Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1892-09-21
FROM WASHINGTON.
Correspondence OF the Alexandria Gazette
WASHINGTON, Sept. q.


WASHINGTON, sept. Il.
The Goth annual encampment Of the
G.. \. r. was called together this morn
ing at Albaugh's Opera House, which
was profuseIy decorated without and
within. The parquet was reserved for
the delegates. among them Some NNho
hailed from Virginia The encamp-
mcnt is representative body com
posed of ll47 delegates. some chosen
rom each of the various departments,
others allotted on the basis OF member
shin Of the departments, and others
still members of the ercampment by
virtue OF present or past Office IN the
national organization. The encamp-
ment is the legislative body OF The or
der. 1t elects the commandments
and other general officers, receives
their reports, reviews their administra-
ton. and outlines the policy to be fol-
lowed by the @. y. X. acting rs unit.
The selection Ola new set of officers,
the determination Of the time and place
for holding the next encampment dis
cussion OF die long-standing issue OF
life membership in the general ell
camWaent, Tie question OF increasing
slightly The arnu;l capitation tax. and
possiblv a discussion Of the advisable
7 ity OF pettioning Congress for changes
IN tiie pension laws will probaly come
before the cncampment. Commissioner
Douglas Of the District OF Columbla
was introduced and read an address OF
welcome on behalf OF the citizens o.
Washington, ard Commander-in-chief
Palmer responded. Junior Vice Com
manicr-in-chief e. s. Clarkson, OF
Omaha. submitted Il resolution Of re-
orct for the absence Of President Har-
rison and tor the cause thereof. EX-
President Hayes, at present comrade
from Ohio, arose and simply said: :
{ second the resolution" 1t was uGani-
mously adopted.
The CITY is almost as much crowded
to-day as ii was yesterday, but as the
; crowd is scattered, people can move
about much better than on that day.
: Ii Is the opinion OF every body f;imilia.
, with Washington that there never was
such Il crowd here before, and old mem
bcrs of the G.. A. r. say that their or
sanization never before turned out IN
slch numbers. Bands OF music ard IN
dividua posts are marching through
: different parts OF the city in the rain,
! and The car lines are packed, but most
: everybody seems 10 be III good humOr.
-Four thousand members OF thee. \. r..
u from the far West did not reach here
/; anti last night-too late to take part in
t the procession. They intended 10 pa
i, rade to-day but were prevented by The
rain The hundreds OF railroad ticket
booths on Pennsylvania avenue are
. crowded and all seem TO be doing
Y large business in the way of buying and
, exchanging tickets, and it is said that
thousands OF the people who have come
here during the last week Will never go
I away. II is remarked that of all the
tickets sold and exchanged, few or none
are from the South.
Il is said that many Of those who
paid high prices for the privilege ofsup-
plyiug the visitors here with meals have
gone broke, J" as they have not been
patronized. . At the grand barracks on
, the White Lot thirteen thousand Of the
G. A. h. slept Sunday night, but only
four hundred took breakfast there the
: next morning.
At a quarter before nine this morning
the special train on the Pennsylvania
railroad bearing the President, with his
afflicted wife, his son, daughter, grand
children and otherrelatives and friends,
who have been at Loon Lake with Mrs.
Harrison during her illness, drew into
the station here, and the long and sad
. journey, which had been undertaken
with some degree of trepidation, was
ended. 1t had been completed, how
; ever. without any suffering or other ill
effect to the distinguished patient.
Thirty minutes after, she was resting
easily in her bed at the White House,
her mind much relieved by reaching
.'home," for which she has been long
inc throughout the past several weeks.
Her physician, DR.. Gardner, reports
that she stood the trip very well ana
that her spirits were much bouyed UP
by reaching Washington, which he
thinks will be greatly in her favor. As
the probable time ofthe arrival had not
been announced, few persons knew at
. what hour the train would reach the
city. SO when it was switched on a
side track, outside 9th street station,
there were onlya squad of police, some
railroad officials, Col Ernst, with al
army surgeon, and eight attendants,
assembled in the train yard. The
police had kept everyone else at q dis
= lance, and as the train came down the
tract. from the Navy Yard tunnel all
1 engine bells and steam exhaust pipes
were silenced, and when the three cars
of the special tram came to stop not
disturbing noise Of any kind could be
, heard. an ambulance from the Wash
. ington Barracks, with picked corps of
hospital attendants, in charge Of DR..
Bannister. U. s. A, met the train and
t conveyed Mrs. Harrison from her bed
in the car, through the streets and up
to the White House. A platoon of
police in charge Of a captain kept per-
feet order and quelled all band music,
} and kept the streets clear.
The Washington and Arlington Rail
, road is not yet running owing, Mr..
Wheeless says, to the embargo upon
freight here and the consequent inabiii-
ty OF the company to get the rails it had