Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-09-16
(. 4. R. ENCAMPMEN1
Visitors Commencing to Gather in Washington.
CANDIDATES FOR coMMANDERsHIP.

New York Has It at Present, and It II
 Urged that the Honor Should Go to tn,
 West-The Capital Assuming Holi
 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 Hext Tuesday on asphalt, where seven and twenty years ago they marched in the mud on the return from Appomattox. Only few hundred ara now in the city, nor is any large number expected until tomorrow. A large proportion of the advance guard are working to secure In. dianapolis 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
 The candidates for National Command ership have already been put in the field by their friends
 They are Comrades A. G. Weissert oi Milwaukee Post, department commander of Wisconsin; s. H. Warfeld 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 a 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 Commis- sioners were considering the question of 8 cholera quarantine, in view of New York's news, they asked Dr. Hamilton E. Leach, medical director of the Citizens s Hospital, the big emergency institution specially created for cases which may arise during next Tuesdays big parade, to formulate set of rules as to the examin- ation of G. A. R. trains Dr. Leach recommended an examination of all trains, but no detention, save when cases of 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 it's fnaugu- ration day aspect of vast amphitheatre, strengthened out into two lines of sea and an 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 Potomac's retrograde movements in the summer of 1869. Old battle songs show up in the windows of the music stores, and Washington, even in it's large, unreconstructed portions, is making ready with good face the "Welcome to the G. A. R." so unselfishly displaye over the doors of all Pennsylvania avenue saloons.