The age-herald., 1900-11-27
GEN. H. Y. BOYNTON
 SUBMITS REPORT Reviews Work of Chickamauga
 Park Commission SOME INTERESTING DETAILS Calls Attention to Inspection and Err TOTS Noted, Which Will be Inves- tIsated-Receipts and Expen-
 ditures During the Year.
SOME INTERESTING DETAILS

Washington, November 26.-Gen. H. " Boynton, chairman of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park | Commission, has submitted his annual re- port to the Secretary of War. The report l says:
 "The work of establishing the park and its maintenance has continued unlnter- ruptedly during the year ending September i go, 1900, and has been carried on strictly | in acordance with the plan for dividing the funds appropriated by Congress sub- | mtted to you by the commission and ap. proved.
 Tt appears from the engineers report that we now have sixty-seven miles of improved roads which cost an average of S2,902 per mile, about four and half miles of which was constructed during the past year; that $15,12O has been expended in that time in road construction and betterments. There are now erected on the Chicka- mauga field 107 field guns, mounted on iron carriages to initiate the patterns in use during the civil war, marking forty-three union battery positions and ninety-four field guns similarly mounted, marking thirty-nine Confederate battery positions. On the Chattanooga field forty-five guns mounted as above, mark ten Union and ten Confederate battery positions there.
 Historical tablets erected during the year 1S69 foundations for State monu- ments, constructed one, excavate1 one, guns mounted twelve.
 ''The balance on hand October l, 1899, was $46,5SS. The appropriations for the fis- cal year ended June 30, 1901, including a specified appropriation of S1O,OOO for com pleting the Lafayette road extension, were S0,OO0 These, with the other smaller items, aggregating $2.53, make the total receipts for the year ending September 3O 1900, S166,- 5S5. The total expenditures to and includ- ing that date have been $53,26S leaving balance October l. 1900, of s63,317."
 General Boynton calls attention to the inspection last month by the veterans of tho several armies Interested in all the his torical work thus far completed on the park, with view to the correction of such errors as might have been made in in seriptions upon tablets, monuments and To- cation of battle lines
 The result of the inspection, participated in by prominent members of the armies which took part in the actions, as well as commissioners from the States, whose
 
 satisfactory character Of the FPS monu- ments only two were claimed to be wrongly placed, and those who preferred the claim as to one of these were not aware that after most exhaustive study of the claim the Secretary of War had sustained the present location.
 "Of the S41 State markers only two were claimed to be out of position Of these one had been placed by the commission with the knowledge that it was only approxi- mately correct awaiting the very informa= ton now secured to correct its position
 ''Of the 6S0 historical tablets erected at the time of the inspection, the accuracy of only six was called in question: the errors claimed being chiefly to the exact hour of the movements to which the text re- lates
 "Of the inscriptions on the 22S monu- ments, few errors of wrong initials and inaccurate designations of commands were pointed out, and also in few instances claims were made that the hours of move ments were not stated with exactness.
 All of these claims to error will be care fully investigated and corrections made in every case where such further inquiry shows the errors really exist.
 Thereafter inspection blanks will be fur nshed to the hotels, railroads and electric car stations at the park headquarters, and at the livery stables, in order that all vis- itors to the park may make full reports upon everything that may appear to be er- roneous During the occupation Of the park for mobilizing purposes of the Spanish American war, the health of the men has been considerably speeulated on as a safe place."
 and Julia Beall respectively. Local Legis-