Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1892-07-14
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Cup4Id1 CITY VIII DC ln0 5CSu0 VI Ono u
the most interesting pageants ever
witnessed in this country. On that
day nearly $4,000 veterans of the war
between the states will march down
Pennsylvania avenue from the Capt.
toll to the White House, following the
route of the great review of the vic
torious armies in 1865. The twenty
sixth annual encampment of the
Grand army of the Republic. then to
be held in Washington, will without
question be the largest assemblage of
veterans ever seen in the country.
When one considers the desire that
must exist IN the hearts of the suryiv-
ing veterans to revisit the capital
which they fought to defend, to stand
once more upon the battlefields with
which Washington is surrounded, to
see once more before the last tattoo
is sounded the historic spots and
buildings of the federal city. it is not
surprising that nearly if not quite So
900 veterans are preparing to march
IN the great parade of September 20,
next.
Four hundred and fifty Grand Ar
my posts have applied to the local
committee for quarters for $4,000 of
their members. Thirty thousand of
these men have been assigned to va
rious hotels, boarding houses, private
houses and halls. So vast is the
crowd coming to the second grand re-
view that 1t has been found necessary,
extensive as is the hotel space in
Washington, to press halls into ser
wee and fit them up as dormitores
and dining rooms. School houses
will be similarly used, and thousands
of private homes will be thrown open
to guests.
From two to three hundred thous-
and persons are expected in the CAPT
tai next September, and Washington
has promised to take good care OF
them. This she is well able to do, as
the entertainment of large crowds is
no new thing here, where during the
last twenty years every fourth March
has brought an inundatlon of human
Ity larger than the one which preced'
ed 1t. It is estimated that at the Har.
rison Inauguration three hundred
thousand strangers were in the city
though perhaps more than one-halI
of these came in the morning anC
went away in the evening. This vas
Grand Army crowd of September, es
r timated at two hundred and ffty
thousand, Will come to stay severa
days, and when they area all here thu
hospitality of the city will be tested
as it has never been before.
Four features of the coming en-
campment attract our attention. Firs
, there will be a reception in the grea
hall of the pension Office, where in
augural balls are now held. On thi
occasion the hall Will present an un
exampled scene. A hundred thous
, and people will assemble there, tn
t greatest and fairest in the land vyini
with each other in honoring the mel
who saved the Union. Fifty thous
and veterans of a war which close,
more than a quarter of century az
:, meeting with their families an
! friends and the dignitaries of the ma
! ton IN a building from which $40
100000 are each year distributed t
the survivors of the war and their de
:. pendents by a grateful nation wi
constitute a spectacle which nc othe
= country in the world can approach c
{ even understand.
D There will be another great receI
| ton at the executive mansion. FC
many hours the President and th
!. ladies of his household and of til
! cabinet families will stand in the blu
! room to receive the ''Boys in Blue
I and their friends. On the large gree
park between the White House an
! the Washington monument will |
pitched the reunion tents. These al
: not for the veterans to live or eve
sleep in. and are not intended to for
: a camp. Large hospital tents will
pitched, and from each will fly tt
: flag of an army corps, calling the a
= tention of every veteran to the ia
J. that in this tent or that he may fin
the men of his army shaking eaC
: others hands in glad reunion. Aft
the corps has been thus brought t
gether there will be opportunity #
reglmental reunions. Some regimen
will have nearly disappeared, but
others a dozen, a score or fifty me
q may be found to shake each other
!: hands and in imagination fight ov
4 again the battles of thirty years az
II The greatest event of the encam
Re ment will be the parade. From Il
2 GOO to $4,000 men, every one of who
1 carried gun in the war, will Ia
= part in it. With three exceptions
: the organizations represented will
! posts of the Grand Army of the r
public. The exceptions are the o
Sixth Massachusetts Regimental a
sociation. now composed of about 1
ct the men who met and yanquish
the mob Ia Baltimore while en- rou
to the front. and they will occupy t