The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-09-19
IN noNoR 0F SoLpTERs.

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 monuments and Tablets Dedicated in
 Honor of tho Dead at Chattanooga.
 Crowds at the Ceremonles-G. A. R. Men,
 Regulars, Governors and Statesmen Pres | ent.
 Chattanooga, Tenn, Sept 1S,-The north, east, west. and, to a lesser ex- tent the south, have swept down on this city with mighty audiences, and last night, by the glare of the electric lights, the streets seemed a sea of surg ing humanity.
 The crowds increased during the morning. Three times during yester- day special trains followed each other so close that there was anxiety lest there be congestion of the thousands Of tired and hungry travellers who crowded the depots.
 l Perfect satisfaction is felt, however | py the visitors over the preparations made Tor their accommodation as well as there might be. Few towns of 4O,- 900 souls could absorb, as it were, house and feed 50,000 persons. The indica- tons are now for still larger crowd. The day preliminary to the formal dedication of the ChiclSamauga and Chattanooga National Park was de- voted largely to the exercises in con- nection with the dedication of state monuments erected at various points within the park, Owing to the absence or Secretary Lamont the monuments were presented in each instance to General Fullerton, president of the Ma ttonal Park commission of Michigan.
 The monuments and markers erected upon the battlefields of Chickamauga, Chattanooga, Missionary Ridge and Orchard Knob were presented to Gover- nor Rich by Captain and ex-Congress- man c. E. Belknap, president of the state park commission.
 The Michigan organizations taking part in the campaigns and battles were the Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh, Thirteenth, Twenty-first and Twenty-second regi- ments of infantry; Second and Fourth cavalry, First Engineers and Mechanics and Batteries A and D, First Light Artillery. Captain Belknap described the locations of the several monuments.
 @ALtNA MY VI HUI LllStl 4leltt dGCGptGu the monuments on behalf of the state, General Henry M. Duffield of Detroit, who commanded the Ninth regiment in the war, delivered an eloquent oration.
 The monuments were then turnsd over to General Fullerton, and with prayer by the Rev. Washington Gardner, sec retary of state, the exercises ended
 The Ohio dedication followed under the direction of General John Beaty, president of the board of commission CTS. This was the most elaborate and notable event of the day. Bishop Joyce of the Methodist church offered prayer, and addresses were made by General Charles H. Grosvenor, ex-Gnvernor James F. Campbell and General Aquilla Wiley, who turned the monuments over to Governor Mckinley, who then turned them over to General Fullerton.
 Members and officers of the state commission also spoke. Governor Campbell's address was largely an eulogy upon General Ferd Vanderveer, a. fellow townsnan, who took an active part in the battle,
 A distinguished gathering marked the dedication of, the Indiana monu- ments at the camp established near Cave Springs, Besides Governor Claude Matthews, the occasion presented as speakers the soldier-author General Lew Wallace; Colonel T. N. Walker, the newly elected grand commander c. A. R; General J R. Carnahan, and Judge D. B. McConwell of the Ninth Indiana infantry,
 After reviewing. the part taken in the battle by Indiana troops, speaking of l the acceptance by all of the results of the conflict, Governor Matthews made an address.
 Governor Altgeld also made a speech.