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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1911
Page
7
The Manassas jubilee week culminated in a dramatic reunions of Union and Confederate veterans. Governor Mann and Adrian Lerkin spoke on reconciliation as roughly 350 ex-Confederates and equal numbers of Union veterans joined hands, pledging peace. The vast crowd observed parades, banners, and a courthouse campfire to close the event.
President Taft arrives with Senators Nelson and Knute Nelson and Archie Butt at a Manassas court lawn gathering of Grand Army of the Republic and former Confederates. Generals Gillman and Calaway address veterans as unions and confederates mingle in a friendly, commemorative afternoon.
The President and a caravan of senators and officials navigate muddy roads to Manassas battle site. Major Butt endures wet conditions, boots on display, while Carlin and others calm frightened horses as Virginia law requires an automobile to do so. Senators Martin Nelson and Rep Carlin stay with the group as the odyssey continues.
Special to The Washington Post Rosser Gibbons Camp Confederate Veterans mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Manassa battle in Luray Virginia. The parade from Court Street to the Luray Inn lawn drew about 1000 admirers as speeches were delivered by Mayor J Ogden Murray Captain Richard S Parks Captain D Grayson and Reverend H M Strickter. Federal soldiers joined the luncheon and the event capped a homecoming week with a large crowd and recollections of the lost cause.
Aviator Loridan piloting a small biplane at Mourmelon Aerodrome France yesterday flew 4% miles and stayed aloft 11 hours 45 minutes setting a new world record for both distance and time in a single flight.
Henry Clay Beattie Jr a 23 year old South Richmond merchant scion faced intense cross examination as a key witness in the murder of his wife. Testimony traced alleged gun purchase links and a complex web with Beattie denying involvement while Beattie’s cousin and the Binford affair figure prominently. Witnesses reported a car scene near the Midlothian turnpike and a hidden single barreled gun. Beattie was later jailed in Richmond awaiting further developments.
Weather bulletin from the Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau notes low pressure systems over the Great Lakes and St Lawrence valley with rains across Atlantic states, Ohio Valley, and Rocky Mountains. Scattered showers forecast in middle Atlantic, north Atlantic, south Atlantic, Gulf states, and Rocky Mountains. Temperatures near normal with no significant changes expected in 48 hours. Winds vary by coast. ships to European ports face moderate variable winds and showers toward Grand Banks. River update for Potomac near Harper’s Ferry indicates cloudy conditions.
Boston aviator Harry N Atwood’s planned Washington exhibition flight is postponed after his airplane was destroyed by a windstorm at Potomac Park. A replacement machine is en route from Atlantic City, with $2,000 purse funds not yet raised as supporters rally to finance the event.
Judge William H. DeLacy of the juvenile court ruled that one glass of good milk punch did not intoxicate an ordinary person and approved dancing as a benign activity. He allowed Mia Linbach to keep her child and ordered Linbach to pay $4 weekly, while acknowledging his lack of personal experience with the dance. The case featured witnesses describing the Bunnie Wiggle and a Washington dance hall scene, with Linbach defending her right to dance and drink in public.
William H. Tobin answers Pearl Tobin's limited divorce suit by claiming his wife spent time on novels, neglected the home, deserted him with his meal ticket and cash, and was quarrelsome. He offers to support her if she remains and asks dismissal of her maintenance petition. Tobin says she went to work last fall for Christmas money and continued until spring.
A friendly settlement ends the separation suit by Mrs Robert H Sherard known as Irene Osgood against her husband. The case concluded in London on July 21, with terms yet unspecified publicly.
Henry G. Moore known as the millionaire prisoner, released from Hackensack Hospital after detention since March 2 under $20,000 bail. Arrested in Rutherford on an exeat bond restricting leaving the state amid his wife's suit for delinquent alimony. Son of a former Philadelphia brewer, Moore had a $30,000 yearly allowance and paid $200 weekly for room plus $10 daily for two guards.
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