The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-20

2 remarkable military parade of near
$ ly 10000 soldiers and marines. AND
: memorable addresses by President
ELECT Taft and Governor Charles =
Hughes.
The procession of naval and mill.
tary organizations, said to be one OF
the largest in the history OF Brook.
lyn, the tremendous outpouring OF
people from all over Greater New
York, crowding Jansely, the line of
march, and at Fort Greene massea
by tens of thousands, presented an
inspiring spectacle. Major General
Charles r. Roe, commanding the
national guard of the state, was
grand marshal Of the parade, which
comprised four divisions-troops at
tached to division headquarters, first
and second brigade headquarters and
the naval militia. In these were in
Guided two squadrons of cavalry.
three batteries of field artillery, two
organizations Of the state signal
corps, one field hospital corps, three
coast artillery regiments, headed by
General David e. Austen, the 7th,
18th, 14th, 23rd, 47th, 61st and 72nd
Infantry regiments of the national
guard; fourth division of the G.. A.
K. veterans, associations and patriot
&c societies, squadrons of mounted
police and many military and other
bands.
The vicissitudes of the remains of
ne sailors and soldiers who died of
ever and starvation, and rotted in
he foul b..As of the British prison
ships long anchored in Wallabout
Bay, which they polluted, have been
many, and have caused more than
ne outburst Of public indignation.
t was in 1872, at a Brooklyn town
'eeting, that definite steps were first
l!ged to properly bury the remains.
Nothing was done, however, until
1908, when the Tammapy Society
secured funds for temporary wood
en- tomb, which was constructed on
Hudson street. To this the bodies.
lug from the trenches along the
Wallabout banks where they had
)een hastily inferred. were removed.
With passing years the structure
ell into decay, the bones became ex-
'osed and chilren played with them.
'ublic feeling became aroused, and
1875 the City OF Brooklyn re-
moved all that could be collected,
several loads of them, to a tomb at
Fort Greene Park under the stairs
of the entrance, where they had been
until work had begun on the present
handsome memorial which the late
Stanford White designed, and which
represents about 100000. To these
bones were added, four years ago.
after a public service at Plymouth
church, many more, filling about
eight collins, which had been UNI
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
flight of several hundred steps.
The experiences of the prison ship
constitute one of the most
frightful chapters in American his
tory Eleven thousand sailors and
soldiers died in the Jersey alone,
a ship constructed to accompdate
only 400 men, into which more than
a thousand prisoners were usually
Many were kept there for
years. A survivor, Captain Thomas
Dring, wildly depicted the scenes of
the horrible Incarceration: 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 pre-
cious air."
Utter arrangement was a COM
mon symptom of fever that caused
many deaths, and to Increase the
horror of the darkness that en-
shrouded us, for we were allowed no
light betwixt decks, the voice of
warming would be heard: Take heed
to your selves; there is mailman
through the ship with a
knife in his hand sometimes found
the man a corpse in the morning
by whose side l laid myself down at
night
OF the bread furnished the pris-
oners the Rev. Thomas Andres wrote
in his account. II do not recollect
seeing any which was not full of
living vermin, but eat it,, worms and
all, we must or starve.''
The condition of the great copper
in which the prisoners meat was boil
ed is thus described in the memoirs
If Ebenezer Fox, also a prisoner on
board the Jersey:
"The inside of the copper had be-
come corroded to such degree that
t was lined with a coat of verdigris.
The Jersey, from her size and lying
near the shore, was imbedded in the
mud; and l do not recollect seeing
Ter af1oat during the whole time
Was a prisoner. All the filth which
ccumulated among upward of
thousand men was daily thrown over
board and would remain there until
carried away by the tide. The i'm
purity OF the water may be easily
and in this water our
neat was boiled. Not less revolving
han these scenes of cruelty and dis
.ress was the manner in which the
nanimate bodies of these martyred
prisoners were hastily and indecor-
ously consigned to the earth, in some