Show J Ti 1 i Ilk 4 f y ti P w i kj 1 a ji nr y t F t g V 4 m w c ct co cg q t o g a 1 a x K Ka a 0 t P f fp dl A y kt rb a S p p fri CAPT CITY L YN By ELMO SCOTT WATSON HE m American flag whose hose birthday birth day we celebrate on June 14 T Is known by a number of figurative fig names It is probable that It was calle called The lle Red Lied r t SS bite and antl an or The The Stars and Stripes very ery soon T after the first flag was as made In accordance with Ith the resolution passed by b the Continental congress on June 14 1777 1771 That the flag of or the United States be 13 stripes alternate red and white that the union be 13 stars tars white bite In a blue field representIng representing a ne new constellation The name The Star Spangled Spangle Ban Banner an anner ner dates daten date from 1814 1514 when hen Scott KC Ke hey watching the British born bom bombar bar ment of or I 1 ort a was inspired In Inspired Inspired to write rite the poem which was as later set to music and became me the of national anthem But ut the name Old Glory Is a more recent one It was just a hundred years sears ears ago that a Yankee skipper had bad the Inspiration w resulted In that affectIonate name being bestowed upon our natIon natIonal national al colors Here Is the story of how bow Old Glory got that name England From the beginning of or New Eng England land maritime history the Driver er lam fam fly lIy of Salem Mass Jass had been leaders In shipbuilders the shipping trade not only db as n ship builders but as owners owner captains and sailors of their own In the 3 sear ear 1831 1531 Capt William lIliam Driver was carrying on the family tradition As Asa Asa n a boy of t teh twelve eh e he had bpd shipped on a sailing vessel sessel for Europe and before JJ lie was twenty heas lie he was as master of the brig Daggett Baggett one of that In Innumerable innumerable Innumerable numerable fleet which calle sailed the Seven Se Seas and carried the name of Salem to e every cry ery corner of or the earth In September of that year sear ear Captain Drier er was as preparing to sail for a trip around the world Just before leasing lea a party of his friends th g ered to present him with a farewell gift gift an American flag because he was noted for his love lose 10 e for the he nn colors and whit what t h they betokened Captain Driver er was as on deck to re- re receive receive re receive them and a sailor carrying the flag folded In trl tri form stepped forward and began a 1 direfully carefully mem memorIzed memorized speech In Ia In ancient ai times when hen an ocean vo ae e was ns looked upon with super per dread lie he said It it was the custom on the e ewe eve e of departure to roll the banner In the form of a trl triangle angle hen SS lien ready tb tl priest stepped tor forward arll and taken taking the banner In hand sprinkled It with con consecrated water and dedicated d It to God Cod the rather God the son and God the host turning the point of the triangle UP at the name of or each thus calling Redeemer on that unity of Creator lie He- Re deemer and Sanctifier C to bless the na national emblem and proper prosper the soy oy alters and their friends The thus ted consecrated was as then hoisted to tc the He lIe then adjusted the flag Hag to the I hal halyards ards and hoisted It to Its Iti post tion at the masthead 11 Captain ln Dri- Dri Drier Driver er er r overcome o with Ith emotion was as silent for tor a n moment Then as ns lie he looked aloft and saw w the flag nag which lie he 10 loved hosed ell so sowell sell ell In the breeze lie he e cc claimed c claimed Ill 1 Ii call her Old Glor Clary boys boy Old Glory I l And thus was as the Amer Amor lean flag christened with a new ne name n for tor he was as the first to use that th name and by y no DO other did lie he eer ev es cr er refer to It The voyage voy which was thus so ap tely Inaugurated carried the origInal Old Old Glory Glor Into many bar r bors throughout the and Into even more during the next six sears ears Captain Driver er sailed the seas During one of his voyages o ages Into the Orient he be had hul made a ses se's chest brass bound and decorated with Ith lI ds In which he lie placed the original Old Glory when hen It was as not floating at the masthead of his ship And this tills flag had an even en more thrilling later history than Its early one In III 1837 Captain ln Driver retired from the sea and went to Nashville 1 Tenn to make mahe hIs Ills home but when hen he sold his ship he did not sell Old Old Glory Safe In Its chest It went ent to Tennes Tennessee ee with him On patriotic occaSIOns and on his his- own birthday birthday- birthday St Patricks Patrick's day for he was born March 17 It 1803 1803 It was taken from the chest and flung to the breeze for tor all to see and to reverence re And Captain Cap Driver DIver r In Invariably ly saluted It with these words My My ly countr country my flag flag- flag Old Glor Glory e As the dispute bet between een the North and South became more Intense and the Cn Civil 11 war ar drew nearer and near near- nearer nearer nearer er Captain Driver er became IncreasIngly increasingly IncreasIngly unpopular with his neighbors In 1 because use of his outspoken devotion de to his country and his flag DurIng the Presidential campaign Old Old Glory Glori Glor was as displayed on a rope stretched from his home to a tree across the street but the bitterness or of that campaign brought to Captain I er sears ears unmistakable ble hints that his flag might wight be stolen or destroyed so he be bought another fla flag for display and retired Old Old Glor Glory once more to Its chest After the secession of Tennessee from the Union the captain began to fear for safety of lu his flag at the hands of the Confederates Confederate So he tool took It by b night to the house of a Union s sympathizer named Bailey and asked Mrs Bailee and her daughters Mar Mary and Patience to hl hide e It for him so that thit It could not be found and de- de destro de destroyed etl If It the Confederates Confederate searched his house At the time Mary Jary and Pa Patience Hence Billet Bailey were making a comfort padding It heavily hea lIy cotton and thus cu an Ideal hiding place So Co Captain Driver er folded Old Glor Glory placed place It bet between een the layers of cotton In the comfort where the Bailey Dalley girls tacked It In and ce sewed ell up the out out- outside outside side sille CO covering Again at night Captain Driver er took tool the comfort to his home bome and placed It In a large Iron wash kettle In the attic of ot his home There Old Glory Glori Glor stayed untIl Union troops troop occupied Nashville 1 In P 1862 Immediately there thereafter thereafter thereafter after Captain Dilver er and a group of soldiers ripped open the comfort tool took out the flag and hoisted It 0 over oser er the state capitol to the strains of the I Star Spangled Banner placed phed ph ed bi by b a regimental bund bund band It remained there for tor hours but hut so fearful was 5 Captain Driver pricer that his Ills flag tIng might even then be Injured by a n hostile hand that he stood guard 0 over er it day dy and night In Inthe Inthe Inthe the morning Old Glory was svgs taken down own and replaced with Ith another Amer cT v I IR R lean Ican flag By y this time It was wab a sery ery old much worn and the captain feared that a strong wind would whip It to pieces After tins tillS Old Glory Glori was Iris always al nys kept In the captains captain's house and late lata lataIn In his life he gave It to his daughter Mrs l M 1 J Roland of Nevada e where so far as Is known It still Is In 1007 the flag had become so worn orn that Mrs Roland placed It on a piece ot of sheetIng and stitched it fast to the cloth to pi esen e It for future gen generations of the family Captain Dris er en died March 2 and was as buried In Old City cemetery In I 1 sh file Jut Just as It was as a Yankee sei se captain which give gave to our flag It its name of ot Old Glory so It was that another a 1 a soldier Instead of a sailor olio however ho hoever ever ho took tool another Old Old Glory on one of the most romantIc expeditions e In our history Bates ates was w his name and he lie had served as color sergeant In iii the T Tw Twenty ent fourth Massa Massachusetts Massachusetts Massachusetts regiment during the Civil Ci war ar In 1872 Color Sergeant Bates had an Idea which bleh he proceeded to put into effect In a dramatic fashion At that time there was much talk In this country of the hostility of Great Britain toward the United States Determined to find out for himself whether this talk tall w was as fostered b politicians for their own selfish end ends or was a genuine antipathy Bates nates resolved to cross the Atlantic start tart from the northern border of and march to London Lon on bearIng bear bearIng lug Ing aloft an unfurled American fla fia just fla-just just as ns he had hall done on the battle battle- I fields of Gj Hl His reception by bythe bythe bythe the people of or England would show sho whether or not there was any founds foundation tion for tins tillS talk of John Bulls Bull's hos bos hostility toward Uncle Sam Clad In his uniform of blue Ser Sergeant geant Bates on November ember 5 Gus 5 Fawkes rn day and the annh anniversary ersary of the Battle of o left Inkerman-left burgh for Gretna Green At SarI SarI- bridge e on the border line betty bet between een scot scotland cot land and England he unfurled Old 01 1 Glory and stood beneath It with Ith un uncovered uncovered uncovered covered head Then hen he started on hits his march That evening e he tramped trampe Into nto Carlisle where here a group of or corn com trawlers travelers elers at the Bush hote gave him a heart hearty welcome Mon lort than that they sent word on ot of his strange pilgrimage and anti whee he dime came to the mining towns tows of Pen Penrith Penrith rith and Shop Shap great cro crowds crotis of or min miners miners ers were on hand to cheer him The warm welcome given gl Bites Bates there then was vas repeated In e every cry place which he trav tras clod The I ondon daily dall press prese gave ga space to the American soldier on DC De comber cember 2 A dense mass packed till the Guildhall yard where here a British sel sei nt ge ge int was as carrying Ing the st stint 1 and ard Bates was 8 borne on the shou shoulders der ders of ot men Into the tho cio ded Guild Guildhall Guildhall hall and und then linen back to the carriage 1 from which he lie made m a speech befort t his flay flag Bates reception In London was th Ii cro crowning touch to his 1 There Thereas was as no lon longer er any doubt o 0 John null Bull Bulls s friendliness to toward ard Sam at nt least so far as us the lie commo people of o Ln were ere I a by western N N Union 1 |