The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1913-06-06
THE GETTYSBURG REUNION
Useful Information Concerning the
Great Gathering of the Blue and
Gray in July.


Great Gathering of the Blue and
Gray in July.
The government and the state of
Pennsylvania assumes the role of
host to over $4,000 veterans of the
Union and Confederate armies, and
from June 2S until Monday morn
ing, July z, this great army will be
Hospitality entertained without
charge to the veteran.
Every care will be taken for his
comfort and health, for it is realized
that the veteran, with SO years
added to those of his youthful days,
is not in such a physical condition
as to enable him to withstand the
discomforts of rough camp life.
SO the government will be most
careful in the establishment of the
great camp and the perfecting of its
details.
The arrangements are in charge
of two of the most experienced men
In the quartermaster's department
of the United States army.
Great avenues in the camp will
be lined upon each side with wall
tents, in each of which will be plac-
ed eight cots, supplied with blank
cts. The avenues will be lighted by
500 75-candle power tungsten
lamps. The mind becomes bewild-
cred when endeavoring to absorb
the details of this wonderful city Of
week as they will be when com
pleted. There will be 5000 tents,
$4,000 cots and blankets, $4,000
tin wash basins, 1900 candle
burning lanterns, $4,000 wax can
dies, 1000 galvanized iron buckets
rsr ytY,ey xayo ot<r Il
O00mess kits.
This means 10000 enameled
plates, $4,000 cups, $4,000 spoons.
$4,000 knives and $4,000 folks
These kits alone cost the govern
ment $4,000; and the veterans will
be permitted to retain them as
souvenirs of the celebration. In all
probability they will also be given
the blankets which will be furnish
ed to each cot.
FEEDING GREAT GATHERING.
There will be 400 great army
cooking ranges and outfits, one chief
commissary, four assistant commits
saries, 10 commissary sergeants,
four commissary clerks, 500 cooks.
500 assistant cooks and 1870 bakers.
There will be used nearly one and a
half million pounds of food of var
ious kinds, consisting of meats,
cereals, vegetables and bread
coffee and tea. The estimated cost
is 80 cents for each ration.
There will be established one
great general hospital outside OF the
camp. Within will be located 81
field hospitals and infirmary tents,
with 13O army surgeons and nurses.
"A full ambulance corps will be on
@duty and every attention paid to
those who may require aid
Three artesian wells are now be-
Sing driven to supply 100000 gal
Ions of pure water to the camp
daily.
The veterans will be brought on
their trains directly into the camp
and detrain upon the platforms
which will be erected.
Within the camp limits will be a
temporary railroad station, an ex-
press office, telegraph and telephone
station, newspaper and stationery
store, postoffice and a store where
supplies of tobacco, pipes, ETC., may
be obtained. In fact, it will be a
model city of convenience for one
week.
The camp, town and surroundings
Will be policed by the state of Penn
There will not be admitted dur
ing the time of the celebration to
the government reservation any au-
tomobiles or vehicles of any descrip-
tion, except the army auto ambu-
lances, quartermasters' trucks and
a few horse-drawn carriages to
transport such veterans as are
physically incapacitated from walk
ing over the battlefield. These car
riages will be under the severest re-
strictions as regards their use.
RAILROAD RATES.
The railroads south of the Poto-
mac and Ohio rivers and east of the
Mississippi have granted a rate of
one cent per mile travelled as far
as Washington. The railroads of
the South, west of the Mississippi
river. are expected to make at their
meeting the same rate. From Wash
ton to Gettysburg and return, the
rate as now fixed is SIS, but ii is ex-
pected that much lower rate will
be secured and announced later