Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1913-06-30
GREAT REUNION
AT GETTYSBURG
Veteran: of the North and
South Meet on the His
toriC Battlefield.
HEAT AFFECTS AGED MEN
Celebration Formally Opens
Tomorrow president Will
Make Address on July 4
HEAT AFFECTS AGED MEN
special by United Prsss Wsrs.

Gettysburg, June 80:-General
Demmit Young, of Louisville, COM
mander of the United Confederate
Veterans, arrived here today for the
Gettysburg anniversary which open
tomorrow. Accompanied by his staff
he was escorted to his headquarters
by a parade of Union and Confeder-
ate veterans.
The first formal function of the
celebration was held in the Confed-
crate headquarters this afternoon
when the survivors of General
Wheeler's division and of Duford's
Union cavalry gave a luncheon to
officials at Gettysburg and veteran
residents.
The announcement received here
that President Wilson will make an
address July has gladdened the
hearts of the thousands of warriors
now on the scene. On the spot where
fifty years ago they exchanged sho OTIS,
the veterans of the battle of Gettys-
burg, both the blue and the gray, are
shaking hands and Joining with each
other in making the final arrange
ments for the unprecedented reunion
of the historic forces on the battle
field July 1, 2, and 4.
The veterans all of whom are aged
and many in poor health, are suffering
greatly from the heat The sun has
been blazing here for days. The least
exertion produces exhaustion. A corps
of physicians and a hospital are In In
stant readiness for any emergency. 1t
te foo,
continue that there will be many pros
trations and perhaps some fatalities.
Army officers who have watched the
one time soldiers pouring into the
town declare the coming event will
pass into history as one Of the greatest
reunions that ever took place. The
magnitude of the undertaking would
be hard to comprehend, the officers
said, even If the encampment were for
the entertainment of men In the prime
of life. But the task before those In
charge is much greater, since the aver
age age of the veterans is seventy-two
years.
Physicians Ready.
While the veterans who itave arrived
were singing, cheering and marching
through the camp and the physicians
were preparing for possible battle
with another day of heat, Gettysburg
was taxed to the utmost by arrange
ments for receiving the throngs yet to
come. 1t will be no easy task for the
little borough of 1000 residents, as
hundred of persons besides the vet.
eran are arriving.
From all parts Of the country come
reports-some tragical. some comical-
of the departure Of veterans and 9TH
ers. Headed by s. M. Ralston, COVER
nor of Indiana. the delegation of 400
from that state started for Gettysburg
on special trains. The special trains
from Montana. the Dakotas and other
western states passed through Mime
sofa Just before the start Of the Min-
nesota delegation was made. Two hun
dred and forty-tive Missouri veterans
and about $50 from Michigan started
Saturday. Governor Foss and dele
CATION representing the legislature Of
Massachusetts are on their way.
One Of the tragedies reported was
from Rochester, N. Y, where William
H. Groescup Of Geneva, N. Y, vet
eran seventy years old, was killed Just
as he had completed arrangements for
hie trip to Gettysburg. Mr.. Groescup
was engineer at coal trestle and was
instructing the man who was to take
his place during the reunion when he
fell into a conveyer and was crushed
to death.
One thousand cooks arrived ready to
begin work.