Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-01
VETERANS ON old
CAMPGROUND, But
TENTS NOT THERE
Warriors Sleep on Ground With
Sky for Cover, as in Bat
tie Days.
PEACE ARMY PASSES ALL
EXPECTATIONS IN NUMBERS
Accommodations Are Prom
ised-May Close Saloons as
Heat Prostration Precaution.

GETTYSBURG, Pa, July 1.-Despite
the strenuous efforts of the regular
army to do impossible things, thou
sands of veterans spent the night on
Gettysburg field with nothing between
them and the stars and their clothes
and their courage and nothing be-
tween them and the hard earth but
little more of the same thing.
1t wasn't the fault of the regulars
and 1t wasn't the fault of the vet
Grams. The railroads poured the thou
sands into Gettysburg the best they
could, but train after train that was
looked for early came crawling in
near midnight and afterwards.
They kept coming from that hour
until long after daybreak and shortly
after breakfast the rush began again.
Major Normoyle, of the quarter
masters department, u. S. A., who
has the pulse of the vast camp under
his fingers, went to bed not at all
and the little force of army officers
went no more than he. They toiled
with all the vigor in them to provide
blankets, to point out tents, to satisfy
the veterans that everything would
be all right this morning. They shift
ed trains. they tan engines, they
manipulated switches with the ease
of born railroad nien. They became
informed in bureaus and pack horses
but still the flood of men in blue and
in gray came pouring in and the tide
rose around them higher and higher
5000 More Than Expected.
| Major Normoyle declares today that
probably $4,000 veterans will be on the
| field by night. 5000 more than ever
have been looked for in the widest
dreams of the estimators. Although
half that number would fill the camr
in comfortable fashion, Major Nor
moyle said he would see that everyone
is taken care of; that nobody goes
hungry and blankets to warm aud
tents to protect are found for all.
In the rounds the regulars made OF
the main streets of the camp In the
/, early morning hours they ran into
many things that made them swear
While other veterans shivered in the
chill before the dawn they found a
Pennsylvania in his tent snug as a
bug in rug, lying on three blankets
with three under him and nine be-
meath his cot.
The Pennsylvanian was keeping
them for friends, he said, but the
hard-hearted regulars couldn't see
the friends and the Pennsylvania
was separated from all but two OF
| the blankets in short order.
/ nf ,,ie H.
around the fires near the cook tents,
| talking and trying to forget their
bones were not so young as they used
to be and that the ground was much
| harder than it was fifty years ago.
Nature Was Thoughtful.
| Although the railroads were not
| good 10 the veterans nature was
| thoughtful, and the usual cold breeze
| that springs up in the early morning
hours did not visit the camp. There
| was only a slight fall of dew and
practically no suffering.
| This was the first formal day of
| the semi-centennial celebration. AL
| though Buford and Wheeler had a
skirmish near Gettysburg fifty years
ago yesterday, it was on July l that
the battle began which forced the
union troops out of Gettysburg back
| toward Cemetery Ridge.
Colonel j. M. Schoonmaker. chair
man of the Pennsylvania Gettysburg
! Commission, was presiding officer for
today's meeting in the big tent, and
Secretary of War Garrison. Governor
Tener, of Pennsylvania; Commander
in-Chief Alfred B. Beers, of the G. A.
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