The Adair County news., 1913-09-10
CELEBRATION
IN LOUISVILLE.
KENTUCKY METROPOLIS WILL
COMMEMORATE INCIDENTS
IN WAR OF 1912.
HUNDRED YEARS OF PEACE
Battles Which kentuckians Won and
Massacres in Which They Suffered
Will Be Reproduced in Fireworks
and Shams on Land and Water.

Williams declare will be the greatestt
and most spectacular in the history
of celebrations in America, will bek
held in the Kentucky metropolis fork
seven days, commencing Septembers
20, and will be the climax of Sc
ries of celebrations held in a doZenk
lake cities, to commemorate the suf-k
ferings and victories OF Americanf
arms in the War of 1912 as well as !
to focus attention on the achieves
ments of a century of peace. Thet
crucial and decisive engagement oft
the War of 1912 was the battle of thek
Thames, fought and won on Canadianf
soil October 5, 1913. The series of !
celebrations, which will be held inI
America will close in Louisville, OctO- !
Der 3, 1913, and just one hundred
years from the hour that Col. Richard Z
NJ. Johnston, afteTward Vice President
of the United States, slew the Indiar1
chief Tecumseh, President Woodrow :
Wilson will probably be addressing al
crowd of 100000 people in Louisville,
the home of many of the troops who'd
fought in the battle of the Thames. e.
Kentucky was assigned the closing
and choice date Of the celebration
because of the distinguished par
played by the Kentuckians in the Wal
of 1872 Kentucky began to play her
part in the generation before the war
opened, when she sent Gen. George
Rogers Clark and other Louisville
soldiers into the hostile wilderness
which they wrested from the French
and Indians and out of which was aft
erward carved the great States Of
Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin ana
Michigan.
Kentucky was the last state which
could have benefited from the war, in
asmuch as it was brought about chief
ly By the British impTessment o.
American seamen, none of WHOM
were Kentuckians, whereas should
war prevail the unfriendly Indians or
the frontier of the border states could
be expected 70 commit atrocities from
which Kentucky had already received
the name Dark and Bloody GROUND"
However. it was chiefly Henry Clay, il
the Kentucky Congressional Delesa
ton that forced President Madison to
declare the second war with Great
Britain, and Kentucky furnished for
ty per cent of her fighting population
10 go into that war, and at the close
OF the war of the listed dead more
than eighty Ecr cent were the names
OF Kentuckians. Kentucky troops to
man were massacred at the River
Raisin and again at the first attack
on Fort Meigs.
When the time came to man Perry'S
new-hewn ships, he selected KertucE-
ians unaccustOmed to the motion OF
the lakes to mount into the insecure
rigging and from that vantage point
with their practiced eye and uneTTing
aim, fired down upon the British and
won the battle of Lake Erie. Prac-
tically every officer and soldier in the
battle of the Thames was q keutuck-
ian, excepting alone Gen. William
Henry Harrison, Who, however, held
his commission as Major-GeneraI from
the kentucky legislature. The cEarE=
of the FCrlorn Hope, about the b-jet
est, most terrible and most heroic at
tack narrated in the annals of war
fare. consisted exclusively of Ken
lucky soldiers when nineteen of therl
and their twenty horses went down
to certain death. 1t was the Ken
lucky sharpshOOters who are credited
with having won the battle OF New
Orleans after the war had in reality
closed.
Kentucky proposes to reproduce
most OF these scenes of the war of
1912 i'll the Louisville celebration. The
battle OF the Thames will be repro
duced on land in Cherokee Park, to-
geographically situated similar to the
land on which was fought the battle
OF the Thames, and every detail OF
the sham battle will be as nearly
historically correct as can be done.
Louisville will take advantage of her
magnificent river frontage in order
to celebrate suitably the battle OF
Lake Erie. The actual battle will be
depicted in gorgeous entertainment
of fireworks and all morning and ali
afternoon preceding the engagement
there will be boat races. life saving
feats and aquatic sports. A historical
pageant, depicting various scenes of
the war of 1912 will also include a
magnificent floral parade, such as
made Louisville famous a year ago,
and will include civic ard military
parades many miles in length. Drills
and exercises by 10000 costumes
school children will be held in the
First Regiment Armory; a mammoth
reception will be given TO the descend
ents of Kentucky soldiers and sailors
of the war of 1912, and a series OF
costumed balls will be given in their
homer.
Exceedingly low railroad rates
probably as low as one cent per mile
from a distance of several hundred
miles of Louisville. will be granted
and efforts are being made to secure
to other Kentucky points rates from
Louisville for the week Immediately
following the celebration, to enable,
former Kentuckians who return home
to visit the celebration, to visit also
| their old Kentucky homes.