The Charles Mix new era. (Wagner, Charles Mix County, S.D.) 1???-1911, 1908-09-11
Remnant of Civil War Hos
Marches with Flags Flying
and Bands Playing
FORT NEIGs SHAFT DEDICATED
Granite Monument, 80 Feet High,
Comnaemorates Preservation OK
American Boundary.


Toledo correspondence
With flags flying, bands playing,
crowds cheering, and n bright sky over
head, veterans Of the Grand Army OF
the Republic marched through the
streets of an ecampanent city for the
forty-second time Wednesday after
noon At the official reviewing stand,
where stood william II. Taft. Governor
Halris. Senator Foraker and Mayor
Brand Whitlock. the colors were dipped.
ARD the department commanders joined
COMMANDMENT Chief Burton in the
stand. The parade being the leading
feature of the encampment, many timed
their arrival for the event, and the
crowd of visitors was augmented by
thousands during Tuesday night.
1t is estimated that. including the
veterans and their wives, there were
10000 visitors in the city. Excursion
trains brought them by hundreds from
cities of Ohio, Indiana. Illinois anc
Michigan. and they poured In from the
rural districts on the interurban lines.
1t was we'll toward IL O'Clock when
the van of the parade marched past
the reviewing stand, where they were
-saluted with n bombardment of flowers,
for which surprise the women Of To-
Iedo had been preparing for several
days. They emerged from the floral
shower 10 be greeted by an immense
human flag, made up of nearly 5000
children. who. in their dresses of red,
white and blue. swayed their bodies so
that the emblem seemed to sway as In
"A breeze.
Harrison Preserved
Two events OF the G.. A. II. encamp-
aanent Tuesday were the dedication OF
the Fort Meigs monument and the
acivic parade. In the latter 5000 mem
Y bers Of local organizations marched
with bands playing and banners flying,
while the veterans, whose parade was
TO take place Wednesday, looked on.
1T MAS ut Fort Meigs that General
William Henry Harrison checked the
British advances under Proctor after
She general had profted by General
1iullts surrender MT Detroit. With citi-
gen soldiery gathered from Ohio. Ken
lucky. Pennsylvania and Virginia, Gen
4eral Harrison succeeded in preserving
the American boundary as 1t now ex-
sasts. In those days Toledo was a mere
collection of huts, which served as
headquarters for French furriers and
traders travelling from Montreal and
Quebec TO Cincinnati and New Orleans.
Not many years ago the graves OF the
heroes Of Fort Meigs lay unmarked. A
church stands where there was former
Ny a British battery.
Tents Are Discarded.
The forty-second encampment will,
veterans declare, go down in history
with a most laudatory chapter devoted
TO n committee which abandoned the
traditional tents and domieiled the old
soldiers under real roofs and on real
beds. The veterans in Toledo ran no
risk of colds and rheumatism from
sleeping IN the straw strewn ground or
from dew soaked canvas.
There was something in the tents OF
former reunions which appealed to the
imagination of the veterans and stirred
3 their memories of war days, but manv
of them paid for ii with pneumonia
and rheumatism, aud they were un-
@stinted in their praise of the arrange
1ent this year.