Arizona republican., 1892-09-17
ROYAL ARCH.

with the 10000 others who will come with them, can count on being well cared for while they are the guests of the people of the national capital. The arrangements for their reception and their comfort while here could not we'll be better or more complete than they are today.
 There is no longer any doubt as to the great army that will attend. From every state in the Union applications have been received largely in excess of the anticipations of the committee on arrangements. Even from the south. where the G. A. R. is not supposed to thrive, a big contingent will ceme. Texas alone will furnish contingent of not less than 2,0O0 men, all wearing the button that every man, woman and child in the country knows as the in siguia of the G. A. R.
 It is no easy matter to care for great army of hundred thousand strangers. A very large proportion If the visitors will find temporary home in the hotels, and a much greater number will be ac- commodated in the boarding houses which are to be found in nearly every street in this town. Some one very wisely said that Washington was all one big boarding house, and he was not far wrong. The national capital probably has a larger floating population than any other city of its size in the world But the hotels and boarding houses will not be equal to the requirements. The committee on arrangements have real ized this in ample time.
 In all the public squares of any size the visitors here today will see busy workmen putting up long, low but comfortable buildings of pine to be used as sleeping barracks, as eating houses and as washrooms. To build homes, even temporary ones, for 10000 men Is no slight task. But in another week Chairman Edson, who has all the details of this immense work under his thumb, will have his embryotic towns completed and ready to receive the vet erans. Out on the lawns which sur round the tall shaft of white marble to the memory of the immortal Washing ton there will be buildings to accommo- date 15,0o0 men; on the greensward of Lincoln park there will be homes for 15,00O more, and 10000 will be placed in buildings scattered about on the small public reservations with which the city abounds.
 When the barracks in the monument grounds are completed there will be seen seven principal buildings along the curving driveway which is on the south side of the Washington monument. All of the buildings are long structures with sloping roofs covered with tar pa. per and line of openings for ventila- ton at the ridge. They will be built of wood, with canvas sides, the latter SC arranged that they can be raised or low cred, as the weather makes necessary The buildings have uniform width of e. feet and varying depth of from 200 tC 350feet. A building of the latter size ha' capacity of about 2,300 men. In the vicinity other buildings will be put uI where the men can wash, and also build ings where they can get their meals Space has been reserved in the monu ment grounds for the members of thu posts who bring tents with the intention of camping out.
 The buildings in which the veterans will sleep are interesting for several req sons. The great size is of course an ele