New Britain Herald Newspaper, September 18, 1915, Page 9

Photos by American Press Association. “"l—Major General Grenville M. Dodge. 2.—Admiral Hugo Osterhaus, U. S. N. retired, who will take a prominent part: and represent his aged father. 8—The grand review as it marched up Pennsylvania avenue in May, 1865, showing the victorious Union soldiers returning. 4.—Colonel John McElroy. 5—E. R. Monfort of Ohio, candidate for commander in chief of G. A. R. 6—G. A. R. vets and boy scouts photographea at last reunion. 7~Colonel David J. Palmer of lowa, commander in chief G. A. R. N the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the grand review, which will be one of the principal features of the forthcoming annual encampment of the Grand Army of the i Republic to be held in Washington, | Sept. 27 to Oct. 3, 40,000 marchers will pass in line before the president of the United States and his cabinet. The grand review of the victorious veterans of the civil war which oc- curred in Washington immediately fol- lowing the close of the great struggle was one of the most spectacular mili- ¢ tary incidents in the history of the world. It was the most impressive pageant which had ever occurred in warfare up to that time, and elaborate preparations have been made by the old soldiers to commemorate it at their coming encampment. 3 The line of march will be from the capitol to the White House, along his- toric Pennsylvania avenue, which to- day presents a vastly different appear- ance from what it was a half century ago, when the returning warriors pass- ed in grand review before President Jolnson, his cabinet and the general staff of the army. It will rival any in- augural parade which the city has ever witnessed. The greater portion of the marchers will be veterans of the blue, most of whom participated in the march fifty years ago, but it will also include those who belonged to various army corps which did not take part in the conclud- ing event of the civil war. Augment- ing the veterans will be the Sons of Vetem\ns and kindred organizations, as well as troops from the regular army, members of the marine corps, sailors from battleships, cadets and independ- ent military bodies, as well as civilian escorts. Many Notables to Be There. Colonel John McElroy, past senlor vice commander in chief of the G. A. R., who is regarded by his comrades as a veritable living encyclopedia of the civil war, its men and events, has compiled a roster of the noted figures of the sixties who are expected to at- tend the big encampment. It is inter- esting to note in this connection that the two surviving corps commanders of the civil war, Major General Gren- ville M. Dodge of Council Bluffs, Ia., and Major General James H. Wilson of Wilmington, Del, are expected to be present. General Dodge commanded the noted Sixteenth corps. General Wilson commanded all the cavalry be- tween the Alleghany mountains and the Mississippi river. Details of his troop- ers swept down through Alabama and Mississippi at the close of the war and captured Jefferson Davis. At the head of the list of division commanders is Major General Peter Joseph Osterhaus, who has been living for many years at Mannheim, Ger- many. At the time of the encampment of the G. A. R. he will go to Wash- ington to visit his son, Admiral Hugo Osterhaus, U. S. N., retired, and will greet comrades of fifty years ago. Gen- eral Osterhaus stood among the splen- did German officers who came to this country to serve the cause of the Union. Another noted division commander who is expected to greet his former soldiers at the encampment is Major General David McN. Gregg, who is au- ditor general of Pennsylvania. He commanded with great credit one of Sheridan’s cavalry divisions. Major General Adelbert Ames, who commanded a division of the Tenth corps, distinguishing himself at Fort Fisher, and who afterward was gov- ernor of Mississippi and later senator from that state, js living in retirement in Massachusetts and is expected to at- tend the encampment. Others who are on the roster of prospective visitors are Admiral George Dewey, who was one of Admiral Far- ragut’s young officers, gaining distinc- tion in the attack upon Port Hudson; Major General Nelson A. Miles, who entered the service as first lieutenant and became colonel of the Sixty-first New York volunteers, and who, as a brigade commander, delivered at Sun- derland's Station, Va., the momentous blow that cut General Lee's last rail- road connection and compelled the sur- render of Petersburg and Richmond; Admiral Colby M. Chester, a young offi- cer of Farragut's squadron; Lieutenant General S. B. M. Young, who rose from an enlisted man to be colonel and brevet brigadier general, and then en- tered the regular army, being retired in 1904 with the rank of lieutenant gen- eral. He is now governor of the United States Soldiers’ home at Washington. General John L. Clem, quartermaster corps, United States army, the last sur- vivor of the civil war in the active list of the army, who retired the other day, is taking a lively interest in the ar- rangements for the encampment. Gen- eral Cleia was baptized in the fire of battle as a drummer boy in the san- guinary contest at Shiloh. He had many thrilling experiences and because of his undaunted valor in the “hor- nets’ nest” at Chickamauga Generals Rosecrans and Thomas bestowed upon him the title “Drummer Boy of Chick- amauga,” which he proudly wears to this day. Prior to the battle of Chicka- mauga he wore the cognomen “Johnny Shiloh.” Another drummer boy of the civil war who will be present is Abram Springsteen, who was but ten years of age when he entered the service. He will have charge of a drum, fife and bugle corps of 100 sons and grandsons of Union veterans in the grand review at the G. A. R. encampment. Major General J. Warren Keifer of 15 ‘ D) Ohio has promised to attend the en- campment. He wore the double stars of his rank in two wars and Is still active. He commanded a brigade and division in the fighting Sixth corps in the civil war and was commander of a division of the Seventh Army corps in the war with Spain. General Keifer served several terms in congress and was one time speaker of the house of representatives. He declared recently that he is ready and willing to go to war again for Uncle Sam if his services are needed. Submarines on Exhibit. Submarines and swift running tor- pedo boat destroyers will be taken to Washington by the navy department to add a special feature to the series of events. Secretary Danlels is de- sirous that the old veterans shall be afforded an opportunity to see some of the implements of modern warfare in order to show by contrast with those which were in use a half century ago the progress which has been made “ Belgian Relief Commission Feeding Bread Line 600 Miles In Length | #records. HE commission for relief in Belgium is the biggest com- missary undertaking the world has ever seen. It feeds 7,000,- , 000 people with foodstuffs drawn from \collection centers from 3,000 to ‘8,000 * miles distant from the point of dis- tribution. When we realize not only that the workers represent 100,000 vol- unteer laborers, but that the members of the organization include some of the ablest business and financial men in the world, that five governments are concerned and nearly every country is making its contribution, it is sur- prising that we have had only glimpses here and there of so vast a business. There are between 140 and 150 re- lief ships that are allowed by the Brit- ish, French and German admiralties safe conduct to Rotterdam from vari- ous ports in the United States as well as other countries. Members of the commission are granted immediate audience with the pabinet ministers of Europe, and the German military authorities issue spe- cial passes allowing members and agents of the commission the right of ‘ree movement in Belgium. All ships unload at Rotterdam. The arrival of a ship having been an- nounced, floating elevators are sent along either side the moment she has dropped anchor in the lower port. Out- side of these flouting elevators are 300 lighters or barges. These barges are to carry the wheat or foodstuffs by ca- nal to their destinations in Belgium. An accurate account is kept of each barge, or car—a few freight cars are used in the eastern part—as it passes the various stations. The speed with which this work is done is ahead of all A 9,000 ton ship loaded with wheat can be emptied in thirty-six hours on 300 barges, which are imme- diately towed by tugs through the ca- nals into Belglum. The Dutch govern- ment furnishes all facilities for unload- ing these ships. There are in Belgium 120 principal warehouses to which food is shipped from Rotterdam. From these it is re- ghipped to small detailed districts or communes, there being in Belgium 32,- 000 communal centers. ‘One often hears statements that make It appear as if the greater part the . population of Belgium were her killed or had left their country 5 RIS Photos by American Press Assoclation. A Belgian bread line (top) and (below) one of the refugees and soldiers distributing food to the hungry. at the time it was taken possession of by the Germans. This, however, is only because nearly 1,000,000 refugees fleeing from a country at one time make a great impression upon the world. There were in Belgium in Oc- tober last about 7,800,000 people, and there now remain a little less than 7,000,000, since the days when the @ men and their brothers bore arms. The fact is appreciated i of its successful operation waters at the present ¥ marine is the most talked & present day warfare, yetJ veterans of the ecivil seen one. An effort is also being one or more hydroplanes in for exhibition purposes. 4 It is also the intention of ment to take there the old} now at Charleston, 8. C., B the appearance she bore in the civil war, when she was ship of Admiral Farragut. The navy and the marine also be represented by th personnel and probably so vessels of the Atlantic fleet. possible for the bluejackets and to be sent to Washington, have on similar occasions, by steamer to remain during th the parade and form an imp of the escort of the veterans. department contemplates dofs the honor of the G. A. R. m their friends who will be p large numbers, but, as in the the representation of the not regarded as advisable to h large a demonstration lest it\ in a numerical way from the p of the celebration, the survive civil war. MODERN SURGERY ADVANCED 100 YEARS BY EXPERIENCES IN THE EUROPEAN MID the carnage and slaughter of the European war modern surgery has.advanced a cen- tury. Operations that had never been conceived by the keenest and most brilliant minds of world fa- mous surgeons are accomplished in the military hospitals today by the youth- ful doctors who but recently have been graduated by American and European schools and universities. Operations which are described in no textbooks are the most prosaic duties that the sur- gical staffs of the great European hos- pital fulfill every day. To Americans thousands of miles away from the war front and millions of thoughts away from anything that savors of the bellicose situation in Eu- rope these operations possess an ele- ment of the fantastic and romantic that make us marvel at the wizardry of those giants in white. But to the vic- tim and his savior in the hospitals, where the odor of the anesthetic is in- cense on the altar of professional de- votion and sacrifice, these facts are but the humdrum, conventional, day in and day out affairs that rob war of victims and give science an opportunity to triumph over the destructive engine of war., Think of transforming a man's body to conceal the physical discrepancies that come in the wake of personal war- fare. It is a victory for medical sci- ence that makes for the future of the great profession. Without the war it might have required 100 years to ac- complish in surgery these plain tales of the operating table. And to conceive, too, that all these major operations are performed while the patient is under the influence of only a local anesthetic is something to marvel at. For a man to see himself made over, perfectly conscious of the workmanship and skill of the operating surgeon, and watching the latter's handiwork accomplish the unbelievable is a forward step whose value is not to be ignored. Wonderful is the local an- aesthetic that accomplishes this mar- velous conquest of pain and suffering. The anesthetic is applied about the in- jured part, and there is a deadening of all fecling. The patient while perfectly conscious witnesses the operation and watches himself transformed into ap- parently one whole human plece again. In every war hitherto disease has killed more men than have been slain in battle, but it is not going to be so in the great conflict now in progress, for sclience, armed with new knowledge, has entered the fleld and is prepared to fight the germs which are so justly dreaded as destroyers of armies. Take lockjaw, for example. This malady, so extremely fatal, has al- ready made its appearance among the troops of the allies, but it will be quickly checked because the surgeons Photo by American Press Assoclation. the bacilli produce, This i Jected in repeated doses into of a horse. quantity of the animal’ Then, after a blood ¥ |off into a glass vessel and the | part of it (the red portion being] ed to settle to the bottom) is The French and Bril diers are now being inocul this preventive serum on & toxin. scale. 1t is altogether possible fetching of the native troops fi dia may cause mischief to Birdseye view at the front of surgeon operating on a wounded sold have newly found out what causes it, and they are provided with a rv‘:ld_\" preventive. They know that the germs of the disease are carried in the intes- tines of the horses and thus distribute the infection. If the germs find their way into a wound lockjaw is likely to follow, but, oddly enough, as it might seem, the horse itself is made to furnish the cure. Through a filter is strained a “culture” of the microbes, which are thereby eliminated, the fluid thus purified con- taining only the specific poison which far outweighing in importane value of military auxiliaries, f is the home of Asiatic cholera, may have brought this frights with them. As far back as proved by the Koch com the delta of the Ganges ¥ source from which the malady It is permanently estabMshed region now, as for ages in the at intervals spreads many parts of which was people died of it in Russia. a from the world, “cholera - yeanh w ]