The Alaska daily empire., 1913-05-17
PLANS FOR GETTYSBURG
 CELEBRATION ARE OUT

WASHINGTON The commission having charge the arranging Of a sult- able program for the fftieth anniver- sary of the Battle of Gettysburg has published a circular which gives the details of the affair, so far as they have been arranged. The celebration proper will take four days, July l. 2' and 4, and will be held on the bat tlefeld, of course. The State of Penn sylyania. under an act of it's Legis- lature, being the host and having gen eral charge of the program.
 The first day will be known as Get erans' Day, and the details of the pro- gram for that day will be worked out bv the commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of the Republic and the commander.in-chief of the United Congederate Veterans.
 July 2 will be Military Day, and the program will be in charge of the chief of staff of the regular army. Speciai detachments of regular troops will be on hand to participate.
 July 3 will be Governors Day. and
 will bring to the front the State gov
 ernors who may be present. The gov
 ernor of Pennsylvania personally will
 be in charge, and the program will
 consist of an oration, Il sermon and
 appropriate music.
 July will be known as National Day, and the chief justices of the
 United States supreme court will pre- side, In the forenoon there will be
 an address by President Woodrow Will
 son, and at noon the cornerstone Of q peace monument will be laid on the battlefield. In the evening there will be fireworks.
 The veterans will be housed in a , camp containing 5000 tents, spread over 2SO acres of ground, some of
 which was the scene of the first days
 fight. Each of these tents would or . dinarily hold twelve men, but on this : occasion only eight will be put into it, l thus giving the veterans the maximum . amount of room Each veteran will | be supplied with separate cot, blank - cts and mess kit and the mess kit will Q become his property. This camp will :, be exclusively for the veterans, and l. will not be open to women, children n or to men who did not see service in
 the Civil War It will be opened Sun
 day, June 29, and remain open until the f Sunday following, July s.
 !, Adjoiinng the camp there is to be a E. great tent, seating between 10000 and e 15,OOO persons, and there the exercises t of the four days will be held. In this a tent. it is expected, there will be many It reunions of veterans, and in order to 1t facilitate these reunions, the tent will
 be arranged to premit of subdivision
 The idea of a celebration on Gettys L. burg in July of the present year origin d ated in an act of the Pennsylvania t. Legislature, passed in 1909. That act o created a commission to consider the
 desirability of such celebration, and
 requested the commission to invite the k cooperation of Congress and of the S other States.
 s In the same year Congress was in j. vited to participate in the celebration J. as were the Grand Army of the Re l. public and the United Confederate Vet e erans. In July, 1910, Congress, by con t current resolution, created a joint spe
 cial committee of the two Houses tc
 cooperate with the Pennsylvania com r. mission to make the celebration a sue n cess. The details of the affair were l. then worked out until the celebration 't assumed it's present national aspect. e The State of Pennsylvania, as host l. is to pay all the expense of entertain n ing 10000 veterans of the Civil War 0 this being the estimate of the number r that will attend. Pennsylvania and the s federal government, in addition, will y divide equally further cost of $500, g 900 for the creation and maintenance l. of the camp around the battlefield. | It is predicted by veterans that this e celebration will be the most signifi d cant of the kind ever held in this
 country, and that it will necessarily
 have an important influence in making
 stronger ties that are reuniting the
 North and the South.