The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-04-29
WELCOME GUESTS.
General Alger and Mrs Logan
i'm Seattle.
INFORMAL
RECEPTION.


This morning General Russell A. Alger.
Of Michigan, VIII return to Seattle from his
trip 70 Sound points. and viii meet Mrs
John A. Logan, who viii arrive from
Tacoma, where she has been visiting
friends with her daughter. Mrs.
Tucker. They are on their war
TO attend the encampment OF the
Grand Army of the Republic At Eilens-
burg. which opens on Wednesday, but so
great has been the pressure brought to bear
upon them that they viii accept . recep-
tion1n the pariors of the Rainier hotel this
evening between Sand 2 O'Clock. II will
be quite informal, and the distinguished
general and the widow Of an equally dis
tinguished soldier will be glad TO meet their
friends al that time.
Mrs. John A. Logan is one OF the best
known and the best beloved of women in
the country. She was model soldier
wife. and since the death of her husband
her only consolation is in association with
the comrades of her iamented dead 70
those old soldiers she is an object of adora-
ton, and at every encampment her pres
ence is urged She paid previous visit to
Seattle, winning there, as everywhere, .
host of personal friends by her charming
aifability and her intellectual superiority.
General Aiger holds an equally exalted
position in the estimation of the people and
particularly in the West where he is recog-
nized as the best type OF character devei-
oped by the conditions of life there. He is
q shrewd business man but an open-handed
friend; he was daring and conscientious
soldier of the non-political kind who sell
dom wrote dispatches but quietly and very
effectively accomplished the tasks he was
called upon by the exigencies of warfare.
Since the war be has been as successful
in business as he was victorious on the
battlefield. He has extensive interests in
Michigan, where his capacity and integ-
rity have placed him high in the estima-
ton OF the people, who have lowered him
with every honor in their gift He is en-
gagged also in many enterprises OF this
state in whose prosperity he has the most
unbounded faith.
Circumstances have placed him in the
leadership of the Republican party of the
country and there is q strong probability
that he will yet occupy the highest position
aftainable in the United States. As the
commander-in-chief of the Grand Army of
the Republic, the most powerful organize
ton in the country. he already holds an ex-
allied rank which only partially exem pIifies
the affection and esteem in which he is
held by the veterans of the war. He is as
enthusiastic as Mrs. Logan in his interest
in all that has association with the days of
peril and valor, OF self-denial, hardship and
suffering; and the wealth he has drawn
from the undeveloped resources of the
country he has lavishly poured out to re-
lieve the necessities of less fortunate COM
rades.
A joint committee of the posts of the
Grand Army and of the Sons of Veterans
met last night at Mr.. NJ. NJ. Holmes office
and arranged to hold camp fire" on
Friday evening If General Ayers arrange
ments will admit of it upon his return
from Ellensburg. The reception commit
tee will wait upon him this morning and
ascertain his convenience.
No preparations of any kind have been
made for the reception at the Rainier to-
night, as General Alger and Mrs. Logan
both desired that it should be strictly in
formal. A committee of the local posts act
as the host OF the occasion. and extend q
cordial welcome to everybody, and es-
pecially the ladies, to Join in
paying compliment to the
distinguished visitors, who are
in fact, the guests of the state since they
attend the encampment by special invita-
ton.
The reception will be held from 8 to g.
p. m. General Alger will be accompanied
by Mrs. Alger, and Mrs. Logan BY her
only child, Mrs. Tucker. Immediately
after the reception the party will leave for
Ellenshurc