The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1889-08-30
THE OLD VETERANS.
Old Comrades Greet Each Other-Genersl
sherman, General Warner. Governor
Hoard and Mrs- Logan Among Those
Present-The Sons of Veterans
THE poYs IN BLUE.

Present-The Sons OF Veterans.
THE BOYS IN BLUE.
MILWAUKEE, Aug. "a. - General Warner
and the Kansas City contingent, about 800
strong, put In an appearance Monday morn
ing and marched to the Plankinton House,
which is the headquarters OF the Com
Chief. Governor Hoard, Secre-
tary OF State Timme and General Fair
Post and were escorted to the
Plankinton. Judge Weary came with
the New England people, and Gen
eral Alger and Mrs Logan arrived in GEN.
eral Ayers private car and are at the
Plankinton. General sherman arrived at
8p. m, having been delayed on the road
He was Immediately taken to the Com
mander-in- Chiefs headquarters where he
held an informal reception, after which no
retired to his room for tho night.
Immense crowds come by every train,
and there are not less than l00, 600 Strangers
in the city About 81, 900 of them are vet
Grams distributed among the numerous
suburban camps.
The women's Relief Corps opened it's
headquarters yesterday and received it's
friends all day. The same was true of all
the other headquarters.
night inaugurated the twenty-third Ma
tional encampment'o of the Grand Army Of
the Republic. The handsome auditorium
of the West Side Turner Hall, in which the
executive sessions of the G. A. R. will be held,
was crowded almost to suffocation. A. p.
Davies, OF General Alexander Hayes Post,
No. 3, Pittsburgh, Pa, the founder of the
Sons OF Veterans, was received with rous-
ing cheers when he came upon the plat
form. Prayer was offered by Rev. F. j.
Wharton, department Chaplain OF Wiscon-
sin Addresses were made by Lieutenant
Kershaw, of Milwaukee,; COMMANDMENT
Chief Warner, General Anger, Corporal
Tanner (the Commissioner of Pensions),
Governor Hoard, General Fairchild and
others.
MILWAUKEE, Aug. 2S-There was genuine
pathos in the annual parade of the Grand
Army of the Republic yesterday morning.
In that long line there were presented
many pictures which recalled the most
stirring days in the history of this great
republic. There were in the parade about
1900 men; but along the line of march
were almost as many more men who wore
the Grand Army button, but who did not
feel equal to the task of marching At
little after 1 the last corps of veterans
passed the reviewing stand, the column
taking about three hours to pass that point
On the stand was General Sherman, Com
mander-in- Chief Warner, Mrs. John A.
Logan and others
The war song concert given in the big
tent on the lake shore under the auspices Of
the Arion Club was attended by about 4, 600
veterans The audience was an appre-
ciative one, and the manner in which it
Joined in the old familiar choruses must
have been a surprise to the club. They
fairly made the canvas of the great tent
tremble when they Joined in Marching
Through Georgia" and Tramp, Tramp,
Tramp"
A reception to Mrs Logan at the court
house was attended by posts, battalions and
squads of veterans and by citizens OF ILL.,
nois generally who are in Milwaukee. 1t
was an ovation without preparation, and
the number Of persons who shook hands
WITH her was astonishing. The National
officers came in for good share of atten,
tiop during the evening,
The ANNUAL meeting of the famous Iron
Brigade which was held Tuesday night re-
elected general Gibbon as president and
General Woodward as vice-president
MILWAUKEE. Aug. 90. = The business
meeting of the Twenty third annual Ma
tional encampment of the Grand Army of
the Republic was called to order ut Mlwail-
kee at 10:15 yesterday morning, and Com
mander- in Chief Warner read his address.
The lengthy introduction was devoted to
an eloquent eulogy of the Grand Army and
it's purposes The present membership Of
the order, he went on to say, aggre-
gated 4l06S6, divided among GIL
posts and forty-twO departments.
The greatest gain was in, Missouri,
3,652 The departments of Illinois, Iowa.,
Nebraska, Pennsylvania, New York, Wis
consin and Ohio also showed gains. The
death-roll had been unusually heavy, 4,696
veterans having passed away during the
year. Since 1871 the order had expended
100000 in charity, of which $250, 900
had been distributed within year.
The report urged the departments of
the country to initiate the action
of the New York department in presenting
American flags to the public schools on
Washington's birthday Action tending to
draw the order closer to the Sons of Vet
Grams as well as to the Order of Military
Telegraphers was urged, and the pension
question was dealt with at length. The
Commander-in-Ch Chief deplored the fact that
the committee appointed ut the Columbus
encampment to press the pension ideas of
the order upon the attention of Congress
had been unable to make any progress He
reiterated the arguments in favor of the
Dependent Pension bill; declared that a
service pension must come, and insisted
that the bondholders of the country
should reward the men who had stood by
it in its hbur of peril The report OF
Adjutant- General Wezel was devoted to
statistical information. Two new depart
ments, those of Georgia and Alabama, had
come into existence during the year.
At the evening session General Russell A.
Alger, of Michigan, was elected Com
mander-in- Chief; Colonel A. G. Weissert,
of Milwaukee, Senior Vice. Commander,
and John F. Lovett, of New Jersey, Junior
Vice. Commander. 1t was decided to hold
the next encamprsnt at Boston.
At 1.-THE annual reunion of the Veteran
Signal Corps Governor ]. b. Foral&r, of
Ohio, was elected president
Charged with (,rooLednass.