Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-10-01

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OF IN sAs prephss Of svfl who have devoted
time ssd sold type 70 villifyins Washington in
eonsssdes va tAs GRAND Army encsmpmen,
none ssn Aeps ~ ssnpste With the distin gui.hed
jour,sllse-vhosvsr he or she may be-who was
10 eharSs Il Ne wsshinsson Bureau Of the ST.
Louis Rspsaas durias the sncampmsnt period
Here Gs few sample ravingn
September 1s
ns kepsA1e correspondent desires TO tender
aifse1q fsassdly sdviss 70 thoss members Of the
Grand Army from The southwest who will at
aness tAsss VII be scarcity Of food here. The
town vfn not Be sbls 70 supply the demand.
1hscoekine hc1ttss VIII not be adequate and
hsithsr vill he ssrvica II would therefore be
sivissbis fos vts3sors 10 bring with them
cooked feed. such - hams, canned beef and
hard bread II n almost certain that those who
will not be starved win be robbed. There will
not be sleeping accommodations for half the
people coming here, Notwithstanding the
isst that ne District Commissions COM
ing over the public school buildings
% the city for barracks. The sanitary condi-
ton Of Washington is not good at its best, aud
10 scarcely Sufficient for its normal population
The expectation b that the presence for q week
Of couple Of hundred thousand strangers will
place the city In . horrible condition. The
srhocls especially viii scarcely be At for the
children 20 resume their studies in for month.
IL would be advisable for women to remain
sway. The conditions will be extremely bad for
naen, and win be almost intolerable for women
there will be q big crowd here, however, unless
the anticipations Of the managers are all swry,
ard unless careful observers here are very much
mistaken o good many Of those who come will
be sorry that they did come before they have
been here great length Of time.
NOT GUESTS. But PREY.
n the soldiers think that they viii be the
gne-,s of the people Of Washington they will
be very badly mistaken.
September 49,
There are shout 175.ooo strangers in WASH
ineson tonight The cholera scare kept away
erowdng and OF being starved or robbed bad
Tie effect 81 inducing others to remain away.
There are fully many here as Washington IL
capable Of taking care Of.
There IL much disappointment among many
OF the veterans. They came here. and many Of
them brought their wives along fully expecting
that they would get their board, lodging and
hquor free while they remained in the city, and
that al they would be called uron to put up for
vss the railroad rate 10 Washing ton and return.
Free lodging has been pretty generally pro-
vided- There is no food given away"
There h no necessity for specific denial
Of each Of the charges so fippsntly made, or
for elaborate proof of the absurdity Of each Of
the malicious prophecies. The veterans them
selves have testified freely to the falsity Of every
innuendo, and their evidence and the fact
should make this correspondent heartily
ashamed Of himself. II has been established
beyond question that this city treated the
Grand Army with more Consideration and more
lavish hospitality than the old soldiers ever ex-
perieneed elsewhere on such an occasion. Per-
hars the most unreasonable criticisms are those
that complsined that free quarters had not
been provided for the women who came
90 see the great show, and that
for none Of the visitors-male or femsle-was
there Rrstuitously furnished supply Of food
and liquor. Some Of the people who came here
may have been ignorant. but that any Of them
we're ignorant enough to imagine such a recep-
sion ss the Republic eonjured up is beyond ere
dsnce. Washington. through Its representa-
tives at Detroit, promised certain entertainment
In case the Grand Army held its encampment
here in 1892, and those promises have been
kept, and more than kept. The encamp-
ment has gone into history a. the most
racces-fil ever held. Every fair-minded. we'll
informed individual knows what Washington
did for lie guests and IL proud Of it. Had the
multitude been lsrger BY 100, 900 ii could still
have beer cared for satisfactorily and without
crowding The ReprbRcs correspondent in the
least. Could 81. Louis do as well a. Washing
ton has done? Let the people who attended the
democratic convention Of 1883 answer.