The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-08

Brooklyn hagle.
 Greatest of all days in the annals or inc United States Military Academy at West Point is to be June Il. On that day, will be celebrated with extraordinary pomp and under the inspiration of the presence of the President of the nation, his Cabinet members, high officials of the army and navy. men of prominence in ed- ucation and other walks of life. the cen- tennial adversary of the academy. From every section of the. country and from lands far away will hurry men whose experience at the post many, many years ago, has been memory almost as dear as their thoughts of home or the earliest recollection of the maternal presence.
 The centennial will give these "old grads in some instances the first oppor- tunity in fifty years of revisting the scenes of their bright. buoyant youth Of seeking out with that instinct which clfngs to one as does ones first love and < it's tinted glamour the spots about the famous military school where in the sos and sos or the 70s they strolled down filtration walk or pummeled the upper cla ss man whose domneering had become unendurable. 1Ei A few-for there are but few now liv-, ing--from Dixie land whose military train ing was obtained at West Point and whose lives since then have been spent S In another section of the country, have written Colonel Mills, the superintendent, that they are coming. They were pressed with most cordial invitations, and in the
  ment of fully united country they were only too pleased to accept Not that one of the great generals of the southern army ever felt otherwise than kindly toward West Point, but since the war because of circumstances or because Of feeling the younger generation cannot understand very few of them have re- visited the school where in ante=beHum days they were the comrades of Grant, Sherman, Mcclellan and Sheridan whom they had to face few years later as enemies in the death dealing game they had learned together at the Academy.
 General James Longstreet' of Alabama, who went to the military academy in 1912: Gen. simon B. Buckner of the class of A; Gen. Stephen D. Lee of the class Of '54; Gen. A. P. Stewart of AZ, and Gen. Joseph Wheeler of '59, are five of the men now living who reached the grade of Lieutenant-General in the Con- federate Army who will renew their youth and meet again for the first time in half a century many graduates who may have we'll nigh passed from their memories. These generals from the South will be particular guests.
 It is expected that after the celebration the nation will feel d greater interest in the military academy. A visit to West Point brings to light the fact that com paratively. few understand that 1t IS as old as hundred years. Officers say it is surprising to hear of the exclamations of wonder coming from those who might be expected to be fully conyersant with the subject when It IS casudiiy stateQ that West Point Is century old this year.
 Of course the President will be the man of the day. With him will be Secretary of State John Hay. Secretary of War Eli, hu Root. Secretary of the Navy Moody, Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, Secre- tary of the Interior Hitchcock. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson, the Attorney Gen. eral of the United States, Philander Knox; the Speaker of the House of Rep resentatves. David B. Henderson. and the President pro tenn of the United States Senate, MT. Frye.
 The members of the United States Su- preme Court. the Admiral of the Navy, the commanding general of the Army. the AdjUtant General. the members of the House Committee on Military Affairs and of the same committee of the Senate and scores of others in high public life will