Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-10

A Busy Time Promised for G. A. II. Men
and Others.

Week after next will be a busy one for the
Grand Army people and their friends. 1t may
be added, for the citizens Of Washington gen.
orally. Beginning on the 18th instant there
will assemble here one Of the greatest gather
ings ever held. Thousands of the veterans Of
the late war are coming to once more engage in a
grand review on Pennsylvania avenue. The
parade takes place on Tuesday. the Goth. and
the next day the encampment meets. This
latter Is the legislative body of the Grand
Army, and in point Of numbers it is compare
lively small. However. these annual meetings
have come to be the centers about which cluster
a host OF celebrations and reunions which in
terest every member Of the Grand Army. In
addition the various organizations OF veterans
select such occasions for their reunions and
ment meets extends proper hospitality. Alto
gether there will be good deal going on during
encampment week. Every day some new event
Is added to the list. In order that the readers
OF HE STAR may have an intelligent idea OF
what is to be consolidated program corrected
to date has been prepared, which gives, as it
were, birds eye view Of encampment week
The program is as follows:
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 10.
Morning Reception of arriving veterans.
Afternoon-In Inauguration of reunion camp;
board of directors National w. r. C. Home.
Ebbitt: Survivors Association Berdan sharp
shooters. city hall
Evening-Councii Of administration, Ebbitt,
clock; national reception to the W. X. C..
ladies OF the G.. A. r. and other organizations
Of patriotic women and the 6. A. II. at the ro-
tunda Of the Capitol by the ladies citizens COM
mittee, $50 to 80
National campfire. Capitol grounds.
Campfire Sheridan Post, Congregational
Church.
Fourteenth corps, Grant tent; twenty-second
corps, Meade tent; quartermasters, Thomas
tent; twelfth corps, Sherman tent.
TUESDAY. THE 10Th.
Morning-Grand parade.
Afternoon, 8 o>clock-National council Of ad-
ministration, W. r. c.. Ebbitt.
Evening-Fireworks, monument grounds.
to O'Clock.
and 18th streets northwest, Mrs. John A.
Logan, to the John A. Logan posts Of the
United States, the departments Of G. A. r. and
W. r. c. of Illinois and others, $50 to ll;3O.
Reception Of the Department Of the PotO-
mac, W. r. C., to G. A. r., W.R.C. and all kim
dred organizations. 1927 F street, 8 to IL.
National campfire, Capitol grounds.
Eighth corps. armies of West Virginia.
Grant tent; Shields division, Meade tent
eleventh corps, Sherman tent; sixteenth corps,
Thomas tent.
Reception by Potomac Corps. w.'R. c., to
the ladies' W. II. c. and friends. Congregational
Church. Sill.
Reception by Department Of Massachusetts,
to its friends, Ebbitt, to 8.
WEDNESDAY. THE 21sr.
Morning Meeting Of encampment at Al
baugh's, 10 o'clock, convention of W. Il. c.,
parade Of the Union Veteran Union, escort
Sons Of Veterans. followed by meeting of ma
tional encampment at Harris Theater; con-
vention ladies of the @. A. r.. Elks Hail. con-
vention Women's Relief Union, Luther Place
Church, convention Ladies' Aid to the Sons Of
Veterans, E-street Baptist Church: convention
Daughters Of Veterans, Foundry Church: con-
vention G. c. Guards, Lemon Building; to
11:30 am, fourth corps Grant TENT tenth
corps, Thomas tent; eighteenth corps, Sherman
tent; twentv-third corps, Meade tent; engi-
neers. Sheridan tent: reunion Veteran Signal
Corps Association, Law School building, E
street near 9TH.
Afternoon, 1890 to 3 p.m.-Second corps.
Grant tent; $3.50 to Pm. sixth corps, Grant
tent; twenty-fourth corps. Thomas tent; seven
teenth corps Sherman tent; seventh corps,
Meade tent.
Concert by consolidated bands, Capitol
grounds, $50.
Parade of Pennsylvania Reserves from 1888
street and reunion at TenleytOwn.
Evening by the President at the
White House: national campfire, Capitol
grounds; camp fire Department Of PO-
tomac. W. X. c., Congregational Church:
reception to the National Ladies' G.. A..
R., Hotel Randall, s to IL; wimodaughsis,
1928 | street. reception to the daughters Of
veterans; campfire Farragut Post at Mrs.
Briggs place. 7S0-First corps, Grant tent;
third corps. Meade tent; twenty-ffth corps,
Thomas tent, and Army of Kanawha, Sherman
tent.
THURSDAY. THE 22D.
Meeting of encampment, G. A. II.
National encampment Union Veteran Union.
Morning. 9 Am. to II m.-Reunion National
Ex-Prisoners Association, Thomas tent; fifth
corps. Grant tent; cavalry Army Of Potomac
Meade tent; cavalry western armies, Sherman
tent; artillery. Sheridan tent. and prisoners Of
war, Thomas tent.
Afternoon, 1890 to p.m.--Army of the
James. Grant tent; fifteenth corps, Sherman
tent: thirteenth corps. Meade tent; nineteenth
corps, Thomas tent, and provisional corps,
Army of Cumberland, Sheridan tent
$50 to 6 p.m.-Army OF the Tennessee. Grant
tent; United States colored troops, west of the
Alleghanies and east of the Mississippi Meade
tent.
Evening Reception to encampment at pen
sion Office by citizens committee.
Reception to Michigan people, Elks Hall, Z
to IL.
Reception at Red Cross headquarters corner
Of 18th and F streets northwest, at $50 to the
survivors of the late war and the various Or
CARNATIONS of patriotic women.
7:30 p.m.-Ninth corps, Grant tent.
FRIDAY. THE 23D.
9:3O--Sons of Veterans, Grant tent.
Excursion to members of the encampment
down the river
Excursion OF Union Veterans Union to River
View, where all-day campfire reunions will be
held.
Evening Reception to the ". r. C. by the
ladies' citizens committee, Congregational
Church.
RECEPTIONS AND ENTERTAINMENTS.
September 20, reunion Of nineteenth Ohio
infantry, to which the members of the ninth
Kentucky infantry and the seventy-niuth In
diana infantry are invited, at Senator Mander-
sons residence, 1898 18th street. at 10 am.
Reception Mrs. Mary NJ. Husband, Mrs.
Richards and Miss E. Tyston, 1923 street, 7
to 10 pm.
Reception By Mrs. Sarah S. Sampson. 1920
18th street. Z to IL pm.
September 81, Burnside Corps. No. T. De-
psrtment Of Potomac, ". r. e.. reception $40
Pennsylvania avenue. from to 8 pm.
Lincoln Post and corps reception Post Hail.
It'll and l. streets. evening"
Reception Mrs. u. ID. Lincoln, 1910 X street.
to New York state veterans, evening
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