the rare [iver Ship and Engine- Company utQuincy.

-If the- high liver would take of Bonn's LaxaU~.es, I

bo srouU avoid tout, aud a| 1""'* y.—Advt, [

BVXE.I,1 \u0084_. Perm., .May •"•" I^o* «'»• '\u25a0'\u25a0\u25a0' \u25a0"""

red Lincoln made his i

burg !'!':'t "f l:-

spoke on that, bi\u0084 v r, a,.):. '

\u25a0 >.:•'» thisIng. journeyed over the ground travelled by the

\u25a0..• Blue and Gray. h< ard theon by som \u25a0 ol the I

of the light, and delivered a ringing oration\u25a0 .strum of the \u25a0• m< tery

coin stood forty-one years ;>«\u25a0>. paying high

tribute to the loyal dead who gave their livesto save the Union, and complimenting the valor

<>f Ux-ir foes.During his stay the Presldenl was treatt 1 to

ail \ irleties ol spring weather. When be ar-

rived the sun was shining hotly, and during

the eighteen mile drive thai followed he passedthrough clouds <>t dust that none but a soldi! i

Inured '\u25a0• hardships could face unflinchingly

By the time the drive was half completed the

clouds gathered over the crest of Little RoundTop, and poured down rain when the President

readied the cemetery. The enthusiasm of thacrowd was not one bit dampened by the down-

pour however, and the throng stood, spine withumbrellas, bul for the most part with unpro-

tected headgear, while the Presldenl read them

his stirring sermon of good citlxenshlp and lofty

,1,.lis one oi two men even took off ih-ir hats

when h>. began his address, and seemed pre-

pared to lei therein soak In with tbi Presidents

thoughts.\u25a0|.M1.M lon your hats, pul on your hats. Mi

Roosevelt exclaimed, as he saw Ihe bared heads.

\u0084,,! :. cheer wenl up as the owners laughingly

compiled with llw Presidential order. Governor

Pennypacker. In Introducing the President, al-

tuded \u0084, the deatb of Senator Quay, and Mr.Roosevelt, before beginning His prepared speech.

.sail:

Governor Pennypacker alluded to the tactthat to-day Pennsylvania mourns its senior Sen-ator The regiment which Senator Quay was In-

strumental in raising took part In this battle

of Gettysburg the battle In which GovernorPennypacker shared, Senator Quay was not

with it. He had gone with another regiment,and it is appropriate at this time to recall thefact thai when the term of service Of that regi-

ment expired, just before Prederlcksburg, Sen-ator Ouav declined to accept discharge, and con-tinued as a volunteer with the army That (ought

at derlcksburg, and won the medal of honoron that bloody day.

ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT.After paying this tribute to Senator Quay as

a soldier, President Roosevelt delivered bis ;;'l-

dress, which was as follows:

The place where we now are has won .i

double distinction. Her.- was fought one of thegreat battles of all time, and here was spokenone of the few speeches which shall last throughthe ages, As long as this Republic endures orIts history la known, so long shall the memoryof the battle of Gettysburg 1 likewise endure andbe known; and CiS long an the English tongueis understood, so long shall Abraham Lincoln'sGettysburg speech thrill the hearts of mankind.

The Civil War was a great war for righteous-ness a war waged for the noblest Ideals, butwaged also in thoroughgoing, practical fashion.It was one of the lew wars which mean, in theirsuccessful outcome, a lift toward better thing;

for th' nations of mankind. Some wars navemeant the triumph of order over anarchy andlicentiousness masquerading a* liberty; someware have meant the triumph Of liberty overtyranny masquerading as order; but this vic-torious war of ours meant the triumph of bothliberty and order, the triumph of orderly lib-erty the bestowal of civilrights upon the freedslaves, and at the same time the stern insistenceon the supremacy of the national law through-out the length and breadth Of the land. More-over, this was one of those rare contests inwhich it was to the Immeasurable interest ofthe vanquished that they should lose, while at

the uajne tlr.wi the victors acquired the yrecioua

STORM STRIKES CITY.

Some Theatres Crippled by Light-ning's Visit to Power House.

Bellevua Hospital was practically In darknesifor nearly thre« hours last evening. A flash oflightning and a loud thunderclap, about 7o'clock, when the storm was at Its height, werefollowed, In the hospital, by tho going out ofthe eiectrio lights. For a few minutes the onlylights about the big Institution were The two

kerosene lamps at the Twenty-slxth-st, Rate.At the moment of the flash the electric cur-

rent from the lightningentered the power houseof the United Electric "Light nnd Power Com-pany at Twenty-eighth-fJt. and Flrst-ave., andpassing: Into th* motor which supplies power to

the Belle-rue lights tore off the Insulation ofthe wires and made the armature useless.

The railure of the light* In the hospital, com-ing after the thunderclap, caused some un-easiness among the patients and hospital staff.but this was allayed In a. few minutes. At-

tempts were made to light the gas. but it wasfoui~.il that the pressure was BO low that only

a feeble current of gas Bowed from the jets.

and the light afforded by them was very dim.Their faint light was reinforced by that ofcandles.

Just before 10 o'clock, the damaged armature

having been replaced and the motor startedagain, the lights were switched on, and attainat the hospital moved on as before

When the lights went out Dr. Smith, one ofthe ambulance surgeons, was attending to theInjuries of two patients. On« of these was aman with a cut wrist, and the other a childwith a crushed Sneer. No operations were be in*;performed in the hospital.

The sane accident crippled "tha i^his in Wal-lack"*, the Casino, and for a Utne in ihe Vic-toria Theatre last night. At Wallack's therewas no lightoutsid.; the theatre, ;ii:d the audi-torium was lighted with primeval ••\u25a0.<. Butanother plant, supplies most of the stage light,and the play was presented ;\u25a0•« usual. At ,1,..<"asin<j theie wore no lights outside or in t!.-lobby, but the audit* and the stage wer*(nominated a;s usual. At Hanunerstein's thoHtnifS was rr-pair^d before th* time of openIn*:, though some of the circuits were v. • ! angas had to be use.] to rip out.

BELLEVUE'S LIGHTS OUT.

Cupyrlrht. ic<V4,by Th< Tribune As»u<-!»fl<m. PRICE THREE TEXTS.

Tt>-dny. mln. f«rin-w<rA br fair.T»-*TMH-nr>w, fair, freah north to northeast vwtaA*. OTAV-YORK. TUESDAY. MAY 3L 1904. -TWELVE PAGES.-

MEMORIAL DAY. SCEXES.

V" LXIV..-.N0 2LOIG.

COLONEL MURPHY SPFAKTN-G AT THE SOLDIERS' AND SAILORS' MONUMENT.No. 1Commander David Brown. No. 2 Lieutenan t Governor Hlgglns. No. iCharles B. Forties,

President of th» Board of Aldermen.

METTTEXANT GOVERNOR HTOOINS. PRESIDENT FORXES. GENERAL CORSIXAXD OTHERS REVIEWING THE PARADE.

PRESIDENT SPEAKS AT HISTORIC GETTYSBURG.

italjaxs I!*Trm PARADE.

MAYOR M'LAXE A SUICIDE

MARRIEDTWO WEEKS AGO

Worried Over Baltimore Disaster

and Political Troubles.lirtZVtCZATTI10 THE TKIBCNF 1

Baltimore, May 30.-Mayor Robert M. Me-

Lane snot himself through the head this af-

tmoon at his home. No. i."9 West Preston-st-.and died two hours later. Coroner Haydea, of

the Central Police District, pave a certificate to

toe effect that the Mayor died by his own hand.

Allan- at one now, the sons of those who wore the blue and the sonsof those who wore the gray, and all can unite in pay ing .respect to thememory of those who ft11. each of them giving his life for his duty as hes:iw it;and all should be at one in learning from the deaths of these menhow to live usefully while the times call for the performance ofthe count-less duties of everyday life, and how t:> id ourselves ready to die noblyshould the nation ever again demand of her sons the ultimate proof ofloyalty. Emm President Roosevelt* speech at Gettysburg, Perm.

LESSONS OF THE GREAT CONFLICT—ONLY WAY TO

PRESERVE Fin ITS OF VICTORY THERE WON.The Civil War was a great war for righteousness; a war waged for

the noblest ideals, but waged also in thoroughgoing, practical fashion.The war left to us all,as fellow countrymen, as brothers, the right to

rejoice that the Union has been restored in indestructible shape in a coun-try where slavery no longer mocks the boast of freedom, and also the rightto rejoice with exultant pride in the courage, the self-sacrifice and the devo-tion alike of the men who wore the blue and the men who wore the gray.

Hut the soldiers who won at C Gettysburg, the soldiers who fought to afinish the Civil War and thereby made their countrymen forever theirdei)iors. have lel't us far more even than the memories of the war itself.They fought for four years in order that on this continent those whocame after them, their children and their children's children, might en-joy a lasting peace.

We can make and keep this country worthy of the men who gavetheir lives t<> save it only on condition that the average man among us onthe whole does his duty bravely, loyally and with common sense in what-ever position lite allots to him. Exactly as in time of war courage is thecardinal virtue of the soldier, so in time of peace honesty, using the wordin its deepest and- broadest significance, is the essential basic virtue, with-out which aii else avails nothing.

GREAT CROWD STANDS IN RAIN TO HEAR ADDRESSROBERT M. M*LA»CE.

Mirer of Baltimore, mho »hot himself yesterday.