The Syracuse Journal, Volume 20, Number 12, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 21 July 1927 — Page 2

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By ELMO SCOTT WATSON fNE hundred and fifty year* ago thia summer there was fought on the frontier of New York one of the moat hotly conteeted battles of the American Revolution. Thia was the battle of Oriskany on August 6, 1777. where a force of New York militia led by Gen. Nicholas Herkimer, w « marching to the relief of Ft. Schuyler, won a victory over a force of Tories and Indian* commanded by Sir John Johnson and the treat Mohawk chief, Joseph Brant. Five years later out in the wilderness of Kentucky a similar battle was fought brtween an army of Kentucky frontiersmen, led by Cola. John Todd Stephen Trigg and Daniel Boone, and a force of (Canadians and Indiana, commanded by Maj. William Caldwell, who had with him the renegades Alexander McKee, Mathew Elliott and Simon Gtrty. This was the battle of Blue Lick*, often referred to as “The last battle of the Revolution," fought on “ August IP. 1782. Although there is ao direct connection between the two engagements, they exhibit a striking parallel of the circumstances which brought them about that is worthy of more than passing notice. In both case* the headstrong folly of subordinates overruled tha cooler judgment «»f the commanders, thereby bringing upon theroselvtg* the disaster which could have been averted. The battle of Oriskany was a part bf the campaign which centered around Ft. Schuyler on the present site of Rome. N. T.. in 1777. The stirring events of that year are to be recalled this gammer In a series of aesqulcentennlal celebrations which will be held at various places In the Mohawk valley. Chief among these will be the Oriskany celebration where the memory of the men .Who fought In this dramatic and bloody ’ engagement will be honored by their descendants and hundreds of visitors from all parts of the country; The events leading up to the battle of Oriskany wore these: As a part of the British plan to score a decisive success during the summer of 1777 and to crush the Revolution. <’•>!. Barry St Leger had been sent to sweep through the Mohawk valley to Albany where he was to join the army of General Burgoyne who was. coming down from the north. But there was one obstacle to St, Leger’s success. This was Ft. Schuyler, held by a force of Continentals under the command .of Col. Peter Gansevoort and Col. Marinus Willett. On August 2. St. Leg«>r appeared before Ft. Schuyler with a force of some 1,700 British regular*. Hessians and Tories—led by Sir John Johnson. John Butler and his son, the notorious Walter Butler, and Iroquois Indians. Colenel Gansevoort had appealed to the Committee of Safety tn Tryon county for help and the chairman of this committee, Nicholas Herkimer—“Old Honlkol Herkimer" was the affectionate nickname for him —(who had been appointed a brigadier general the previous year) immediately raised the militia of Tryon county and set out for the relief of Ft. Schuyler. Herkimer’s army, a force of about eight hundred ’ men, was divided into four regiments. The first was led by Col. Eberezer Cox and was from the district of Canajoharie. The second from Palatine was commanded by Col. Jacob Klork. ‘ the third from Mohawk was under Col. Frederick Vlwher. and the fourth, from German Flats and Kingsland, was commanded by CoL Peter Bellinger. This, force assembled at Ft. Dayton near the mouth of Wert Canada creek, and on August 4 started out. crossed the Mohawk near tho present site of the city of Utica and reached Whitestown on August 5. At thia point Herkimer sent an express to Colonel Gansevoort to arrange for co-operation In moving against the enemy. Gansevoort was to fire three cannon shots as a signal that a force from the fort was ready to make a sortie, whereupon Herkimer was to advance with his army. He wai then about eight miles from Ft Schuyler and it would be easy to hear the report of the big guns at that distance. Bu>hla messenger* were delayed tn getting through the enemy to the fort and Herkimer's men waited impatiently for the sound of the cannon. Finally, chafing at the delay, they demanded to be led against the enemy. Herkimer steadfastly refused. Then some of his officer*. notably Colonels Cox and Paris, began to reproach him and even went so far as to accuse him of being a* coward and a Tory. But the wise old commander resisted their urging* until they became unbearable. Finally, stung to madness by their unjust accusations, be gave the command to advance. It was more of a disorderly mob than an army that streamed out of the encampment. At Oriskany creek the road led across a narrow causeway of toga «Mt a marsh with thick wood* on

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Mther side. St. Leger had sent a large body of Tories, many of them neighbors of Herkimer’s men In Tryon county, the noted **Johnson's Greens." under Major Watts, accompanied by a body of Mohawk Indiana led by the famous Joseph Brant, who prepared the ambush for Herkimer's men. Just as the head of the column marched onto the causeway the Indians Impetuously opened Are. Herklmaf's rear guard retreated almost Immediately, hut the rest stood their ground and returned the enemy's fire. They at once sought shelter behind trees and immediately there took place one of the fiercest battle* In American history. For the most part it wa» a hand-to-hand 4 flght. (Monels Cox and Paris, whose rashness had precipitated the fight, were among the first to be killed. Herkimer was disabled early tn o the fight by a bullet which shattered his knee. His officers urged him (o retire to safety, but his reply has become a historic byword in th* Mohawk valley—“l will face tha enemy." During the battle. Herkimer's messengers reached Gansevoort. whoj had l»een wondering what the distant firing meant and who fired the three signal cannon. Herkimer's men heard them, but they could not advance now. They were fighting for their live*. So great was the slaughter In both smile* that the Indians finally raised the cry of retreat—“tAonah. Oonah!” and left the field. The Tories, seeing this and being alarmed at the sound of the firing made during the sortie from the fort which had been led by Col. Marinus Willett. also f*treated. Herkimer and hU men held the field on which they had won thetr dearly bought victory. The losses Inflicted upon the enemy and Willett's sortie which had fallen upon St. Lexer’s camp stampeded a portion bf the British force and captured a great store of supplier resulted tn St Leger’s giving up the Siege of Ft. Schuyler. So victory came out of defeat after all. for Ft. Schuyler was saved and the threat of St Leger s invasion of the Mohawk valley collapsed. Herkimer died a few days after the battle. Five years liter occnrifod the other battle ,tn which the foalhardiness of headstrong men brought about another disaster equal to that of Oriskany. On August 16,1782. a mounted messenger dashed up to Boone’* Station, a small frontier fort which thi* famous pioneer had built across the Kentucky river a short distance from Boone*bourough—with the new* that Bryan s Station, an important point further west, about five miles from the present city of Lexington, had been attacked by an overwhelming force Os Indians and Canadians. The men of Boone's Station immediately galloped to the aid of their brethren, and the next day found Boone, who happened to be at Boonesbourough at the time, on the way to Bryan's Station, with all the men of the vicinity that he could collect. W#en they arrived, they found that the eoetuy had already retreated, but since, by the evening of August 17, the Kentuckians assembled at Bryan’s Station numbered more than 180, and as many more under Col. Benjamin Logan were expected hourly, they determined to observe the principle of border warfare —that no savage foray should go unpunished. So. without waiting for Logan, they decided to pursue the enemy at once, even though they realised that the enemy, composed of fierce Wyandotte* and accompanied by the renegades McKee. Elliott, and the infamous Simon Glrty. greatly outnumbered them. Early the next morning the party, commanded by Col*. Todd. Trigg and Boone, set forth. They found that the enemy had left a plain trail, but heedless of this indication that the alites invited pursuit, the Kentuckians dashed on rapidly. On the morning of August 18 they came to the Licking river at a place called Bine Licks. A few Indians were seen on the ridges

kernel of a peach-pit. since both of th*** contain it to small quantities. This dangerous acid to easily driven away by hent The cassava plant, or manioc, a* it also to-called. I* a native of South America and furnishes * staple toad tor the Indian* there. There are two varieties the bitter and the sweet The tatter to not poiaonou* and can be eaten raw er need as a fresh vegetable. But it to the bitter -

cassava that to more valuable, tor it to from this one that tapioca Is made from the starchy part of the root*. First Iron Rails Although the United States, as everybody knows, to the country with more railroad mileage thin any other, it to surprising that the first Iron rails for the building of the first of these miles were Imported from Europe. It was to May, 182 ft, that the ship Alexander arrived at Baltimore from Liverpool with 90 ton* of toon and equip-

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across the rlv t er. Boone was certain the xnaians were lying in ambush and advised his men to select a strong position on their side of- the river and wait there until Logan and his men arrived. But this wise counsel was disregarded by the Impatient Kentuckians who were anxious to strike a blow at the enemy who had besieged their stations. Boone then proposed that a party be detached, march up the river and fall upon the rear of the enemy at a prearranged signal, while the main attack was delivered in front. While the proposition was being discussed. * decision was forced by a Major McGary, who had supported Boone in the proposal to await the arrival of Logan and had been taunted with cowardice by some of his fellows for doing so. McGary suddenly broke up the council by spurring his horse to the ford and dashing across it. shouting “Let all who are not cowards follow me!” It was Just the sort of an appeal which would Influence such rashly courageous men as most of these Kentuckians were. They streamed across the river in disorderly fashion and there was nothing for Boone. Todd and Trigg to do but to follow, and to try to restor* some order in the straggling mob. They crossed tha river safely and advanced up a buffalo trail to the top of the ridge beyond. By this time some semblance of order had been restored, with McGary leading an advance party of twenty-five. As they approached the top of the ridge a rifle shot rang out as a signal for the crashing volley which then followed. Twenty-three of McGary’s twenty-five men went down at this first fire. The headstrong McGary who had precipitated the fight was one of the two who escaped. After-this first volley, the Canadlafi? showed themselves on the ridge and from the ravine on either flank, the Indians opened a deadly fire. The Kentuckians stood their ground and returned the fire. Instantly the Wyandotte*, always noted as reckless and desperate fighters, came bursting through the smoke with poised tomahawks. There was a short hand-to-hand conflict until the Kentuckians, greatly outnumbered, almost surrounded and In imminent danger of being •slaughtered where they stood, broke and fled back toward the river. Nearly every officer of rank was killed. Boone escaped across the river. The Kentuckians, hotly pursued, streamed back across the river. There Major Netheriand rallied his men and offered resistance, ending the pursuit and preventing ■ massacre. Os a force of approximately one hundred eighty men. sixty-seven had been killed outright or wer* murdered as they lay wounded on the field of battle, and seven had been captured, four of whom died at the torture stake. Nearly everyunah who escaped was wounded In some way. Half-way back to Bryan's Station, the survivors met Colonel Ix>gan with 400 men. coming to their support. How bitter must have been their regret when they realised how different the result might have been If they had heeded R<x»oe‘s advice and awaited Logan’s, coming, and had not been swept Into action by McGary's rash appeal. Blue Licks was perhaps the greatest defeat ever suffered by the pioneers of the Blue Grass state, but It was also a high-water mark in her history. For the Indians came no more to Kentucky and Blue Licks marked the end of the frontier period. Oriskany and Blue Licks—-two names which afford a striking illustration of the injury which a body of undisciplined men may do to themselves and those dependent upon them. But In the memory of the desperate valor of the men who fought these battles. History forgives them their indiscretion and tn these sesquicentennial year* remembers only a nation's gratitude to the men who helped in the winning of the West..

meat for the construction of the first railroad tn the United States. Whito-Crownod Sparrow “Next to the meadowlark, no doubt, most people will vote the white crowned sparrow the most fascinating stager of ; the XorthwesL Often through the darkest night to the Virginia creeper or honeysuckle around the porch he utters his plaintive song —seeming to say . . . ‘Sweet sweet, listen to me, won’t you!”— tAflllf *w« Wb/ww*!Lrm vt lUIMIU Hugcls Ju*

LOVELY RAIMENT FOR BOUDOIR; THE MODISH THING IN PRINTS

WHO would forfeit the pleasure and satisfaction of owning lovely raiment for the boudoir, since anyone possessed of an artistic sense of color values, and a little ingenuity can conjure alluring garments at a slight expense, which look as if they cost a “million.” The first requisite for ine contemplating making a midsummer boudoir negligee is to rightly choose the materials. “Sheer" is the word when It comes to the purely feminine types now so in vogue—this being interpreted means dainty chiffons and lace in

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abundance. And the colors' The rainbow, the depths of a sea-shell, the heart of a rose or a bouquet of nature’s choicest blossoms tell the story of tones and tints which blend into a symphony of beauty under the artful maneuvering of creative genius. When it comes to a picturesque silhouette. depend mostly upon sleeves for its accomplishment, if sleeves one may call the long floating panels and drapes which fall from the shoulder with such, infinite grace, as do those in this picture. The color scheme for this dainty negligee is peach with orchid. the latter placed over the former, one thin material on top of another. Quantities of deep cream lace enter Into file composition with a plentiful use of peach and orchid ribbons with handmade silk flowers adding still another enchantment. There’s a new vogue starting within the realm of milady’s boudoir —the negligee of soft white crepe satin with trimmings of white lace and white ribbon or else exquisitely faggoted. Effective, too. are the colorful satins which bear applique designs of one

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«hade upon another. The motifs stress both conventional patterns and realistic florals. There’s no end to the silk-print rabjecL Prints in the small cravat types are the essence of smartness. The flowerets stand out vividly against

Colored Shades In order to keep the color harmony !n the room unbroken, color matching th* walls is being suggested for the inside of the window shades. If the walls are yellow or if it Is the predomnatlng color, then the shades will be furnished in the same tone. Net Hat* Small net hats with horsehair braid trims are new headgear for bridesmaids Hats match the gowns to color.

their plain grounds, their gay color accented further by solid navy or bright bordering* Or trimmings—perhaps an inset portion of the plain silk is Introduced in a manner as Illustrated. If you have not acquired a silk-print frock it is a safe guess that you will before the season is ftver, for few there are who will escape this epidemic for printed chiffons, flat silks or crepe de chines which is sweeping the country. One does not stop at the dress when ordering print silk for the costume. It

Is very proper to line one’s solid-color coat throughout with this same print, or why not make a little circular cape of the silk with which to accompany the frotk! • Plaited printed silk is wonderfully effective in combination with the smooth figured fabric. If you. are making your silk-print frock at home use plaited flounces on the skirt, or an entire plaited skirt. A little money spent on plaiting and hemstitching js a guarantee against that "bogie” which ever dwells in the mind of the amateur —the fear of a “homemade” look. It adds to the appearance of the silk-print frbek If each ruffle Is bordered with a band of solid color. If the edge is picoted before plaiting the rutiles are given an exquisite finish. Picoted plain silk should then also trim the blouse or waist portion.’ Sprightly shoulder and hip bows could also be made of the solid-colored silk, which should be picoted on each edge like ribbon. The compose idea of a printed-silk jacket with a plaited white silk skirt

is an outcome of the print-with-plain vogue. This is especially effective when the silk Is colorfully patterned in chintz, designs. Prints in black and white are meeting with success. JULIA BOTTOMLET. <©. I»2T. by Western Newspaper Union.)

Taffeta Coat A brown taffeta coat, stitched all over, is lined with pale coral and worn with a pale coral crepe gown. Shoes of Colored Suede To wear with smart sports frocks are shoes of colored suede in shades of green, coral and blue. New Colors Lotus blue, sugar cane, shell pink and oriental peart are four nev shades.

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