Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-08
ON HISTORIC FIELDS.
President Visits Tennessee
 Battlegrounds.
DINNER ON LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN.
Men Who Participated In the Fas mous Flights Act as Guides
 Royalty Entertained In


 CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Sept. B. President Roosevelt is the guest today of the national convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Bremen. Yesterday Chattanooga entertained him and did it right royalty. From early morning until late in the evening he was taken from one historic place to another, and the details of the bat ties that have made this city famous were explained to him by men who were participants in the struggles.
 The battlefelds of Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, Orchard Knob and Lookout Mountain were driven over. ]. He attended services at the First Baptist church, of which Rev. J. w. Brougher is the pastor, last night.
 The presidential train arrived here promptly at 8:30 a. m. A large crowd was at the station, and notwithstand- ing the day was Sunday the president was accorded a warm welcome.
 A committee composed of Governor McMillin, Mayor A. W. Chambliss, Congressman John A. Moon, General H. V. Boynton, General A. F. Stewart and Captain J. F. Smart, members of the Chiekamauga park commission; General A. W. Wylie and Captain J. W. Shipp entered the presidents car and welcomed him to the city. Trolley cars were in waiting, and after the formal greeting the start for the Chick amauga battlefield was made. At the entrance to Chickamauga park the Seventh United States cavalry, under command of Colonel Baldwin, which acted as the presidents escort through the park, were drawn up. The presi- dent, with General Boynton, president of the park commission, mounted horses, and after the other members of the party had entered carriages the drive through the park began. The cavalcade was hardly under way be- fore the president started his horse at a sharp trot and for mile and half led the regiment merry chase over the battlefield. The pace was so hot horsed, and it was necessary to call the ambulance corps into service.
 After inspecting portion of the field the president stopped at the camping grounds and reviewed the regiment, together with the Third battery of field artillery under command of Captain Niles. The review took place upon the spot where thirty-nine years ago on a Sunday morning the Confederate bri- gade of General Manigault of Hind mans division was repulsed in des- perate charge by portion of General Wilder's brigade of cavalry.
 At the conclusion of the review the Seventh cavalry went through their new calisthenics drill. Luncheon was served soon afterward, and then divine services, which the president attended, were held on the park grounds. The services were conducted by Evangelist Porter and were of very impressive nature At their conclusion the presi- dent made short address to the sol diers.
 A very pleasing incident occurred shortly before the president resumed his inspection of the battlefield. A del egation of citizens of Georgia headed by H. R. Harper of Rome presented to him a cane cut from the Chickamauga battlefield. It is of hickory, with sill yer head and band suitably inscribed. The president was greatly interested | in many of the monuments which mark | the battlefield and after reading the | inscription on that erected by the state of Kentucky had Assistant Sec I retary Barnes make copy of it. The drive extended through Mission ary ridge to Orchard knob. Along the route the president frequently was greeted by groups of people, to whom he responded by raising his hat. At one point on the road a number of chil- i dren waved small American flags as the president passed.
 l When Orchard knob was reached, the president walked through it to the trolley cars, which conveyed the party to the foot of Lookout mountain. At the top of the mountain large crowd had assembled.
 Dinner was served on the mountain, and then the party returned to the city.