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Show y 11 KRIS Ih perhaps- no other spot In too IS country where the observance) f Memorial day In characterized by the significance of Gettysburg. No visitor i can traverse, at any aeuxon of the. year. Mthe Bcene of the greatest struggle I" the most moiiientuous civil war of all history and not gain ft new conception of the titanic forces which here enacted i tho climax of a Ilve-yeur war drama, but at Memorial day the lessons and the 1 significance of thin Immense battlefield" 1 seem to take on a yet deeper meaning. And yet to see it clothed In the fresh green of a twentieth century spring one would never suspect, ave for the reminders of the hundred of memorial In marble and granite bronze, that thin placid land-Rcaim land-Rcaim wan a scant half century ago tho locale of ono of tho fifteen declnlve battle In the world' his-tory. his-tory. It seems today a though It might have merely been choHen a a site for Memorial day services because of Ita natural beauty. Similarly would tho thoiiHaiid of patriotic pilgrims who wend their way thither every Decoration day he well Justified In the Journey were there no historic attractions whatever to draw them, for one might travel for day In UiIm -rt-ZZr aW,. UlTtJj J ' (sJMEMOMfil. DAY ADDRCtV AT CFTrYJniXC &7aJ1&Kj' b i.jfT J?Kf- i'- Y?i'Ttvjr fifacf-Tr "I ffrt Art, hit Jrhl -fV-w - JiVnK ll Vt MffG G 7TK58KG BATTLEFCLD , -4 fROi rnc tiwiMir or jxujno top teffe V.. 'fm!, THF fl02TRUrt WHrJiF MCMOMAL MY fXXCtif3 ARC HU3 burg battlefield la a single day. Of course on such a schedule be cannot can-not really study the geography with relation to il tho complex move-f move-f ments of the on-posing on-posing forces and there will be some association Incorporated by the legislature of Pennsylvania and this patriotic organization had expended more than $100,000, had acquired 600 acres of land and erected more thsn three hundred hun-dred monuments when In 1895 the congress of the Pnlted States provided for the establishment of Gettysburg National park and placed It under the direction of the secretary of war. A mugnlflient park has now been constructed which encloses the widest limits of the battlefield battle-field and the erection of memorials and markers still goes on. In the soldiers' cemetery alone more than four hundred memorial shafts and tablets and more than one thousand markers have been set up at a cost aggregating several million dollars. When the present scheme of roadwsys Is completed there will be between 100 and 150 miles of fine macadamized highway extending ex-tending to every part of the battlefield, while five Iron observation towers on various parts of the field enable sightseers to enjoy the blrdseye views which are so helpful In enabling one to understand the movements of the opposing forces that made up the far flung battle line. The cemetery. In dedicating which Abraham Lincoln delivered the Immortal address familiar to every American, originally contained the bodies of 3.D35 soldiers removed from all parts of the field, where they had been hastily burled. The number of graves has been greatly Increased since that date and there Is yet ample space for the veterans who may desire to rest at the scene of the supreme struggle between the I'nlon and the Confederacy. One of the features of the national cemetery Is the Ivy-clad rostrum a memorial shrine for the dead who sleep around It and which is used for the exercises held each j Memorial day. The battle of Gettysburg Is of such comparatively compara-tively recent date that vivid reminder of It are to be found on all sides. The little dwellings, occupied as headquarters by Generals Meade and I,r e respectively are yet standing in an excellent state of preservation; the earthworks on Cemetery Ceme-tery hill are yet Intact; Culp's hill still holds Its bullet scarred trees and 'he bullet-marked boulder boul-der are to be seen on every hand at the Devil's I)en. Plans have also been made for the accurate accu-rate restoration of those rortions of the field such ss the famous reach orchard which figured conspicuously In the battle, but were obliterated or lost much of their old time semblance In the days following the war and before the launching of the rrojrct for perpetuating the battlefield a one of the most Interesting object lessons of American history. A boon enjoyed by present-day visitors to Gettysburg Get-tysburg that will be sadly missed by those sightseers sight-seers who com a generation henre Is the presence pres-ence on the battlefield ss guides of veterans who participated In the thick of the lighting To hear these men recount their personal experiences and point out by the aid of undlmmcd memory eTery locality that figured ln the crucial battle of the war Is to gain an Impression more vivid snd thriving than can be hoped for by those who must depend for their knowledge of this military drama upon what they may have read la the histories. CAUSE. ".ant night ! dreamed I was desd." "It was a dreadful'y warm night, wann't It?" j sections of secondary importance which be will have to omit from his Itinerary, but on the whole he will have obtained a mental moving picture of the various Important localities marked by monuments monu-ments and cannon. To do the battlefield as thoroughly thor-oughly in a horse-drawn vehicle would require at least three or four days and a pedestrian might spend weeks on the battlefield without ever traversing tra-versing the same road twice except In going to the field and returning to hi hotel. As has been hinted above, It Is the battlefield and not the Memorial day exercises which throng Gettysburg at the end of May each year. Some years the program incident to Decoration day Is of a very simple character and there are not as many graves to be decorated as might be supposed by the person not conversant with the comparatively compara-tively small number of marked graves on Gettysburg Gettys-burg battlefield. Vet there are other occasions winn the exercises at Gettysburg focus the eyes of the entire country. Ti ls Is the case when the president of the I'nlted States deliver the address ad-dress of the day at Gettysburg, as President Taft did a couple of years ajo as President Roosevelt did berore him. and ss almost all of our president have done In their day since that memorable occasion occa-sion when President Lincoln dedicated the Gettysburg Get-tysburg battlefield cemetery with an address which hss gone down Into history as the most eloquent, the most Impressive and the most enduring en-during of the many tribute pronounced bjr the martyr president. The audience which face a president or other public man at Gettysburg Invariably Impresses the distinguished orator. It I n assemblage obviously made up largely of the farming class and It is apt to be lerni demonstrative than the arplaudlng crowds that are encountered In factor) towns, but It Is a body of men and women who pay such close attention to the address of which they are auditor and who so manifestly represent repre-sent the sober, so'ld, Intelligent sentiment of our national community as to Inspire the best effort of the speakers. It is In the character of these Gettysburg audiences ss well a In the Inspiration Inspira-tion of the historic surroundings that we may find the Incentive to the significant utterances affecting the general policy of the nation which have from time to time been given expression by our chief magistrates In Memorial day addresses at Gettysburg. Gettysburg rsnks as the most elaborately and accurately marked battler.e'd In the world, having more monuments and memorial than all other battlefields combined. The position of every body of troops In the union srmy e?d of most of those comprising the confederate force have been clearly outlined by distinctive landmarks and the maneuver of the wonderful battle may be traced by all who desire to study this masterpiece of strategy and military science. The work of preserving pre-serving the battlefield ss es grrife -t an country or abroad without finding a more picturesque pic-turesque or more richly verdant rolling country th:in Is en braced In the woi derful nanor una which spreads out at the feet of the sightseer as he gazes from the summit of Little Hound Top (he commanding position of this whole K'eat battlefield. Hut for all Its natural beauty It Is the sentiment 3f Its historic background that serves as the ningnet which draws a great throng thither from H sections of the country on Memorial day. They come by trnln although Gettysburg 's not Ihe most accessible of historic spots; they eonie by earrliigo and wagon from a wide radius of the rirh Pennsylvania farming region that surrounds sur-rounds the battlefield; and finally they come by automobile, for. so It is explained, Gettysburg has become of late year a most popular objecth u with motor tourists who find In the great park or reservstlon which now perpetuate the battlefield battle-field a network of the finest roads In America highways which It Is a sheer delight to motor over even with no thought (If one could dlsmlssi the subject) of the historic objects and localities to be viewed by the wayside. The Memorial day pilgrims who Journey to the iverage Civil war battlefield or national reino-tery reino-tery for the annual strewing of flowers are one-lay one-lay visitors who arrive after dawn and depart before sunset. Put this I not wholly the L-asa it Gettysburg, although many heavy laden excursion excur-sion trains do arrive during the Memorial day. In h dd It loo to this throng, however, there Is one almost as numerous made up of persons who srend from two days to a week at Gettysburg snd who have come at the Memorial day schhIou b.vnuse there Is an added touch of ren'tsm to Ihe scenes at that time when veterans In bine sie tramping over the roads where counties thousands of their fellows advanced and retreated during the memorable days of battle. These visitors overflow th hotels, of which Gettysburg !iss an unusual number for so small a town, and aetupy all the available room ln the rrlvate houses of the little city. The situation would wHinp the liverymen did the conditions of a decade sgo still prevail, but happily the advent jf the automobile has helped matter In this re-srect. re-srect. Many of the visitors ride over the b.tttle-fliid b.tttle-fliid In their own touring cars, whereas the car for hire relieve the strain upon the four hnre ind six horse roaches which continue ss of yore the regulation mode of touring the battlefield. Incidentally It may be added that the Introduction Introduc-tion of the motor car ha greatly facilitated things for the tourist who I desirous of seeing Gettysburg battlefield In the limited time for which American are famous In tt.elr sightseeing. Indeed by keeping cortinually on the road from morning in:II night, with only a brief stop for lunch, a -o'nrWt tar obtain an excellent idea of Gettys- |