Evening star., 1911-05-27
WILL HOLD JUB|[EE'P0uCE COURT QUIET
Blue and Gray Plan to Meet Machinery of British Justice
on Bull Run Field. Moves Without Friction
FIFTY YEARS AFTER FIGHT IA DAY IN BOW STREET
Anniversary Held Rights of Accused Carefully
July FL. Guarded by Judge
RECENT GROvETON MEETING CASES ARE NOT NUMEROUS
Armies-The Rather to Prevent Crime
to Make Arrests
Blue and Gray Plan to Meet
on Bull Run Field.
FIFTY YEARS AFTER FIGHT
Anniversary Exercises Will Be Held
July 21.
RECENT GR0vEToN MEETING
Matter Discussed by Veterans OF
Both Armies-The Proposed
Reunion Indorsed.

Both Armies-The Proposed
Reunion Indorsed.
Preliminary to awakening interest i'm
the movement which has been indorsed
| by three grand encampments of the G..
| a. r. to acquire the lands for the benefit
OF posterity and also primarily to
preserve the monuments erected on
| the first battlefield of the civil
| war to the memory of the men
on both sides Of the combat who fell in
the two memorable engagements at Bull
Run. Va, the veterans of the blue and
the gray at Manassas and i'm Prince Will
liam county are planning for military
jubilee at Manassas July q. the fiftieth
anniversary of the first battle. Veterans
of both great armies. including the Ma
nassas Picket Post. Union Veterans, and
the Gen. Ewell Camp OF Confederate
Veterans. will have charge Of the pro-
posed semi-centennial celebration. to-
getber with the officers of both town and
county, and the governor and other state
officers will also take an active part.
| A committee Of one hundred, represent
out a general invitation to all to attend
this celebration. and special attention is
called to Leviticus, chapter 2o. verses
8 and TO-
1t is hoped by those interested to have
President Taft present upon the auspi-
cious occasion, and there will be present
number of we'll known speakers from
both great armies. Special music will be
a feature of the program.
The citizens of Manassas and the
county Of Prince William Va we'll
as many of the patriotic people through
out the country, are much interested in
| a bill before Congress providing for the
protection of the monuments already
erected on the battefields of Bull Run
and any other monuments that may be
erected in that historic locality. Measures
proposing the purchase Of the lands sur
rounding these monuments, and embrac-
| ing the battlefelds of the engagements
known in history as the first and second
Bull Run. are pending In both houses OF
| Congress.
Recent Meeting at Groveton.
! At recent meeting at Groveton, Va,
on the battlefield of second Bull Run.
the matter was discussed by veterans OF
both armies. Among those present were
Department Commander Ross. 49th Illi-
nois, Department of the Potomac, G. A.
R.. D. r. Lowell, 121st New York: l..
| d. Lowell of Chicago; b. L. Entriken,
past department commander. Department
Dougall. 44th New York: Arthur Hen
dricks, 9Th New York. past department
commander, Department of Potomac. q.
A R.; H. B. Mattox. S9th Ohio: j. H.
Thomas of the Interior Department,
George G. Round and others.
Following a luncheon served by the
Daughters Of the Confederaey at the
old Groveton farmhouse. the company
repaired to the reservation OF the bat
| tlefield, purchased by the state OF New
York, to participate in the raising OF
the Stars and Stripes on a fiagpole $50
feet high. erected by the 5th New York.
known Duryee's Zouaves. Lieut..
George G. Round presided and intro
duced Col Edmund Berkeley OF the
8th Virginia, who was followed later
by Commander Ross and Past Com
mander Entriken.
Besides the address of Col. Berkeley.
there were remarks by Capt. Westwood
Hutchison, who was a member Of Gen.
Lees bodyguard during the civil war;
Capt. William H. Brown and Sergt A.
II. Compton.
feature of the occa sion was the
recitation of Riley's famous poem.
Goodbye. Jim. Take keer O. Your
self by Mr.. Thomas of this city.
Lieut.. Rounds Address.
of those who are prominent in the
preservation of the Bull Run battle
fields and their monuments, made an
address in opening the ceremonies
THE Hebrew race. from whom we
have inherited the most valuable ideas
OF our American civilization" he said.
had an interesting custom of jubi-
lee once in every fifty years, at which
time they wiped out old scores and
hoo -,
rated by Jehovah himself. and 1900
years ago was re-echoed by the voice
Of the Son of Man, who taught us to
say. forgive our debts as we forgive
our Debtors
"It has seemed to me as an aus
picious time to celebrate our American
jubilee on the 21st day of July next
on the first great battlefield Of the
civil war;
Chaplain D. R. Powell. who is now the
chaplain of the Department of the Po-
tomac. G. A. r.. delivered the invocation
He is chairman of Grand Army COM
mittee which Is urging the passage of the
bills pending in Congress for the purchase
of the battlefields at Bull Run.
The children of the public schools at
Groveton sang America" and the entire
company joined in singing The Star
Spangled Banner" and pixie"
Col. Berkeley's Remarks.
Col. Edmund Berkeley said, in part
Brothers Of the blue and gray, We
meet here today for the purpose of throw
ing old Glory to the breeze on the first
battlefield of a war that made Of dis
united country the greatest and most in
dissolubly united one on this planet.
Nearly half century has elapsed since
we first met here with hearts filled with
hate and bitterness. but, thanks 70 a
| merciful Providence. those feelings have
entirely disappeared. and We meet here
| today with love and admiration for each
| thought to be right, although from differ
ent standpoints 1t mattered little what
the first or second battle resulted in. The
| Ruler of the Universe decreed 1t must be
| a fight to the finish, and a perfectly eX.
| hausting one; and l have no hesitation iT
believing that the manner of its ending
was the best possible for the south as
| we'll as the north. Had 1t ended differ.
emily we would in all probability have
had another war later on, and the bloody
| chasm would be still yawning between
the north and the south. Now 1t is filleG
up smooth from side to side, and We have
one country. with one flag waving over it.
| letter from Mrs. May Dogan, presi
dent of the Bull Run Chapter of the
United Daughters of the Confederacyf
approving of the celebration, was reai
oy Lieut.. Round.
Body Taken to New York.
The body of Barney Coughlin the iron
worker. who was killed Thursday morn
ing by falling from the ninth floor OF