Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1913-07-01
old SOLDIERS
SWAMP The
CAMP
THOUSANDS ARRIVE AT GETTYSBURG
WHO CANNOT Be CARED FOR
ORDER NOW BEING ESTABLISHED,
ALTHOUGH MANY HAVE LEFT.
FORMAL CELEBRATION
STARTED TO-DAY

Gettysburg. Pa, July 1.--Despite ei
forts of the regular army to do i'm
possible things, thousands of veterans
, spent the night in Gettysburg fielt
with nothing between them and tht
{ stars but their clothing and thei
! courage and nothing between then
and the hard earth but a little more
|, of the same thing.
. 1T was not the fault of the regulars
and it was not the fault of the vete
rams. The railroads poured thousands
into Gettysburg as rapidly as they
could, but, train after train that was
looked for early in the evening came
lcrawling in near midnight and after
wards. They kept coming from that
hour until long after daybreak and
shortly after breakfast the rush began
again.
Major Normoyle, of the quartermas-
tiers department, who has the pulse
iof the vast camp under his fingers,
Gid not go to bed at all and his little
force of army officers kept him com
pany. They provided blankets. point
ed out tents, and did all they could
to satisfy the veterans that everything
would be all right this morning
This was the first formal day of
the semi-centinnial celebration Al.
though Buford and Wheeler had
skirmish near Gettysburg fifty years
ago yesterday. it was on July / that
the battle began which forced the
Union troops out of Gettysburg.
Colonel J. NJ. Schoonmaker chair
man of the Pennsylvania-Gettys burg
commission, was the presiding officer
| for today's meeting in the big tent,
and Secretary of War Garrison, Gov
ernor Tener and Commander in Chief
Alfred B. Beers, of the G. A. r., and
Commander in Chief General Benneth
Young of the United Confederate Vet
Grams, were listed as the principal
speakers.
The ofIicials OF the two railroads
movement of the trains to the camp
on the battlefield was proceeding with
regularity of clockwork today and that
less than a dozen trains are yet to ar
rive When these are in all the vete-
rams will have arrived
The rush OF veterans who are leav
ing after an experience of several
hours in camp is so great that special
trains are being made up for their |
Some Of them have !
become i'll because of the heat and !
lack of accommodations in the great |
camp. Others are Pennsylvanians
who had been here since last week, at
tending the annual encampment of the
Pennsylvania department of the G. A.
r. Less than 900 men are in the hos.
pital camp, most of them suffering
from intestinal complaints due to un-
cautious eating.
Fifteen thousand veterans Of the
war between the states sat in the heat
of the big tent on the Gettysburg bat
tie field today and joined in the cere.
monies of the first day of the semi
celebration. Doctors of
The regular army, the Pennsylvania
department of health and the Red
Cross looked with apprehension upon
the crowd, fearing that some of the
old and feeble men who jammed the
aisles, climbed over seats and tried
hard to look comfortable in tempera.
ture of more than 100 degrees, might
collapse.
Colonel J. NJ Schoomaker chairman
Of the Pennsylvania battle anniver.
sdry celebration commission. presid-
ed. Governor Tener of Pennsylvania,
the veterans and Secretary
of War Garrison followed with the
oration of the day. Then came ad
dresses by Judge Alfred B. Beers, of !
Conn, commander-in t
chief of the Grand Army of the Re. {
3ublc, and General Bennett H. Young, {
ii Kentucky, grand commander of the t
United Confederate Veterans. S
Alfred B. Beers, of Bridgeport,
Connecticut, commander in chief of |
he grand army of the republic, ad- |
lrmies of fifty years ago, pointed out 6
hat the history of the world holds c
10 record of "such spectacle as the c
meeting on the Gettysburg S
battlefield of those armed forces who L
lad fought against each other lc
He sketched the conflict "waged
~ men of the same race. of the same +
and the same endurance" /
md expressed thanks they could
meet now as citizens of one nation, r
all imbued with the same spirit;
Ill meeting as brothers" to assist in
aging the corner stone of stronger !,
md more enduring nation