The burial plot of J. L. Riker Post, No. 62, G. A. R., of this city, at the Lutheran Cemetery was dedicated yesterday afternoon with appropriate ceremonies and in the presence of a large gathering of members of the Grand Army and others. A special train took the veterans from Hunter’s Point to the cemetery station, where the column was again formed in line of march. It was led by the Memorial Committee of Post No. 62, ex-Alderman August Fleischbein, Chairman. Then followed the Riker Post band and drum corps, Anderson Zouaves, Capt. Mosher commanding; Riker Post, No. 62, August Schaeffer, Commander; Sixty-second Regiment Veteran Association; Sedgwick Post, No. 186, Isador Isaacs, Commander; Eleventh Regiment Veteran Association; Posts Nos. 7, 14, 17, 20, and 21, Sons of Veterans; Koltes Post, No. 32, Charles Lemsey, Commander, and the August Fleischbein Association, Henry W. Minturn, President. In carriages accompanying the column were Department Commander Ira M. Hedges, Adjt.-Gen., George B. Squires, Aide-de-Camp B. R. Corwin, Justices McAdam, Nehrbas, Browne, and Patterson, and Col. Carr.

The threatening storm that followed from New-York gave place to sunshine as the train reached the station, and the fall of rain, in laying the dust, made it a pleasant march to the cemetery. Here Judge Browne presided. The platform then presented a pretty picture. It was walled in with flags. Side by side with the bright new post flags were the battered ones of some of he old regiments carried during the war. Among them were those of the Sixty-second New-York Volunteers, carried by Riker Post; of the Fifth, Seventh, Twenty-ninth, and Sixty-fifth, carried by Koltes Post, and that of the old Anderson Zouaves. Addresses were made by Justices Browne, McAdam, Nehrbas, and Patterson. Department Commander Hedges, B, R. Corwin, and Henry C. Botty. Several choruses were sung by the Schwaebischen Saengerbund and dirges played by the post band. On the return a marching salute was given at the Koltes Post plot, which nearly adjoins that of Riker Post. The plot dedicated is 28 by 78 feet, and is situated in one of the most pleasant spots In the new cemetery. The monument to be placed there is already well under way, and will be in position and unveiled on Decoration Day, in May next. 

New-York Times, Monday, October 13, 1884, p.2.