Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1913-07-25
CELEBRATION
IN LOUISVILLE
KENTUCKY METROPOLIS WILL
COMMEMORATE INCIDENTS
IN WAR OF 1912.
HUNDRED YEARS OF PEACE
Battles Which Kentuckians Won and
hsssacres in Which They Suffered
Will Be Reproduced in Fireworks
and Shars on Land and Water.

and Shar1s on Land and Water.
A weeks celebration, which Louis
and most spectacular in the histO.y
OF celebrations in America. will Be
held in the Kentucky metropolis Tcr
seven days, commencing SeptemEea
%, and will be the climax OF a So
rieS OF celebrations held in a dos
lake cities. to commemorate the sUi-
ferings and victories OF American
arms in the War of 1872 as we'll as
to focus attention on the achiey5-
ments of century of peace. Tie
crucial and decisive engagement OF
the War of 1912 was the battle of the
I names. fought and won on Canadian
soil October ;, 1913 The series Il
celebrations, which will be held in
America Will close in Louis Vtlle, Oct0-
Der ., 1913, and just one hundred
years from the hour that Col. Richard
II. Johnston, afterward Vice PreSidc1I
OF the United States. slew the lndiaa
chief Tecumseh. President Woodrow
Wilson will probably be addressing a
crowd OF 100000 people ia Louisville,
the home OF many of the troops who
fought in the battle of the Thames.
Kentucky was assigned the closing
and choice date Of the celebration
because of the distinguished part
played by the Kentuckiaus In the Wax
II 1912. Kentucky began to play her
part in the generation before the war
opened, when she sent Gen. George
l;cgeIs Clark and other Louisville
soldiers into the hostile wilderness
which they wrested from the French
and Indians and out of which was att
erWard carved the great States OF
Ohio. Indiana, Illinois. Wisconsin and
Michigan.
Kentucky was the last state which
could have benefited from the war. in
asmuch as it was brought about chief
~ by the British impressment of
American seamen, none or whcm
were Kentuckians, whereas should
war prevail the unfriendly Indians Oh
the frontier of the border states could
be expected 70 commit atrocities from
which Kentucky had all eady received
the name Dark and Bloody Ground
However, it was chiefly Henry Clay. in
the Kentucky Congressional Delega-
ton that forced President Madison to
declare the second war with Great
Britain, and Kentucky furnished for
ty per cent of her fighting population
to go into that war, and at the close
OF the war of the listed dead more
than eighty per cent were the names
OF kentuckians. Kentucky troops to
a man were massacred at the River
Raisin and again at the first attack
on Fort Mejgs.
When the time came 10 man Perry's
pew-hewn ships, he selected Keltuck-
lans unaccustomed to the motion of
the lakes to mount into the insecure
rigging and from that vantage peint.
with their practiced eye and unerrhg
aim, fired down upon the British and
won the battle of Lake Erie. Prac-
tically every officer and soldier. in the
battle of the Thames was Kentuck-
ian, excepting alone Gen. William
Henry Harrison. who. however. held
his commission as MaiOr-GeneTal from
the Kentucky legislature. The charge
of the Forlorn Hope. about the brief
| est, most terrible and most heroic at
tack narrated in the annals of war
fare, consisted exclusively OF Ken
lucky soldiers when nineteen of them
and their twenty horses went down
| to certain death. Ii was the Ken
lucky shaEpshOOters who are credited
| with having won the battle of New
Orleans after the war had in reality
| closed.
Kentucky proposes to reproduce
most of these scenes of the war Of
| 1912 in the Louisville celebration. The
| battle of the Thames will be repro
| duced on land in Cherokee Park, to-
| geographically situated similar to the
land on which was fought the battle
| of the Thames, and every detail of
| the sham battle will be as nearly
historically correct as can be done.
| Louisville will take advantage OF her
| magnificent river frontage in order
/ to celebrate suitably the battle OF
Lake Erie. The astual battle will be
| depicted in a gorgeous entertainment
OF fireworks and all morning and all
| afternoon preceding the engagement
/ there will be boat races. life saving
| feats ard aquatic sports. A historical
| pageant. depicting various scenes OF
the war of 1872 will also include q
magnificent floral parade, such Is
| made Louisville famous a year ago
| and will include civic ard military
| parades many miles in length Drills
and exercises by 10000 costume
school children will be held in the
First Regiment Armory; a mammo.t
reception will be given to the descend
| ents of Kentucky soldiers and sailor
OF the war OF 1912, and a series d
costumed balls will be given In the.l
| honor.
| Exceedingly low railroad rates
probably as low as one cent per mile
from a distance OF several hundred
miles of Louisville. will be granteC
and efforts are being made to secur,
to other Kentucky points rates from
Louisville for the week immediatel,
! following the celebration, to enabl
former Kentuckians who return HON
to visit the celebration, to visit ais
their old Kentucky homes.
| A GOOD INUESTMENr