The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-09-16
G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT
Visitors Commencing to Gather
in Washington.
CANDIDATES FOR coMMANDERsHIP

New York Has It. at Present. and 1t Is
Urged that the Honor should Go to the
west--The Capital Assuming HoIi-
day Attire.
WASHINGTON, Sep. 16.--The advance
guard of the Republics Grand Army is
slower in coming to the reoccupation Of
the National capital than it was in push
ing TO the defense of the country. Eighty
thousand veterans are expected TO march
next Tuesday on asphalt, where seven
and twenty years ago they marched in the
mud on the return from Appomattox.
Only few hundred are now in the city,
nor is any large number expected until
tomorrow. A large proportion Of the
advance guard are working to secure In
diRnapolis for the 27th annual encamp-
ment, to be held next year.
They are already distributing badges
which bear the likeness of the Indiana
Soldiers Monument stamped in gilt on
blue silk.
The candidates for National Command
ership have already been put in the field
by their friends.
They are Comrades A. G. Weissert of
Milwaukee Post, department commander
Of Wisconsin,; S. II. Warheld of San
Francisco Post, department commander
Of California, and Charles p. Lincoln of
Washington Post, department comman-
der of the Potomac. New York having
the national commandership at present. it
is argued by Westerners that the office
next year should go West.
But Past Commander Lincoln's friends
urge that New York obtained the prize
not as an Eastern department, in rotation,
but because last year it had at last settled
on candidate, something it had bee n
trying to do for 10 years.
Geography, therefore, they claim, had
nothing to do with last years choice and
should not prevent the Office from remain
ing in the East for another year.
When the District of Columbia Commits
sioners were considering the question of a
cholera quarantine, in view of New
Y ork's news, they asked DR.. Hamilton E.
Leach, medical director of the Citizen 5
| Hospital, the big emergency institution
/ specially created for cases which may
arise during next Tuesdays big parade, to
formulate a set of rules as to the examin-
alton of G. A. r. trains. Dr. Leach
recommended an examination of all
trains, but no detention, save when cases
of a decidedly suspicious character were
! discovered.
This met the views Of the District
Health Officer and it is not probable that
the encampment will suffer from the
| blight of detentive quarantine.
The mere premonitions of next weeks
excitement has walked Washington from
! its summer sleep. Decorations are be-
ing put up, and Pennsylvania avenue
begins to assume already its iuaugu.
| ration day aspect of a vast amphitheatre,
! Strengthened out into two lines of sea and
Rn elongated arena. A feature not seen
on Inauguration days is in the institution
of prettily decorated little Information
booths along the avenue wherein any con-
fused veteran can have the old army
question of ''where's my regimentl" an
swered with more dispatch and certainty
than, for instance, during the Army of
the POtomacs retrograde movements in
the summer of 1862 Old battle songs
show up in the windows of the music
stores, and Washington, even in its large
unreconstructed portions, is making
, ready with good face the "Welcome to
the G. A. R." so unselfshly displaye Z
over the doors of all Pennsylvania avenue
| saloons.