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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-06-03
Getting Ready for the Attack

ENERAL HOOKER'S Joint order to Slo-
~ cum and Howard, Schurz says, did come
to my headquarters, and that he showed it to
me. If SO, every word of it was carried out to
the letter, as far as | could do so, subject to
Hookers subsequent instructions Devens,
Schurz, and Won Steinwehr, my division COM
manders, and myself did precisely and in
detail all that that order required. The three
reserve batteries were put in position, facing
northward, and the infantry reserve, all we
had after Hooker had removed Barlow's last
brigade. was held well in hand against any
emergency. SiCkles sent me word by Major
Howard that he was about to make a general
attack upon Jackson's troops not far from
Catherine Furnace; that for sometime he had
been driving the COnfederates and expected
soon brilliant results, that he proposed to
place my reenforcements (Barlows brigade)
upon his right flank in his forward move
ment.
Meanwhile, the Confederate General, Rodes,
masked, as | have shown, by the thick woods,
had reached his designated point in the
wilderness
By four in the afternoon his men were in
position and resting. The line of battle Of his
own brigade touched the pike west of with
its right and stretched on to the north. lust
beyond this brigade came VERSIONS in the
same line. On the right of that brigade was
Rodes, and farther to the right COlquitt
brigade. About one hundred yards to the rear
of this well-formed line was Trimbe's division
(Colston commanding; Ramser's brigade fol-
lowing Colquitt's Behind another space of
more than one hundred yards the division of
A. p. Hill was located. The advance Con-
federate division alone had in it more men
than the whole Eleventh Corps, which was
in its front. Counting the lines of this forni-
dable column ready for attack, from front to
rear, we find seven ranks without reckoning
the fle-closers. The majority, little later
after the moving began, were driven into
solid mass by the ENHANCEMENT of the forest,
and gave our skirmishers as they approached,
the belief that the battalions were formed in
close columns doubled on the center.
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Would Not Kill His Own Men

DICKERSON kept near me, and when he saw
~ Our men in front of him giving way, cried to
me: "Oh, General, see those men coming from
that hill way off to the right, and there's the
enemy after them Fire, oh, fire at themi You
may stop the fight
NO, Colonel" answered; Il will never
fire upon my own men,.
As soon as our men were fairly out of the
way, we threw shells and then canister over
their heads. The attacking force came out
of the forest in remarkably good order con-
sidering their hindrances They would halt
and fire from their advance lines and while
the first were reloading, another set ran before
them, halted and fired. 1t was all regular
enough but the Confederates came on in
such multitude that our men went down before
them, like trees in a hurricane.
By extraordinary effort my Officers and
myself filled up all the cross intrenchments-
of course, with fragments of regiments and in
divdual soldiers. Many line officers who had
run away STOPPED there and did what they
could but others ran on, saying: We've
done all we can" Schierer, my artillery chief
managed the reserve batteries fairly we'll
Captain digger rolled his solid missiles back
along the plank road and kept Smelling the
woods. General Won Steinwehr was cool,
collected, and sensible. He had, like Blair
at Atlanta, caused his soldiers, who were south
of Dowdall's Tavern. to spring to the reverse
side of his intrenchments, and, facing north,
they were ready to fire the instant it was
possible to do so without killing our own men.
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Beginning of the Advance

MYTH as little noise as possible, shortly
wv after five o'clock, the steady advance of
the fearless Confederates began. The first lively
effect, like a cloud of dust driven before a
coming storm, appeared in the startled rab-
bits, squirrels, quais, and other game, flying
hither and thither in evident terror, escaping
where possible into adjacent clearings.
The foremost men of Rodes' brigade half an
hour later struck our advance pickets along
the pike. The pickets, of course, caused
against such force little or no delay. Fifteen
minutes afterward Rodes again reached our
skirrnishers. They resisted his front lines for
a few minutes. Indeed, it required main
line of Confederates to dislodge them. Rodes,
concerning this check, remarked: After
resistance of about ten minutes we drove him
(the Yankee enemy from his position on the
left and carried his battery of two guns
caissons, and horses This was undoubtedly
Won Gilsa's brigade and the section of battery
which he was supporting.
/ mounted and set off with a view of reaching
a high point of observation in rear of SchurZ' S
line. | intended to change front to the north
west, using every brigade southeast of the
front of attack in case the attack proved to be
beyond the right flank. | OWNED at once that
the Confederates were now west and perhaps
north of Devens. had hardly turned my horse
when | beheld a cloud of men-not few
stragglers, which always fly like chaff before
the wind, but scores of men-rushing out into
the forest opening, some with arms and some
without. They were running or falling before
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What General Rodes Did

WYE will now follow Rodes, who led the
wv Confederate attack. Here is his statement
in brief: =" After my first successful charge,
my command moved forward at the double
quick to assault the enemy (that is, ourselves)
who had taken up a strong position on the crest
of the hill in the open field " This strong
position was on Hawkins farm, where Devens
and Schurz began their fight, using their
reserves. But wave after wave of Confederate
infantry came upon them; even their left flank
was unprotected the instant the runaways
had passed it, and hosts were far beyond their
right To our intense sorrow, those of us who
stood by the reserve batteries and had eagerly
observed their bravery, saw them also give
way, till the hill and the crest ON Hawkins
farm were quickly in the possession of the men
in gray. Rodes, who saw SO clearly amid
screeching shells and the hot excitement of
battle, says again: "He (meaning our forces
from Schinmelpfennig and Bushbecks bri-
gades and part of McLeans) made a stubborn
resistance from behind a waiting fence on a
hill thick with pine
Among those stubborn fighters was Major
jeremiah Williams of the Twenty-fifth Ohio.
The Confederates were drawing near him. His
men lowered their rifles and fired with GOODNESS.
His right rested among scrubby bushes, while
his left was in the open ground. The blows
of the enemy were murderous IN the extreme;
whole platoons of his men were falling yet
they held their ground. Williams waited,
continually firing till not more than thirty
PAGES interviewed between him and the Con-
federate 'front.' then he ordered the retreat.
OF three hundred and twenty-three men and
sixteen commissioned officers, one hundred
and thirty, including five officers, were killed
or wounded. Williams brought a part of the
living to the breastworks where | was; the
remainder, he declared, had gone off to the
rear with another regimental commander.
Now all the Confederate rear lines had closed
up, and the broad mass began to appear on
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Prices subject to change with
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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-11-30

ONLY SIS, 250-
50x100. 9th St. bet. Washington and Clay:
tine Oats and large cottage. with very high
basement; $1,000 spent IN raising and build
fng store win make this pay $500 per
month; land alone is selling at $500
per foot; $500 mortgage can stand;
this viii easily sell at $4,000 In
80 DAYS. now.
TIE CORNER LOT CO..
9lS Broadway, Oakland.
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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.
nm ~ - =.

OFFICE of the Board of State Harhor Commits
sloners union depot and ferry-house. San
FRANCISCO, Cal. November q. 19O6.-Sealed
proposals or bids will be received at this OF
fee at or prior to 2:30 O'Clock d. N, on Thurs
day, December 6. 1906 for furnishing mate
r ,aas and labor for making repairs to the
'front.' OF the city and county of San Francisco
IN accordance with the plans and speci1ca-
lions prepared therefor BY the chief engineer
OF the board and adopted BY the board Novem-
which special reference IS hereby made The
materials to be used in these repairs viii con-
sist or the requisite amount of sandstone.
marble, brick, plaster. paint. glass, etc. sll
rigid examination. No bid viii be received
unless 1t is made a blank form furnished
from this office and Is accompanied by a ceFtf-
ned check for five t5) per cent OF the amount
OF the bid. payable to the order OF the sec
Rotary OF the board. a guarantee on the
part OF the successful bidder that be will
within six (6) days after the acceptance Of
the bid. enter into written contract to do
said work. according TO the plans and speci-
hcations prepared therefor. and viii also ex-
ecute and hle with this board a bond IN such
sum as the board may deem adequate, with
surety company. TO be approved by the Board
of State Harbor Commissioners and condition.
ed for the faithful performance OF such con-
tract, nor viii said bid be considered By this
board unless delivered to the secretary or to
secretary, at or prior to 2:30 o'clock D. m. on
Thursday, December 6. 1906 at which time
and place the bids win be opened. The board
reserves the right to reject any or all bids
II deemed for the best interest Of the State
Bidders are invited to be present at the open-
ing OF the bids.
CHAs. n. SPEAR.
]. D. MACKENZIE
HENRY J. CROKER.
Board of State Harbor Commissioners
LOTT D. NORTON, Chief Engineer. JOHN u.
FOY. Secretary.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1906-11-30

STATE PRISON sUPPLIES-sealed proposals
will be received at the office OF the clerk OF
the State Prison at San Quentin until 1890
a. N. Saturday. the Sth day OF December
1906 and at the office OF the clerk OF the
State Prison at Folsom until 10 a. m. Satur-
day the 18th day Of December, 1906. at
which times and places they will be opened IN
the presence OF bidders, for furnishing and
delivering supplies for said prisons con-
sistfng OF subsistence stores, forage. fuel fuel
OIL furnishing power to run the fute mill and
electrical appliances for jute mill at San
Quentin clothing, medicines. lime. cement
and other staple supplies from January l.
1907 to June 30. 1905. inclusive. on conditions
as per printed schedules which win be fur
nished on application at either of the above
Offices No bid will be considered unless made
upon said schedules. nor unless accompanied
by the certified check therein required nor
from any other parties than bona ode dealers
in the classes OF articles to be furnished
Each bidder must accompany bis bid with
certified check upon some Wen known and re-
sponsible banking house for at least 10 per
: cent OF the amount Of bis bid. payable to the
president OF the board. conditioned that the
bidder will enter into contract upon notice
of acceptance, required by law. Bids for
either prison must be marked separately All
payments made on contracts will be paid in
cash or CONTROLLERS warrants. Bidders viii
carefully follow the conditions Of the sched-
ules. The board preserves the right to reject anv
or all bids. as the public interest may require
and TO order any quantity over or under the
amount specified. ROBERT T. DEVLIN Pres
ident; J. NJ. OLIVER. Clerk
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ONLY 1850
PAYS SEQ per month: north Of It'll St. near
Jackson; fell size lot; good house; rented TO
white people; only $500 cash necessary;
this viii pay you 20 per cent net.
and increase rapidly in value this is
snap.
THE CORNER LOT CO.,
91s Broadway, Oakland.
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HALFsiSoN BAY REAL ESTATE.

MONTANA
II you could buy d large lot IN the Montsra
townsite, on the line Of the Ocean Shore r. K.
Is mics 80 minutes from San Francisco for
fl75. improvements included. and pay nothing
down. would you be interested
No taxes: interest. free excursion Sun
days and THURSDAYS; for free tickets call at
office Montara Realty Dew. Co., 1900 Golden
Gate ave-, cor. Fillmore ST. 1905 Broadway
Oakland.
FOR sale at a SACRIFICES lots on Main ave-;
can't make payments Box 113s. Call office.
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ROOMS FoR HousEKrEPTwo.

STANYAN 945 near Frederick large sunny
furnished housekeeping rooms; gas range; nc
children.
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SEALED proposals viii be received at the office
OF the State Board OF Prison Directors G29
Van Ness ave-. San Francisco. until Ii a. m
Monday. December 10. 1906. at which time
and place they will be opened in public for
furnishing lumber to the State prison at Fol-
som, 'construction account to be delivered
during the year 1907 Schedules and informa-
ton obtatnabie at the offce OF the board. Ga
Van Ness ave.. San Francisco. p. h Ne
GRATH, Secss R0BT. 7. DEVLIN, Pres-
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MRS. McvICKER-Please meet me, ]. W. Nc
Wicker, at the ferry landing at 10 a. m the
18th
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NOTICE no CoNTRACTORS.

NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS
Office OF the Board OF State Harbor Commits
stoners union depot and ferry house. San
Sealed proposals or bids WIN be received at
Thursday. December 8. 1908. for furnishing
No and No Of the ses w snid J pl.5sns
space under same and constructing cesspoo
on the water front Of the city and county Of
San Francisco. in accordance with the plans
chief engineer Of the board and adopted BY
the board November %. 1905. and on ole n
this office. to which special reference Is here
work consist of yellow Or and redwood lun-
Der. redwood shingles wrought iron rods. bolts.
spikes. cast iron. brick. stone sewer pipe
jsct to = rigid examination. No Sid VIM '1 81
received unless II Is made on a blank form
furnished from this office and Is accompanied
by certified check for ave 90 per cent Of
Of the secretary OF the board. as a guarantees
on the part of the successful bidder that be
win within six f6l days after the acceptance
do said work according to the plans and
execute and fie with this board a bond IN
with a surety company. to be approved by the
Board Of State Harbor Commissioners and
conditioned for the faithful performance OF
such contract. will said bid be considered
by this board unless delivered to the secretary
or the assistant secretary at the office Of the
secretary at or prior to 2:15 O'Clock D. N on
Thursday December g. 1905. at which time
and place the bids viii be opened The board
reserves the right to reject. any or all bids n
deemed for the best interests of the State
Bidders are invited TO be present at the open
CHARLES h SPEAR.
]. D. MACKENZIE.
HENRY j. CROKER.
Board OF state Haroor Commissioners.
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. PER CENT INVESTMENT.

PER CENT INVESTMENT.
Q per cent income paper secured by new homes
in choicest part Of Oakland near Claremont.
Key Rouf and Fair View Park IN amounts
from $500 up to $1,000: total amount of con-
tracts 50. 000 viii take cash or clear vacant
in Berkeley. Oakland or Alameda or timber
land See owner wM. H. STEWART, cor.
North and School sts.. Oakland.
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CHARLES H. SPEAR,
]. d. MACKENZIE.

Board Of State Harbor Commissioners
LOTT D. NORTON, Chief Engineer.
JOHN NJ FOY. Secretary
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-08
NEW HAMPSHIRE REPORT.
State Lecturer Says II Has Been Best
Winter In History of the Order.

State Lecturer Says II Has Been Best
Winter In History of the Order.
I want you to know that so far as
my knowledge goes this has been the
best winter in the history of the Order
in New Hampshire. The secretary re-
ports an unprecedented growth in men,
bership, the deputies have found the
oranges almost uniformly posted and
doing fine degree work. and from every
source comes the report that in literary
work the oranges are doing splendidly.
The programmes are becoming more
profitable and popular every month.
Few oranges have degree work at ev
cry meeting. but all should and most
do have at least thirty minute pro-
gramme. The prosperous grange not
only gets new members, but keeps the
old. The most successful grange Is
not the one that has enrolled the lar
gest number, but that which keeps the
largest percentage of its enrolment on
the list of active workers. People do
not join the grange for the sake of
Joining. but for the good to be gained
after they become members. 1t Is the
lecturer who must keep the members
interested, get them to attend the
meetings and show them that 1t Is
worth while to belong. Do not have
too long programmes. Use new talent.
Discuss local questions. Make your
grange meetings worth to every mem
Der more than 1t costs in time and
money to attend. Have few public
meetings and invite in all the desira-
Bile people in the town. Make your
grange stand for something in the
town.-Richard Pattee.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-08
THE GRANGE
Conducted by
J. w. BARROW. Chatham, N. Y.
Grange
AN IMPORTANT OFFICE.

The state Grange Lecturers Duties
Discussed.
We sometimes think that the duties
tf state grange lecturers are misunder
itood and their efforts INSTRUCTED
misunderstood by the Order generally,
misdirected because they attempt to
crafty the wishes of the members of
the grange within their Jurisdiction
who have this misconception of what
the lecturers duties are.
The word lecturer" as applied to
the official under consideration is
misnomer He Is not by virtue of his
Office to be talker or lecturer. His
province Is not solely to deliver ad-
constitute a part of his duties. He is
rather a teacher or director. The state
lecturers relation to the subordinate
lecturers should be primarily to ad-
wise and instruct them in methods of
work, to suggest, TO direct, and if he
fulfills his duties in this respect he
will have little time for public speech
es on agricultural and kindred sub
jects or even on topics pertaining spe-
ci1cally to the work of the Order, GER
tainly not to go out into the field as an
organizer. Others can do this work
and relieve the state lecturer of this
Quantum of labor and responsibility
and thus conserve his energies for the
specific work he has in charge.
The educational work of the grange
Is fundamental. 1t Is all important,
and with this work the state and sub
ordinate lecturers have to do. 1t
should not be sighted because of d.
versity of labors or a diversion of en-
ergies into other channels
This Is evidenced by the demand
made by them on the lecturer for ad-
dresses at Pomona grange meetings
field days and picnics, and bis services
are often desired in the organization Of
the new oranges; consequently the lee
turer is not altogether blameworthy If
he responds to such invitations to the
detriment of his specific work even IN
der orders from the state master.
However, we do not mean by this
that he sho1ld shut himself up In his
home and never appear in public ex-
cept at the state grange meeting, nor
should we expect that he could do his
best work as counselor and adviser
and director of subordinate lecturers
by writing letters. issuing orders or
outlining work by long distance phone.
He should be in close touch with Po-
mona lecturers az they should be with
their subordinate lecturers. Occasion
al conferences of lecturers in each
county should be held under the direc-
ton of the state lecturer, possibly at
Pomona meetings, where methods Of
work should be suggested and dis
cussed and obstacles and difficulties
removed. If possible, so that the fun
damental work of the grange, the edu-
cational, may not be !mpeded, but
rather made more efficient
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-08
THE OBJECT THE GRANGE
Chief Purpose IL to Make Men Think.
Not Merely to Entertain Them.

Not Merely to Entertain Them.
Every member and most certainly
every officer of grange should under
stand that the object and aim of grange
work is to make men and women think,
not merely to entertain them. One rea-
son why many oranges never become
of real, tangible, practical help to those
who belong to them is because the
members fail to realize this fact. The
members are anxious to do something
Do help agriculture or to assist their
fellows in the battle of life, but when
they set about doing these things they
get the impression that 1t is necessary
to create a lot of machinery to do it.
Organization of the right kind and of
sufficient quantity to accomplish a
given end is all right and proper; too
much is hindrance and we are liable
to get tangled in the machinery. Take
as an illustration the lecturers con-
ference" which is most valuable adj
junct to grange work when properly
managed, so that 1t shall furnish prac-
teal assistance to the lecturer in his
work and ultimately raise the standard
of all the lecture work. But this sim
Pile lecturers conference is sometimes
so incumbered with needless laws and
rules and officers and badges and what
not that the real object of the confer
ence is lost sight of. The conference,
then, instead of furnishing practical
help by an exchange Of Ideas between
the lecturers, becomes useless, and the
weary lecturers who are hungry for
real assistance go away empty. They
feel that they have asked for bread and
have been given stone. This Is no
overdrawn picture, for we know sew
eral instances where just this has hap
pened. The lecturers had got tangled
In the machinery.
Take again, if you please, the degree
work. Every part of it is intended to
impart useful lesson not only to the
candidates, but to the members who
witness the work In many oranges
this lesson is never learned by either
the candidates or the members of the
grange simply because the degrees are
given in such careless, slipshod man
ner that the officers themselves never
catch the true meaning of the lessons
Of the degrees. We lose sight of the
hea that we are trying to make men
think. If we confer the degrees with
this idea in mind we will be able to
present to the minds of the candidates
such a picture of the labor, the culture,
the harvests and the fruition OF the
farmers life as will never be effaced
from his memory. To entertain is a
secondary consideration In our work.
Let US not forget that there is a pri-
mary motive which is of greater i'm
portance.-George A. Fuller.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1906-06-08
FARM TO LET ON SHARES

On account Of poor health. 200 acres, 20
cows, all come IN. They are the leading
dairy in this section. Sowing done; over so
bushels Of grain put in in good shape. Milk
goes to cheese factory, Ia miles. Great
chance. Tools on the farm. l75 loads of
manure has been drawn out this spring on
the farm. Address JOHN MEADE.
Middlebury, VT, r. D., No. .. 22t4p