Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-07-31
THE akEAr ENcAMPMENr.
The Grand Array Comrades Preparing TO CO
to Detroit.

rHH 'srLvER" INVITATION TO ARRIVE THIS
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OFFERING INDICTMENTS
10 COME TO wAsHISeroS-LIvkLr PREPARA-
TIoSs BIT THE woNANs RELrEF CORPS
There are busy times at Grand Army head
quarters. Old uniforms are being busted or
new ones admired. Comrades are arranging
about transportation to Detroit getting tags
for baggage and attending to the scores Of lit
tie details preliminary to the departure OF the
special trains to Detroit Saturday night and
Sunday morning. Al the woman's Relief
Corps headquarters. too. lively preparations
for campaign in Detroit are going on. The
women who wear the red, white and blue pro-
pose to do effective work in the way OF forming
sentiment in Detroit in favor OF Washington as
the place Of the next annual encsmpment
The special trains leaving here will 60 each in
several sections and carry several hundred
people.
ACTION OF THE DEPARTMENT OF TIE POTOMAC.
The council of administration Of the Depart
ment Of the Potomac, @. A. R., met last night
and adopted the following:
Whereas the citizens Of Washington, u. C.,
formally extended an invitation 10 the national
encampment Of the Grand Army of the Repub-
hc to meet in this city in 1892; and
Whereas the said Invita- ton from the citizens
n supported by An ample guarantee fund;
Resolved (by the council Of administration
OF the Department Of the Potomac, @. A. R.
That We hereby request Department Comman-
der J. NJ. Pipes to present an invitation on be-
half OF the department to the national encamp-
ment to meet in the city Of Washington in 1ss2
TIE RAILROADS AND THE ENcANPMESr.
As announced in the dispatches to THE STAR
yesterday, the passenger agents committee Of
the Trunk Line Association at their meeting at
Cape May yesterday decided TO fix a one-fare
rate to the proposed encampment in this city
next year. fHE STAR has already announced
the purpose Of the Baltimore and Ohio Com
pany to issue tickets to the battlefields about
Washington reached by its lines at a one-fare
rate. Yesterday Mr.. r. A. Parke, the south
eastern Passenger agent OF the Pennsylvanis
road, addressed letter to Chairman Douglass
Of the citizens committee, saying:
j have the following telegram from Mr.. Geo.
". Boyd, assistant general passenger agent OF
the PENNSYLVANIA Railroad Company. Phils-
delphia, Pa, viz: The Trunk Line committee,
meeting today at Cape May, have agreed on =
Recommendation Of Mr.. J. r. Wood, general
passenger agent OF the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company, 10 guarantee rate of one fare for
the round trip In Trunk Line territory in case
the encampment Of the Grand Army Of the Re-
public is held at Washington next year. This
cursion tickets from Washington to Gettysburg,
Antietam, Petersburg and other southern
battienelds at the rate Of one fare for the round
trip or less during the continuance of the en-
campment and will contribute in every way we
can to the success Of the encampment and the
entertainment of the veterans This disposes
at once of the question Of reduced rates 10
Washington and evidences the disposition OF
our company in this respect. The liberal action
on the part Of the Trunk Line affords us an
other strong argument, and this information
can be made very effective at Detroit.
WHAT A NEW YORK pEI.EaATE SAYS.
A member of the New York delegation to the
Detroit encampment, writing to a friend in
this city, says in relation TO the proposition
to have the next encampment here: II am
with you on this, but will be governed
by the majority of the New York delegation.
am one of the delegation, and will have no voice
outside it. We will present solid front for
John Palmer for commander-in- chief, although
some Of the delegation are for Ira n. Hedges"
THE INVITATION PLATE.
Chairman Parke Of the citizens' executive
committee went to Philadelphia this morning
and when he returns this evening will bring
with him the elegant plate on which
has been engraved the invitation Of
the citizens Of Washington to the
Grand Army of the Republic to hold the
will be placed on exhibition at Saks & Co.'S
until tomorrow evening, when the citizens
committee will leave for Detroit, taking it with
them.
An interesting map made at the War Depart
ment will be taken to Detroit by the citizens
committee. The map. which is based on one Of
the war records maps, was suggested by Mr..
John Tweedale. 1t shows the region covered
by the Virginia campaign of 1864, and on il are
traced all the movements Of all the various
corps engaged, SO that IL provides most inter-
esting study for the boys" who were there.
NOTES.
Gen. Orlando B. Wilcox, commandant of the
Soldiers Home, has been invited to accompany
the citizens committee to Detroit.
Secretary Fish has written to Col A. NJ. Ken
aday, secretary of the national convention OF
veterans of the Mexican war, inviting him and
his comrades to make the committees head
quarters at parlor A, Russell House. their home.
and join wtths the committee In the cordial in
vitation Of the citizens of Washington to the
q. A. II. to come here in 1892.
Col kenaday has written accepting the invi-
tation.
Mr.. John Joy Edison Of the citizens commit
tee has received a letter from a prominent
Grand Army man at Port Huron, Mich, saying
that in that vicinity all the sentiment favors
Washington as the place for the encampment