Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-05
Half of the $4,000 Will Have
Departed, It Is Expected,
by Tonight.
TOMORROW'S BREAKFAST
CAMPS LAST BIG MEAL
But Old Soldiers Will Be Fed by
Regulars as Long as They
Remain.

! GETTYSBURG. Pa. July 5.-Thou.
sands of veterans began their home.
ward march today after a last exchange
| of greetings with the new comrades
| they found here. Before night more
| than half Of the army Of $4,000 probabl,
| will have gone.
| Tomorrow the veterans will be given
| breakfast. the last meal in camp. Thai
| is what the army says. but those who
| have seen the kindness. the courtesy
that has been shown to the veterans by
these busy men throughout a trying week
know that they will be fed as long as
they stay here, If it's a month.
| Stands in Benediction.
| On the crest Of Cemetery Ridge, just
where the morning sun touches it with
golden fingers. stands the monument
| which New York has raised to her men
| who fought and died at Gettysburg. On
| the tip of a tall marble shaft is the
| heroic figure of a woman. In her right
hand is wreath, in her left, thin
staff crowned with liberty cap. Her
head is bowed as IL In grief, but that
long right arm with it's wreath of
brass shoots out straight toward Sem
mary Ridge. mile away. across the
fields. where Longstreet stood with
| bowed head watching 4ickett and his
| brave men make their futile charge
New York raised the statue to her
own dead, and beneath in half circle
are rows Of graves Of her men who
| little imagination to make that tall
column with it's speaking figure the
nodded voice Of the nation.
It takes but little touch Of the senti-
ment that has grasped every man who
| has come to the veterans camp to think
Of that outstretched' arm as lifted not
In sorrow. but in benediction Of an ever
silent tribute to the men who lived and
the men who died on this greatest bat
tlefield Of the war.
Farewell Of Veterans.
Down 100 yards, through the trees
around the statue. runs the Emmitsburg
| road. the main artery from Gettysburg
to the camp Over that road in the
heat Of a July sun the veterans of the
armies of Meade and Lee streamed to-
lifted out OF themselves by four days of
a reunion such as seems hardly possible
in any other country in the world.
Many veteran who passed over that
road today and many who have passed
before turned with streaming eyes to
catch last glimpse Of that long arm
with wreath as he trudged the dusty
road. 1t Is the first landmark that
StanOS nl&n enough 20 De seen on the
way to the battlefield and it is the last
as the town swallows up the road.
Leave Field to Memory.
The army tents probably will stand
here until next week. The regulars
will stay until the last veteran is gone.
Some time before the end of the month
the brown city will come down, the
larmy will go back to other tasks and
leave the field Of Gettysburg to memory.
DRY.
Only the paths that thousands of feet
have made through the grass and timo-
Cemetery Ridges with their spiked and
silent cannon, the observation towers
! that overlook the fields the monu-
ments that crown the hills and the
the story of the greatest reunion.
That 1t will live as long as life lasts
in the men who were here cannot be
doubted by the worst OF cynics. It's
influence would be hard to calculate,
| but II the old men who gathered
around its fires act as they acted here
| talk as they talked here the war be-
tween the states Is really over so far
| as those who fought in 1T are concern
ed. The unreconstructed "reb" and the
unforgiving "yank" will be hard to
find.
Efficient Work of the Army.
Gen. Hunter Liggett, in command OF
the Gettysburg camp. paid high tribute
today to Maj. ]. e. Normoyle, army
quartermaster, who has been it's guild
ing spirit He said:
ITO perfect organization and CO.
| ordination down to the last detail. to
| the conscientious devotion to their
| work on the part of all officers and en-
| listed men on duty here the success
| of the encampment is due.
"It may be observed that the sue
cessful handling and supply of a per-
sonnet the equivalent in number of
three army divisions has been quietly
accomplished by excellent system.
When one remembers that this per-
| sonnet is composed of men who aver
age seventy years Of age, coming from
all parts Of the country. and that the
mortality has been far below what
might be considered normal the re-
markable character of this great un-
Dies as He Starts Home.
H. H. Hodges of Union Hill, n. c.,
| died today at a station in Gettysburg
| as he was preparing to start for home
He was dressed in the gray of the
Confederacy. but although his ticket
gave his name. his regiment was not
| indicated.
The death of Hodges brought the