The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1913-07-01
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burg and among the visitors during
the next four days will be President
Wilson and all of the members OF
his cabinet.
The President and Mrs. Wilson
and Governor Tener and Mrs. Tener
will be the guests of President and
Mrs. William Anthony Granville, OF
the Pennsylvania College at Gettys-
burg. Several of the buildings OF
this institution were used as hos
pitfalls during the great battle. Leases
Of land covering 249 acres have been
closed.
In tents on the campus are house1
the governors of the various States
with their stats.
One of the most interesting of the
Erterans present on the battlefield
is Colonel Charles Burrows, of New
Jersey, who is completely blind.
The tented villages in which the
veterans Of the armies OF Lee ana
Meade will live are on the govern
ment reservation, but on contiguous
tracts of private land rented for the
period of the reunion. These camps
comprise an area of 1913 acres, on
which, besides the tents that house
the veterans, there are 81 field hos
pital and infirmary tents, 80 bakery
tents, and numerous kitchen and
storage tents. The camps alone rep
resent monetary outlay, exclusive
CT ground rent, etc. of about $253,425
The equipment of the sleeping tents
for veterans includes $40 cots,
10000 blankets. 1000 wash basins.
| $50 burning lanterns, co.
900 wax candles, 5000 gallons iron
drinking water buckets. The total
weight of this equipment is 1,342,607
pounds, and the total value about
$226. The hauling of the tentage
and equipment, together with the
baggage of the veterans, to the camp
will entail an additional expenditure
Of about $4,000.
The kitchen outfits weigh 1854
pounds and the weight of the army
rations that the old veterans of Get
tvsburg are expected to consume in
the four days is about 100000
pounds. More than 10000 mess kits
will be necessary, and this means
10000 enameled plates and an equal
number Of knives, forks, tablespoons
teaspoons and cups.
The commissary department of the
camp consists OF one chief commits
sary, ten commissary clerks, 1900
cooks and cooks helpers, and 1870
bakers. Gen. Sharpe, commissary
general of the army, has figured that
the cost of the four days rations will
be IS 500; the wages of cooks, help
ers, and bakers, $27,930, while the
mess kits will add to this total about
$4,000 Add to this 1894 for one
field bakers, $l,0S4 for 400 army
ranges, and the railroad fares of the
commissary equipment and service
amounts to SIP, 1863.
In order to provide an adequate
water supply. the government has
expended at the Gettysburg camp
about $1,000. The lighting of the
streets of the tented camps will cos,
about $4,000, while the rakes, spades
bl ooms, garbage cans, and other
utensils in the proper sanitation o.
The camp will add still another item
CT abouts1.5O0.
In charge of this great work 0!
caring for the 10000 veterans of the
Blue is Major James +. Normoyle.
the Major JimmyA of the Mississippi
Valley and Dayton floods, the man
Who directed the relief of the suf
ferers in those great deluges, AM
VINO was, as WELL the controlling
ngure in the great Mexican border
mobilization of March, 1911, OF
whom it Is said. 'He can do moro