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THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER
HONORED IN BALTIMORE CITY
i.. 4
Honor Francis Scott Key at Big
Centennial.
“OLD GLORY” 100 YEARS OLD
September 12, 1814, Marked Opening
of Three-Day Engagement in the
Wi r Which Gave Nation
Most Stirring Anthem.
Baltimore, Md.—Baltimore opened
wide her sates to guests from all over
the United States when the national
Star-Spangled Banner centennial wai
opened there for a week’s duration.
Sunday, September 6, was designated
as patriots’ day, and was featured by
a music festival by a massed orches
tra and a chorus of 5,000 voices. Sep
tember 7 was featured as industrial
day with a parade of 500 floats. The
middle states regatta was rowed on
that day.
Francis Scott Key day, on Septem
ber 8, was observed with a floral auto
mobile parade, a reception on battle
ships in the harbor, a night carnival
and tournament and colonial lawn
fetes. On September 10, fraternal
day, a parade with C0.000 fraternal
men in line, accompanied by 50 bands
and 60 floats, was followed in the
evening by a fraternal ball.
September 11 was celebrated as
army and navy day. In the evening
there was a military ball to the presi
dent, the cabinet, state governors and
other distinguished guests. Septem
ber 12, Star-Spangled Banner day, saw
the original flag of Stars and Stripes
borne through the city to Fort Me-
Francis Scott Key.
Henry, the escort consisting of Pres
ident Wilson, state governors and a
picked guard of 100 men from each
of the states of the union in 1814.
President Wilson addressed the
guests at the dedication of Fort Mc-
Henry as a city park. But perhaps
greatest of all spectacles was the for
mation of a living Star-Spangled Ban
ner by 10,000 school children, who
sang the national anthem to the ac
companiment of mas Bed bands num
bering 1,500 musicians. The final day
was peace day, when universal peace
was the theme In all Baltimore
churches.
The Bummer of 1814 was not a
bright one for the arms of the United
States On land it was marked by
constant defeat, culminating in the
burning of Washington August 23.
But the end of that summer, never
theless, witnessed a glorious event,
celebrated in deathless verse wrung
from the heart of a burning patriot,
who had witnessed the night bombard
ment of the fortress which protected
hla native shores and knew not until
morning whether the bravo little fort
bad successfully withstood the as
sault or not.
There was no telegraph in 1814, few
and sparse means of communication,
but after the skirmish of August 23.
sometimes called ’ battle” of Bladens
burg, u little Maryland town, six miles
from Washington, where about three
thousand raw militia, mostly farmers,
were quickly routed by the trained
veterans of Gen. Robert Ross, the Brit
ish commander, the air about Balti
more was alive with news and rumors
of disaster.
Tho British fleet, which had left Ber
muda a month before, was sailing
along the Chesapeake bay and its trib
utary rivers, burning and destroying:
Washington was in ruins, owing to a
disgraceful act of vandalism perpe
trated mainly through the agency of
Admiral George Cockburn, who after
wards conveyed Napoleon to St. Hel
ena.
Baltimore seemed Irretrievably
doomed. In its defense it could only
marshal a “home guard,” principally
consisting of boys and old men of Bal
timore. a few country companies of
militia, hastily recruited from sur
rounding Maryland towns and from
York and Hanover In Pennsylvania,
and about one thousand real soldiers
spared to the defense of the city. In
all about ten thousand men, under the
command of Gen. Samuel Smith, a
Revolutionary veteran, and General
Strickler, the former as commander
in-chief of the defense of the city and
the latter an active head of the de
fensive operations.
m-
To aid in these operations of de
fense was Fort McHenry, at the
mouth of the Patapsco river. Just out
side of the city, by no means a formid
able fortress. It was not bomb-proof,
and Its armament, even for that day,
was woefully inadequate. On the op
posite side of the river earthworks
had been hastily thrown up under the
direction of General Smith, and behind
these were.mounted POO small cannon.
This was at a place then known as
“Hampstead Hill," and it still bears
that name, although it is included in
what is now Patterson park, one of
Baltimore’s pleasure grounds. Guns
were also posted at North Point, some
distance away, and at Lazaretto Point,
directly opposite Fort McHenry.
To the hurried erecting of these for
tifications practically the entire popu
lation of Baltimore —men, women and
children —devoted Itself as soon as it
was learned that the British purposed
an attack upon the city.
On September 11 the dread, news
that the enemy's fleet was off the har
bor was made known. This fleet con
sisted of 50 ships, an extremely pow
erful armada fof that day, carrying
0,000 veteran troops.
Troops were landed from the fleet
on Monday, September 12, and on that
day began- the first fight, known as
“the battle of North Point.” For the
number of men engaged, it. was an ex
ceedingly sanguinary affair. It began
!by nn untoward happening to the
British and ended with the Americans ;
in possession of the field, after a hot
fight of doubtful Issue.
Riding at the head or IBs troops.
General Ross was the first man to
fall. A few American- skirmishers I
posted along the lino of march ot the
British saw their approach. Tradi
tion has it that two young sharpshoot
ers, Daniel Wells and Henry C. Me- ;
Comas, selected General Ross as their j
target In the hope of halting the Brit
ish advance, and fired at him with un
erring aim. These two boys, respect
ively eighteen and nineteen years old,
were secreted in a clump of bushes
and immediately after they had mor
tally wounded the British commander
they were killed, as they were certain
to be. by a tremendous volley fired
into their shelter. A monument to
those two lads stands today In Al
squitli square, at the conjunction of
Gay. Monument and Alsquith streets,
in the city of Baltimore, being one of
the several structures of the kind
which gr.ve It tho name of the “Mon
umental city.”
But this disaster only meant a tem
porary check to the British. Under
the direction of Admiral Cockburn
and Colonel Brooke, they continued to
advance, and in the early afternoon
began the real battle of North Point.
The Americans were short of ammuni
tion, but determinedly poured a fire of
shot, slugs, old nails and scrap iron
Into their foes. Fearful execution was
done during the hour and a half of
this fight's duratioi}. after which Gen
eral Strickler fell back 4 in good order
to his base, near Hampstead Hilt.
The American loss was 150 killed and
the British 600.
A heavy rainstorm halted further
fighting for the day, and at night, leav
ing their campfires burning, the Brit
ish withdrew to the cover of their
ships, defeated in their attempt to
carry the defending works, and trust
ing to their fleet to reduce Fort Mc-
Henry and thus give them an easier
i entrance into tho city.
And in the meantime what of the
fort? During the day of the battle of
View of Old Fort McHenry.
I North Point it Was idle, Itß defenders.
• under the intrepid Major George Arm
- istead. awaiting the inevitable attack.
» It came the next morning.
In order to prevent the passage of
the British fleet into the mouth of
'• the river and thus render it able dl
• rectly to bombard Baltimore, a line of
hulks was sunk across the river. This
1 acted ns an effectual barrier and the
bombardment of the ships was from
f off the mouth of the stream.
The British ships had better offen
■ sive weapons than the fort. Their
cannon carried further and sent a ver
' itable rain of bombs and shot Into the
fort all that day and the following
’ night.
Major Armistead at first replied
r sturdily, but he found that hi^can
- nou hud not sufficient range to reach
1 |the enemy’s ships. Wisely, then, he
held bis fire and awaited events. As
1 u hostilo vessel essayed to creep
i closer to the fort the defenders’ fire
► drove it off. One ship was quickly dis
i abled and was towed out of range by
I smaller boats. The fort, although in
• dieting little damage, was sturdily
I holding its own.
Admiral Cockburn, In charge of the
fleet riAfermlnpri ttnqn an aaaanl* and
KLBBKT COUNTY TSIBUOT.
to this end sent a storming party ot
1,250 picked men In small boats to es
say the ramparts of the fort. The in
tense darkness of the night aided this
project, but as the party was about to
land It was discovered. A terrible Are
came from the fort, and although the
British behaved with great valor, they
were beaten off, two of their vessel 3
were sunk, and many men were killed.
This storming attempt was not re
peated, although the bombardment
continued, not ceasing until seven
o'clock In the morning of the four
teenth, after a night of fire and ter
ror in which 1,800 shells were thrown
Into the fort by its assailants. But the
attack was frustrated, and, daunted
by their heavy losses, the stern re-
Mrs. Mary Pattersgfll, Who Made ths
Flag.
sistance they bail encountered and the
death of their general, the British
drew off and the fleet, with the army
aboard, sailed away.
It was a great victory, more impor
! tnnt than it would have been from its
I direct effect, for it heartened Ameri
cana cast down by a succession of.land
defeats.
*Still greater, however, was this vic
tory, for its horrors were the birth
pangs of a song which has since
stirred Americans for a hundred yeaxs.
During the bombardment of Fort Mc-
Henry, Francis Scott Key, lawyer-sol
dier-poet, wrote “The Star-Spangled
Bnnner,” actually. If not officially, the
national anthem.
After the fight at Bladeusburg, the
British fleet had made its way down
the Potomac river and up Chesapeake
bay. Landings of troops were fre
quent and these often burned homes
on the countryside. During one of
these forays an aged physician, Dr.
William Beanes of Upper Marlbor
ough, Maryland, had arrested some
British soldiers for wanton destruc
tion of his property. He was captured
and held a prisoner upon the prison
ship Minden.
Doctor Deanes was a close friend of
the Key family, and to effect his re
lease Francis Scott Key, under a flag
of truce, made his way to the British
admiral. Ho was courteously received
nnd accomplished his purpose, but
neither he nsr Doctor Beanes was al
lowed to lahd Immediately, because
just at this time the bombardment pf
Fort McHenry had been resolved upon
and it was feared that they might re
veal the British plans.
During the terrible night of Septem
ber 13, In all the horrors of the bom
bardnrtfcnt, Key and Doctor Beanes
paced 'the deck of the Minden, fear
ful at every lull in the firing that the
brave little fort had fallen. The fact
that the fort’s guns could not carry to
ihe hostile ships and therefore early,
ceased firing until the ships came
within range, lent apparent corrobora
tion to their fears.
Morning broke, a fair, bright Sep
tember morning, and In the soft haze
tho blushing sun revealed the great
flog which had been especially made
for the fortress by Mrs. Mary Patters
gill of Baltimore In her home at 60 Al
bemarle street,' in a house which still
stands. Key's joy was boundless.
The words of the first stanza of his
glorious song of freedom formed them
selves in his mind. He nnd his com
panions were released a few hours af
terward, and in a small boat, on their
way to Baltimore, the song was writ
ten. »
It was found to fit perfectly to a
then popular English tune. “Anncreon
in Heaven.” The poem was finished
that night—September 14. 1814. The
next morning it was printed, and that
evening. September 15, it was sung
with rejoicing in all the taverns and
public places In Baltimore, for by that
time the British fleet had sailed away
and the city was safe.
The city of Baltimore, which was
saved from an enemy a century ago.
near». which Francis Scott Key was
bom in 1770, and where he died in
1843. honored by a nation, has de
voted a week to celebration of its de
liverance which culminated September
14, a hundred years from the day of
the birth of the national anthem and
of the sailing away, defeated, of the
menacing fleet of the Invader.
To the Coast in a Wheelbarrow.
■ u ■■■ ■ h Mcciudrrow.
Chicago.—Stephen Meynhert, Alec
Frlcz and John Janossy. newspaper
men. are trafeling from New York to
the Panama exposition In a wheel
barrow, each taking turns riding, and
have reached Chicago. They started
on the journey on May 7 and expect to
reach their destination on May 1, 1915.
The party makes its expenses by ad
dressing meetings and writing foi
Hungarian newspapers
COLORADO NEWS
GATHERED FROM
All Parts of the State
W*s(*rn Newspaper Union News Service.
Dates for Coaslac Brents.
Sept. 29-Oct. 3—Central Colorado Fair
at Colorado Springs. _ ,
Oct. 1-3—Grand County Fair at
Kremmlin*
Oct. 6-9.—C010.-New Mex. Fair at Du
rango.
Oct. 30-Nov.l —Tenth annual Dog Show
at Denver.
191&.-—Last Grand Council of North
American Indiana at Denver.
Mesa county won 102 pri/.c-s at the
Pueblo state fair.
Commissioner Edward W.
Frost of Colorado Springs, died in Ex
celsior Springs, Mo.
Henry B. Walker, eighty-one, a Col
orado pioneer, died at his residence in
Denver from heart dlscfase.
Subscriptions to the Red Cross fund
iu Colorado Springs doubled in two
days. The amount approximates sl,-
200.
Copstruction work has been started
on the state highway which will con
nect the San Juan basin with the San
Luis valley.
James E. McCartney, 70, who had
lived in El Paso county 21 years, died
at his home at Pike View, following
an.extended illness.
An examination for assistant forest
ranger will be held at Delta Oct. 19
and 20. Assistant forest rangers re
ceive a salary of S9OO to $1,200.
George Newton Rohwor, instructor
in chemistry at the University of Colo
rado, died suddenly at the home of
his mother, Mrs. Lucy B. Rohwer, in
Boulder.
Richard, the three-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Earl Eggleston, was
burned to death in a bam on the E.
V. Blood ranch, near Sedalia, which
the Egglestons have leased.
The branch employment bureau
placed in Grand Junction by Labor
Commissioner Edwin V. Brake has
provided 300 men with Jobs of various
kinds since its opening a month ago.
Mrs. Jennie Roberts Wit tie, sixty
one, of Denver, died at St. Joseph’s
hospital from the effects of an opera
i tion. She was the wife of William
Wittle, deputy examiner for the state
auditor.
Reports show the postal savings
bank in Denver among the most pros
perous in the United States. Of $48.-
<>oo,ooo in the 9,653 postal savings
banks, throughout the country, Aug. 31,
Denver deposits amounted to $430,165.
lawyers, laborers, clerks, mechan
ics, bakers, hankers—all men in Amer
ica who are enjoying the benefits of
peace, are asked by the American
Red Cross Society to aid the Mctlms
of the fighting in the rain-soaked
trenches of Europe.
Paul W. Henrlcb, a miner, through
his mother. Pauline S. Henrich, filed
suit in the District Court of Denver
agninst McDonald & Hayes demanding
damages of $2,500 for injurien he re
ceived last month while moving with
the assistance of a horse and wagon
rented from the defendants.
With every prospect for the most
prosperous year in its history, the
Great Western Sugar Company began
harvesting nnd delivering the b*et
crop to its factories. The yield is
good, the quality is better thun last
year, and the price to the wholesaler
Is $2.70 greater than at this time last
year.
Representatives of the fanners’ un
ions of Larimer county met at Ix)v«=-
land and elected a board of directors
for the new co-operative milk con
densery which will bo located iu that
city. Nearly every union in the eoun-
z f ty was represented, und several rep
resentatives from Weld and Boulder
counties were also present.
S. P. Morris, director of the moun
tain division of the Americun Red
Cross Society. Denver, received by
wire a copy of a cable which reached
the Washington headquarters of the
society from the American ambassa
dor at Berlin, appealing to.every Ger
tnan-Ameriean to aid in the work of
maintaining an American Red Cross
hospital for the care of the German
sick and wounded.
The married life of Mr. and Mrs.
Peter Bradley, which has furnished
several sensations at Fort Collins, as
sumed a new angle when the couple
disappeared. Bradley and Edith
IJllian Samuels, sixteen, eloped and
were married some time ago. Recent
ly the girl-wife returned and had Iter
husband charged with abduction.
they could not be found and are sup
posed to have re-eloped.
The census department has issued
a bulletin dealing with the ownership
of homes by counties. It reports for
Delta county 3,258 homes. Of this
number 1,679 are farm homes and 1,-
f>79 are in towns. Of the farm homes,
705, or less than half, are free from
incumbrance: 684 ore mortgaged and
281 are occupied by tenants. Only
265 or the urban homes aie mort
gaged; 475 are free of Incumbrance,
and 780 are rented.
J. Knox Burton, city commissioner,
took the people of Pueblo, who com
plain against the morals of the city
and do not assist in making them bet
ter, to task, when he formally opened
the revival campaign of the Rev.
Charles Reign Scovillo.
Philip Glauer, 71, a fruit grower li#
ing one mile north of Boulder, acci
dentally shot himself in the left leg
while examinlug a double-barreled
ihotgun. Glauer tried to drag himself
:o the home of u neighbor but col
apsed In his orchard, where he was
found several hours later.
LETTER ADMITS FRAUD
HELD POSSESSION OF PROPERTY
FOR TWELVE YEARS.
Greeley Woman, on Deathbed, Sayt
She Robbed Niece of Heritage by
Burning Husband’s Will.
Xcwmper Union Service.
Greeley, Colo. —Judgment in favor
of Mrs. Mattie Berry, niece of D. L.
Dawley, wealthy Greeley real estate
man, for possession of the SIO,OOO
Dawley block at Fifth street and Ninth
avenue, has been entered in the Dis
trict Court, as the result of a letter
in which Mrs. Hannah Dawley, widow
of the real estate man. makes a death--
bed confession that she has defrauded
her niece of possession of the prop
erty for twelve years.
The letter sets fqrth that the dead
woman burned the will of her hus
band, in which the property was
deeded to his niece. The property, it
is claimed; was purchased with Mrs.
Berry’s funds.
Litigation over the estate has been
pending in the Greeley courts for .sev
eral years and has generally gone
against Mrs. Berry.
The letter was a surprise to the
Dawley interests, not even the admin
istrator of the estate knowing of its
existence. Edward Dawley, the
adopted soil of the real estate inan, to
whom the letter was addressed, is now
dead. The letter was found only a
few days before the case came to
trial.
Its genuineness was attacked in
court, but was sustained.
Masons Elect Officers.
Denver. —The forty-fourth annual
communication of the Grand Council
of Royal and Select Masters and the
Grand Ixnlge of the A. F. and A. M.,
was held in Denver. Four hundred
Masons from all parts of Colorado at
tended the joint sessions of the coun
cil and lodge.
Grand officers selected were:
Charles H. Dudley, Colorado Springs,
grand master; Robert M. Simons,
Denver, deputy grand master; Guy V.
Sternberg, Grand Junction, renior
grand warden; L. D. Crain, Fort Col
lins, junior grand warden; Darius A.
Barton, Denver, grand treasurer;
Charles J. Jacobson, grand secretary.
The following grand council officers
were elected: Jacob M. Maels, Pu
eblo, grand master; W. A. Campbell,
Colorado Springs, deputy grand mas
ter; H. W. Woodward, Leadville. grand
principal conductor of work; Ernest
Le Neve Foster, Denver, grand re
corder; Robert M. Simons, Denver,
grand treasurer; Edward G. Hecken
dorf, Denver, captain of the guard;
William W. Cooper, Denver, grand
marshal; George W. Roe, Pueblo,
grand steward; William H. Delbridge,
Jr., Greeley, grirnd bomlucior of coun
cil, and George S. Slater, Denver,
grand sentinel.
Agree to Truce Plan.
Trinidad, Cplo.—Colorado union coal
miners, in convention voted to accept
tho peace plan recommended by Presi
dent Wilson. The vote, which came
after two days of vigorous debate, was
S 3 to 8.
Letter to Explain Operators’ Stand.
Denver.- -After discussing for more
than four hours the character of the
reply to be sent by mail to President
Wilson, as the answer of the associat
ed coal operators of Colorado to the
President’s plan for a three years’
truce, the operators adjourned Mon
day night, leaving to J. Osborn of
the Victor-American Company. D. W.
Brown, Rocky Mountain Coal Com
pany, and Frank E. Gove, attorney, the
work of completing and mailing the
letter as finally decided upon by those
three men.
Wife Ends Life at Husband's Grave.
Denver.—Parted from her husband
by an unexpected and violent death,
Mrs. \ iola West joined him iu death,
inflicted by her own hand. Loren 11.
West, her husband, a brakeman on the
Burlington railroad, was,cut in two by
his own train near KeAisburj<. Mrs.
West w r ent to his grave at Crown Hill
cemetery and shot herself, dying al
most Instantly.
Body Cut in Two by Train.
Pueblo.—Because his wife filed suit
for divorce. William C. Burgh. 84, an
engineer at the Minnoqua steel plant,
hurled himself beneath a Denver &
Rio Grande passenger train in the
Union Depot yards. His body, cut
completely in two by the wheels, w*as
found by members of tho train crew
after the jar had been felt beneath
the wheels.
Magar. Who Shot Self, Dies.
Pueblo. —Nicholas Magnr, aged 25, of
Raton, N. M., who shot himself be
cause he had been robbed of SI,OOO,
lied at tst. Mary’s hospital. Pneumo
nia and blood poisoning developed In
his left lung, which had been pierced
by two bullets.
Woman Hangs Self in Jail.
Ordway.- Mrs. Ella Harris of Sugar
City hanged herself in the county jail
hero. She is believed to have been in
sane and had been placed in the jail
for safe keeping. The woman, used a
uoose which she had made from her
shirtwaist. Mrs. Harris had been in
Pueblo for a month for treatment, but
had shown no improvement and was
returned to Ordway. She is said to
have made several attempts to jump
from the moving train but was re
strained by Sheriff Humiston.
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