Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1891-08-03
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General quarters Of the 6. A. RI
the veterans, the largest being at the ex-
position building, which is called camp
Sherman and will accommodate 1900
men. Another Camp named Beecher has
room for 5000, and altogether there were
quarters ready for 10000 veterans. Then
there is hall devoted to the Women's
Relief Corps which will stow away 1000
easily.
Will Be Multitude Present.
And there is not foot too much room.
The telegraph tells of soldiers by the
thousand coming from all directions
Chicago reports that the city yesterday
was thronged with the boys in blue max
ing their way to the encampment. Every
wherein the parks and on the streets
the G. A. f. badge was to be seen All
the trains were crowded with vets; and
among them We're many women. In fact,
it was evident that the men who marched
under Grant and Sherman and Sheridan
were taking "a day off" determined to
test the hospitality of Detroit. Those
from Illinois, Wisconsin and Iowa seemed
to be for Colonel \. c. Weissert for com
mander-in-chief, and as a concession to
east were looking with favor on Wash
ington as the place of meeting in 1892
The Field Hospital Feature.
a feature OF this camp is the establish
ment of hospital corps, which will in
clude fifteen field hospitals and corps of
over $50 doctors, with fifteen ambulances
Another feature here will be the turning
out of the state troops to do police duty
on the line of march. The grand parade
Il. for line pf
little over five miles long. All day yes
terday the trains We're unloading hundreds
of old soldiers at the various stations in
this city. They came from east, west.
north, and south, and reported more COM
ing.
Some of the First Arrivals.
The vanguard of the army began com
ing in Saturday, and the way they have
been coming since Is an earnest that every
department in the country-thirty in num-
ber-wiH be largely represented. Yestur-
day the members of the reception commit
tee had their hands full all day receiving
the fast arriving posts and getting them
comfortably doniciled in their camps and
starting them on their rounds of pleasure
AT $50 special pulled into the Brush
street station, bearing 30 members of q.
A. X. posts OF Pittsourg, Pa. Another
ing 300 men, and accompanied by large
number OF ladies and visitors, arrived at
7o'clocb. At $50 the Mccoy post No. I,
Of Columbus, 800 strong, came in A
special train arrived at Sis bearing the
Needham post, of Lawrence, Mass, and
Howe post. of Haverhill, Mass. Blair
post, of st. Louis, 500 strong arrived at
9 O'Clock yesterday morning.
A HoOsier Post in Quarters.
At 9:30 o'clock last night the Major An
derson post, of indianapolis, 400 strong
with drum corps and drum major, arriv ii
and took up its quarters at Camp Custer.
Lieutenant f. Il. Geary post. of Pittsburg,
accompanied by e. a. r. circle No. :, and
led by the Allen school drum corps. ar
rived on the steamer City of Detroit | asst
evening. The steamer City of Detroit
also brought l, rs passengers from south
ern and eastern points, about 500 being
members of different Ohio and Penns-l-
vania G. A. r. posts. The Florida delegation
also arrived during the day, as well as
that of West Virginia and the department
of Wisconsin and E B. Wolcott post, of
Milwaukee.