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Show Second Section. -_ Oe Futer-Mlountain Republica | Peyes 1 to 10. 5) STOIC YORA TOWN SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, SUNDAY, JULY 1, 1906. MONCVIMENT ERECTED Er CONGRESS. ZO Z rE TER OES QF" LOBRKTOWLL LQAED CQBRNWALLLI CAVE < AZT FORE TOWN N j Bary f I Fourth ‘ ‘a nation, but by the tide-of Yorktown, travel leaving Yorktown by-elther railroad or person The pligrim met to discuss G@ay-mayhap the the) love Georse Washington or' the of Thomas Jefferson. Manifestly howevel steam-| never me-fan-| -and™ time ‘ apparent the vho the recovered : shells from from the is gossip of affains of doe te its ha appt ed hundred from booming: ushel of of the S Vora OH meth inne out cant! I f Y Fourth f i } ‘ charge most vt 1 oft of Jul F memorable ' i ‘ proveartivel that nati the in M ft slege I ficance , There ar ep s\ 1 fired‘ <> ye : everal { ! ' "Aiu runners ; : ey to Yorktown, which is located but! t few milk from the cen of the coming celebratior \ssuredly thi scene of th ictor by which the in-| dependence of the United States: wi ichieved rich in objects and localiies of historic significance a used ok ee to some i exte!l the ¢ Ans vlonie ‘ lete 1 of salute , ‘ ¢ original ] ob ense a a the slut riya t t i Presid the from Aside I however! tions especially1 quali} of ourth jn formed July b 'bee of t tt fe ‘ cadditiv of : . of by the Thomas Declaration Cornwallis Nel-|were of Nelson was present tober 19, 1781, after a siege of 19 days urrender vv 6,500 American and 7,000 Freneh troop of the line, 3,500 Wmericar militia and 36 French warships, Lord Cornwallis surrendered his whole} m consisting of 7,251 office: an me $40 seamen, 244 cannon and 24 hreve almost entirely. dis- ultimately In-|Clellan and successful, his men. and Me- entered York- at the! Revolution placed upon of the | proud community. would /now a movement on this once Happily, there is foot toe Ineluile were arranged headquarters, and so the patriotic Vir-|created In' the west of France, at A monument far more imposing; ginian pointed the first. gun against |Surgeres, the seat of several co-operathan th which marl th field of|his ‘own dwelling, and afterward of|tive dairies, and in the space of a few urrender overloo the York river | fered a reward of five guinéas to every | months it has grown so rapidly tn imfrom the highest point in th Village.|gunher who would throw a ball into) portance that it deserves notlee. 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Not! being the finest in the place, Governor | park Waldon: Fawkett he village and now marked by a simfar distant is the building known as|Nelson had no doubt that it was oc- | a ple granite shaft On this spot on Oc-| Moore's Hous where the terms of |cupled by Lord Cornwallis as his | An industry has been recently ' effort the mf ( comi I it hei e h when the iI m«¢ : enlisted regular : ne L no ‘ over to by 1 u mp those by I ce I ' 7 ees f t is ‘ ul aaeel NON more l an glance } f t mau It 1G ( f mo the haps bagke , salute of f { ¥ featu cer ret } ' og commemoratl : e . iont id oat at ration fee m 1 A t mansion, ouse chronicled in the dat the morning atter t how admitted, be must. 2 sportion of such ‘ gl i i Day the were quar- wal ilut . : ai differ tf of dur ted 1] . \ 3 when for the coming Jamestown ex-} metro- | position will send thousands of Ameriproud) cay to that interesting region known slipped as ‘Tidewater Virginia," and a large only 4) proportton of them are sure to jour- comprising bDIrthaay gz dang inced who f accidents newspapel It ¢ | Pourd ‘ ' ing en if vel birthda 6, i , 2 ‘ ul boy £ mall merely f re of ilu1 thunder as, the vers Independenes of ¢ 3 tion In town or clit : d a army States linited. theit>e to these lute i t al out i ine [3A | { er eZ noise-mal the ractics Amer ig 12 and cracker > id imp , Yorktown ‘the inhabitant 7, _ he 16 é ' t m imp! cours ! of. PHOTO COPIFRICHTE: DOK RALDON FAWCETT Fi nal rmal ( officers Whe Menwhotire the ( od everal ependence, and who had but a few |town on Sunday morning, May 4, but months before succeeded Thomas |the ravages of this second conflict but j Jefferson as governor of Virginia. jaddea to the blight that (ime and the N ss HE ‘the British fof the slege, as tt is today, the most |appeared, save In the case of some }imposing structure in Yorktown, was/fortifications of exceptional strength, | built in 1712. It is a two-story brick | but there are. plainly visible on. all ; | structure 7 with corners of hewn stone, | sides of the town the remnants of the {built on an old English model and jdefenses of the second slege of Yorkwould be well worthy a visit as an ex-|town, during the year 1862, when the ample of the colontal homes of the |.Cdnfederates for a time held this Old) Dominion, even were there no his- \¢ asily fortified point against General torical romance to invest it with sig-|)MecClelan and the »$5,000. federal nifleanee, Until shortly before the ox : se of the British troops the Nelson \were. Campaign." The Untonists Ops American batterles | >--- ling. With: tl the rise ic tury - aeaumetiinamens dS Co en CLEALYLI_XYGr. heen althougt tered there The English commanderin-chief established. hi headquarters at another house, owned by a different member of the Nelson family, but was soon driven by the heat of the Amertire. Fe ae Peer can cannonading to-seek refuge in a cave in the bluff on the river bank he American congcress, the corner- | and. in this excavation, lined with stone having been laid on October 19, | green baize, he held counetl with hie } 1881, the one hundredth anniversary | officers. Visitors. to Yorktown ar of the surrender. The monument econ-) shown a cave consisting of an aparto i sists of a lofty shaft arepeeintad by | ment 12x18 feet in size and several retradition which rooms, 1 s is | smaller Libert of figure | the na but Cave, to be Cornwallis alllance | putes the of emblems by jadorned for the absolute has vouched France | historian States and the United | between the exof this, although 13 female figures, representing the | authenticity jand to have beén one of lcavation is known colonies, original the slege at the time'of made visitor, | those present-day average the To erected at the time earthworks The interestmost the decidedly however, ing of all the ‘final struggle between the forces {town Is the General Washington and Lord ‘ aD, mind. all, prominent OWT | This mes es penetrate to this old-time metropolis | Colored than whit among whom th of Old Virginia is, however ell re1 of ; solitary tranger is dis-)| paid for hi trouble fou perched o inetl unusual event a high bluff and. surrourt iby earth It ot unlikely howevet that) works relics of two legs t re ext ‘ il ee Yorktown roused it minds one of some river castle of the mie wasure from it sleep of a ceneine FOBKT escapades| riddled its every Dbullding.. With visit of Richmond as the capital and inns or | polis of the state, the former nme imunity on the York River tweninto oblivion until today it has inhabitants do not expect ma ors, for the two old-fashioned tavert could not _ iby date an aggregate of more th: ty wigs ilt-|'>® tlhe ettlement drowsing in the | en-| vironment of a hundred "years ago The would-be visitor cannot reac hor Chea late ersuming without: journey edious d- at TO GEORGE WASH INCTayY AL has | Ted the WAICH PHOTAS con-RicmMrTreD RALDLON PAwoezZ" with donjon-deep and Accs valled fortifications protecting the stream the dominating and burg be Po. memory a than more little in a town as established % Vork stil! are antiquated buildings the sure, in streets by Thomlaid out and 1705 now street 1¢ lanelike are as here, famous the of founder Nelsor sa whole the but grass, with overgrown had who of the name, \ ireit fc family of a that is place of the atmosphere the tefore Scotland emigrate d from the and age, quarter a and century of it had all the commerce pa iution secks OUU) now who occasional stranger this memorable cene of strife might Virginia, and each year loaded many r readily belicove that he had been sudenly transplanted to the early days England-vessels which br yught back of the republic. to the Old Deminiton Kurepean luxIsolation is largely responsible for urles in great varicty A reminder the > plea ‘s >| inane pea leat of ee ee }of these past glories we see today in the British troops that formed the last | the ancient brick custom-house In the lope of Kk e ; United "States-which stands on the defeat Berane eet ate ee bry |} main ostreet, challenging attention by | France and America under the te ad- | ts mMoss-covered roof, ick walls and| ip of George Washington. Every | ™ossive oak. doors. n the colonial year thousands upen thousands nt | ewan it was the fashionable ren-| patriotic citizens visit Mount V« rnon, Surrounding country, and here young Bunker Hill and other meecas sacred he memory-«o e founders of dandies In satin garments and powd- | swept LIONUMENT IZARKS THE IPOT WHERE CoOrANKz ALLIS SURRENDERED come with me ) i menta journey to. the least-knowr! ut most seldom visited f \ the shrines of patriotism given to this natlon by the Revolutior Our destination is the quaint and histori iblage of Yorktown, a the cel of I climax of the War for Independence In the eco F tow " York, or is mo frequently ily im portant communi but, today it | the ion balls, which are to this day visible in the wall Howe von Cornwallis did mot occupy (vovernor house: for, bong, ‘if s Nelson i G-BANITEL . ! he ny) t) Pa ' ‘ : |