The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1913-08-01
CELEBRATION
IN LOUISVILLE
KENTUCKY METROPOLIS WILL
COMMEMORATE INCIDENTS
IN WAR OF 1912,
HUNDRED YEARS OF PEACE
Battles Which Kentuekians Won and
Massacres In Which They Suffered
VIII Be Reproduced IN Fireworks
and Shams on Land and Water.

A weeks celebration. which Louis
Williams declare will be the greatest
and most spectacular in the history
; of celebrations I'm America. viii be
held in the Kentucky metropolis toi
seven days, commencing september
20. and will be the climax OF a Sc
ries of celebrations held In a dozen
lake cities, to commemorate the SUI
ferings and victories of American
arms in the War Of 1912 as well aa
to focus attention on the achieve
ments Of a century Of peace. The
crucial and decisive engagement o,
the War of 1912 was the hattie of The
/ Thames, fought and won on Canadian
soil October ., 1873. Tine series o.
celebrations. which VIII be held In
America viii close IN Louisville Octo'
Der s. 1913. and jlst one hundred
years from the hour that Col Richard
! NJ. Johnston. aiterward Vice Prosiden.
of the United States. slew the Indian
chief Tccmnseh. President woodrow
Wilson will probably be addressing q
crowd Of 100000 people IN Louisville,
| the home of many OF the troops who
fought in the baltic OF The Thames.
/ Kentucky was assigned the CLOSING
and choice date Of the celebration
| because of the DISTINGUISHED part
played by the Kentuckians in the War
of 1912. Kentucky began to play hel
part in the generation before the wal
opened. when she sent Gen. George
Rogers Clark and other Louisville
soldiers into the hostile wilderness
when they wrested from the French
and indians ard out of which was aft
! erward carved the great States OF
Ohio. indiana. Illinois, Wisconsin and
Michigan.
Kentucky was the last state which
could have benefited from the war. iu.
asmuch as it was brought about chief
" by the British impressment o
American seamen, none OF whom
were Kenmckians. whereas should
war prevail the unfriendly Indians or
the frontier Of the border states could
be expected TO commit atrocities from
which Kentucky had already received
the name Dark and Bloody Ground.
However. Il was chiefly Henry Clay. in
the kentucky Congressional Delega.
ton that forced President Madison to
declare the second war with Great
Britain. aad Kentucky furnished for
" per cent Of her lighting population
to 20 into that war, and az the close
OF the war Of the listed dead more
than eighty per cent we're the names
OF Keutuckians. Kectucky troops TO
a nan were massacred az the River
Rasin ard again at he first attack
on Fort Meigs.
When the time cane 20 man Perry's
new-hewn ships. he elected Kentuck
fans unaccustomed 10 the motion O!
the lakes to mount INTO the insecure
rigging and from that vantage point
with their practiced eye and unerrins
aim. fired down upon the British and
won the battle of Lake Erie Prac
tically every officer and soldier in to
battle of the Thames was a Kentuek.
ian, excepting alone Gen. William
Henry Harrison, who, however. held
his commission as Major-General 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
tucky sharpshooters 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 actual battle will be
depicted in gorgeous entertainment |
OF fireworks and all morning and ALI
afternoon preceding the engagement
there will be boat races, life saving
feats and aquatic sports. A historical
pageant, depicting various scenes of
the war of 1872 will also include a
magnificent floral parade, such AZ
made Louisville famous a year ago.
and will include civic and military
parades many miles In length. Diills |
and exercises by 10000 costumoI
school children will be held in the
First Regiment Armory; mammo,h
reception win be given to the descend.
ents Of Kentucky soldiers and sailors
OF the war of 1912, and series os
costumed balls will be given in Their
honor
Exceedingly low railroad rates
probably as low as one cent per MIC
from distance Of several hundred
miles Of Louisville. will be granted
and efforts ara bofno nod A.