The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1886-10-02
Dedication Day in EaaCh Chunk.
From Our specIaI Correspondent.


MAUCH CHUNK, PA. Sept. 90, 1886
The sun rose with unclouded brillianc,
Tuesday morning and cast its scintillat
ing rays upon grateful and happ.
people. For week past with "minglet
doubts and fears" we had been lookin.
forward in happy anticipation of tn,
coming of what was to be, and ha.
proved itself, the greatest day in the his
tory of the Switzerland of America Al
an early hour visitors commenced com
ing to town and ere the town clock tolet
the noon day hour our streets were lit
orally thronged with people from the
surrounding towns and counties who
contented themselves until the hour ot
the parade in munchng peanuts, eating
candy, drinking lemonade and admiring
the beautiful decorations which adorned
almost every business house and private
residence in the town.
AT about two O'Clock the music of the
advancing hosts, who had formed in
East Mauch Chunk, caused rush fol
Monument Square and Packer Avenue
where, with eager anticipation, they
awaited the coming of the marching
thousands, Grand Army Posts from
Philadelphia, Easton, Bethlehem, LIE.
highton, Mauch Chunk, Summit Hill,
White Haven, Hazleton, Weatherly,
AudenrieG, Freeland and Nan:icoke
with delegations from the several Sons
of Veterans camps and many other So
cieties made up line of parade which
took thirty minutes to pass a given point.
As the 'Boys in Blue" passed slowly
by, keeping time to the beat of the drum
and the sweet strains of martial music.
we saw in imagination the battle fields
of Antietem, Appomattox, Gettysburg,
Chattanooga, Atlanta and Fair Oaks
strewn with their dead and dying.
"All day long the storm of battle through the
startled valley swept;
All night long the stars in heaven DER the
slain sad vigil kept.
o the CHASTITY upturned faces cleaning white
ly through the night!
o the heaps of mangled corses in that dim
scpuchral light.
One by one the pale stars faded, and at length
the morning broke;
But not one of all the sleepers on the field of
death awoke."
Here we gazed upon the tanned and
battle-scarred faces of brave men who,
in the hour of our Governments need.
were not found wanting, but responded
as noble freemen to the bugle call
leaving father, mother, wives, friends
and home TO meet common enemy and
fight for the liberty of twenty millions
of the colored race who were bound to
cruel and tyranical masters by the
shackles of slavery. Our hearts should
swell with conscientious pride and pa
triotism as we look up at the noble an6
beautiful shaft erected by Carbon coun-
tY people in honor of her "soldier BOYS
who went to the 'front.'" 1t is a fitting
commemoration nobly earned, rejecting
much credit upon the promulgators, and
is very substantial outcome of the
Soldiers fair and festival, held here
about one year ago in which the people
from surrounding towns freely partici-
pated and contributed not with spar
ing hand.
The inscriptions on the monument
are as follows: On the front of the
shaft is the regulation G. A. r. badge
below the shaft is panel work containing
the following: ''To all the brave de-
Tenders of the Union from the County
of Carbon" Upper side: Erected
under the auspices of Chapman Post,
No. 61, G. a. R, 1856" Upper view:
evidences, Hampton Roads, Antie-
TEN, Geltsyburg." Lower side: "On
Fame's Eternal Camping Ground their
Silent Tents were Spread, And Glory
Guards with Solemn Round the Bivouac
of the Dead" Immediately above the
base of the monument, and ON the upper
side is, "Yorkton, 17Sl." Rear view:
New Orleans, 1915" Lower side:
"MeXico, 1S47." Front side: "Appo-
mattox, 1865"
The route of parade was up Packer
Avenue to Upper Mauch Chunk, out
Centre to Cedar, down Cedar to New
Road, thence to Concert Hall, upper
Foundry, countermarch to Mansion
House, countermarch to Market Square
where the imposing ceremonies took
place and the Grafton was delivered by
Gen. Daniel E. Sickles, of New York.
In the evening the illuminations and
display of fireworks reminded us of the
Fourth of July celebrations Of our youth
full days. The streets were thronged
until late hour with visitors waiting
for the late special train which was to
convey them to their homes down the
valley-after their departure Mauch
Chunk relapsed into its former quielude; ;
a cooling shower set in freeing the at
mosphere of the sultry heat-our
people sought their weary couches and
were soon wrapped in slunber, peaceful
and calm, well pleased with the happy
termination of the grandest day in the
history of the far-famed Switzerland of
America. @. W. NJ.
Lower Towamensing Events EpitomiZed.
Il. f. Kern and Edwin Lichten-
walter visited the Fire Line Sunday
School last Sunday.
-Bowmans.own Sunday School is
collecting money to purchase an organ.
Lewis Blose moved his family to