The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-06-01
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TAFT SPEAKS
AT GETTYSBURG
Granite Monument IS
Dedicated.
lAUDs REGULAR SOLDIERS
Secretary Dickinson Presents the
Shaft.
Daughter OF President Draws siIksn
Cords On F.mou. Battieaeid
where Great Crowd OF
spectators Assembled.

spectators Assembled
Gettysburg. Pa. May s1.--This was
the day of tardy honor to the "regu-
lar" army at Gettysburg. An imposing
shaft Of granite, erected by Congress
10 the memory of those Of the regu-
larly enlisted forces who fell in the
three days lighting about the Round
TOP and the Bloody Angle. was UNI
vetled by the Presidents daughter,
Misc Helen II. Taft, while President
Taft himself paid tribute to officers
and men OF the United States army,
past and present.
( The President put himself squarely
on record as opposed to any reduction
in the present standing army. He
told OF the prejudice which often has
arisen against the possible alsgressions
of regular army and professional
soIdfery, and of the corresponding diff
ficuity In arousing that love and pride
of the army which expresses itself to-
day and has frequently expressed it,
self in the past in behalf7of the navy.
The President asserted that the SER
vices Of the regular army have never
been adequately commemorated by
Congress or the nation.
THE profession of arms has always
been an honorable one" he declared.
The present army, he described as the
largest In the history OF the country.
Z but not larger In proportion to the In
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-Four regiments OF the regular army
were here to escort the President and
to participate In. the program Of the
day There also was q personal escort
"a the President, made up of veterans
of the regular army, who fought In the
Gettysburg campaign.
The day was ideal In all but the in
tense heat ar the early AFTERNOON. The
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o'clock and was taken at once for a
drive over the battlefelds. At several
noints he aliRhted ana stood ON the
nromineneeS overlooking the beautiful
valley and the hay mountains in the
Par distance.
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Deing delisereo py Col 1ohn MICH
olson, cnar man OF the commission.
FolAoWlns the unVeiing' the Fresi-
cent accompanied by his military aide,
captain Butt, ana secretary Dickin-
son, waiked 10 the base OF the towering
granite column and there reviewed the
troops.
When the review concluded, the
President hurried back to the city and
to his waiting train which left at 3:45
y. m. Tor washington.
Monument Described.
The monument IL one of the most
Interesting. dignified and conspicuous
memorials on the famous battlefield
It 10 situated on Hancock avenue a
little south OF the Bloody Angle where
Pickett's fearless men struck the I'm
ion line with such disastrous results
70 the invading army. The memorial
Is shaft eighty-five feet high from
the ground and IL made of light color
granite from the quarries at Mount
Airy N. c.
Tho base plinth of the monument
10 fourteen and one-hah feet square
and seventeen feet high and is SUR
rounded by beautiful granite terrace
forty-three and one-half feet square
Four entrances each fourteen feet wide
with three granite steps lead to the