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By GETTYSBURG BLUE FLASHES TO GR Veterans Wig-Wag Messages of Voy From Round Top to Manassas in War Code. + REVELRY ON LAST DAY. Nightshirt Procession Precedes Happy Fourth—Camp e.. Broken. » BATTLEFIELD, GETTYSBURG, duly 6.—The livest memories ra are those of fifty years ago or \more. But a longer memory than that fs needed to reach back to the [} memory of such a reception as Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States, had from the tag end O{ this celebration. There are here hy men who have made a business of following Presidents for the last thirty years, None of them ever Saw anything like it. Prepared with @a address which should have thrilled evgry man and woman who Reard it, Mr. Wilson went fiat. ” Bome say there was resentment among ‘the Gve thousand veterans in his audl- nee because he shifted in his original Beceptance of the invitation to come here. He sald he would attend early in the week; said he would not come; then he came, To one who went to the meeting ex- Becting it to be the roaring climax of a heart-bursting werk the thing could Rot be accounted for by any such ex- Blanation. The President had not mpoken more than two hundred words afore his face, the tone of his voloe and his carriage showed that he felt the Memk chill all about him. The big sentences rolled into vacancy. began to go out The President along he last sentences of his @peech and seemed to sigh with relief ‘when it was done. SVIDENCE OF STRAIN ON OLD ‘There could be no stronger evidence Of the strain which has rested on the Dearte of the men who have been on eld for the last seven days. fitth infantry band went swi: it from the Federal camp at half- Total for Three Days in Stimulous to Better Care ference whatever with the throngs of ®ager parents anxious to register their bables in the big Better Babiey Con- test now under way at Public School No, 91, Brook; fathers began to arrive, in prize.’ mothers were in line to register little John or Louls, or Margaret or Kate, ang &t noon, the closing hour, 106 tots and been added to the list of entries, of Extension Association workers ail on hand, each enthusiastically pro- claiming that this was the best Fourth of July ever. applications from outside our contest istrict. Some of them came from as fer away as really I'm too busy to talk," laughed Miss Brown ai of mothe many questions to ask. | to the contest headquarters yesterday was Father Giovanni, Nearby Italian church. The Evening World reporter. Decause it teaches the mothers how to take care of their little ones. feed them, how to dre make them comfortable and happy, how to keep ‘them healthy. comes here, has her baby weighed, is told whether it ie too thin or too fat, ts told everythinz about the baby that « mother should know, and she gets her information trom experts, information. This work ts not only edu- o'clock of the Fourth, in the half dawn. They played “Dixie” and “Marching Through Georgia. From tent after tent came grizaled men nightshirts, pajamas or plain underclothes and yelled and fell in line and marched behind them. Old men gad young, with their arms about each other, danced on the grass Nothing Cfazier than that band parade in the @eawn Bent ever happened. Nobody Knows exactly why It happened. The band men say that “they heard the and was ordered out and sc got up @nd dressed and fell in.” Nobody in @uthority “ordered them out. It was daybreak of July 4 after the Greatest love feast in nineteen hundred Years and the band simply had spon- a ike everybody elve. ‘They walked straight as ramrods, grave only a band musician can be grave, unmindful of the wild idiots who were capering and yelling in a whirling mul- titude. They came up through Lo: Lane to the plaga in front of Gen. Lig. @ett's tent. The General came boiling e@ut in his pajamas, making a noise like @ machine gun in action, Then he saw what was going on and laughed and clapped his hands. The solemn band wheeled and marched back the General and everybody else went hack to bed, The President of the United States did not make much of any difference, more or less, ‘ofter they woke up. humble opinion of at least one observer it was that all-inspired, looney, daylight x Mr. Wilgon's speech. Or, at any {t was the spirit which was expressed by the outbreak. ‘The working of this reunion has been been beyond anything expected. We have been talking for years about the brotherhood of the Blue and the Gray. In the last four Gays that talk has all come true. ‘The gency.t tiredness has hit every- thing and cverybody except the United “y Btates Army. The army is tending the sick, feeding the healthy, loading rell- road trains and taking down tents ai though such proceedings as those since Monday were really part of the business of being prepared for war. But it ha: not for e moment forgotten ys r feelings. Just at noon Gen. Liggett, in white and gold, appeared in front of his tent facing the great flag in the middle of the camp and stood at attention, Thirty feet in front of him Lieut. Buckner stopped short in his tracks. Lieut. Saunders, who had been working 9, over his accounts, appeared rigid at the flat of his tent. No word of ‘Gen, Lai get's order for five minutes of allence in respect for the flag had gone abroad in tho camp except to =. re.slar army men, Nevertheless the spirit of it was in.the air, From ridge to ridge across the tented field old men drew themselves up with knees and heels together and with thelr arms stiffly held at thelr sides, Forty-eight guns spoke the feeling Which Blue and Gray, young and old, could not nave found voice to utter, GEN, SICKLES DENIES HE'S EVEN AR DEAD. Gen. Daniel Sickles came Into town to deny the rumor that he was dead. ‘Tho late Mark Twain once hgd occasion cational, charity the excellent women and public spirited physicians wi.o are giving so much of thelr time to the contest. TROOPS CHARGE RIOTERS 5.-Rioting connected with the gene! crashing of windows, shouting and the to-eay to: the’publiic that the rumors of ‘ , . % o ; 3 Ms 4 ai ie “SRE BVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, SULY 65, 101 “PEACE ON EARTH” |106 Mothers Celebrate by Entering wr 4 ___ Babies in Great Health Prize Contest First District Reaches 376, With Some Turned Away Because They Live Outside Boundary Limite. of Children a Blessing to His Parish, Says a Priest—Finds Mothers Are Eager to Learn and Win Awards. The glorious Fourth made no ait. As early at 8 A. M, Precious bit of humanity that “gure to win an Evening World By 9 the opening hour, seventy Miss Georgiana Brown and her staft re “There were only twelve things that el @ little bit unhappy to- & bottle carefull: RG unable to aurse Bond street and Bay Evidently the contest is or st amount of interest and—bdut | Ite best chance j learn how, | your baby, and How Babies Will Be Judged For Health Contest Prizes ‘The chief object of the Better bies’ Contest is to teach mothers how to make and keep their babies healthy physically and mentally. Prises are awarded om health points only. Mere beauty of face OF Physique does not count, ‘The mother first registers her baby. she turned to a group who evidently had a great nearest milk One of the most interested visitors CAR; REBO! pastor of the “This is a great work, he sald to “Great Its good and bad points are carefully set down on @ score card and learn just what deficiencies she has to cor- score card at glance gives the right ana f every part of the baby, and doctors amd auvses to what treatment the oh{ia for the first series of prises the mother WE PRIER. How to them, how to ‘Third fourth avenue, The mother ibule, Nursing Baby F vorite In Health Prize Race Bhe is inter ———— after the holida: the mangled bo¢ of the arma tor 01 ot 1 of but the most practical kind See ee 4 I cannot praise too highly tempt to open I will com- in Daily Health Talk. a fees F treet about 230 A. M. to-da: young man Jumped from the front vest- He struck against a rebounded against the car and became entangled in the machinery, Several women on the car, returning ‘The victim was later identified from Afa: Out Two Wome: MARY DONOVAN ly prepared. I will tell you In another talk how to fix milk and take care of the bottles when you are your baby. “But if you want to give your baby to live and be strong, nurse it if possible, The best way to whet and why to nurse w to keep yourself, In the dest shape to do so, Is to go to the ation for advice.’ |HITS POST IN LEAP FROM UNDS, IS KILLED. Young Man Caught | Unaer the Wheels When He Jumps From Moving Trolley. As a Fort George car, southbound on was nearing Ninety- ‘1 piliar, fainted as they say dy drawn out with one n from its socket. Mo- Rowan said he had no idea the passenger meant to alight be- re the car stopped, and had mude no the door for him. Joh: 8 mend it highly to my parishioner Waleh, nineteen years old, of cerea nt TE babies have teen text] CH ity Nourished by Own Mother Has Rest Chance| "<2 — isk OL Manan Reece for Life, Strength and Size, Says Dr. Baker SPRINTS ON WHEEL, SAVES 3. Two women and a child narrowly es- | INTO PRATES BOLD i DIE ARMSDEN, MID ae WHO TURNED PIRATE Bis TO SAVE CHOW DOG. ag CHOW DOG SAILOR AND MASTER TURN Lost Overtoard at Sea, They Float and Float Until They Wagon and One Is Shot See a Chinese Jur:k. ‘ It Is Believed. LONG, EXCITING CHASE. a » ND OH! HOW DARK! | But They Capture the Ship and Use It to Find Their Own —Pup Confirms Story. | Constable of Hempstead Re- news Fight After Being Balked by Revolver. ‘The British freighter Indrani ties at her moorings in Bush Stores, having aboard a cargo of Far East merchan- | dise and the tale of a dog and a mid- ashipmite. The ship news reporter had hardly aqrambled over the side than Wau greeted by the twd heroes in thrilling an adventure as ere befalls men who go down to the sea in ships, | And if it hadn't been for Capt. J. C. Pilcher’s dog, Fluffy, there would not have been a tale. Fluffy is half fox and half Chinese chow. He was brought aboard one night in Shangha! and has never left the ship but once since. That once made the tale, During the years that Fluffy has been on the Indrani he has travelled @ total of 210;000 miles, Two years ago Edward J. Armeden Joined the ship as a midshipman, and he and Fluffy became chums. The Indrani was one day out of Ma- nila and heading for Hong Kong. The burning sun had been swallowed by the sea and the afterglow made the wat: shimmer like molten metal. Sugdenly, and for no apparent reason, Fluffy went over the side, Almost instantly the quartermaster on the bridge sang out, ‘Man overboard!” and the midshipmite, with a dive as clean as a whistle, went over the rail, striking the water within & dozen feet of the struggling chow. Some one threw a life preserver and the ship swept by. In a few strokes the midshipmite had reached the dos, and when he had gotten into the white, floating ring, Armsden took a survey of the situation. The Indrani id been stopped about half a mile astern, and the midshipmite could see a boat being lowered. He saw the boat swung from A dattle with post-office cafe Mowers ‘Was the exciting finish of a cross coun: try chase made jn his own autemesiio by Constable Thomas W. Murray of Hempstead, L. 1, after he ressived Word from Seaford that three reteers. had taken off to dry, After a bit the steamer ‘begins ¢0 slow down and awung alongside. They dropped der by any Jumps for the ladder the junk and wam scrambling iron aside of the steamer when some- thing whissed by my ear and struct ‘the steel plates with a crash, One at the Chinamen had domed his knife ‘at me In farewell, ' “The wteamer was the British tramp Ambrio and she was bound for Hong- kong, When ‘Fluffy’ and me aboard the Indrani a few Aays tater they thought they were seeing things.” ‘Well, that was certainly a wonder: dul sdventure,” said ¢he ship news re port "Oh, nothing (o epeak of—mothing at in fact,” replied the midshipmite, with @ bored expression, postin be vocally FIGHTS HIS RESCUER AND IS KNOCKED OUT. Recreation Pier Life Saver Nearly Drowned by Man Struggling in East River. Kdward J. Kelly, one of the Recres- tlon Pier corps of life savers, saw & man huffetting a strong tide the Kast River to-day opposite Metropolitan avenue. Kelly, in ols swimming bears the worst of It wan that there wasn't a/ Gove into tha Fiver ay dane tar tn the sky. Well, I being to sink] tow the man ashore, the latter vigor- and Fluffy bexan to! sisly pummelied the life saver, Kelly ntl i Th iit i i ref i f H HH i i Hf | i dl g ; 5s i i | $C RARK HE FELT BLINDFOLDED ON THE SEA, “Why, It was just like as if some one had thrown a coat o1 my head, it was that dark," sald the middy. “And f i d i H | H 5 H i Hi i y Fy = i} ; : i ind after w bit I heard a faint re. man’ inte te let go his hold ahd reflirned the from the boat. I began to yell gow with auch enthusiaem that the weeds again, but this time I got no answer.| iow was knocked unconsctous. . Wan I scared? Well, I should way. began to yell like a diman, and Fluffy, whom I was holding againat my life saving crew at- battle in the river, The crew found Meantime tl tracted by thi hurried to the rescue. chest with my left arm, howled in ching the man's long chorus. But not an answer did we get. Bale en were hauled aboard,|#ehelas Haasen, Supposed te Be “Well, alr, I yelled until 1 couldn't] Key's victim was unconscious, but Insane, Becapes From Custody. nd Fluffy barked until he almost split and then he began to lick my face to comfort me. That was the revived. Kelly required @ doctor's A genera! alarm has degn sent out attention. from Poltce Headquarters for Nichojse IN JOHANNESBURG STREETS;) wre vavy that witt stand the vest escent and pure. You can never tel!|caped death when fire destroyed the) longest and worst night I ever hope to Garparen years, ance No. 18T perder temper edradlneper gash) FOUR KILLED, FIFTY HURT, | “nance °% sinning prize In the Bette the Winget ek is OF not. Even | home and barns of Benjamin Welrauoh,| PUt thfough. And, way, it was black. | signth avenue, Gerbert wae leading 8! Wednesday at No. 28 Went Thirtge , *| Babies’ contests 1s °the DRO teat eee eee earetrme cannot als | a‘tarmer of Clifton, N. J. shortly before| “We must have been in the water six| horse along the pler of the American sisth treet. No trace has been found nourished by its own mother, sald Dr. Impure yee spree Nothing ets) ist midnight. The fire started in one] OF seven hours, for I figured it was sust| gugar Refining Company when the horse! o¢ the missing man since. He waa & JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, July |S: Josephine Baker, Director of one than cow's milk. Even ite espe of the barns and spread to the hou: ibid ne aoe btuaserys 2 20'reared and Gerbert was thrown Into! sastry chet in the Hotel Kimball; Hygiene, Department of Health, to-day. “1 want to say to all you mothers nurse your baby if you possibly can. when you get it, you cannot tell how Jong It will stay so. “To feed your baby milk that ts not noke from a strike of the gold miners on the Rand on the night, At midnight a mob looted a gunsmith’s store, and firing became gen- Squads of cavalry with drawn swords patrolled all the streets frequent- ly, charging and scattering groups of rioters, who constantly collected again in order to loot the stores and to de- stroy the electric lamps, the light from which helped the troops to discover the disturbers’ whereabouts, Firing was incessant for hours after midnight in the riot and many further casualties occurred, but it was impoxsible to obtain accurate de' There were repeated cavalry charges and fusillades accompanied by the strong, healthy man or woman. “For years doctors have been keeping count of bables’ deaths and studying the reavons why babies die, This \s have learned: a wee fea babies die be- fore they are a year old to one that is fea by its mother, “marsing babies who live are al most always bigger and stronger than those fed from bottles. “Grown men and women who were nursed ae babies are much more likely to be tall and strong than those who were not. “Phe races most in the habit of get along without having more or less of if "You cap see, then, why breast-fed babiew are healthier, brighter, happli And less care thun bottle-fed babies, and | why they are generally larger and havi @ better chance to grow up into strong men and women. “I want to warn nursing mothers par- tleularly about one thing: “& summer weaning may mean ®@ fal) funeral. “When it comes mid-summer your baby may be over a year old. You may think it Is time it was weaned, Don't do it unless @ doctor orders you to. If you are well It won't hurt you to avenue, the Br Ryan of No, 62 Twentieth strce rushing hither and thither of excited Magistrate Schults in the Mor- , % Guernsey strect, Brooklyn; Fred For mobs. iy children are the | nurse your baby tll the dangerous| before ‘ The police and troops showed great nursing hot weather {# over and it will make|risania Pollce Court to-day and wasloning ‘We Stegeman, No. 106 Logan street, agTLIAL dhtediueki ee aiaie etrongest. a can't | Your baby's chance of living much bet-|held in $5,000 ball, Patrolman Praws of |” ‘aygu ater orn iy Brooklyn; Fred Brunken, No, 63 Wash- 2 “gome mothers are elck and cantiin” ie you are not able to nurse your Premont station arrested I 4 . and there It |iigton street, Brooklyn and Fred Sir —— doctor is the! er If y ures your) the. TN Kyan Isat / was no use arguing with the China. |{"% Nearo to Marry W Gite! nurse their hab i, ree can of not | 28b¥ any longer, keep it under the doc- | night on the complaint of William Ruiter | nan to wet to Hongkons [teh Ne ey, helipad strees is re ’ 3 whether ita care ‘ ; , . ra club room ts bein; Gases Bats & beater Attar obs ban poids Se er eee you akous | cate until It gets used to ite new! of No, 1648 Bathgate avenue, who sald long the Indrani as fast ae 1 could, A location for @ . taining @ marriage license to wed Indla food. You should take It to the milk! that at £, Campbell, a white girl, failed to per- | !t station once @ week, anyway. p “t¢ you can't nurse your baby, | if you can't nurse your baby en-|him fleds Cy Megersig Bae baited 2 aw sorry for you. Zam golMs | tirely it is better to give It one or two| revolver. When oe eaisateata dented ‘hit refusal to | to tel you some things in thi breast feedings a day than none at all, | the officer, I The Magistrate denied his refusal to] 8) saixe that will help you in |The rest of the feedings can be from his pocket. marry the couple was because of their feeding Walter Hoffman of Fi salc saw distance, Jumping on his bicycle he raced to the scene and On the sec: Mrs. Henry Peteraon, arried all three which yesterday caused the death of] 1) 10. ao your baby has ten times! Just right is quite likely to give it sum. | buret open the front door, four civilians and the wounding of fifty as many chances of living as It would] mer complaint, More babies die of that|ond floor he found Mrs, Weirauch and others in a fight between the strikers) Ne eo ced it from a bottle, It has than from any other one cause. Bre her two-year-old boy unconscious, In and the troops, continued throughout é hances of growing into & ‘ed bables very seldom have th. janother room wi many more chan: trouble, Wottle-fed babies very seldomia relative. He feiy the ground before the flames cut off pe by the stair ‘All three buildings were burned to the ground and several horses killed. ‘The loss ts $12,000, a BOY BANDIT CAPTURED. arrying @ revolver and robbing a pedestrian at One Hundred and Seventy-fourth street and Third ronx, last night, John East One Hundred and t, walved One Hundred and Twentieth street and Third avenue the boy robbed ff his watch at the point pf a sted, according to in had an empty “gun” in different race, but sald he did not be- eve in Magistrates performing mar- riage ceremonies. The couple left the Tombs Court and went in search of a minister. Smith sald the license was obtained after a seven years’ romance which started in Virginia. He gave his age as twenty-three, and his address as No, 215 East Fifth street. The girl, who is pretty, sald she was nineteen years old and lived at No. 429 West Sixteenth street, ut some mothers are too lazy or sel- | {ish to nurse their little ones. They had rather run the risk of killing their child than be bothered with nussing. They are not natural mothers, 1 can't help them, They don't deserve help, “Nature meant bables to feed from their mother's breast If you try w! cheat nature you are pretty 6ure ty have to pay for it. And the price you p: fs often your baby's life. “Mothers’ milk Is the best and safest food for bables undemone year of age. That is because nature planned it and nature doesn't make mistakes, “Then the mother who doesn't nurse her baby because she {s too lagy or selfish is really cheating herself, for ‘t {s much engier to nurse a baby, than prepure food for it, 1f you prepare the food right. First Better Babies’ Contest in the yeur's series ni y | road, Brooklyn, H The Boundaries of the Contest district: Cown Nostrand to Rutland road, to New York a Gen, Sickles went further. He sald it was a damned lie, He went even further yet. In addition he sald; “My enemies have been circulating those rumors about me ever since I left New York, They are a lot of scoun- drels, I'll be alive when most of them Oo} to Nostrand avenue, Parents may register thelr babies between station at Public School No, 91 on July 5, 7 Preliminary examinations will begin Wednesday, Brooklyn doctors. aided by several others representin; Association, 9 and a tension Assoclation of Public School No. 91, Albany Facts About Better Babies’ Contest Under Way at Public School No. 91 ow being held by Ex- enue and Lincoln hief object of this contest and of the articles appearing datly in The avening World is to teach mothers how to take care of their children. Nostrand avenue and Carroll street, to Winthrop street, to Schenectady avenue, to Rutland road, to Utica avenue, to Carroil street, 12 A. M, in the mils July 9, by a corps of js the Babies’ Welfare are dead. Further than that J he “When you feed your baby as Nature The Evening World offers $100 in prise money for this contest. A $16 nothing to say.” planned you.giways have the best food |] prise will be hiest baby in each of four clas nging Sergt. C. H, Marcey of the Union| with you, no matter where you may] from three months to five In six months from the date of contest Signal Corps went to Little Round Top yesterday and, using the old civil war two {mprovement prises will be given, a first prise of $16, be with your baby. You cannot always) get cow's milk. When you can It may | of $26, @ second prise in the Home Edition of The Evening World. But blank. wigwagged this message to|be bad milk, Remember that milk Parents may save time by cutting out and filling tn the application Round of Manassas, Va., at|which may do for strong, grown up’ | bianks publi y headquarters: Peace on earth, good will! people often makes a baby sick. ’ | applicants are not required to use The Evening World to men." + wey mills is almost always good, nnn eg RN SR NNR i MA anh AB — examination Springfeld, Mass, and became violent there Sunday, owing to the tremendous heat In the kitchens. He was removed by ti ahead of me. I didn't see any itght: I figured !t wasn't a ship, but aftor a Dit, as it mot nearer, maw it was a Chinene boat. When we got within hal- ing distance I begins to Fluffy begins to bark, and after bit I began to swim the best I could toward the junk, and pretty soon a hand gripped me by the back of the neck and helped me eid Fluffy aboard. from the pler when Kelly spotted pcasleteliad Naas Dy DOWNTOWN NUTTS ORGANIZE wporated for Purpecés of feciability and Cheri Supreme Court Juntice Glegerich to- day signed a certificate of Incorporation of the Downtown Nutt Club, # soctal organisation, at the request of Attorney Davit Morris of 277 Broadway. Tho object of the organization, given In the articles of incorporation 1 “To promote sociability and geod fel lowship among Its members; to mall tain @ place so that ite members can meet there; also to aveist voluntarily ta members In distress, The following are confine him pending removal to om ta- stitution. Chub man come out of the sea, but when they saw I bad a dog with me they alm fell overboard. One of the Chinamen spoke pidgin English, and he wanted to know where I came from. CAPTURES THE JUNK FOR TRIP TO HONGKONG, “Oh, says I, ‘me and my dog hi been out for an evening's stroll and aninsed our way. But, anyhow, I want ito got to Hongkong.’ v cognised by his wide, starin which seem to be on the verge ping out of bis head. —_—o 154 Peasants Burn te Death, — 8T. Lippert July 6.—One bun and fifty-four Reasants were burned bearer yesterday in a fre which estroyed the village of the directors: Nicholas avenue; ht. * ‘Hongkong go,’ says 1. sought ‘Hongkong no,’ says the Chink. “And bang! I lets him have it, I got shim on the point of the chin and he ail over himself, The other Chink at the tiller makes a lunge for me with a knife and I kicked him amidships and the let @ groan out of him ike @ lost woul, And I took the tiller myself and ewung the junk about in what I figure two be the general direction of Hong- song. “But the Chink I took on the jaw wanted more, The other one was hold- ing his stomach and calling on his ancestors to protect him from the ter- sible devil of the sea, ‘The other Chink «ame for me on the run, but he hadn't figured on ‘Fluffy,’ and that bleaned dog got him by the calf of his leg nd bit auntil his teeth met, ‘That gave me time tu reach him again with my right, and 1 had no more trouble with that China- man, “When morning broke I was ao tired I had» pinch myself to keep awake. And so Ws sailed along until about mid- day, whet saw tho amoke of a steamer an! Boung the junk in her di- ection, She washeading toward China ‘and that wa» youd snough for mo. CHINESE HURLS KNIFE AT HIM IN FAREWELL, “In about two hi and began ¢o ‘wa ereieinectn NATHAN STRAUS ILL. Nurses to Hic e. ALEXANDRIA BAY, N. ¥., July 3.— Nathan Straus of New York arrived yesterday on @ special train from New York, accompanied by Mra Strsus, his special physician and two trained nurses, He was met at ¥. by his yacht Sisilina and taken to his home, Olympla, on Cherry Island, Mr. Straus ts reported to be seriously a EX-LAX ane & To Women Broken Down netuckeld, dreagery, Favorite Prescription i Scent Barats ve organization, Yeug Dragaiet Wil Supply You | * 2° 1 up to hi my ebirt, which