The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 4, 1904, Page 11

N UNDAY. CALL. gest attzcks shirtwaist e must foliow fash Docs Sarah Bernhardt . Who e = eer. beautif common se must me except mus' r the sov- air for many ity as it is in »ul to its profoundest pths by the grand passions through lium of sound, has at last suc- stival Music Hall at the i's Fair in St. Louis there is now » be seen the largest organ ever built strument ‘was designed and Los Angeles, Cal. Fleming's electro-pneumatic m is ed for producing many marvelous is mighty organ there are 19.059 s, and from wvarious combinations hese sounding piper there can be roduced 17,189,869,183 distinct tones, -— ) & Utstie-Po organ virtuoso to make it respond with anything like the volubility of which it is capable. Of the 10,000 odd pipes over 2 thousand are utilized for the sole pur- pose of imitating stringed instru- ments and to make these give forth the proper sound the pipes are madz2 of pure tin. The electrical equipment for oper- ating, controlling and actuating all the complex mechanism involved in this instrument includes two ten horse- power motors for working the bel- lows and a special motor of one ani one-half horsepower for driving the bellows of the echo organ. The elec- tro-pneumatic system of the organ contains thirteen hundred magnets for manipulating the key and draw stop actions. In these magnets 130 miles of wire was used. There are five automatic electric swell engines for actuating the swell shutters, and there are more than > th {-« sitor the first view of this Wonderfully impressive, since It is as ments being 62 feet in length, 40 feet its 140 stops and 329 movements and 7000 electric circuits controlling the nerkable instrument of sound is large as a house, its exact measure- in height and 33 feet in width. With 10,000 pipes it will require the greatest varied mechanical devices . L = 3 . MONUMENTS FOR i ! FIELD OF ANTIETAM < - S ¥ —f | | CASUALTIES OF UNION FORCES AT BATTLE OF ANTIETAM. ETTEIE e T g Killed. | Wounded. | Captured R T | Officers| Men. |Officers.| Men. [Officers.| Men Total | TFist Army Co 25 92 | 100 | 1981 | .. | 28% ond - Army ( 63 820 188 | 867 | 3 5,138 - 1 s | | . | 2 ) 100 | af sl 3 430 8 108 | =z | 234 63 1323 | e 1,748 i = | | 4 | 1 oms | 7 6 | 12.410 i as 87.104 batfle of Antietam and fits small prede- ualties Killed, 1842; w e 939, and the total given is an und nate. l h at Antietam varied from 45000 when the battle started 70,000 at ' A S—Y N Saturday, September 17, the work ordered. The commission con- survivors of the men who battled ferred with the survivors of the differ- on the bloody field of Antietam €nt commands, designs of suitable mon- will revisit the scene of that aw- Uments were asked for and submitted ful strife. On that day, with cere- and a contract was finally monies that will fit the occasion, th will be unveiled and dedicated handsome granite shafts—one in com- memoration of each command; thir- teen in all, says th=s Philadelphia North American. e These shafts will be erected on the spot where each: command encoun- tered the most desperate opposition to its advance and thus, forty-two vears after the struggle the part that Pennsylvania’s volunteers played in that bloody .battle will be suitably memorialized. Preparations for that day's ceremo- nies are in charge of the Antietam Battlefield Commission of Pennsylva- nia. On the 14th of April, 1903, Gov- ernor Pennypacker approved an act creating this commission and appro- priating $32,500 for the purchase of the thirteen monuments authorized to be erected by it. The commission as appointed con- sists of Joseph W. Hawley of Media. president: Oliver C. Bosbyshell of Philadelphia, secretary, and Willlam J. Bolton of Philadelphia. The thirteen commands that partic- ipated in the battle and whose deeds are to be commemorated are: 4fth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. 4Sth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. h Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Gist Pennsylvania Voluntcer Infant 10Cth Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry 12ith Pennsy vania Volunteer Infantry Ivania Volunteer Infantry. 125th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. 120th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. 1324 Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. 137th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. 12th Pennsylvania Volunteer Cavalry. Durell's Battery of Artillery. Survivors Chose Designs. Immediately after the passage of the act and the appointment of the com- mission steps were taken to execute the ‘These are all of similar ¢ sisting of a pedestal and s ill bear a suitable inscription, and the coat-of-arms of Pennsylvania cast n bronze will be placed upon each. In grouping them they will be so arranged upon the battlefleld as to_ bear eloquent testimony to the part Pennsylvania's troops played In the desperate struggle. The programme for the dedicatory ceremonies is an elaborate one. The in- dividual monuments will Be dedicated between the hours of 9 a. m. and 12 o’clock noon on September 17. Each command will have charge of the cere- monies for the dedication of its own monument, and the programmes will vary. President Expected There. The general dedication will take place at 2 o'clock in the national cemetery at Sharpsburg and will be In charge of the commission. The President of the United States, with the Govesmers of Pennsylvania and Maryland, are ex- pected to be presemt and make ad- dresses. On behalf of the commission an ad- dress will be made recounting in detail the achievements of the Pemnsylvania troops, and the monument will be turned over to the United States Gov- ernment’s Antietam Battlefleld Com- mission by President Hawley of the commission. Battle of Antietam. Fought September 16 and 17, 1862. Federal forces commanded by Mec- Clellan. Confederate forces commanded by Lee. Total men engaged on both sides, about 157,000. Result—Union victory. PEflectll—lre'- ::npofled invasion of 'ennsylvania abandoned; emanecipa- tion proclamation made possible.