Show FLAG WITH HISTORY IIugh H Tarbct Flies BattleTorn Banner From His House Flag Day Generally Observed An old flag waved before a house on East Third South Ktreet yesterday As the wind caught Its llgU folds and spread to view the red 1 < 1 and white stripes ragged holes were revealed and the stains of time and battle The thirteen stars in tIme field of blue did not glisten as the stars of night t There were many newer handsomer brighter flags suspended < 1 before neighboring houses but the owner of this old worn banner I would not have cxhanged Us I discolored discol-ored foIdK for all the brighter bunting in the world To L him It Is more than a mere ling It J Is a symbol of st romlnlsocncc of four gloriouy years of sirvico It speaks to him of days of turmoil I and nights of olcoplofls vigil of comrade gone beyond be-yond recall or scenes of strife and 1 carnage car-nage and then tho law rollcall when news of pen cOllie flashing from ihc piaccful village of Appomntlox Courthouse Court-house I IIUKh H Tnrbel Is the owner of the priceless r banner and It has boon In his possession sinoc the I close of the Civil war The flag wnt 1 made In 1SG2 by u I pallor on board the I1 S steamer Oc torn rla connected with the West India I In-dia rquadron The following yoar Jt went from Key West to New York at the masthead of the prize steamer Eagle Ea-gle Then It flew from the IT r S steamer Honduras I of tlie West Gulf squadron and a year later waved encouragement en-couragement to the soldiers of Hankss Ijted river expedition from the skamei Went port of the MlFslnslppi squadron The expedition ended injuriously lout the flag was transfornjd to the Forest Rose of the Mississippi I sumdron where It remained until t pence wai declared de-clared It was I hen presented by Capt A N Gould of the Forest Rose < to Mr Tarbct the present owner who had served on the I Ohilllcothc the Benton and the Naumkeag of the Mississippi squadron Mr i Tnrbers rnoI Intimate friend Lieut I Charles WebUer > was killed by a mlnle ball which lore a Jagged hole In one of the mrlpcs of the old flag Flag day was generally observed throughout the city the National colors being suspended from all the public buildings and a largo number of business busi-ness houses and residences No zipccial celebration of the event was attempted but the G A R men were much grail fled over the readiness l with which the idea was carried out by the people |