The Clay City times. [volume] (Clay City, Ky.) 1901-current, 1913-08-07
CELEBRATION
N LOUISVILLE
KENTUCKY METROPOLIS WILL
COMMEMORATE INCIDENTS
IN WAR OF 1912.
KJ~Gnnll1 YEARS OF PEkCE
Battles Which kentuckians Won and
hassacres in Which They Suffered
viii Be Reproduced in Fireworks
and Shams on Land and Water.

weeks celebration, which Louis
Williams declare will be the greatest
and most spectacular in the history
of celebrations in America, will be
held in the Kentucky metropolis for
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 suf-
ferings and victories of American
arms in the War of 1912 as well as
to focus attention on the achieve
ments of century of peace. The
crucial and decisive engagement of
the War Of 1912 was the battle of the
Thames, fought and won on Canadian
SOL October >, 1918. The series of
celebrations, which will be held in
America will close in Louisville, Octo
Der 8. 1913, and just one hundred
years from tine hour that Col. Richard
Johnston, afterward Vice President
{. the Unitad States, slew the Indian
chief Tecumseh, President Woodrow
NSlson will probably be addressing a
crowd of 100000 people in 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 Kentuckians in the War
Of 1912. Kentucky began to play her
Tart in the generation before the war
C.eGed, when she sent Gen. George
J rgers Clark and other Louisville
soldiers into the hostile wilderness
which they wrested from the French
ga Indians and out of which was aft
ward carved the great States of
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin and
Michigan.
Kentucky Wa. the last state which
could have benefited from the war, in
asmuCh as 1t was brought about chief
ly by the British impressment OF
american seamen, none of whom
were Kentuckians, whereas should
war prevail the unfriendly Indians on
the frontier of the border states could
be expected to commit atrocities from
which Kentucky had already received
the name Lark and Bloody Ground"
! uwever, il was chiefly Henry Clay, in
l. Kentucky Congressional Delega-
an that forced President Madison to
declare the second war with Great
IL itain, and Kentucky furnished fer
ty per cent of Ter fighting population
t. go into that war, and at the close
&. the war of the listed dead more
tan eighty per cent were the names
OF Kentuckians. Kentucky troops to
a man were massacred at the River
Sin and again at the first attack
LL Fort Meigs.
When the time came to man Perry's |
n" hcwn ships, he selected Keutuck- !
fans uraccuEtCmed TO the motion OF |!
{, = lakes to mount into the insecure |
r"gug and from that vantage point, !
Y n their practiced eye and unen Ing /
n, fred down upon the British ana !
ven the hattie Of Lake Erie. Prac- ,
.!y every UiiCCr and solder In the /
! tie Oi lie ham2s was ken;uck-
ia, excepting a.Cae Gen. William
'nry llaisiaCn. who, however, held
.a Commission as NaiOr-Gene raj from .
e. he""IchY legislature. The charge
G. the FoI.oln Hope. about the brief
, uCst tenihle a.d most heroic at.
tack narrated IN the annals Of war.
I re. cons. I'd exclusively OF Ken
tucAy soldiers when nineteen OF III an
;,hd their twenty hoi ses went down
10 CERTAIN drI,h. 1t was TIE Ken.
t'C,.y shan psl oOters who are c;clitcG
Vtth having won the battle OF New
I.IeaUs after the war had in reality
closed.
Kentucky proposes to reproduce
ost % these scenes OF the war OF
J 2 ju' The Louisville celebration. The
Hattie OF the 7 names will be repl 0.
duced on laGd in Cherokee Park. to-
poSraohically situated similar to the
land on which was fought tie 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 orde'
10 Ce.eL, ate suitably the battle of
Lake File The actual battle viii be
depicted in q gorgeous entertainment
OF fireworks ana all morning and all
afternoon preceding the engagement
there will be boat races, life saving
feats a.d aquatic sports. A historical
pageant. depicting various scenes OF
the war OF 1912 will also include a
magnificent floral parade, such as
made Louisville famous a year ago.
and will include civic and military
parades many miles in length. Drills