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THE WEATHER
Fair, warmer tomorrow;
showers at night or Sat 'day
VOL. 49 NO- 157
BRIDGEPORT, CONN., THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1913
PRICE TWO CENTS
DR. M'LELLAH'S HOT
WEATHER HINTS TO
YOUNG MOTHERS
Bridgeport's Health Officer GivesJ
Useful "Don't" to the
Farmer Readers
DON'TS FOR MOTHERS
(By Health Office' E. A. McLellan)
0OVT clothe too heavily.
IX NT allow out in the hot sun.'
DON'T (rive them any tout the best
milk.
DOXT give them any other kind ol
food.
DONT give them beer or any other
kind of liquor.
BOVT lea-re them In carriages or
asleep without fly protection.
GIVE IHtlM every comfort that can
be secured and numerous hatha
to offset the heat.
These are general health rules to
day promulgated by Health Officer E
A McLelian. for mothers' care of in
fants during the heated spell. That
a, large percentage of the intestinal
troubles which afflict the little tots
are due primarily to lack of proper
care and' the lighting of flies upon
sleeping Infants is the belief of that
official. Heat attacks may easily oe
mitigated by the frequent washing of
children. Nothing but the oest mHK
should be fed them during extremely
hot weather, and under no circum
stances should the practice of some
foreign speaking people giving, their
offspring beer and wines he continued.
They should not be given such food as
older people are able to eat at table.
When the. children are permitted to
sleep in their carriages out-doors the
greatest care should be taken that a
light covering of mosquito netting bo
placed over them, as flies In search of
drink light upon the mouth and nose
and have been proven to thus distri
bute germs which are afterward taken
Into the system.
Regularity of feeding should be
practiced and the rule is given that
It is better to err on the side of too
little than feed too much.
All householders are especially
urged by the Health Department to
ee that their garbage is removed
daily, and that covers are replaced
after the cans have been emptied. By
attending to this feature flies will not
s be as thickly attracted to the neigh
borhood as would otherwise result.
SERVIA WILL
DECLARE WAR
ON BULGARIA
london, July S War Is to be de
clared by Servia against Bulgaria at
iTTskup, for which place King Peter
jnd Premier Pachltcb departed from
! Belgrade, this morning, according to
the Exchange Telegraph company.
The proclamation' will state that Ser
via has "been provoked by Bulgaria
I to declare war.
Salonika, July S The battle between
the Greek and Bulgarian troops, which
began on Wednesday, resulted in a
complete victory for the Greeks, ac
cording to official reports. The Greek
artillery silenced the Bulgarian guns
and the Greek Infantry then pierced
the Bulgarian lines at Daudll. The
Bulgarian troops were eventually driv
en away from the plain of Kilkiah.
Belgrade. July 3 Servian reports of
I the fighting on Tuesday between the
Bulgarian and , tbe Servian armies
I state that the Bulgarians abandoned
L eeveral entire batteries of field guns.
many rifles and much ammunition.
One thousand Bulgarian prisoners
are said to have been taken by the
t Servians who declare that the Bul-
igarlans lost 800 dead and 1,800 wound
led. Geneva. Switzerland, July 3 The
i casualties, during the fighting in Mace
, donla between the Servians and Bul
I garlans and the Greeks and Bulgar
ians, bave been much heavier than
the published figures would Indicate,
J according to the Servian Red CroBs
I -society, which telegraphed today, to
',the Swiss Bed Cross society asking
' It to dispatch doctors and nurses to
i the scene of hotilitie. The telegram
Stated that 3,000 wounded had been al
ready brought from the front and that
fighting continued.
MOVIES MAY BRING
TOT OF FIVE TO
LONGING MOTHER
Ban Francisco, July 3 The "mov
ies' may be Instrumental in restoring
Olga Elite, five years old, to the moth
er from whom she was taken in Re
vere, Mass., and brought to Califor
nia. For six months the police of
Boston have sought John Ellis, of Re
vere, who is said to have left that
city with his daughter after the court
bad awarded her to the care of her
mother, Mrs. Harriet C. Eills.
A school teacher of Berkeley, Cal.,
became Interested In the case and gave
a picture of the child and the moth
' er's address to a moving picture con
cern who showed it In San Francis
co. A housekeeper In a hotel here
saw the mother's appeal at a moving
pirture theatre recently and recog
? rlsed the little girl as one who had
1 stayed at the hotel with her father
: for several weeks. He had register
el she said, as D. Delisle and had
rn to Eureka, Cal.
The housekeeper, Mrs. Palmer, notl
j Ted the police and search for the man
j and cit!d has been Instituted in Eure
! lui.
BIRMINGHAM
WITH SEVERE RELAPSE
Veteran Head of Police Department Is In
. Critical Condition-Last Rites of Church
Administered Shortly After Midnight
- Eugene Birmingham, veteran head
of the police department, beloved alike
by civilians and his subordinates, is
in a critical condition at his home in
Washington avenue this afternoon.
He wasstricken last evening with a
severe relapse and his condition grad
ually grew so bad during the night,
that at 2 o'clock this morning a priest
was summoned from St. Auguetine"B
rectory to administer the last rites
of the Catholic church.
Superintendent Birmingham's con
dition several weeks ago was such as
to cause considerable apprehension,
but the misgivings of his legion of
friends were dissipated by his sturdy
rally. ' Only Tuesday he ventured out
"NET CONTAINER LAW"
CASES IN CITY COURT
First Step Taken Towards Threatened Pro
secution oj l Large Packing Interests
Case Is Continued for Further
Argument v
The first step towards the prosecu
tion of large packers and distributors
of meats and groceries under the "Net
Container Law" . in' Bridgeport, and
which- may result In -a., stubborn fight
by the larger packers throughout the
country was begun In the city court
before Judge JFrankj .1 Wilder,Jthis
morning. . ""
The case . in question -was , that of
Charles Brinkerhoff, of New Canaan,
Conn., charged by Sealer Dennis
Kelly with having sold on'jone lft,. to
the Village Stores Co., of Bridgeport,
through hie employers, .-perry '&
Barnes of New Haven, 6 pieces of
Swift's Premium bacon billed at 53
pounds, but which actually weighed
51 pounds net when stripped of their
wrappings and strings.
' Kelly testified that on the date in
question In the presence of George W.
Smith, manager of the Village Farms
store, and Salesman Brinkerhoff. he
had - opened a. consignment of bacon
and found a bill from Sperry, &
Barnes calling for 63 pounds. In the
presence of the witnesses tie had strip
ped the wrappings which bore not net
weighty stamped theyeon, as required
by law, and found the net contents to
be but 51 pounds. There "were two
pounds of paper and string. ' He had
had many similar Vcomplaints from
dealers here and in consequence had
arrested Brinkerhoff, (charging him
with two technical violations. The
first count charges a. violation of Sec
tion 1, chapter 134, of the public acts
of 1911 that no person shall sell food
in package form unless the contents
are plainly stamped thereon. The
second count alleges a violation of
Section 7, Chapter 280, of the same
acts which prohibits a person selling
less than the quantity . specified.
George Smith testified that he had
ordered 50 pounds of bacon and had
accepted the goods as Is customarily
done here. He had not specified that
the goods should 'be sold by net weight
but believed he had formerly been in
formed that he could not secure oth
erwise than in the wrappers. He iden
tified the wrappers taken from the
Swift bacon which bore no net weights i
LYNCH SUSPENDS
M'GRAW; GIVES
BRENNAN A FINE
New York, .July 3.- President
Lynch, of the National League, an
nounced, today, that he had suspend
ed John J. McGraw, manager of the
New York Giants and Pitcher Bren
nan, of the Philadelphia club, for a
period of five days as a result of a
fight on June 30. In addition Bren
nan is fined $100. The suspended
players will be eligible for active duty
again on Wednesday, July 9.
President Lynch took this action
after a personal investigation of the
affair. He said, today the evidence
showed conclusively that both players
were in violation of the rules in that
they indulged in personalities during
the game and that the feeling roused
thereby was the direct cause of the
happenings when the players were
leaving the field.
STAN KEY'S HOTEL
FURNISHINGS GO
UNDER HAMMER
Otto Stankey for a. number of years
a famaliar figure in tne xenaerloin
In Bridgeport has passed from the
scene of his former activities and yes
terday an auction sale of the furnish
ings in the State Hotel at 90 State
street, marked the passing of the re
STRICKEN
of his house and was driven to police
headquarters where he was warmly
greeted during his brief visit.
Superintendent Birmingham has
been suffering from a complication ol
ailments. Always noted for his physi.
cal strength, from the time two score
years ago that he became a patrol
man on the Bridgeport Police force,
he knew little of what It was to be
til, until a few weeks ago.
Only recently the police commis
sioners voted him a long vacation in
the hope that, rallying from his ill
ness, he might seek a change of en
vironment and thus recuperate.
The condition of Superintendent
Birmingham late this afternoon waa
far from encouraging.
thereon, but failed to remember hav
ing seen', a . letter placed in : evidence
from the Sperry & Barnes concern no
tifying him that bacon was shipped in
package form.
Attorney Ralph Beers for the de
fense played, John, R. WoodhuHa well
known local provision dealer upon the
stand who testified .that it was cus
tomary la Bridgeport; to accept the
weights rendered, by, the packing com
panies, and in turn sell; the product
to. their customers upon such weights.
Without , taking into consideration the
weight of the .paper which was Includ
ed. - Cross-examined by Assistant
Prosecuting Attorney Gray, Woodhull
admitted that it would have made no
Cif f erence whether the wrappings
weighed 2 ounces or 2 pounds, the cus
tomer would be charged in the same
manner. ' t
'H. F. Potter, State Dairy and Food
Commissioner, : placed upon . the wit
ness stand,' asserted that under the
act he and the Director of the State
Experiment station. had been delegated
to make rules and regulations, but
that no ruling had as yet - been made
as to paper wrappings, though -such
had Been made in the case of bacon
shipped in glass."
The matter had not as i yet come
up to him upon complaint though In
private conversations with representa
tives of the larger packing companies
and the attorney ( general the opinion
had been expressed that food sold In
packages and usually : -containing a
specific net weight would not he con
strued a violation of the net container
law. Objection to his Jurisdiction
m -interpreting the law was sustain
ed.' ,
Evidence of three representatives of
the big packing industries present to
state that their firms did not con
sider the act a violation of the law
was accepted by consent. Wrappers of
hams and bacons by other packers,
containing net amount statements
were accepted In evidence.
Decision was reserved until briefs
could be filed by the state and de
fense and a continuance granted until
July 12. '
sort which Stankey conducted so long.
The-sale of the furniture and bar fix
tures at this resort yesterday drew -a
curious crowd of habitues of the Ten
derloin among them a. large number
of the so-called "old timers."
It is said there were bargains ga
lore in the furnishings of the place.
Thirteen arm chairs which cost $3.50
each,' sold for $3 for the lot. Tha
massive clock which for years before
it came into the possession of Staa
ksy, hung In the Odd Belmont hotel,
was bought by one man for $20 and
sold ' by him for $30 before he had re
moved it from the wall. It is said
that the owners of the property will
remodel the upper floors for flat apart
ments and the ground floor whe.-e
Stankey's saloon was located will be
fen-td to a wholesale produce firm.
&-8r.key was obliged to go out ol
business when the county commis
sioners refused to grant a renewal of
ii's liquor license on the ground that
he was an unfit person to have a li
cense and the Superior court - upheld
the decision of the commissioners.
BENCH WARRANTS FOR
ALLEGED MURDERERS
New. Haven, July .. 3-rThere was a
strong probability, it was learned, this
morning, that Mrs. Bessie Wakefield,
of Bristol, and. James Plow nt vrtri-
dlebury, might be brought before the
superior - court, some time during the
day on bench warrants, on the allega
tion of having caused the death of
the woman's husband. William Wnt.
field. Both prisoners are taking things
calmly at the county Jail, where they
were locked up, Tuesday night, on their
arrival here from Bristol and Middle
bury following the woman's confes
sion, to the Bristol police that she and
Plew had planned to sret rid of Wake
field.
BRIDGEPORT MEN WHO WERE
HEROES OF THE FIGHT THE
LAST DAY AT GETTYSBURG
To day on Page 9 we repro
duce from, tile Republican. lTar
mer of fifty years ago the story
of the last days, at Gettysburg
just as the war correspondent
saw it. The news flashed to
Bridgeport, that Lee's advance
invasion of the north had been
checked, his army defeated and
turned hack once more toward
the south, caused great rejoic
ing here. At points on that Held
where history was made that
day, men from Bridgeport took
a prominent part in the making
process.
In tiie battles of the two prev
ious days Lee having unsuccess
fully tried to turn on Meade's
right and left flanks now deter
mined to try the center and to
make a daring, smashing assault
on the whole front In hope that
he might break through at
some point and sweep the Union
army from its position
Cemetery hill was now the
key to the Union position. On
this eminence was the local
burying ground, its entrance s " -huge
arch of brick visible for
miles around. . Near this gate
there stood during the battle
this sign:
"All persons using firearms in
these grounds will be prosecut
ed with the utmost rigor of the
law."
Many a soldier must have
smiled grimly at these words
for this gateway became the
very center of the most cruel
use of firearms yet seen on this
continent. One , hundred and
twenty Confederate cannon were
turned against it on that last
afternoon. .
Shortly before noon on July
3rd the Confederates directed at
the Union line a terrific can
nonade from 159 guns. From
about 80 available cannon
Meade's men replied and for
two hours the hills fairly shook
with the awful thunder and np
roarr Sometime before the Con-
federate fire slackened, tbe Uv.
ion gunnei-s were ordered to
cease, firing and reserve their
ammunition for the infantry
charge which Meade knew was '
certain to corns.
Then the Confederate fire .
. ceased and then came Pickett's
charge. The - Marshal Ney of
Gettysburg was a slender, dap
per man with, long black ; hair v
and a waist like a woman. He
looked more like a dancing
master than a soldier but from
an obscure officer he had arisen .
by sheer merit to the command
of a division. His . division all
Virginians had been swelled to
more than 14,000 men by the
addition of North Carolina and
Tennessee troops. Some, had no
uniforms, some were even with
out coats or shoes but all had
guns and knew how to use them
and finer infantry soldiers never
followed any flag.
Up .to the very guns on Ceme
tery hill Pickett led them. Gen
eral L. A. Armistead, in the cen
. ter, Ids cap on the point of his
sword like the Helmet of Na- .
varre, : leaped the 'wall into
Cushlngs battery. Placing his
hand on a gun he called out
"This battery is ours." Then he
fell dying beside Cashing, -the
gallant Union commander of
those guns. Into the lines at
this point the Confederates
penetrated about 100 yards.
Part of the . Union infantry
support who faced them at this
point was the 42nd New York
regiment. Its color hearer was
Michael Cuddy, brother of Pat
rick Cuddy, one of the personal
tax collectors of Bridgeport. In
1861 at the outbreak of the
war Michael Cuddy went to
New York and enlisted. Here
he was at Gettysburg. As Armi
: stead and bis men mounted the
wall, Michael Cuddy waving his
flag with his comrades ad
vanced to meet the Confeder
ates. Pickett's men shot him
down. Mortally wounded he
arose once more to wave the
flag and then .fell dead the col
ors wrapped around , him like a
shroud. . i
Then the men of the 14th
Conn, on the left poured in a
fierce enfilading fire and the
little group .of Confederates
were shot down or made prison
ers. White this had been tak
ing place Sergt.-Major William
B.Hincks of Bridgeport, sword
in hand, had leaped the wall
and gone into the Confederate
line and captured the flag of p.
Tennessee regiment. The 14th
Conn, took five Confederate bat
tle flags that day.
These are but a. few of the
stirring events which transpired
In that part of the field. By
night the cemetery was a
slaughter field. On Nov. 19 of
the same year this cemetery and
a large portion of the fields sur
rounding it was made a national
cemetery for the burial of those
who fell at Gettysburg. Here
at its dedication President Lin
coln made Iris Immortal Gettys
burg address.
The news of the last day at
Gettysburg as reported by an
eve witness was published in
The Farmier fifty years ago. You
can read the story tonight as
perhaps your mother, your dad
dy or some one else who was
near and dear to you. read It
In the long, long ago. when they
eagerly watched for news of the
one who was there whom they
loved.
St. Johns. N. F., July 3. The
steamer Manchester Port, bound from
Montreal for Manchester, with a gen
eral cargo and a deckload of lumber,
put in here,today, with her coal bunk
ers; afire, r The bunkers were flooded
and the steamer will be able to pro
"ed soon.
LABOR LEADER
SENTENCED TO
STATES PRISON
to Addition to Sentence Patrick
Quintan i. W. W. Chief
v
Must Pay $500 Fin
13
Paterson, July 3 Patrick Quinlan, a
leader of the Industrial Workers of
the World, was sentenced, today, to
serve not less , than two years nor
more than, seven years in state's pris
on and to pay a fine of $500. He was
convicted recently of inciting riot
among the striking silk mill workers.
Up to 11:30 o'clock; this morning, the
jury in the case of Elizabeth Gurley
Flynn, tried on a similar charge, had
reported no agreement.
JACKSON SELLS
HIS BOOK SHOP
l
It Was One of the Business
Land Marks of Main
Street
It was learned today that Horace
H. Jackson had sold his bookstore at
986-988 Main street to a Western firm.
Mr. Jackson could not he located when
an effort was made to learn the names
of the new owners but it is said that
one of the new proprietors is Mr.
Chamberlain. The new firm has al
ready taken possession.
The news of the sale will be learn
ed with great surprise in mercantile
circles for the Jackson store has been,
a landmark in Main street for the
past 30 years. Mr. Jackson started his
business career as a clerk for the late
James Youngs who kept a book store
a few doors north from' the present
location. --.
The young salesman was so energetic
that.; when the business grew he was
taken as a partner and the firm was
known as Youngs & Jackson. This
became the headquarters for school
books and many business men of the
present day recall when they bought
their echoolbooks there. When Mr.
Youngs found himself in ill-health he
decided to retire from active charge
iis.nd Mr. Jackson took, charge of the
store. .. Later he took over " the busi
ness. . v" - .'.
A few years ago he moved from his
store . and moved two doors south
where the business has since been lo
cated. A formal announcement of the
sale will be made Saturday by the new
own ens.
STRAW HATS MAKE
MERRY BLAZE III
SAGAL BUILDING
Police Investigating Origin
of Mysterious Fire In
Fairfield Avenue Store
Fire, the origin of which the police
have not yet been able to find out.
destroyed the stock of hats and caps
of Jack Lackman in '.'Jack's Hat
Store" at No. 17 Fairfield avenue
shortly before 7 o'clock this morning.
The fire gained rapid headway in the
stock of straw hats and those hats
which were not entirely consumed in
the blaze were damaged by smoke and
water.- .
It was a.t 6:45 o'clock that the fire
was discovered In the store and an
alarm turned in from box 315. The
apparatus responded and although the
fire was burning briskly in the rear of
the store in a very few minutes the
firemen had the blaze under control,
confining it entirely to the store in
which it started. " '
"Jack's Hat Store" is located in the
middle of the Sagal block in Fairfield
avenue, and if the fire had not occur
red at a time when the streets were
pretty well filled with people and
therefore discovered before it had got
ten much of a start, a serious con
flagration might have been the result.
As it was, the stock was damaged to
the extent of at least $600 and the
woodwork and wall3 of the store were
also badly damaged by the smoke and
heat.
There are some . points about the
fire and its origin which have led the
police to start an Investigation and
State Policeman J. J. Flynn of Hart
ford is here questioning the owners of
the store and others who might know
about the blaze. Nothing definite had
been discovered up to press hour,
however.
BINDING CAUCUS RULE -
ON SENATE DEMOCRATS
Washington, July 3 Democrats ' of
the Senate finance committee met, to
day, to frame the binding caucus res
olution and clean up odds and ends of
various schedules in the tariff bill.
The caucus later will endeavor to com
plete its work but it Is probable an
other session will be necessary to
morrow. The resolution will pledge Senators
to support the bill, introduce no
amendments not approved by the" fi
nance committee and support none of
fered by Republicans or Democrats
who may remain out of the caucus.
All Democrats except Senators Rans-
dell.M Thornton and Hitchcock are ex
pected to pledge themselves.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Marriage lirenses were issued at the
town clerk's office today to Fred
Baker and Katheiine Eccleston; Wil
fred Walker and Agnes Urvan, and
Lewis L. Hopkins and May R. Cook.
Veterans
unrise
In
Though 10,000 Have Left, the Great
Camp Shows Little Evidence
of Depleted Numbers
Survivors of Pickett's Division Repeat Anew
the Bloody Angle Charge, and Meet
Ancient Foes Who Greet Them
With Open Arms
Gettysburg, Va.. July 3.- Although
thousands of veterans have left the
uncertain joys of camp life behind and
started for home, their going made
little difference in the appearance of
the battlefield camp, today, for thou
sands of others were on hand to parti,
cipate in' the exercises of governors'
day. On both sides of Confederate
avenue, the tents, were alive with
veterans and the line between the
cook tents did not seem to the cooks
to have lest an inch although the
number Is estimated at close to 10,000.
The veterans, today, were like a lot
of schoolboys whose vacation is only
a few days ago.. Long before sunrise
they began parading the camp to the
music of "The Streets of Cairo" play
ed on fifes and drums. The paraders
were hard workers and the band had
powerful lungs and hands for they
kept it up until mess call.
Many of the men who expect to
leave, tomorrow, paid their farewell
calls, today, on those of the other
army they have come to know. There
was .no doubt in the minds of those
who saw them that so far as these
meh who havegathered here are oipm-j
cernedfc the war has ceased to be a
source of hatred and rancor.
One of the events, today, was the
"charge" of ,the survivors of Pickett's
division on the bloody "angle" held
by the remnants of the Philadelphia
brigade. XJhder a hot sun the men in
gray marched across the field that
has not seen anything more warlike
than a black snake In 50 years, up to
the walls that form the angle. The
"enemy" in blue was waiting with
weapons ready and when they met
across the wall they shook hands.
Afterwards - they looked over the
ground for the site for a $250,000
monument they hppe to have Congress
erect there.
Governors' Day called for speeches
from state executives, -Tener of Penn
sylvania; McCreary of Kentucky, and
Sulzer of New York. Arrivals, late
yesterday, for this event were Gover
nors Haines, of Maine; Fletcher of
Vermont, and Felker of New Hamp
shire-
Provision has been made on the
platform with the generals and gov
ernors for Vice-President Marshall and
the big congressional delegation- from
vV ashlngton. ,
At a meeting of the Confederates,
tha following resolutions were unani
mously adopted : ' i .
"Resolved, By the ex-confederates at
Gettysburg assembled, that our thanks
are due and are hereby tendered to
the state of Pennsylvania for Initiat
ing the movement which has made It
possible for the survivors of the great
armies, which fought on this illustrious
field 50 years ago, to meet In friend
ship here, today, and plant a monu
ment of peace, a monument which shall
stand as the symbol of American val
or, manhdod and brotherhood.
"Resolved, That we thank the . gov
ernment of the ' United States for the
magnificent and munificent manner in
which it has seconded the efforts of
the state of Pennsylvania in carrying
forward this great work of peace and
fraternity between the blue and gray;
and without any 'self-abasement what
soever we desire to reaffirm and pledge
not only ourselves but. all our brother
ex -confederates and all tne peopie oi
our loved southland to the utmost loy
alty to the government of the umtea
States and to the flag ot our coun
try. . .
"RMnlved. That we take priae in
the fact that to the armies of the
rnnfederaov is due the credit of the
TTnlnn When we consider that 600,000
men of the very flower of cnivairy,
as good material as was ever organ-
iH in a flehtine force- ana aireci-
ed by such commanders as -our belov
ed Robert E. Lee and ms neuxenanie,
Inspired by a sectional devotion such
as has not elsewhere been known In
his terrific effort to ' separate the
states, we see that the demonstration
was complete that the thing was not
to be done and aur failure has given
pause to those - who in the future
would contemplate such an undertak
ing." Veterans continue to wend their way
homeward In large numbers. Railroad
people estimated that up to midnight,
last night, 25 per cent of. those who
came to the great camp had departed
for their homes.
Hundreds of other veterans are still
arriving, however, for the independence
day exercises tomorrow when Presi
dent Wilson will be here and will
speak.
Arrangements were made, today, for
the reception of President Wilson, to
morrow. He will arrive in the town
of Gettysburg at 11 a m., according to
the plan arranged, and will be met by
Governor Tener. The entire force of
the state police will be on duty at the
station.
In order that the veterans may have
the opportunity of seeliw the Presi
Up Before
To Encase
oyish Pranks
dent, he will be driven through the
streets of Gettysburg and out the
Emmitteburg road to the big ten, a
distance of more than two miles. The
President will begin his address im
mediately after arriving at the tent.
At the conclusion of his address the
President will, at about 12 o'clock,
board the train and will start at once
on a special to Philadelphia, where
his car - will be attached to a train
that will take him to his summer home
In New Hampshire,
Gettysburg. Pa., July 3. James B. '
McCreary, a member of the United i
Confederate Veterans' association and1
Governor of Kentucky, addressed the
assembled Union and Confederate sol- i
diers on the field of Gettysburg to-day !
and, characterising the ground as im-'
mortal, said that from the struggle;
the nation had learned two lessons: i
"One," he said, "was that the Union i
must be preserved; another that the
states have rights which must be
maintained."
He expressed the hope that this re
union will - "mark the final and com
plete reconciliation of all who belong
ed to the 'opposing armies fifty years,
ago,", and paid a tribute to present-
day patriotism of those who fought for
the Confederacy.
"There are no more patriotic people ;
at the present time than Confederate j
veterans," he said. "They are to-day ,
as patriotic and loyal as the men who !
carried the stars and stripes during!
the Civil war. Reconciliation and pa- j
trlotism were both shown at the begin-
.ning of the Spanish-American war, j
when former Confederate soldiers and .
sons of Confederate . soldiers enlisted 1
and helped to carry the stars and j
stripes to victory. If needed, Confed- i
erate soldiers and sons of Confeder
ate soldiers would again show their .
patriotism in the same way.
"To-day those who were Conf eder- .'
ate soldiers and those who were Fed- !
eral soldiers sit, side by side in Con- J
gressional halls and in the highest Ju
dicial courts, ' and are often partners
in business, i thank God that I liv- j
ed long enough to vote in the Senate;
of the United States to return the i
captured Confederate flags to the reg-
iments and companies who loved them '
and who fougnt under them, and that;
I also voted to appropriate money I
and authorize the appointment of a
Confederate officer to collect the re
mains of Confederate soldiers, buried
In northern graves, and to mark their
final resting places with appropriate;
headstones But the great and crown-'
Ing act, which I will never forget,;
was that I had the honor to help place
the statue of Robert Ei Lee, the great1
General of the Civil War; In Statuary i
Hall in the Capitol Building at Wash-,
ington, with the statues of others otl
the most distinguished sons of the Re-!
public, and by the side of the statue
of George Washington, our first Presi
dent. - -
"While these of us who were sol-,
diers when the Battle of Gettysburg
was fought will always remember the
glory and the jloom of that period, we
may well thank God, to-day. tht "
benediction of peace and reconciliation
spreads over our great republic, ani
we realize that the Immortal words
now most conspicuous are 'one coun
try, one constitution, one flag and on
destiny.' "
NO FATALITIES FROM STABBIN'J
O-erttvuhllT-e-. Tnlv a All the victim
of W. B. Henry, of Philadelphia, who
run nm uck with a knife in the dinlnf
room pf a Gettysburg hotel, last night,
are reported, today, to be doing well,
Charles Ensor, who received the most
dangerous wounds, is not out of dan
ger, but doctors say there Is little
likelihood of his death, unless conw
plications arise.
WASHINGTON PARTY DUE.
Washington. July 3. Vice-Presi
dent Marshall, Speaker Clark a nil
members of the House and Senate
Gettysburg committee left, today, on a
special train to attend the celebration.
FINE WEATHER FOR
GLORIOUS FOURTH
Fair and warmer is the weather
prediction for tomorrow so those who
have planned a holiday away from
home need have no fear that thel
plans will be , spoiled by stormy
weather. Today proved a little coolf
than the previous days of the week.
The mercury registered around 80 at 8
o'clock and remained In that vicinity
until near noon when It began to rise
until it reached 88 1-4 about 2 o'clock.
This was the hottest period of th
day as recorded by the big ther-
mometer at the Main street store ol
F. Lyman.