The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-07-01
Boys" in Blue and Grey Ex-
change Tobacco Instead
of Bullets Today.
FOURTH DEATH TODAY
Addresses Are Delivered BY
Prominent Veterans and
BY Some Officials.
CNational News Association

GETTYSBURG. July Fifty
thousand veterans comprising two ar
mics of peace. the one wearing the
blue and the other the gray. awoke to-
day on the field where fifty years ago
they had fought. Yanks and Rehs
were lying side by side when the sun
crept over the hill. Umbrellas and
canes were stacked where guns had
stood. suit cases and carpet bags had
replaced napsacks. tobacco was swap
ped instead of bullets. brotherly glan-
ces were exchanged where giaring
bayonets had flashed and songs filed
the air where cannons had Numbered.
The semi centennial OF the battle OF
Gettysburg was on.
The vanquished men of the South
greeted the wasted regiments OF the
North. Every man had his incidents
of the battle to relate to an interested
audience of comrades, each waiting
anxiously to tell his ver-Jn OF the
same or another incident. There were
laughs and there were tears. There
was a note CT sadness in the laughter.
a touch of joy in the tears.
Every Train Crowded.
Every train centered into Gettys-
burg today brought in streams of aged
warriors.
ground many thousands of the boys"
They had undergone hours of rough
travel, most of them had spent the
spendings of a meagre pension, each
of them had risked his health of the
few years left him to live to attend the
happiest jubilee of his existence.
Before the sun was up special trains
were waiting on miles of sidings to un-
load cargoes of grizzled battlers. Boy
scouts. regular army men, and the
liveliest of the veterans Were organiz-
| cd into details to guide the aged men
| to their tents and care for them in
the worst crush that Gettysburg has
known since the battle that gave it's
name to history. Those who have been
here for several days were comforta-
bly, quartercd In tents but the latest
arrivals caught a few hours sleep on
the grass using suit cases and grips
| for pillows.
Several Addresses Heard.
Col. J. NJ. Schoonmaker, chairman
of the commission that arranged the
! celebration, called the thousands Of
veterans to order to hear the address
es of Secretary of War Garrison, Gov.
q, Tenor of Pennsylvania. Alfred Beers,
commander-in-chiefo of the G. A R. and
General Bennett Young, commander
| in-ehief of the United Confederated
Veterans. Every man of the two ar
mics stood uncovered while Rev.
George Lovejoy, chaplain-in-chief of
the G. A. R., pronounced the opening
prayer, but only few of them listen
ed to the addresses. They were too
busy talking over things with men
they had not met for years: some
! they had not met since the great bat
tie. But every hat was again lifted
while the closing prayer was offered
by Rev. H. INTmill. chaplain gem
eral of the rlniEN Infederate veter-
ans.
Earlier in the day the Indiana Vet.
erans continued their pilgrimages
about the famous battle field under
the leadership of Ben Mcfarland of
Rushville. They visited Culps hiIl and
also located a house that was struck
by cannon balls fifty years ago which
all OF them remember. The Indiana
veterans have planned series of re-
unions to follow the official exercises.
LAST CALL FOR ANOTHER.
! GETTYSBURG, July 1.-The death
early today of Otto L. Stamm. of Al.
mond. y. Y, a member of the Twenty.