New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-05
SaIuteS for President and the
United States, Rarely Given
Together, Stir Echoes
at Gettysburg.
BATTLES DEAD H0N0RED
Old Soldiers Stand at Attention
While Guns Boom and All
Flags Drop to Half Mast
- Great Camp
Breaking UP.

TFrom 9tan Correspondent Of The Tribune
Gettysburg, Penn, July 4.-The camp
reverberated to-day to two salutes
rare enough by themselves. but doubly
rare together. that of twenty-one guns
to the President of the United States
and that Of forty-eight guns to the
United States itself. While the latter
doomed every regular in camp and
vast number of the old soldiers stood
rigidly at attention for five minutes in
honor Of those who had died for their
country. All flags on the battlefield
went to halfmast for the same period.
II was after President Wilson had
spoken in the big tent TO huge as
sembiage of veterans and visitors. The
President spent almost exactly an hour
and a quarter on the field. He made
as little fuss as possible in arriving,
delivered his speech from a manuscript
which he held in his hand and departed
Immediately afterward.
His special car had been stopped just
outside the big tent on the Reading
track He disappeared into its inte-
rior and was gone almost before this
remarkable community knew he had
honored il with his presence. Every
one liked his speech, but the tnthusi-
asm il produced was tempered by the
reflection it called forth.
General Lissett serenaded.
The veterans of the Massachusetts,
camp preceded by their band from
Norwood Mass, marched over 10 camp
headquarters tonight to repeat the
performance of the Nirginians ;he
evening before. They encamped III
front of General Liggetts tent snd
serenaded the general, Major Normoyle
and the staff officers Of the encamp-
ment as an expression of their appre-
citation of the unexampled hospitality
accorded them during the three-uay
anniversary. The camp is alive TO-
night with the music of bands and of
ancient fife and drum corps. The fire.
works came last night and were ex-
ploded from Little Round Top.
The sane Fourth" came tonight,
exemplifed by music stirring the
hearts of this community Of hardy old
fighters. over on the Confederate side
in the shade of Spangler's Woods. the
Richmond band. which the Virginians
have kept busy. stirred the old Con-
federates to action. Dixie" punctu-
ated by the rebel yell; Turkey in the
Straw" The Arkansaw Traveller and
other moth-eaten favorites teased the
veterans Of the Gray into a round OF
light fantastic which came near put
ting some Of them out OF business.
Couldn't Make Feet, Behave.
A. j. Smith, who is seventy-two years
Of age. Jus couldn't make his feet
behave" He essayed the pigeon
wing" but while in the very throes Of
this terpsichorean masterpiece there
appeared a competitor. and Yankee.
at that-John w. Slebbins. Of the 9th
New York Cavalry, stepped up 10
challenge his ancient enemy. The two
kept II up until the band became ex-
hausted, and then Miss Althea Knick-
erbocker, OF San Francisco, who had
been looking on, decided that each
should have a prize.
In the mean time the camp was
, alive with departing veterans. First
they lined up before the commissary
tents to return their blankets. Then
they returned for their bags and cases
and proceeded to the camp or to the
village station 10 climb aboard their
respective trains. Rebel and Yankee,
Northern comrades and Southern COM
rades, exchanged many final hand
shake during this the melancholy
breaking up Of a great reunion and
Continued on third mage, fourth column.