Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1904-06-03
President Roosevelt
at Gettysburg.

Roosevelt and party reached this his
toric battle-ground at $3.50 Monday
morning The train was stopped at
Gettysburg at Reynolds avenue, the
road that traverses the position of the
confederate armies on the first day of
the battle. AS the president and Mrs.
Roosevelt alighted from their car, they
were greeted by Govrnor Pennypacker
on behalf of the commonwealth of
Pennsylvania and by reception COM
mittee of the Corporal Shelly post, No.
8, q. A. R., under whose auspices the
ceremonies Of the day were conducted.
A section of a battery of the Third ar
tillery U. S. A, fired presidential sa-
lutte of 81 guns.
A drive over the battlefield occupied
two hours and quarter, the entire 20
miles of the fine roads built by the ma
tional government being covered. Free
quent stops We're made to enable the
president to study at close range some
of the more important features of the
historic field. He manifested much
interest in the various points of inter-
est. After hearing graphic descrip-
tons of both union and confederate
participants, Mr.. Roosevelt remarked:
"This country is all right so long as
we can have this kind of talk on Lit
tie Round Top"
President Roosevelt was escorted to
the cemetery on the battlefield by a
body of several hundred veterans of the
civil war. The president and his par
ty special escort were preceded by sew
eral organizations, including squa-
dron of United States cavalry, the
Third United States artillery and the
marine band of Warrington, which had
been ordered here for the occasion.
Mrs. Roosevelt and other members
of the presidents party followed in
carriages. The rear of the procession
consisted of civic organizations and
citizens in carriages. Governor PEN
nypacKer presided at the ceremonies,
which We're held in the rostrum in the
cemetery.
After the memorial day services of
the q. A. r. had been concluded and
the pupils of the public schools had
strewn flowers over the graves of the
thousands of dead, during which cere-
mony the Marine band played a solemn
dirge, Rev. DR.. Edward Everett Hale,
chaplain of the United States senate,
pronounced the invocation. The presi-
dent was then introduced by Governor
AS the president rose to speak a
downpour of rain began and continued
throughout the time he addressed the
great assemblage. He was accorded
an enthusiastic reception notwith-
the rain, and the crowd of
10000 people in the cemetery remained
to hear the address despite the thorough
drenching they received.
Referring in the beginning of his
speech to the allusion of Governor PEN
to the death of Senator Quay,
the president said:
Governor Pennypacker alluded to
the fact that Pennsylvania today
mourns its senior senator. The regi-
ment which Senator Quay was irstru-
mental in raising took part in this bat
tie Of Gettysburg-The battle in which
Gvernor Pennypacker shared. Senator
Quay was not with it. He had gone
with another regiment and is appro-
pirate to call attention at this time to |
the fact that when the term of service
OF that regiment expired, just before
Fredericksburg, Senator Quay declined |
to accept the discharge and volunteered |
with the army that fought at Freder-
icksburg and won the medal of honor
on that bloody day"
The president then proceeded with
his formal memorial address.