The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-07-01

ing with him, toi1ed all night. sparing no effort to meet the situation. Major Normoyle declared, today, that prob ably 55, 900 veterans will be on the field by night, 5000 more than had been looked for in the widest dreams of the estimators. Although half of that number would fill the camp com bl5S Major NormoyIe said he would see that every one is taken care of, that nobody goes hungry and that there were blankets and tents for all. Many of the men of '63 spent the night round the fires talking and try ing to forget that their bones were not so young as they used to be and that the ground is much harder. than it was 50 years ago. This was the first formal day of the semi centennial celebration AL though Buford and Wheeler had askir ! n1ish near Gettysburg 50 years ago, yesterday, it was on July 1 that the battle began that forced the union troops out of Gettysburg back toward Cemetery Ridge. Col. J. M. Schooh- maker. chairman of the Pennsylvania Gettysburg commission, was the pre- siding officer for today's meeting in fhe big tent and Secretary of War Garrison. Governor Tener of Pennsy1- vania, ofnu1ander-in-Chief Alfred B. Beers, of the Grand Army of the Re public, and Commander-in-Chief Ben nett H. Young. of the United Confed- crate Veterans, were listed as the principal speaker Oscar L. Sta1nm, of New York state, died during the nigzet of apoplexy
 The surgeons have been surprised at tbe stability shown by the veterans and by the fact that none of them has succumbed to the heat.
 There have been no real proetra- tfons,'' said Major Collins, of the med ica1 staff Many of the veterans have arrived exhausted or came here sick and topp1ed over after they got here. When you think that only a few score men in 50,oo0, all Of them nearly 70 years old, have been taken to the hospitals and that only four have died, it will seem that it is a remarkable record
 The army doctors and pr. Samuel Dixon,of the Pennsylvania state health department, today. continued their eff quor in the. town of Gettysburg.
 The Pennsylvania. state police may step in and see that everything pos- sible is done to relieve the situation
 One of the interesting incidents of the big reunion of the wearers of the blue and of the gray was the presen- tation, yesterday, of medals to the boy scouts who are assisting the vet erans at the big camp. The medals are similar to those worn by the vet erans. They were presented by Gen eraI Beers, commander-in-chief of the Grand Army
 In his address of welcome, Gov. Tener said in part:
 We are, today. on the greatest bat tlefield of the Civil War and Of the world, not to commemorate a victory but rather to emphasize the spirit of national brotherhood and national unity.
 we meet on this occasion to par tic1pate in a ceremony which is un- matched in all the records of time. Today soldiers of both armies gather as &Amerfcan citizens. They come from homes north and south, where through the influence of the fireside, at the school and church, they have helped to knit together all sections of our country in fraternaI cornra de- ship and perfect unity
 ''The great heart of the whole peo- pie of Pennsylvania goes out to you as honored guests of the nation and state.''