Politics

TRIBUTE TO THE DEAD.

Mr. McKinley's Speech at the

Metropolitan Opera House.

NATIONAL ASPIRATIONS STIRRED.

Fitting Close to the Great Celebration of the Day — The House Filled from the Pit to the Utmost Gallery Prominent Men on the Stage.

NEW YORK, May '1 —The Metropolitan Opera a house was the scene of the close of the exercises commemorative of the glorious achievements of the soldiers died.

Rarely has this great amusement house contained sucha multitude as assembled within its walls.From the pit to the topmost gallery patriotic sons and daughters squeezed themselves into the smallest possible space so eager were they to witness the aftermath of tht, soul stirring observances of the day

Long before 8 o'clock there sat upon the stage Mayor Hugh J Grant, who was to proside, Congressman William McKinley, Judge George M. Van Hoesen, chairman of the memorial committee, Rev Dr John R Paxton, Henry E. Dixey, William Brookfield, James A Blanchard, Granville P Hawes, Gen Joseph C Jackson, Joseph Pool, Col J W Jacobus, Gen Jardin, John H V Arnold, Gen James R O'Brien, Col John O'Byrne, C I S V R Crugel, E Stephenson, Controller, Theodore W Myers, Maj William H Barker, Gen Louis Fitzgerald, ex-Judge Angell, Col Sewad, Col James, Col. Cavanaugh, many members of the Montgomery Light Guards of Boston and othet visiting organizations, and any number of commanders of G A R posts in tins city and Brooklyn.

In the orchestra was stationed the United States Army depot band which, under the leadership of Bandmaster Otto Prosser, rendered airs reminding one vividly of the day of the rebellion.

After Rev. Dr. Paxton, the New York . . . [illegible text] . . . Glee Club

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