The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1913-06-30
BLUE AND GRAY BY
THOUSANDS FLOCK
TO TENTED CITY
Remnants Of Contending Armies
Gather at Gettysburg
MANY FRUSTRATED BY HEAT
Maine Veteran Dead from Sunstroke
and Several Hurt in TrolIy
Collision.

Gettysburg. Penn, June 30.-Get-
tysburg stepped so years backward
yesterday in the halo of history and
looked again upon the army of blue
and an army of gray meeting at her
doorstep to join in the semicenten-
NAL celebration of the greatest bat
tie of the war between the sections
and to show the world that scars
are not so deep as the feeling Of
American brotherhood From early
morning until long after shutdown
the veterans in blue and gray troop
ed into the little town which has
slept so peacefully among its hills
since Lee and Meade turned their
legions southwark long ago.
More than 80 special trains enter
ed the little village during the day
and thousands of veterans who
tramped up from the Shenandoah
valley on their last visit rode in the
luxury of soft-caked coaches from
Harrisburg, Baltimore and Washing
ton. Instead of the roar of guns, the
thunder of charging cavalry and the
vocal tributes OF the mule-drivers
that greeted them in the other days,
they walked or rode through the
quiet. calm Sunday of country
town. Only the flags flying from
every window. the city OF tents in
the distance and the crowds told
that Gettysburg had come out of
the usual into the extraordinary
once more.
From the station of the two rail-
roads that enter the village is a
good long mile to the camp of 5000
tents, where the veterans are hou-
sed. Many of them made the trip
by automobile or by carriage or
in the friendly shelter of a seeing
Gettysburg" car, but thousands
shouldered their suit cases and
walked. The sun was scorching hot
under cloudless sky and many
succumbed before they found their
tents. There was no complaining,
however. and the veterans seemed
ashamed to acknowledge that a
thing like heat could stop them.
Its hot" said one old soldier last
night, "but it isn't as hot as it was
so years ago.
The news that President Wilson is
going to make a speech July caus-
ed stir yesterday. J. NJ. Schoon-
maker chairman of the Gettysburg
commission, yesterday telegraphed
to the president informing him that
the committee would like him to get
to Gettysburg at ii o'clock July T.
He will stay there about two hours.
The first serious accident of the
celebration came yesterday, when
two trolly cars on the Gettysburg
railway company's line. which runs
over the battlefield, met in head-on
collision near the Devils den, one
of the historic spots. Six persons
were slightly injured, but none seri-
ously. John Collins OF Elmira, N. Y,
member of Edgar Fitch Grand
Army post of that city, was knocked
down by buggy near the intersec-
ton OF Washington and Chambers
burg streets in Gettysboro. At the
Pennsylvania state hospital the sur
geons had not determined whether
he is suffering from fractured skull
but said that his injuries are serious.
There were many heat prostrations
during the day. but the sufferers re-
vived under hospital treatment.
August ID. Brown of Livermore
Falls, Me-, was the first veteran to
die on the field. He was taken sud.
denly III late yesterday and died
Just as an army surgeon reached his
side. The heat probably FASTENED
his death.