New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-16
PENNSYLVANIA VETERANS DAY.
Defeating THEIR BATTLEFIELD
MONUMENTS.

INTERESTING EXERCISES AT ORCHARD KNOB
MANY VETERANS IN ArTENDANcE-AD-
DRESSES By GOVERNOR HASTINGS
AND OTHER WELL-KNOwN MEN.
Chattanooga Tenn, Nov. 1j.-This has been
glorious day for the Pennsylvania veterans VINO
came here 70 dedicate their monuments TO the mem
DRY OF their heroes In the great War as exemphned
In their vaorous conduct on the fields OF Chicka-
manga Missionary Ridge. Orchard Knob and LOOK
out Mountain. The day bright and baliny
as an afternoon In May. ard there was nothing
10 mar the perfect enjoyment OF tho occasion Inc
dedicatory ceremonies occurred at orchard hnop,
whore stand had been erected and before
o'clock, the hour set FOR the ceremonies. the Gov
eminent reservation about the stand was crowded
with Old soldiers. their wives and children iuliy
Ave thousand people being within sound OF the
voices Of tho speakers.
On the stand sat the speakers and representatives
from the local posts OF the Grand Army OF the
Republic and n. Il. Forrest Camp OF Confederate
Veterans. II. Clay Evans, General John f. Goblin,
General Latta and other visitors also occupied
seats on the platform The 9Th United States Regl-
ment Band from Mcpherson Barracks. furnished
the music
Brcyet Brigadlcr-Gencra! william A. Robinson,
OF PIT, sburg, president OF the state BattIe-neld
Commission. presided. and opened the ceremonies
by stating the object OF the gathering. He called
FOR prayer from the Rev. Dr. Thomas II. Robin
SON who offered a fervent Invocation AT the close
Of the prayer General Robinson introduced Lieu
tenant { Colonel Archibald Blakeley. of the 18th
Regiment. who. representing the pennsylvania
Battlefield Commission, formally transferred the
monuments erected by the State TO tho Govern
ment Following Colonel Blakeley, Governor Has
tlnes spoke, delivering the monuments to the Ma
tional Government The Governor address was
frequently interrupted by applause. In the course
OF II he said:
Let us before those monuments, as before a
shrine. mingle our tears and droop our Tags ana
listen TO the solemn dirSe IN memory OF the patrl-
solve that the men who fell OIL these fields shai
not have died in vain. Let US as we coniemplate
above these fields. again resolve that this land shall
know no other banner than the stars ana STRIPE
glory; that wherever it may lead We VIII foLow.
and may We maintain the pledge as Rutn 10 Ma
thou lodge;t we VII lodge thy people snail De our
And now. Mr. Chairman and gentlemen Of the
Battlefield Commission. sor and on behalf OF ne
work OF erecting these memorials to perpetuate
the memory Of the Pennsylvania organizations VINO
participated In the battles IN and about nnattao
nooga accept the monuments ana return 1 10 70
you all thanks for your labor OF love so wen ana
stone OF the Federal arch; that holds within her
mas never wavcred; whose hills and valleys nave
reehoed 70 the sh0GH ot Wa5 ar AZ Geod whose
aous have always rallied 10 the cause or PATRIOTISM
nj vi people
calls upon the Nation. for whose perpetuty these
men marched and fought and bled and ded, 70
preserve these monuments as endutlhg NJ. 49,,
OF their courage and devotion See 10 II that they
SpndpT hand sh1n mar heir beauty: that they
shall be perpetual reminders OF American VaIor :,
Know ;'' and Tndcrsiand that the vicores won and
the battles lost were accomplished by hoIoes WI" NM
faced tho North AZ well the South IN an I'M
paralleled struggle from out whose sactlees a ~
bereavemons there came the great 1vH.ce % The
.I,tt 14f untold
human race.
Tho monuments were then formally accepted on
the par, o. the National Government ana trans
forred to tho National Park Commissioners Dy
John Tweedalc. chief clerk OF the War Department.
representing tho Secretary OF war
General r. V Boynton on behalf Of tie NationaI
Park Commission, formally accepted the hohu-
~ Your stats Commission I; Is true that no one
Of tho twenty-six commissions row co.opeta,ins
with the National Commls,si2il "a be Snfer"sts com
nN,f,, V ~ lis koepng lrore consIderate OF the
missh. and plans of the National Commission. or
more deserving OF high praise az is nahas' ~ -
also pleasure. well AZ pam CUP ~ ;b eS NO.
motion Of this PARK projec; by preildem,
and the constant support anorueu u, ,Dnrk a,
Ag,r under whose especial direction the Wo'H r ..
t. ts,oblishmcnt Is rapidly and ehciehuy pro-
General Robinson then introduced H. Gay Evans ans
tinted states Commissioner OF PENSIONS WHO
sp9kr al So'N Wr Fyan- Colonel Thomas J. stewart.
Ad,mton:-o;encral to Governor Hastlnss ana Zen.
cral James ". L2;i@ o. Pitt GoSip r15nmmandSr.
TIT, -, tho G. a r. who was called Tor; pro
posed TIA, instead OF speech ne would ask d6 me
vast audience to sing America ""'0" was UNIV
with spirit - .,,o,.oa a csr,nnro M the
c,iv AUDITORIUM prepared by the oca! " -, |" NV.
CIV t.",. e'eraus The Blue ana the Ora!
o3laG Sreel, and ate out OF the same haversack
drank from tho same canteen ana 'o'd y"'"' "'''''
tho wee sma' hours. ~ .,,, .,ar, ,or theIr
Tho Pennsylvania veterans WI. sar' ,a ao
% $40 received from the people OF TINS scc'o''
rrCTITIOTS VALUES WIPED OUT.