The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1913-05-17
CALEDONIA PARK
SCENE OF FESTIVITIES
AT Election of Officers, DR.,
Joe w. Jackson Was
Chosen President

htSlHitHls itDoi AloHlpelIeE, II Ol Dtii
nington, NJ OF Burlington, 7 of North
field, and Z of Barre. the Philippine con
stabulary and the seth L. S. Infantry
were represented at Caledonia park yes
terday, when the Washington County
Spanish American War Veterans asso.
ciation observed the fifteenth anniver
sary Of the day when the Vermont regi.
Iment was mustered into the country
service in 1898. The reunion was sup
posed to start in the forenoon, but il
was noon before the forty or more vet
Grams had all assembled at the park.
While the rain was yet falling--it al
ways rains May l6, the veterans say,
the survivors of '9s gathered in the
park pavilion and proceeded to elect Off
GERS and complete other business.
4 The following officers were elected TO
serve during the ensuing year: 'Presi-
! dent, Dr. Joe w. Jackson of Barre; vice
presidents, I. G. Carswell of Bare, John
| l.. Greenwood of Northfeld. 0. d. Clark
and w. H. Sterling OF Montpelier; sec
\ retary A. G.. Eaton of Montpelier; treas
urer, George n Tilden of Barre. Provi
sons We're made for purchasing medals
to be awarded to contestants who may
excel in the annual games to be con-
Quoted at the Clan Gordon picnic dur
ing the coming summer and a commit
tee consisting OF Hugh Gillespie, Thomas
~ Mercer and Thomas G. Carswell was
appointed to confer with the clansmen
in regard to the disposition OF the med
ais The newly elected officers were
vested with the powers of committee
to make arrangements for the 1914 re-
union. Upon the committee will devolve
the responsibility Of deciding whether
next years affair will be held in the
Afternoon or evening.
At | o'clock substantial dinner was
served in the pavilion. The ration bill
included almost everything that never
aboundea at Chickamauga park back in
the days when the diners We're sleeping
on their arms in anticipation of the COM
ing struggle with the Spanish hosts.
Anyhow, the mlitiamen went to the
food supply with all the eagerness of
nien who are on the firing line every
day and by o'clock a large portion of /
the continuous lunch affair had vanished |
II was during the dinner hour that the |
toast to the absent comrades was given /
with all the ceremony accorded it at I
past reunions.
The Chiekamauga quartet. Karl For +
sell with his cornet, and Fred Eaton and I
Thomas Mercer playing guitars, also
pleasing numbers.
A Battle of the Diamond.
Lowering skies that had all day leaked
water. began to clarity long before the
hour for departure arrived and by 3
,'clock the picnickers were embroied in
'ombat Redoubtable captains, Fred c.
Eaton and Adolphus n. Congo. were
here with the war supplies and a short
over who had the best base-
ball aggregation was presently in
air way to be settled when Captain
Pop selected picked team of fence |
,usters to do battle with the cohorts of I
'aptain Bid"
Headed by Captain Eaton. the self {
tyled Chickamauga Pirates did a snake !
lance around the diamond while the
spanish Armada and its captain were t
citing into their T shirts in an adj i
dining thicket LINED up on the field. I
be Pirates looked something like this: c
eaton teaptainl right feld Wishart, t
itclar: Tilden. catcher; Mills, first a
ase; Boyce, left field; Carswell, short II
top; Cayhue. third base; Greenwood. 4
econd base Mercer, center field. y
Two minutes before the contest start J.
4. Captain Congo emerged from the "
nprovsed dressing room and made an il
eventh-hour announcement of his line G
p to the press stand back of first base. o
he captain chose to twirl and the 9TH Il
RS took positions as follows: Jackson, Il
ltcher; Pattee, first base; Gladding, n
lortstop; Spicer, second base; Ladd. l.
# field; Jillson, third base; Bailey It'll
inter- field; Hall, right field. BY MAJ il
lal agreement, Privates Hanson and
Iilne were detailed to the umpires' N
N and Pirate Town was entrusted with =
Ie rather responsible task of keeping Il
lly a,
Well. down at the park they used Il
get out on the greensward OF a sum II
er afternoon and play at war. the boys OF
v. Sometimes il was pretty strenu- {
Is for mock warfare and more than A
e youth came back from the front ia
the fall of '9S with the memory of a.
good bit of bruising and much fatigue 81
III abiding. Sham battles certainly al
are harsh. but to all accounts. that pa
tie brush of bats at Caledonia yes. lv,
rdav made the skirmishes al Chick de
,auga look less and less like the real th
ty-free merchandise in the lighting M
e. at
There was never moment when the tn
title wasn't thick Tls Armada and ( 1t
z freebooters didn't come together to ",
" lawn croquet, The score. did some vi
e ask! To tell the TRUTH most every vi
iy had forgotten that a duly appoint an
statistician had been keeping tabs TO
the performance, but after the. last fa
in had been tagged out long throw on
IN deep center in the sixteenth. the iam
ire keeper announced that victory had t..
hted on the starry banner of TIE Pi- ou
e squad Someone said il was only
a margin Of one point. but IL was ar
Iv a rTuor and as such. hard TO giy
ify. Both sides claimed the hon0rs pa
! il is understood that the Armada inl
der had called for a recount.
ieavy hitting was the order Of the