Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1892-06-16
ThE NATIONAL PARK.

W. "NtsoUA Thnks
Chattanooga Times.
twill be a matter of interes,
to citizens generally to know
what is being done, and wha,
has already been accomplished
by the Government at Chicka
manga Park.
A Times reporter YESTERDAY
interviewed Maj. C w Norwood
bookkeeper and clerk tor the
Park Commission, who was
spending Sunday st.the National
Cemetery, and obtained the fol
lowing facts:
Or the three Park Commits.
sioners, Gen. A p Stewart ID
constantly on the grounds, max
ing his headquarters ut the Park
Hotel. Chiekamauga. To Col.
s U Kellogg. secretary of the
commission, devolves the work
OF approving all Official papers
The commissission's president,
Gen. j s Fullerton. makes fire
quent visits to inspect the work
As IT progresses.
There has been some com
plant among old soldiers tina,
the Government 10 sighting
them, and hot employing enough
Grand Army men. ASS matter
OF fact, the Government; has
nothing at all to do with the sm
ployiEg Of men to do work a,
Chlckamauga- Cross & Tenny.
OF Decatur, Ala, have the con
tract for furnishing all common
lsbor, and Charles Donnahue &
Co, of Chattanooga, have the
contract for all skilled labor and
supply fOremen, and both have
the night to employ whom they
please.
George Duncan. of Chatta.
ncoga, the superintendent Of
construction and general super.
visor OF labor. and Maj Lyman,
OF Oxford. Miss, are important
officers of Park work. the latter
being the right hand uaa OF
Zen. Stewart. Ii is said Major
Lyman viii be chosen rs super
iHtendent in charge If the park
when IT is completed.
Contractors Grass q Tenny
now have about l25 laborers
employed grading the park
roade, the men receiving Sl.OO
per day. All these are colored
excepting one small gang of
white men Altogether there
VIII be about sixty miles of road
TO grade and surface, traversing
all parts of the famous battle
held and leading to every par
ticular point of interest in ut.
The purpose 10 not to beautify
the Park with artificial foliage.
close cropped lawn, etc, but
the central idea of the Govern
ment 10 To leave the general
contour of the field and forest
as nearly like it was m 1868 "a
possible. Consequently the en-
gineers are extremely cautious
to locate roads through the park
exactly where the old roads
were at the time OF TIE var.
Some Of the old roads have been
almost entirely obliteratsd by
the hight Of years and covered
up by underground of shrubbery
but the reeolleetions of old resi-
dsnts In that vicinity have prov
en- valuable, and thus where
there 10 dispute a. to roads
some unlocked for landmark
serves ~ q guide.
A Among the roads already Laid
out are Lafayette road, running
north and south through the
park; Dyer road, vid;to road.
Alexander ridge road, and
Reeds Bridge road. In an
probability the crest road lead.
ing from sherman Heights gill
DC the main road to the park
Maj. Norwood says it viii be
about q year before any of these
roads are completed for travel.
Last Saturday Resident Com
missioner Stewart received no
tice that n flag and 400 feet of
haiysrd have been shipped to
Chickamsuga Park from the
quartermaster's depot at Phila
deiphiA- The dag pole will be
erected at the old Dyer house.
the present headquarters of the
park officers. The pole viii
stand 30 feet in the AR and the
nag to aoat from il is q mamoth
one.
of the seventeen men on the
Government pay ron as direct
employees, eight are old sol.
oiers-thres are ex C0nfede-
rates and Eve ex Federal sol.