The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-08-21
IT IS ALL OVER.
The Reunion 1T an End and All the Veterans
and Visitors Returned to Thcir

The Reunion ut an End and All the Veterans
and Visitors Returned to Their
Homes.
The reunion is over and all the visiting
veterans have returned to their various
homes. Riverside park presented very
different aspect last night from that it has
presented during the past SIX nights. Ev-
cry tent was pulled down, folded and
slowed away in some nook or corner of
the great city across the river, the electric
lights were taken down and the wires
folded up in great coils waiting for trans
portation to the company's store
house, stands were torn to pieces,
reduced to piles of lumber and carried
away to mingle with other piles of lumber
in the various yards of the city, the hoarse
and diScordant notes Of the fakir were not
to be heard anywhere and not even an echo
fingered among the branches of the trees,
the noise o. the rolling balls in the ten pin
alley was hushed, the voice of the street
Car caller was cracked and shattered to
pieces and it did not make any difference
whether it was or not for he saw no one
around whom he could address in behalf
Of the speed and accommodations of his
line, the whistle of the engine of the
merry go roung was as still as death, the
tumble Of hacks, carriages and drays was
nowhere to be heard, the tread of the
soldier had given way to only the
rustling Of the leaves, the whistling and
singing of the birds succeeded the notes
and variations of the chorus girls in the
encampment show, the belching forth of
the cannon had given way to the signing
of the wind through the branches the
beating of the drum had been succeeded
by the tapping, tapping of the wood
peckers, and Thomas Shaw's great orches-
ira was humbly initiated by the lively
chirpings of the katy-dids. Nothing re-
manned to indicate the lively scenes of the
last week but COO or 700 pallets of straw
upon which some rheumatic veterans
rested their bones during the week, ba-
mana peels, these great upsetters of the un-
Outstanding; melon rinds, which once
contained vast quantities of russell hap
piness and interior aches; broken cups and
scattered fragments OF popcorn,
cakes, dying emberS Of campfres, stumps
of cigars innumerable, delapidated, dis
figured and deformed coffee pots, and
thousands upon thousands of hand bills
which bore upon their dirty sand stained
fSces various legends of the unparalleled
in the prices of every imaginable
article known to the commercial world
from diamonds down to granulated sugar.
All was darkness, desolation and delapida
ton.
The 'crowd" at the park yesterday was
small and strictly civilian rs a blue coat
could be seen nowhere. st. Johns |
harangue was the only noise heard and
that was enough to cause sufficient
among the clouds to cause
electrical storm and deluge of rain. The
rain came pouring down while the Federal
Captain company was giving perform
ance and it came down through the can
vas in such torrents that nearly 100 UNI
brellas had to be raised for protection,
making a scene something like that wit |
messed in the Chicago Wigwam during the |
Democratic convention. Finally the del |
lge became so great that the management |
had to throw open the stage which was |
under better canvas and for ten minutes |
he audience was on the platform and !
jolly audience 1t was too. During |
he storm a bolt of lightning struck |
L tree not more than thenty feet from the |
show tent, and almost stripped it COM
1leteiy of its bark. Thus ended what was
the most successful Grand |
Army reunion ever held in the history Of
Kansas.
NOTES.
Major Sim Donnelson and wife of Cald- !
we'll were among the last to bid farewell |
20 Camp Sedgwick yesterday.
The Prohibtionists raised nearly $40 |
yesterday at their meeting, for campaign |
und
The Dexter band was the last to leave |
he city, going home over the Missouri |
Pacific last evening.
Camp Sedgwick is deserted but River
ide park is still there.