Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1895-09-18
FOES NO LONGER.
The Blue and the Gray Meet on
Old Fighting Ground.
EyINTs AT CH1CKAMAUGA BEGIN.

state Delegations Today Dedicating Their
Monuments on the Once Red Field-Gov.
ernors Altgeld, Mckinley and Others Ar.
rive to Lead the Ceremonies for Their Re-
spcctive States-Sons of Veterans Give
Knoxville, Tenn, a Great Parade
CHATTANOOGA, Sept. 1s.-People are
pouring into this region almost as thick
and fast as they did thirty three years ago.
But they are not all men this time, and
they are not armed, though some Of the
old veterans-both of the north and of the
mentals. Many of these old fellows have
their wives and children with them and
they have been looking over the battlefield
where they fought so fierccly thirty-three
years ago. No one will ever know the
number of people that have come here
from all parts of the north and south.
General Boynton says that the visitors are
strung along from Sherman Heights tO
the far end of Chickamauga. All the
hotels, inns, traverns and boarding houses
are full and thousands are camping where
they camped on the night of the 18th of
September, 1869.
Don't Hate .Yankee Doodle" Any Longer.
The passenger agent of the railway
leading to Chattanooga battlefield said
that his road had hauled not less than
5000 people there. This was not nearly
all who went out. Many went out on the
electric car lines and then took carriages.
Chattanooga citizens have thrswn the
town open to the visitors, and if any of
Ii. fx,v
''Yankec Doodle" it has long since died
out. Everything that human ingenuity
could devise for the comfort of the old sol
diers has been done by the enterprising
dwcllers in Chattanooga. The Ohio visit
ors made u grand demonstration upon the
arrival of Governor Mckinley. He came
in from Knoxville over the Southern road,
and was met at the station by the Ohio
commission with carriages, military
band, the Toledo Cadets and the Four.
tcenth regiment Ohio National Guard.
Arrival of Governor Altgeld.
He was escorted to the home of Hon. II.
Clay Evans, whose guest he will be during
his stay here. Governor Altgeld, of Hi.
nois, accompanied by Adjutant General
Orcndorf, his staff, and the Illinois com
mission, came in from Chicago Governor
L.
Walker, commandcr-in-chiof of the q. A.
r., have also arrived. Vice President
Stevenson and family arrived late last
night via the Cincinnati Southern rail.
road and proceeded ut once by special train
to their quarters at Lookout Inn. He was
met mt the station by the Second hattalion
and Nashville battery of the Tennessee
National Gu;srd. Governor and Mrs. Nor
ton with the governors staff are due to
arrive today.
Dedica:inS State Monuments Today.
The arrangements for the dedication OF
the battlefield of Chick amauga wcrc..com-
plcte. Today's exercises We're confined
to the dedication of the various state
monuments and the formal turning over
of them to the national government. The
states that are dcdicating their monu-
mcnts are: Illinois, Ohio. Michigan.
Minnesota, Wisconsin, Indiana, Massa
chusctts and Missouri. The Society of the
Army of the Cumberland met this morn
ing ut o'clock, Colonel J. ID. Morgan, of
Illinois, presiding.