The evening world., 1913-07-05
Veterans Wig-Wag Messages of
Joy From Round Top to
Manassas in War Code.
REVEl.RY ON LAST DAY.
Nightshirt Procession Precedes
Happy Fourth-Camp
Broken.
By Lindsav Denison.

Bv Ljndsav Denis0n.
sUsa9 Correspondent Of ne sweating
WoFld.)
BATTLEFIELD. GETTYSBURG,
"a July 6.-Ths livest memories
aero are those Of ffty years ago or
more. But . longer memory than
that II needed to reach back to the
memory OF such . reception %
Woodrow Wilson. President lof the
United States. had from the tag end
Of this celebration. There are here
men who have made . business Of
following Presidents for the last
thirty years. None Of them ever
cav anything like It. Prepared with
IN address which should have
thrilled every man and woman who
Asard It. Mr.. Wilson went nat.
Some say there was resentment amonR
NE I've thousand veterans In his audi
snes because he shifted In his original
acceptance OF the invitation to come
here. He said he would attend early In
the week: said he would not come;
then he came.
To one who went to the meeting ex-
pecting It to be the roaring climax OF q
hsart-bursting week the thing could
not bs accounted for by any such ex-
ylanstion. The President had not
sUoksn more than two hundred words
before dis face. the tone Of his voice and
his carriage showed that he felt the
haAnk chill all about him. The big
Wounded sentences rolled into vacancy.
People began to 80 out The President
hurried along che last sentences Of his
oDesoh and seemed to sigh with relief
when Il was done.
EVIDENCE OF STRAIN ON OLD
rs = MEN At REUNION.
There could b no stronger evidence
Of the strain which has rested on the
hearts OF the men who have been on
tbs aold for the last seven days.
TAe nth infantry band went swing
Ing out from the Federal camp at half
past o'clock Of tho Fourth. In the hall
light Of dawn. They played Dixie"
and Marching Through Georgia" "
From tent after tent came grizzled
men In nightshirts. pajamas or plain
underclothes and yelled and fell In line
and marched behind them. Old men
aad young, with their arms about each
other. danced on the grass Nothing
crazier than that band parade In the
dawn nght ever happened. Nobody
knows exactly why It happened. The
hand men say that they heard the
hand was ordered out and &C got up
end dressed and fell in" Nobody in
authority ordered them out"
II was daybreak Of July I after thu
greatest love feast In nineteen hundred
years and the band simply had spon
| taneous hysteria like everybody else
They walked straight as ramrods. grav'
As only . band musician can be grave
unmindfui OF the wild idiots who wer'
capering and yelling In whirling mul
utude. They came up through Lonl
Lane to the pla1a In front Of Gen. Liz
getts tent The General came boilini
cot In his pajamas. making q noise iik'
Q machine gun In action. Then he saw
what was going on and laughed an,
clspped his hands. The solemn bsnt
w"oeu H"u -
tns oe"e'a' anu e'e'' ''o' s'e VIC"
"se~ ~ oeu
tne 'res"e"' Tue oeo o'e'es Wv
no' msAe nu'" y. as Ss "'v'
or less @iter 'hey ~oNe w. IN .h
humo'e op"'oh VI NJ 700. o"e oos.,ve
parade which toy, all the edge OF o
Ar' wilson sp.een. VI, az ""S ~
u was t7s sPn" ""e" "~'
oy the oY.ore"H
The wofkihs OF tnis reunion mas pee
been beyond ahy'n'hs eNpec'ea' w
nave oeen taking tor Sears aoout ."
brotherhood OF tne h'ue a"o .he Ora.
In the iast four days 'hat 'a'k mas -
come true
The sener.i tlredness mas MT every
thing ana everybody except .ns un'.s .s
90, ,.sa,n1 ,ha healthy ,osd,nr raj
road trains and taking down tents a
thoush such proceedings as those sine