The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-19
THE G. A. r. REUNION.
Veteran Hosts Will Assemble
In Washington City Today.
PARADE or 100000 MEN.


WAsnrssTos CRY, Sept. 1s.-~fSpecial.l +
Thirty-one years ago the boys in blue an
swered the FIRST call to duty. Il was a
ringing, stirring appeal that went out
from the martyr-president, and 1t was a
Spartan response that came in wave OF
patriotism from every part of the North,
the East and the West. Tomorrow the
boys in blue will again throng TO Washing
ton City. The years Of almost genera
ton have whisened their hair, have
wrinkled countenances hardened before
their time by the marches and counter
marches, by wounds and the sufferings OF
. great war. They win come to Wash
ington City filed again with the men,
cries Of great past, memories of intrepid
comrades who fell in battle, or who died
in the war prisons of the South, Of brave
men who sacrificed the dreams and the
hopes and the ambitions Of young lives.
that . nation might be one and lnsepara-
bic. that race might scan the light OF
day through the eyes of unshackled man.
hood, filled with recoilections of brave
deeds and brave men.
Grand Army place in Washington City,
known also as the White lot, just south of
the executive mansion, Is specked with
tent poles and hooks. for It is on this spot
that all reunions Of the great week will be
held. On Monday the great crowd will
have filled the tented ssction and every
available bit of room in the national
capital, and tho estimates now are that
fully 10000 strangers will be cared for.
Past Commander George II. Innis. of
Boston, says Massachusetts, will have
10000 men in line in the great parade on
.rfr h,i
Dechert, will have q, 900 there. and from
New York will come fully that number,
with the odds favoring many more. Not q
week has passed since last June in which
less than dozen posts have applied
for quarters during encampment week.
30 every building available has
been brought into requisition. The
school buildings. the great halls and the
armories are all being filled with cots. and
Just now the committee Is in q quandary
a. to where the guests who are not men,
bers Of q. A. X. posts will stop. The
monument grounds will be the main
center for the free quarters. Buildings
are being erected there which will accom-
modate II, 900 veterans. Garfield park has
also been set aside for the use of the
veterans. and many an old soldier will
dream of the whiz of bullets and the roar
Of cannon on that beautiful bit of ground.
Then the barracks erected on the triangu-
lar bit Of. ground adjoining Center market
will seat 70, 900 veterans at a time and it
will take an army of cooks to supply
sufficient food to equal the demand. The
hospital tents on Grand Army place are
also rearing their whitened canvasses to
the sky.
Grand Commander Palmer believes that
over 100000 men will be in line in the
great parade, and to cut short the time al.
lotted for passing in review he has decided
TO have the veterans pass in double column
down Pennsylvania avenue. He believes
that four or tive hours will be saved by
this step.
The question of an escort to Com
mander-in-Chief Palmer has been salts
factorily settled. The Sixth Massa-
chusetts. together with the five Pennsyi-
vania companies, the first to respond to