Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-06-28

pleted and will be dedicated on the morn
ing of July 3. Gen. Wells was one of the
fion. in which Gen. Farnsworth lost MS
fife and the memorial contains bronze
bas-relief OF the famous charge
Gen. Sickles' Plans.
Word has been received from Gen
Daniel E Sickles that he Will not stay al
a hotel IN the town. but. with Chaplain
TwitchelI OF the Sd Corps. will have his
beadouarters at the site Of the Rogers
house. near where he lost MS leg In .he
hattie Here a large tent will be erected
nv Cars brigade and reunions Will pe
graced by the presence Of the old COM
mander. -, a,,,~.r.arv
c.mn yesterday the first Of verttable
s-n1y Of cooks who will be here for the
week. Today a special train from Pniia-
delphia will bring 800 more ana anotneI
New YORK There are to be 600 cooks and
2oO kitchen men IN the camp, all OF
whom must undergo physical e1anlna-
ton before being finally accepted
In a Frenzy Of Patriotism.
. woman last night stirred this town
into a frenzy of patriotism. She stood on
Mid songs. the war songs of north ana
south. An immense crowd assembled. II
uss composed OF veterans. regular army
-, ,,emhars of the state cons tabulary
and citizens of Gettysburg me hia,h
street Of the town was blocked and trarnc
was halted.
The crowd soon Joined in the choTuses
NJ Yankee Doodle, odd Black Joe'
nv old Kentucky Home" "Hurrah Tor
tha Red White and Blue" pixie ana
way Down Upon the Suwanee r.Isei
Then the woman, who had oeeh sinsiiis
steadily for three hours ieaulis 1ao 10
who were grouped below her' oesah -
sing The Star Spangled Banner.
Confederate Waves "Old Glory.
As she started the national hymn, old
Riu Page. one OF the Confederate soldiers
In Gettysburg burst through the cro"o
grouped in back of the woman. he hau
an American flag in his hand. As she
sang ne waved the flag. Every hat hao
taen DOTTED the instant she began Oh.
when the crowd caught sight OF the gray
uniform of Page and Sllmpsed at the hde
ne waved il went wild Hats were lhro VI
high in the air. cheers tumbled from 3,ooo
tbroats. and in an instant every voice
was lifted in the grand anthem :.
n was the first touch or the rlot VI
catriotism that will sweep this town from
T.. fae+ NEXT week The woman who |
cansad il all is Mrs. owen Evans Oh
CarbondaIe. She is here attending tne
convention of the Ladies OF the U. A; H.
Her father was not a soldier. but her love
for the veterans is so great 'nd' sno
attends all their meetings
Off for the Battlefield.
The advance guard of the civil war
veterans from Washington bound for
the greatest show of its KIND ever
staged. the celebration of the hfuetn
anniversary of the battle of Gettysburg.
will start to Gettysburg today ana
two hundred veterans are e&pecteo
TO take a special train for the camp
tomorrow. Two hundred more Will 20
Monday and by reville Monday night |
the entire quota of WaShingtonS share |
of civil war fighters will be sleeping
on army cots, while a summer SKY as
as canopy for an army OF old men VINO
slept on their arms almost on that very
spot half hundred years ago. ana some Oh
these old fellows will no DOUBT sIeep
side by side with the chaps VINO sent
bullets Swimming after them during the
three-day battle.
AS last warming the men who know |
about this celebration plead with the
world at large not to imagine that any |
one can run up to Gettysburg, get a. /
bed and bite to eat and treat Ihe
whole thing with as much nohchaIahce
as a trip to Alexandria /
Gettysburg is town of about three
thousand, isolated from the rest or the
world. and is reached by two single track
railroads which have scheduled so many |
specials that they refuse to put on one
more train
A Few Small Hotels.
Gettysburg has three or four small ho-
tells, several boarding houses, some Nv
cry stables and innumerable shops where
they sell mementos of the. battle OF
Gettysburg. 1t also possesses troupe
of shiny runners who grab the hand
bags of the traveller as he alights from
either of the two regular trains DAY.
But Mai. Normoyle, who is the stage
manager for this enormous event, mas IN
sisted that the excursion trains shall run
directlv into the middle of the veterans
camp Otherwise the army OF oiu SOL
tiers would find a two-mIe tramp aheaa |
of then-a tramp over what many say
lie the hottest, busiest road in the WorIu;
The livery stables of Gettysburg would
be swamped if their hacks had 70, 90
the business that would De oemahueu VI
them had not Maj. Normoyle insisted on
the railroads running line INTO Camp
Either Dust or Mud.
In camp will be found nice regular rows
or s,rea,s If the experience OF the vet
Grams Is the same as that of army men
wbo have camped there in maneuver
times. there will be three inches OF eie-
CANT PENNSYLVANIA dust all over the
Tlacs OF course, If it should happen 10
ain there would be mud instead or dust
Al thirty street intersections are pupole
fountains spouting forth water whlch
runs through pipes which nestle shusS
about packs or Ice
Railroad men think that a maximum,
of 10000 people a day VIII De oulipeu
into camp. There will be excursions
run 10 Gettysburg from every concelvaDie
point I'm a half dozen surrounding states
They will all go to the camp ana not one
Of them will find a bench-because there
are no benches There are no lawns to
sit upon for weary men and women with
their lunches of hard-boiled eggs and
homemade cake. 1t Is plain. skinned
to-the-bone military camp, without any
.nerry-go-rounds or nickel-in-the-slot de-
vices.
Confederate Veterans Going.
Nearly the total enrolment OF the Dis
trtct camp OF United Confederate Vet
Grams will go to Gettysburg from Wash
tnrton. The following members of the
camp have signified their intention Of 60
ing and will leave for the battlefield to-
morrow:
Thomas w Hungerford. commander;
John T Callaghan George A. Alexander,
Henry A. Herrell, Andrew ]. Barker Ga
brteI Edmonston, John $ Pearson. j. j.
CLEARWATER. ID. G. Grayson. Minter T.
Key, Joseph c. Lee, NJ B. Richmond
NJ s. Thompson. W. T. Thompson, Joseph
l. Parsons. Perry NJ. De Leon. Charles