The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-01-15

where cultivated farms already stretch !
ca Weli INTO the west, with their own
roads aud grain aud cattle and wagons
TO serve an arnly with: but the Vir-
ginia route had been selected (by in
trlguc Of gentlemen interested in the
ONO company. II was hiutcd) and must
needs be made the best OF.
There was there, at the least the
rough track Washington men bad cut
10 the Great Meadows. This must be
vidcncd and levelcd for an army With
Its cumbrou5 train of artillery. and its
endless procession Of wagons laden With
baggage and provisions. To take two
thousand men through the dcuse forests
with all the military trappinRs and SUP
plies of Enroneau army would be to
put. it might be, four miles Of its
rough trail between van and rear OF
the struggling line, and IL would nc
a clumsy enemy. as fighting went IN
the woods. VINO could not cut such
force into pieces-''likc thread az
Franklin said.
THE ADVANCE BEGINS.
The thing was to be attempted,
nevertheless, with stubborn British
resolution. Il was the 10th day OF May
before all the forces intended for the
march were finally collected at Fort
Cumberland. 2200 mon in all-l400
regulars, now the recruits were in;
nearly FIVE hundred Virginiaps, horse
and foot; two Independent companies
from New York; and small force OF
sailors from the transports TO Zig
tackle for tbe ordnance when there was
need on the rough way. And il was
the 10th OF Juno when the advance
| began, straight into that ''realm of
forests ancient as the world that lay
without limit upon all the western
WAYS
BRADDocK A MISCHIEF BREEDER
1t was thing of infinite difficulty
to get that numbering train through
tue tangled wilderness, and it kept the
temper Of the truculeDt Braddock very
hot TO see how it. PLAYED havoc with
every principle and practice of cam
paigniDg he had ever heard of. He
charged the colonists with an utter
want alike Of honor and honesty 20
have kept him so lohg awaiting the
TRANSPORTATION and supplies they had
promised. aud TO have 1oue so little
TO end with, and so drew Washington
roads and grain and cattle aud Wagons
into "frequept disputes, maintained
with warmth on both sides -; but the
difficulties Of the march presently
wrought a certain forest change upon
of his young Virgiuiap aide-thc only
man ~ all his company who could
speak out of knowledge in that wild
country.
o. the 10Th. at Washington ad-
vice, he took 1900 men and pressed
forward with lightened train to
quicker advance, leaving Colonel Dun
bar to bring up the rest OF the troops
with the baggage. Even the lightened
force halted "to level every mole-bill.
and to erect bridges over every
brook. - as Washington chafed to see.
and "were four days in getting twelve
miles; hut the pace was better than
before. and brought them at last al
most to their destination.
SURPRISED BY THE ENEMY.
On July 9. al about midday. they
Wadcd the shallow Monongahela. out
eight miles from DuQuesue, making u
brave show as the sun struck upon their
serried ranks, their bright uniforms. their
futteripg banners and their glitterlng
arms, and went straight into the rough
and shadowed forest path that led to the
French post
Upon q sudden there cauie a man
bounding along the path 70 meet them,
wearing the gorget OF B. French Officer
and the forest behind him swarmed with