Reading Times from Reading, Pennsylvania • Page 5

NTH AND 151SJTHERE Reading Boys Back to Scenes of Bitter Fight at Get tysburg. Tramping now over the battlefields of with the great state of Pennsylvania providing for their every comfort, where 50 years ago they left their blood tracks! to preserve the nation, Reading's veterans of the bitter Civil War, with thousands of other soldiers of the North and South the Blue and the Gray are meeting in happy reunion. Around their camp fires they are fighting over the battle, meeting Johnny Reb with friendly handshake to take the place of the bayonet thrust and telling their stories of the war, stories which have never been equalled for thrilling climaxes. There are not so many of the veterans left from the gallant SSth and 151st Regiments, which included many of the Reading boys of 1861. Many fell in the terrific engagements in which they participated and hundreds have died since, but those who have been preserved to attend this semi eentenniai of the battle of Gettysburg are preserving in their memory a fond recollection for those who fought at their shoulder.

The central figure among the Reading veterans is General David McMurt rie Gregg, distinguished soldier and citizen, who took a prominent part in the engagement. Pennsylvania soldiers and officers gave a splendid account of themselves at Gettysburg, as upon many other fields in the Civil War. Gen. George Gordon Meade, one of the famous sons of the Keystone state, commanded the forces of the North. Gen.

Winfleld Scott Hancock, a native of Norristown, was one of the heroes of the day. General Reynolds was a Pennsylvandn of note. Of Pennsyl i Five. Blue and Gray Veterans jWhere Fifty Years Ago Mess Together on Field They Met as Enemies THE READING TIMES, READING, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 1913 VETERANS OF HMIMKmttMMmMMMHinHHMMMMIIIMMM MMMMMHIMOtMMW4MMMIIMIIIIMMMMIIttHMlMMMHtMMnilMMMiMMMtMMMMMMIMMIMHM Ilk, mm I i mam i 'taw ill; TOgmMgi COL. M.

A. GHERST. SERGT. II. WILLIS BLAND, Company II, 82d Pa.

Fought at Gettysburg. vania's sons, General Gregg is the only I Eurvivor of high rank. General Sick les, who played a prominent part in the battle, where he lost a leg, is a New Yorker and one of the three eur viving corps commanders. The other two are Gen. G.

M. Dodge, who com manded the army, of the Tennessee' and the Department of Missouri, end Gen. James H. Wilson. READING'S PART.

Gregg's cavalry command did most effective service at Gettysburg, and his part in the engagement has received the highest praise in the histories of the battle. President George F. Baer, of the Reading Railway, who was a captain in the 133d Pennsylvania Infantry during the war, is a member of the Pennsylvania Gettysburg Commission which arranged for the celebration. BERKS MEX IX DURELL'S BATTERY. One of the reunions that is to be held at Gettysburg is that of Durell's famous batten' which entered the service on Sept.

24, 1861, with 225 men. Most of the men were from Berks and Bucks counties. The officers of Durell's Battery Survivors' Association are. President, James S. Rich, Doylestown; vice president, John L.

Lewis, North Wales; secretary Horace D. Boone, Reading; assistant secretary and treasurer, Charles McCor klc, Hulmeville; chaplain, Rev. William B. D. Albright, Philadelphia.

The roster of survivors, as accurate as it is possible to obtain, is as follows: Reading Renneville Bertolet, Wellington Bertolet, Anthony Bitting, Horace D. Bnone, Peter Eyler, Charles K. Frill, Henry Graul, Isaac R. Good, Daniel D. Hart, Joseph E.

Kaucher, Peter Koch, John W. Morris, John Ruth, Henry M. Schwartz, Jacob Ul rner, Tllghman Worley and John Sellers. Berks County Residents Henry M. Buck, William A.

Cleaver, Adam 8, Fisher, William E. Hill, George W. Xeiraan, John W. Ringler, Samuel P. Quiver, Henry Sailor, Henry C.

hlr and TTpnrv Rlinhtor imam Jienjamin Albright, Rev tt'MI Phila house 'Ma; Jacob Boas, Rood Wellington M. Clmisep. Berlin. Henry A. Hechler, Saw can jam.M l.

Mast, National Home, Augustus K. t. latz, Canton, Joseph Shunk, Brooklyn, N. James Warr, Bloomsburg, Eli Yeager, Potts ville, Henry Rauh, George W. Silvis, Samuel A.

Tobias and John Wolf, Philadelphia, and the officers mentioned. Durell's Battery Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry, as it was officially known, was in charge of Capt. George W. Durell, of Reading, who had just returned from the war when the battery was formed, being an orderly sergeant of the Ringgold Artillery or First Defenders of Reading. He was well qualified to organize this command, and was breveted a major for gallant services during the war, and Samuel H.

Rhoads, of Amityville, Berks county, was promoted to the captaincy and served until the close of the war. HARD FIGHTS. The battery participated in the following battles and engagements: Capture of Fredericksburg, Kelly's Ford, Bristoe Station, Bull Run, Chan tilly, South Mountain, Antietam, White Sulphur Springs, Vicksburg, Jackson, The Wilderness, Todd's Tav ern, Po River, Spottsylvania, North Anna River, Pamunkey River, Cold Harbor, Petersburg, Burnside Mine, Weldon Railroad, Ream's Station, Feeble's Farm, Poplar Grove Church, Hatcher's Run, Fort Stedman and the final assault on Petersburg and Appomattox. After the three years' enlistment had expired, Captain Durell had to leave the service because of ill health, and when a number of the three year men were mustered out, in September, 1S64, together with Captain Durell, the battery was reorganized with Samuel H. Rhoads as captain, who was promoted from a lieutenancy, and most of the other reorganization officers were from Reading and Berks counties.

Durell's Battery became a part of the Ninth Corps and went to the aid of Pope's badly harassed army. They took part in the engagement at Bull Run and kept up the fire until long after the flanks of the army on the side on which they were stationed had been driven back. At South Mountain and Antietam they were also in the thick of the fray. When guns were 1863, F. Company, 48th Pa.

Militia; 1864, Troop 11th Pa. Cavalry. Prisoner at Richmond. Service in Indian wars. needed to storm Vicksburg the bat tery was sent there.

At the fall of I that city the battery was with Sherman for a short time, and later they were called to take part in the Battle of the Wilderness and the siege of Petersburg. MEMORABLE DAY. In the camps at Gettysburg the Reading soldiers are living over the stirring days of the great Civil war and this city has a history in this connection. The veterans can recount with vivid word pictures the middle of June, 1863, when Lee began his invasion of the southern part of Pennsylvania, the town meetings, President Lincoln's call for 50,000 militia men, the establishing of camps on the Haak farm and at Heiner's Spring, the anxiety for news and above all the excitement and great enthusiasm which urged men on to deeds of valor. With the approach of July 4th, fifty years ago the excitement was running so high that the plans for the celebration of the day were called off.

On the night of June 30, 1S63, the Ringgold Light Artillery held a meeting and heard an address by Col. C. B. McKnight. William C.

Ermentrout was elected captain of tho company. Three days later the company reported to camp with 120 men. OFFICIAL RECORDS TO READING. Official records' from Cumberland county were brought to Reading and deposited in vhe vaults in the court house here. Cavalry from Pottsville passed through the city on July 3rd and on July 7th a train load of Southern prisoners passed through the city and stopped for some time at Chestnut street.

General Frana Sigel and staff arrived in Reading on the same morning and relieved Colonel Ruff In command of the military forces here. General Sigel was serenaded by the Ringgold band and made a speech from the balcony of the Mansion house telling of the success of General Meade at Gettysburg, and Grant at Vicksburg. He was Introduced by Frederick Lauer. There were seven regimpnts. The Firsti Second, Third, Fourth, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh, were organized at Camp Muhlenberg.

In addition to these infantry commands, two com. panies of cavalry one from Pottsville and the other from Montgomery county were enrolled. After the great battle of Gettysburg had been fought and General Lee's GEN. GREGG WILL GO ON THURSDAY Reading's veterans of McLean and Keim Post, about 300 in number and friends to make up a party of 587, left here at 9 a. m.

Sunday for Gettysburg. The Reading veterans are comfortably quartered with their regiments in the camps occupied by the Pennsylvania Veterans. They Joined in the patriotic demonstrations of the day, meeting' many old friends. Last evening George Baer, came up from Philadelphia in his special car and passed on to his special car and pass on to Gettysburg. As a member of the Gettysburg Commission Mr.

Baer will spend most of the week there and next Tuesday he will sail with his family to spend the summer abroad. Thursday morning General Gregg, his son David Gregg, Mrs. Baer and her daughters, Mrs. Isaac Hiester, Mrs. Heber Smith and Mi's, Emily Connard, will leave for Gettysburg in Mr.

Baer's automobile to spend Thursday and Friday army repulsed, Reading witnessed some of the fragments of the destruc tion. Many people from the Cumberland Valley had fled to Berks county for safety. Farmers with their families and stock passed through the city returning to their homes. Wround ed soldiers were brought here ahd the great stir of the battle did not subside for several weeks. Reading boys in blue were still in the front ranks fighting and men continued to enlist.

Such were the days of the war and the present celebration of the 60th anniversary of the battlo of Gettysburg, brings back to many the recollections of the bloody events. Mrs. Dorothy Culp, who lives with her daughter, Mrs. Charles R. Heyen, 339 South Eleventh street, and Mrs.

Margaret Frentzel, living with her daughter, CAPT. PRIXCE IX. STETSOX. 1861, First Lieutenant 15th U. S.

Regulars; Staff ol Hooker till 1865. Re cruiting Officer in Reading. Mrs. Charles Seyfert, 1550 Perkiomen avenue, sisters can tell stirring stories of the battle. Their father Philip Snyder, owned an 80 acre farm at Round Top, where there was desperate fighting.

The sisters with their parents were driven from their home by the Confederates and the house was occupied by sharp shooters. After the battle, they found everything destroyed and and dying were lying all around. The sisters helped to care for the wounded and Mrs. Culp drove an ambulance waggon between the battlefield and Gettysburg. GOVERNOR TO ACT ON BILLS IN CAMP Harrisburg, June 30.

Gov. Tener plans to act upon bills while in camp at Gettysburg and while traveling to and from the brigade encampments next week. The bills are being sorted and the Governor plans to consider first those relating to departments of the state government and then the general appropriation bill will come out so that people dependent on it for their salaries will be taken care of. Attorney General Bell will go to Gettysburg tomorrow toi consult tho Governor. Chief Clerk Thomas H.

Garvin came here today to close up details of the session and incidentally to send pay checks to a few members who had not called for them. Several members left the city before the close of the session on Saturday morning and they will get their checks by mail. WHITE STAR COMPANY LIABLE FpR DAMAGES London, June, 30. The condition printed on tho steamship tickets issued by the White Star Line exempting that company from liability for loss by a passenger even through negligence of the company's servants is illegal, according to a Judgment pronounced to day by Sir Clement M. Ballhacha, Justice of the King's bench division of the high court of Justice.

The point had been held over for decision from the test case decided last week in which an Irish farmer, Thos. Ryan, was awarded $500 and costs Rpainst the White Star Line Company for the loss of his son in the Titanic disaster. 25.000 HE 10 FIST BAY 0 Electric Lights Where Once Smouldered All Night on Battlefield. Gettysburg, June 30. Twenty five thousand veterans in blue and gray, the biggest army of its kind that has been gathered together in fifty years, woke today on the field of Gettysburg to the call of reveille and the warlike rattle of pots and pans in a score of mess tents.

Veterans who sat about campfires until late last night were up long before the sun climbed over the hills of the Blue Ridge. Before the electric lights of this modern camp were turned out make way for the sun the veterans were singing the songs of wartime and the wide streets of the tented city echoed with the "ki yi" of the "Johnny Reb" and the hoarser yell of the brother from the North. The regular army men in charge of the camp expected 15,000 veterans to come into Gettysburg today and by tonight they will be prepared to tent and mess the more than 40,000 without hitch or delay. There was no set program today and the veterans were left free to look up old friends and old enemies, swap stories of '63 and enjoy themselves In any way they saw fit. CHAFF AS OF OLD.

Just as soon as the rations of bacon and eggs and coffee, "fruit in season" fresh bread and butter, were disposed of in the way all good soldiers dispose of them; the real inspection of the battlefield and the retelling of the story of Gettysburg began with all rhhe pointed criticism that the private soldier knows so well how to make. I "I aint seen a reb yet who didn't! charge. Round Top and take it all by himself," said a lanky Southerner as.vania has established an emergency he wandered into the quarters of the Pennsylvania contingent. "No and I aint seen a Yank who GEX. DAVID M'MTRTRIE GREGG, of Reading, Last Living Commander, and Hero of Gettysburg.

He is the central figure In this week's celebration. didn't break up Pickett's charge by his own self," said a smiling Penn sylvanian as they shook hands. JOIXT RECEPTIOX. The only set event today was the joint reception by the survivors of Gen. Buford's cavalry and the Southerners of Gen.

Wheeler's cavalry to the citizens of Gettysburg. It was Buford who discovered the gray army advancing on Gettysburg on the morning of July 1, fifty years ago and tho picket who first saw the scouts of Lee swinging up the Chambersburg pike fired the first shot of the greatest battle of the war. It was Buford who stubbornly fought the advance of Gen. Heath's division cf the Third Confederate Corps on that July morning until Gen. Reynolds arrived and took command and Wheeler's men helped to make that joint affair a warm one.

Relatives of Gen. Meade, Gen. Longstreet, Gen. Pickett and Gen. Hill arrived today and were given quarters in the town.

35 GOVERNORS COMING. Col. J. M. Schoonmaker, of the Pennsylvania commission announced today that 36 Governors have accepted invitations to be present at some time during the week.

Gen. Hunter Liggett, assumed command of the veterans camp today and Maj. Normoyle of the quartermasters corps who has been working pretty nearly 23 hours each day for the last two weeks gave up the reins of office. Gen. Liggett appointed as his adjutant Lieut.

Simon Bolivar Buckner, son of the Confederate army officer. The Wisconsin veterans arrived on their special train early this morning. They were accompanied by Gov. Mc Govern, Gen. F.

C. Winkler, Col. W. J. Cronyn and Maj.

G. E. Leaman, of Milwaukee, and Adjt. Gen. Salsman, of Madison.

Gov. McGovern reported that although the train was delayed the vets all stood the journey well and were In fine spirits. GOV. TEXER ARRIVES. Gov.

Tener of Pennsylvaniaarrlved at his headquarters this morning. A battery fired a salute of seventeen guns in his honor. Gov. Tener motored over from Harrisburg and occupied his tent in the grounds of Gettysburg College. The Governor and Mrs.

Tener made the fifty miles from tho Capital in better than two hours. The salute was fired IT by Battery B. Third Field Artillery, U. S. which claims to be the lineal descendant in batteries of Califf's Battery, which opened the artillery fighting fifty years ago.

There are now four governors in camp. The Pennsylvania Executive made a motor trip over the battlefield shortly after his arrival and the other governors looked it over during the Gov. Tener received formal calls of his brother governors late today. SUFFFR A STS BUSY. The suffragists do not intend to overlook any opportunities and have arranged for quarters near the big tent in the veterans' camp where the principal exercises are to be held.

They expect to attack the veterans from every side. 'iw LARGEST CAMP SINCE CIVIL WAR. A vast body of army engineers, skilled cooks, physicians and hospital attendants was engaged in putting the finishing touches to the great tented city, where the 40,000 old soldiers will be fed and sheltered during the six days of the celebration. The camp will be the largest military camp that the country has seen since the Civil War. The camp comprises 2S0 acres, starting about 200 yards from the High Water Mark monument on the battlefield, and lying to the southwest of the town and "partly on the scene of the first day's fight.

The town of Gettysburg is beautiful ly and profusely decorated. Shlppens burg, Carlisle, Chnmbersburg and nu merous other cities and towns within a 50 mile radius, all of which will help to entertain the overflow of visitors, have put on holiday attire. The stars and stripes and the stars ajid bars are prominent everywhere, with portraits of Lee and Meade, Long street and Pleaaonton and other famous commanders of the opposing armies, side by side. GUARDING VETERANS'. HEALTH.

The arrangements to guard the health of the veterans are of the most perfect and elaborate character. At a cost of $25,000 the state of Tcnnsyl hospital under canvas just east the National Cemetery grounds. A United 'States field hospital is conveniently lo CAPT. HORACE A. YUXDT.

Company 178th Pennsylvania Volunteers; Brigade IiiixTtor on Staff of General West. Captain raised a company In Lancaster county. loafed, in the town. In addition three good sized infirmaries have been set up. There will be many ambulances and surgeons stationed about the neld ready to give first aid treatment and rush the ill to the nearest hospital.

The largest tent in the world ha3 been raised in which to hold the exercises of the reunion. Fifteen thousand veterans may sit under the big canvas and listen to the orations of Chief Justice White, Secretary of War Garrison, Governor Tener and other notable men who will address the gathering. Today was a day of preparations and arrivals. It was "go as you please" with the early visitors, and they took in the sights with a vigor that was remarkable, considering the age of the veterans and the fact that many of them had just completed long and tiresome journeys. The battlefield caught the most of them.

The monuments were Inspected and every hill and ridge was climbed thousands of the youth of the North and the South gave up their lives in to get a clear view of the field where the fierce fight that was waged during the first three clays of July in 1S63. VETS' MEMORIES STIRRED. It is remarkable how long and well the soldiers "remember every spot, every move, every order, every incident of a battlo. They would gather in groups and p6int to the scene of Pickett's famous charge, to the spot where General Reynolds fell, and to the line held by the Union forces along Cemetery Ridge from Gulp's Hill to Round Top. They talked of reserve corps and attacks on their right; of cavalry charges and defense by the left.

As they wandered around they would sec a monument on which the inscription would particularly attract their attention. Then thoy would figure out among themselves, throwing statistics to the winds, how many men were left of their companies or regiments when the battle was over. The Blue and Gray veterans are not the only soldiers who will bo here during the week. Practically every branch of the regular military service will be represented. Two battalions of the Fifth Infantry have been, here on guard duty for several weeks.

The Signal Corps has been much In evidence establishing a complete telephone system through the camp. Today a battalion of engineers arrived. A battery of the 3rd Field Artillery is here, also several troops bf the 15th Skfe OFFICIAL PROGRAM. VETERANS' DAY. Tuesday, July 1, 2 to 4 p.

Colonel J. M. Schoonniaker. chairman of commission, presiding. Opening prayer by Rev.

George Edwards Lovejoy, chaplain in chief, G. A. R. Address by Llndley M. Garrison, Secretary of War.

Address of welcome by Governor 'John K. Tener, of Pennsylvania. Responses by Alfred B. Beers, commander in chief, G. A.

and General Bennett H. Young, commander in chief, United Confederate Veterans. Closing prayer by Rev. H. M.

Ha mill, chaplain general, U. C. V. MILITARY DAY. Wednesday, July 2, 2 to 4 p.

Col onel Andrew Cowan, Louisville, presiding. Address by Major General John R. Brooke, of Pennsylvania (representative of Northern forces in the battle). Address by Sprjjpant John C. Scarborough of North Carolina (representative of Southern forcps in battle).

Reading of Lincoln's Gettysburg speech by Harry Bulkley. Address by General John C. Black. GOVERNORS' DAY. Thursday, July 3, 2 to 4 p.

John K. Tener, Governor of Pennsylvania, presiding. Addresses by Governor Tenor, of Pennsylvania, and Governor James B. McOreary, of Kentucky. Reunion pf Philadelphia Brigade and Pickett's division at the Bloody Fireworks display at 8 p.

m. JULY FOURTH. No set program arranged. Cavalry. All of these troops are expected to figure prominently in the exercises of the anniversary, and will remain at Gettysburg for six weeks, afterward to participate in the mameu vres at the camp of college and university students to be conducted by the War Department officers.

The college boys will live in a portion of the. veterans' camp, which will be allowed to remain standing for them. During the reunion the camp will be divided into two great sections. The Confederate veterans have been allotted that part of the camp lying between West Confederate avenue and the Round Top branch of the Reading Railway. The CAPT.

GEORGE F. BAER, Company 133d Regiment, P. which he raised at Somerset and commanded. I Union veterans will be quartered on the other side of the railroad. WILSON AT GETTYSBURG.

Washington, June 30. President Wilson will go by train to Gettysburg on July 4, instead of by motor as originally planned. He has prepared his ppeech, which will be' brief, and immediately after its delivery he plans to go on to Cornish, N. to spend Saturday and Sunday with his family, returning to Washington the following Monday, FOUR MURDERERS SENTENCED TO HANG Pottsville, June Four murderers, all of alien birth, three of whom were convicted of murder in the first degree a month ago, were sentenced this morning to the The fourth one had entered a plea of guilty and left the court to fix the degree. When sentence was pronounced on John Shushinsky for cutting the throat of a companion, he made a statement blaming the saloon for the plight in which he had been placed and warned young men to keep away from these places.

TROLLEY CAR JUMPS TRACK Harrisburg, June 80. A trolley car bound for Lykens, and filled with excursionists on the way to a local celebration, ran away on a steep grade near Wlconisco today and a dozen passengers were injured. 'Mrs. Anne Palmer, of Wiconisco, Mas hurled against the end of the car and both legs broken. Two men jumped Srom the car when it crossed a bridge at the foot of the hill and fell into a creek, receiving numerous bruises, but no serious injuries, a BULGARS OPEN ATTACK.

Belgrade, Servia, Jun 30. The Bulgarians this morning opened an attack on the Servian troops along the whole line in Macedonia, according to despatches from the Servian headquar. ters. The publication of the news created immense excitement in the Servian capitol. a Attendance.

Officer Stoeckel, of the city schools, will issuet employment certificates to children between the ages of 14 and 16 from his offlceat the Administration building in July and August, between 10 and 11 a. m. Tribute to Gregg This, the fiftieth anniversary of the Bat tle of Gettysburg, impels me to pay a tribute to our venerable townsman, who won imperishable renown on that greit field of battle, General D. McM. Gregg, and to dwell on the heroic service rendered by him in making Gettysburg a golden word in our history.

i It was a great shock to. Lee's army, when approaching the Susquehanna, to learn that the Union forces were moving northward from Virginia in great nura bers. When informed Lee promptly retraced his steps and finally after severe and strenuous marching and maneuvering Gettysburg was finally settled upon as 'the field of battle. We shall not a tempt to describe the movements leading up to the crisis, but briefly to repeat what others saw on the extreme right of that 'most memorable battle, which so favor 'ably determined the result and which decided that this nation 'should live united. I General Custer in his report writes: I "I challenge the annals of warfare to produce a more brilliant charge of cav airy." Military critics generally have pronounced it the finest charge made during the General James H.

Kidd states: "It was Gregg's pre science. He foresaw the risic 'of attempting to guard the right flank I with only the two decimated brigades of his own division. Seeing with him was to act. He took the responsibility to inter 1 cpnt TCilnntrlclf'tt rear anil larppst hrt gade, turn it off the Baltimore pike to the iriirht, instead of allowing it to go to tho left as It had beeen ordered to do, and thus doubtless a serious disaster was averted. It makes us tremble to think of what might have been, of what inevitably must have happened had Gregg, with only the two little brigades of Mcintosh and Irvin Gregg, and Randol's Eattery.

tried to cope single handed with the four brigades and three batteries, comprising the very flower of the Confederate cavalry and artillery, Which those brave knights Stuart, Hampton and Fitzhuei Lee were marshaling in person on Cres' ridge. If Custer's presence on this field was opportune, and as has often been said, provinenuai, is to uen. u. mcji. uregg, to whom, under Providence, the credit for bringing him here is due.

Gregg was a great and modest soldier. In the light of all. the official reports, put together link by link, so as to make one connected chain of evidence, we can see that the engagement which took place was from first to last a well planned battle, in which the different commands were ma neuvrod and placed with the same segae itv displayed by a skilled chess player in moving the pawns upon a chess board; in which every detail was the fruit of he brain of one man, who from the time when he turned Custer to the northward until he sent the First Michigan thundering against the brigades of Hampton and Fitzhugh Lee made not a single false moye; who was distinguished not less for CAPT. J. RICHARDS BOYLE.

(Formerly of Reading) 1881, First Sergeant SSth Pa. lirst Lieutenant (1863), mth Fa, his intuitive foresight than for his quicK pe'reeptions at critical moments. "That man was General D. McM. Gregg." THE FINAL CHARGE.

Up to the time the battle had raged with varying fortune, victory that appeared to perch first on one banner and then on the other, the odds wore with the Confederates, though Gregg forcud tho fighting, putting Stuart on the ilefenai.ve until finally in the van a stand of colors. It was the battle flag of Wade Hampton, who with Fitshugh Lee was leading the assaulting column. When Gen. Gregg rode over to the 1st Michigan and directed Gen. Town to charge he and Custer ordered sabres to be drawn, placed himself in front of the leading squadron, with ranks well closed, with guidons flying aiid bugle sounding the veterans moved forward to meet that host outnumbering it three to one; first at a trot, and with gleaming sabre and flashing pistol tho heroes were hurled right in the teeth of Hampton and Fitzhugh Lee.

Then was steel to steel and Greek met Greek, the gray column stood and staggered before the blow, then yielded and fled In disorderly rout back to the woods, leaving the Union forces in possession, of the field and thus averting a possiMe irreparable disaster. All honor to the brave men wh fought the great fight and to their illustrious commander whose stars shine brighter with the years. JENKIX HILL. a BLAME MILITANTS AGAIN. Leuehars, Scotland, June 30.

The important railway junction here connecting Edinburgh with Dunde and Aberdeen and within a few miles of St. Andrews golf links was burned to tho ground today. The authorities believe the fire was started by militant suffragettes who are in strong force in Dundee across the Tay. GENERAL BROOKE IN READING General and Mrs. John R.

Brooke stopped at the Mansion House on an automobile trip to Gettysburg. Gen. Brooke is a civil war veteran and ona of the heroes of the Spanish American ar. He was in command of th American military occupation of Manila. 50,000 MAROONED.

New York, June 30.iNearly 60,000 persons were marooned, oh Rockaway Beach all night by fire which destroy ed part of the trestle connecting that populaj resort with Long Ialtnd. LOBERT TO WF.D. Philadelphia, June 80. J6hn B. Lobert, third baseman of the Phila delphia National League baseball club, today took out a license to wed Miss Rachael S.

Campbell, of this city..