Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-06-23
A Grand Reception rendered
Commander-in- Chief Kountz
and Gen. Logan on Their
Arrival.
Great Dissatisfaction Exists Among
the Posts from Other States
Over The Action OF the Cit.
fZenS' Committee.
PORTLAND .June %

PORTLAND, June Z2.
All day long to-day the tramp of measured
feet through the streets of the city of Port
| land and the strains of martial music as pos,
after post of the Grand Army Of the Repub.
lie marched from the depots to camp have
marked the Inauguration of the 10Th annu.
al National Encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic.
The arrivals of delegations from various
parts of the United States have formed a
steady and almost uninterrupted procession
from morning until night. So far as possible
each arriving delegation was given an
escort from the depot to the great Camp U.
s. Grant, on Monjoy Hill, Eastern Prone.
made, and escorts and delegations have filled
the streets with
Marching Squads of Veterans,
who accompanied by bands of music have
attracted thousands of citizens and unofficial
visitors to the sidewalks as they passed by on
their way to quarters.
The streets of the city have fairly teemed
with life since early morning. promenaders
and equestrians being out in splendid array,
and both being admirably attired or mounted
Every sort of vehicles has been pressed into
service from the primitive blackboard to the
imposing landau or barouche, and the streets
themselves have presented a motley array of
conveyances from morning till midnight.
From one end of Congress street to the
other there has been an unbroken tide OF
pedestrians to and from the great encamp-
ment. Every railroad leading into Portland
has emptied cargo after cargo Of human
freight, both uniformed and unofficial, from
Every Part of the United States.
They have come from California, from
other states on the Pacific slope. from the
Gulf States, from the Lower Atlantic the
Middle Atlantic and Middle States, from the
valley of the Missouri, the Ohio and Mississ-
ippi and the Lower Lake region. New Eng
land has turned out her full compliment of
posts and moreover thousands of her unofi-
icial citizens have come. Tonight Portland
is crowded to overlooking, yet every ad.
ditional train brings additional numbers. The
schedule time was abandoned on all routes
early in the day and trains were run in wild,
but not wildly. Excellent management and
wise forethought on the part of the great
railway lines leading into the city have had
the most pleasing effect of having carried the
affairs throughout great crisis, with not
even an unfortunate accident to mar the per-
feclions of the arrangements. There has
been some confusion in the matter of provid-
ing accommodations for so many
Thousands of Visitors,
but this has been unavoidable. great
many of the western departments which
some time ago previously announced to the
executive committee here that they would
bring a certain number of men have brought,
in some cases, nearly twice as many as first
announced would come with them. great
many of them telegraphed yesterday for ad-
d d.tional accommodations in various cases for
from 100 to 500 men. This added to the un-
expected pressure on the committee for ac-
commodations from unofficial visitors has
had the inevitable result of creating confu-
siun. All that able management and numer-
ical strength could do. however, has been
done, and as night settles over the camp the
men who have arrived are making their
quarters comfortable for the night, others are
still arriving and will continue to arrive dur
ing the entire night. Each department or
post, as it comes will be promptly escorted
to quarters for the night, and everything
promises to run. smoothly. There is no doubt
that there is a vastly greater number of both
official and unofficial visitors here than had
been expected and great many more
than accommodations had been provided for.
Citizens have come forward cheerfully, how
ever, and many private houses are tonight
thrown open for thesentersainment of strang-
ers. 1t likely that all who arrive tonight
will be comfortably provided for.
The Department Of Maine
Has turned out grandly, - has also that of
Massachusetts,, New Hampshire and the