The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1908-11-14


SPRING tctacie alSj6f General
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~ ial OK the lfici c6ii&
llFlaed four dly trblops ltflleits
"a % Div ION ,lsIli l.fei IA
natal militia. IN these y ere Involved
u nsssq Ia5i9ons OF "a ~ three bars
teeIfs OF Held aFtllIef5 two OtgaIli7
cations OF the state siigEsl corps. one
dGIdt hospital corps three coast ggtil4
1ery regiments headed by General
David r. Austen: the ftE. a 9Th. t4tllt
23rtl nth e1st ana ind infdnfrSf
fourth q ttisI6n OF che 81 a. r.. vet
eraus associations and patrtptic So
cieties, GquadronB OF n1ounted police
ana many military and other bands.
The vicfssitudeS Of the rentattIis of
the sailors and soldiers who died OF
the foul hulks Of the British prison
~ FPS long anchored IN Waliabout
Bae-. which they polluted, have been
many. and have caused more than
one outburst of public indignation.
Il syVas in 1879. at a Brooklyn town
nesting that definite steps were hrst
urged to properly bury the remains.
-
1898. when the Tanmany Society se-
cured funds for a temporary wooden
tomb, which was constructed on
Hudson Street. .Eo this the bodies.
FdnE from the trenche along the
WaIlabout banks thet they had
been hastily Inferred, were removed.
Z With. passing years the structure
fen into decay. the bones became exc
posed and children played with them.
Public feeling became aroused and
in 1875 the City of Brooklyn remov-
led all that could be collected, sever
al loads OF them. to a tomb at Fort
Greene Park under the stairs of the
work had begun on fhe present
handsome memorial which the late
Stanford White designed and which
represents about $200.0dO. To these
bones We're added. four years ago,
after public service Mt Plymouth
Church, many more, filing about
eight cofhns, which had been un-
earthed in construction of ware-
houses at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
All the remains are now encased in
metallic collins in the spacious tomb
which Is approached by stately
.htght OF several hundred steps.
The experiences OF the prison ship
martyrs, constatute one. Of. the most
frightfuI chapters in American his
soldiers died In the Jersey alone. a
ship constructed to accommodate on
ly 400 men, into which more than a
Thousand prisoners were usually
crushed. Many were kept there for
years. A survivor, Captain Thomas
the horrible incarcerntion= 'Regis-
tered and sent below newcomers suf-
.fered terribly from the intolerable
heat and foul air. and when they
sought the narrow air holes they
found them blocked by others who
fought with all their strength for
even the faIntest breath of the prec-
ious air"
Utter aeranEeEnent was a. common
symptom offthe fever that caused
many deaths on board, ana to In
crease the horror OF the darkness
that enshrouded US. for we, were all
lowed no light betwisct decks, the
Take heed to yourselves; there is a
madman stalking through the ship
with knife in his hand some
times found the nan n Corpse in the
morning by whose side ] laid myself
down at night"
''of the bread furnished the prison
ers the Rev. Thomas Andres wrote
in his account: II do rot recoIIect
seeing any which was not fun of lfv-
ing Vernin, but eat 1t. worms and all,
we must or starve.''
The condition of the great copper
In which the meat was boiled is thus
described IN the memoirs of Ebenezer
Fox, also prisoner aboard the Jer-
sey:
The inside OF the copper had be-
come corroded to such a degree that
1t was lined with a coat of verdigras.
The Jersey, from her size and lying
near the shore, was Embedded In the
mud; and do not recollect seeing her
affoat during the whole time I was
a prisoner. All the filth which accu-
mulated among upward of thousand
men was daily thrown overheard and
would remain there untIl carriedl
away by the tide. The imurIty Of |
the water may be easily conceived
and in this winter oiir meat was
boiled. Not less revolving than these
scenes of cruelty and distress was the |
manner in which the inanimate bod |
les, OF these nartyred prisoners were
hastily and fndecorousEy consigned |
to the earth, In some cases almost |
before, they had become Cold"
The program prepared for the day |
to begin at p. M included:
Music by Twenty-third Regiment |
band. T. F. Shannon, leader. closing
with the star SDangled Banner.
M standing
Prayer, the Rev. DR.. S. Parises
cadmau.
Poem, Thomas Walsh.
Grafton, Hon. William n. Taft.
Presentation Of Monument on be- 4
half of the National Government. by
Secretary of War Luke e Wright