St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1890-08-14
WHEEIOCK.
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Grand Army OF the Republic began
it's session in Boston on Tuesday
Every train entering the Hub M on
day brought seeming myriads of vet
Grams and visitors. Fully 500 Yer
mont Grand Army men were added
to the Green Mountain contingent
by special train of six cars over the
Central Vermont, which arrived at
$50 a. m. and another of - cars at
10 a. m. With the delegation were
Col. G. G. Benedict, Gen. William
Wells, Lieut's. F. S. Stranahan and
Herbert Brainerd and Capt. ]. E. Ell
bridge, senior vice-cOmmander of Yer
opened in Horticultural hall and
Commander Mansur established Of
fetal headquarters at the fremont
house, where Judge Wheelock @. Yea
zey receives his friends. An excellent
portrait of the Judge adorns the
front hall of the hotel. Among his
callers Monday were delegates from
Colorado, Montana, Michigan, Min
nesota, Missouri, New York, Penn
svlvania and all the New England
states.
The Harrison arrived Monday and
was given banquet by the state of
Massachusetts, at which there was
no speaking, at the express desire OF
the president At 3.15 q train of II
cars came i'll from Rutland, VT,
bringing Roberts post No. IA, of
which Secretary Proctor and Judge
Veazey are members. The meeting
of the national council of administra
ton was held at 10 a. m. at the Ven
dome, the proceedings being secret.
Gen. Alger presided. President Har-
risOn occupies the state suite at the
Vendome.
The decorations are elaborate.
All along the line of march business
blocks are gorgeous in their disply Of
flags lind bunting, while pictures,
war relics, portraits of war heroes,
transparencies and banners are seen
on every hand. Music Hall, where
the Grand Army meetings are held, is
the masterpiece of decorative art.
It's walls, galleries and ceilings are
literally buried under festOOns Of
bunting, the stars and stripes and
colossal portraits of various
worthless.
The great day of the encampment
was Tuesday, when the grand parade
came off. The wea Their was perfect,
Il light rain during the night having
effectually laid the dust, while the
| clouds overhead shielded the tramp
ing veterans from the hot rays of the
sun All was ready at 11.39 a. m.
and Gen. Alger with his full staff of
| 600 mounted men, escorted by the
| 11Sth Massachusetts cavalry, and
headed by q corps of mounted police
rode al the head and at the command
of the leaders, the greatest street
pageant ever seen in Boston began
| its onward march. Hours before the
parade began the windows and
balconies Of houses along the line of
march and tiers of seats which had
been erected on every available space
were filled with the eXpectant multi
tude. Immense truck wagons with
seats arranged in tiers, were backed
up in side streets and seats sold at
high prices. The parade lasted over
six hours and was viewed by Gen.
Alger, who showed his fortitude by
remaining on his feet during the
whole time it was passing. Among
the prominent men in the line was
Hon Hannibal Hamlin, who barred
his head and and waved his hat in
answer to President Harrison'S
greeting.
Strike on the New York Central.
All the union train and switchmen
on the New York Central and Hud-
son River railroad left work at 7 p.
m last Thursday without a mo-
ment's notice The reason assigned
was the dismissal of So union men
for reasons deemed sufficient by the
management The Union demands
their return to work and this the
company refuses. The strike seems
to have been ordered at a time when
the public could be most effectually
Inconvenience, during the national
encampment at Boston. About 900
men in all have obeyed the union,
and that is enough to seriously in
terfere with the running of trains.
President Chauncey M. Depew is i'll
Europe and it is believed that no
trouble would have occurred had he
been present. At various points
along the road bodies of militia are
guarding property. On Monday
whenever a train was started the
strikers standing by would jump
aboard and apply the brakes or OBJ
struct the track and make running
impossible.
Death of John Boyle O'ReiLy.
John Boyle O'Reillv, the poet, and
editor of the Boston Pilot, died at
his summer residence in Hull, Mass,
of heart failure early Sunday morn
ing He was at his desk in the Pilot
office the day before in the best of
health. Mr.. O'Reilly was born in
Ireland in 1914. He received a good
education and early learned typeset-
ting. For some time he served as
stenographer in England, bnt later
returned to his country and assisted
in the Fenian movement, then active.
He enlisted in cavalry regiment of
the British army. and for some offence
was condemned to be shot His
sentence was committed to 20 years
imprisonment in Australia, where he
went in 1868. A year later he gave
the officers the slip and was picked
up at sea in an open boat by a New
Bedford ship and landed at Phila-
delphia In 1876 he secured an in
terest in the Pilot and has been con-
nected with that paper since. He