Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-06-01

~ GETTYSBURG, Pa, FIay 31.-This
~ was the day of tardy honor to
W the regular" at Gettysburg. An
imposing shaft of granite erected by
congress to the memory of those or the
regular army who fell IN the three
days battle was unveiled by the presl-
dents daughter, Miss Helen II. IaIl'
while the president paid tribute TO OF
ficers and men of the United states
army, past and present
The president put himself squarely
on record as opposed to any reducuoh
in the standing army he tod OF lhe
prejudice that often had arisen against
the possible aggressions OF a resuids
army and a professional soldiery, and
of the corresponding difficulty in arous-
ing that love and pride in the army
which expresses itself today. and has
frequently expressed itself.in the past
in behalf of the navy
The president asserted that the serv-
ices of the regular army had never been
commemorated adequately py congress
or the nation.
1.-The profession of arms always has
been an honored one," he declared. All
honor to the regular army of the United
States. Never in its history has it had
stain upon its escutcheon.
On the way to Gettysburg from Pitts
burg the presidents car was side
tracked at York for two hours, and dur
ing his stay he made a brief address
in which hit declared again his hope for
the early enactment of a tariff law,
eff the Lord will only be good and send
some real hot weather in June.
Four regiments of the regular army
were here to participate in the exer-
cises. There also was personal escort
to the president composed of veterans
of the regular army who fought in the
Gettysburg campaign.
The president was taken for drive
over the battlefields. At several points
he algnted and stood on the proni-
nences overlooking the valley below and
the mountains in the far distance.
Ceremonies Simple
The ceremonies of the unveiling were
simple. Miss Taft pulled the silken
cord that released the flags draped
about the monument. In falling one
of the flags caught on a bronze eagle
decorating one of the inscribed tablets.
A trooper gave the flag tug, but it
could not be released until large hole
had been torn in the folds in the
stripes.
After the presidents speech Secre-
tary Dickinson presented the monu-
ment to the battlefield commission.
Following the unveiling the presi-
dent reviewed the troops. A mounted
battery of artillery which recently
served in Cuba was a source of much
interest.
When the review was concluded the
president hurried to his train.
The monument erected on the battle-
field of Gettysburg to commemorate
the services of the regular army OF the
United States in the Gettysburg cam
paign in 1863 which was unveiled to-
day is situated on Hancock avenue a
little south of the bloody angle"
where Pickett's fearless men struck the
Union line with such disastrous results
to the invading army. The memorial
Is a shaft eighty-ive feet high and rs
made of light color granite from the
quarries at Mount Airy, N. c.
Size of Monument
The base Of the monument is four
teen and a half feet square and severn
teen feet high and is surrounded by q
beautiful granite terrace forty-three
and half feet square, with two-toot
high fence or wall. Four entrances,
each fourteen feet wide with three
granite steps, lead to the base of the
monument.
on each side of the second plinth,
which is twelve and a half fet high, is
an eagle cut solidly on the face of the
nlinth Each eagle is four feet high
and all are said to be the finest mod
eled eagles ever cut in granite or cast
in bronze in America. Upon the sec
ond plinth rests the plain shaft, which
is fifty-three feet tall.
On each side of the plinth is a large
bronze panel which carry descriptions
of the regular troops engaged at Get
tysburg, their positions and the casual
ties of that flght
Forty-two small monuments, one each
for the commands in the Gettysburg
campaign, which were erected at the
location each organization occupied
during the battle, are of granite, "a by
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