The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-07-20
THE IRULLEi VANDALS.
Plans to Drive Them From the
Gettysburg Field.
IMMEDIATE ACTION TO BE TAKEN.

Ono injunction Suit Already in Court-An
Opinion That Immediate Possession Can
BE Talten-- New Avenues to BE Cut
Through.
PHILADELPHIA, July IS. 49, Colonel
Nicholson, president of the United
States board of commissioners, which
was appointed by the government to
mark and preserve the lines Of battle at
Gettysburg, has called meeting of the
board at Gettysburg next Monday TO
take action in accordance with the
opinion of Acting Attorney General
Maxwell, for uusting the trolley COM
pany from the field.
Colonel Nicholson had just returned
from Erie, and had not received an Off
cial copy Of the opinion and he was un-
willing to predict what the action of
the board would be prior TO the meet
ing. He has gone to Washington to
consult the attorney general. II think
the opinion is perfectly clear" he said
when asked about it. He was then
asked whether he understood it to mean
simply that the board could only con-
denim such land as it should designate
as a site for monument. There was
no need Of legal advice on that point
We knew all along that we could CON
denim land for that purpose. | don't
feel justified in saying more than that.
General Louis Wagner, member Of
the board Of directors of the Gcttys-
burg Battlefield Memorial association,
when asked what his Interpretation of
the acting attorney generals opinion
was, said II have just returned after
an absence from the city of a few days,
and have not read the text of the opin-
ion, but have been informed by gem
tleman as TO its purport, and think it
unquestionably means that the United
States commissioners may take all the
land they want under the right Of emi-
nent domain, and | am sure that the
commission intends to take possession
of the field They can condemn 1t now
and get an appropriation afterward.
The commission has opened headquar-
tiers on the ground and it will take i'm
mediate action, At the meeting of the
Battlefield Memorial association at
Gettysburg on July 4, last, introduced
a resolution providing for the construc-
tion of three new avenues on the battle
field, and 1t was adopted.
1.-The effect of this resolution would
be to knock the trolley higher than a
kite. The three avenues are to be from
Ziegler's grove TO the Emmettshurg
road; from Round Top to Devils Den,
and from the Emmettsburg road par
allel with the third days charge along
the rebel front. This will simply cut
the trolley road up into number of
divisions so that they can't run any.
where in the field, for we have the right
to condemn and buy any property that
we want, and when we buy a roadway
crossing the trolley's right of way they
cannot run over the spot without our
consent, which of course they can't
get.
ave have filed a petition in court
for the right to begin condemnation
proceedings, and it only remains for the
court to fix the amount of the bond we
are to provide TO cover damages. II
the United States government takes the
field, of course it will not be necessary
to carry our programme out. The as
ISOLATION will hold a meeting soon
when il will turn over all its land to the
government, and then the whole bat
tlefield will be under the government
care and jurisdiction