The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-09-23
Unconditional Surrender Of
the National Capital
and Enthusiastic
Reception Of the
ViCtors.
WONANS RELIEF CORPS TO THE FRONT,
Jersey Veterans in the Great
Parade-An Object Lesson
in Patriotism.
specia1 to the Jersev City Ne,cs.

Washington and buried it under an
avalanche of flags and uniforms. l
humbly believed l could fiud adjectives
large enough to apply to a large crowd.
Now l have changed Tay mind. Nothing
in a newspaper vocabulary can do it JUS
tice. Imagine a great city. ordinarily
we'll filed with its w population. so
packed with uniformed men that the in
habitants are not to be found. Red,
white aud blue everywhere, and veterans
iu, over and around every square foot
within the city limits. That is as far as
this cedar pencilcan go in describing the
crowd.
The Rrst thing you notice-after the
display of national colors, which begins
100 miles out or town-is the sign. "Wel-
come. Comrades!" on everything. from
the Capitol to a peanut stand You rhiuk
nov cordial everybody must be. and it
gives you quite an extra glow OF good
feeling to know your presence is Il real
boon to everybody. hen YOU walk five
blocks and see that sign every step of the
way. And you begin to lose That fine
glow and find it a trifie wearing. By the
time you have gon over ten solid blocks
of such signs you will require less cordi-
dllUy 10 AGop ny yOul SplLslSs
That sigu ought to read
WELCOME, CoMRADEs'$.
Where the Washington people expect
to go when they die, l don't know, IL they
90 on grinding the faces of the G. A. R..
they way they have done since Monday.
Air and the sidewalks are still free In
Washington, and the cable cars charge
the same rates as a week ago, but every
thing else has gone up higher than the
Big girl OH top Of the CApitvldome. News
boys ak you six cents for a two cent
sheet, and bootblacks ave a sliding scale
to which Homestead's is nothing. The
bootblacks are an institution all by them
selves, to anyone used to the New York
species. Here they are always chocolate
colored youths of eighteen or eighty, who
lean up against a house with loose-jointed
indifference, and remark every now and
then 'shublack" all in one word, with
the end trailing off in a sort of sigh. They
never ask you personally-they have an
air of impartial advice about it, as much
as to say, Nov, l leave it to you if your
boots don't need it,"
BY this time your boots do. The rain
that waited q non so as to descend on
us at Just this time, has reduced everyone
to a draggled condition extremely uu-
pleasant to look at. The majority of the
women brought but one gown. and as
that had to do duty for large conventions
IL W 40 AAItAo VAIN SoA aA bbOS-
| ton, with Il due amount of lace, ruf1es
aud ribbons. Wednesday morning the
raiu descended and the floods clme aud
~everybody's gown was reduced to that
mussy state which makes a woman bliud
to the beauties OF nature.
New Jersey was evidently determined
not 10 be lost in the great parade, for she
placarded herself with hundreds of little
banners with her name on them. The
first Jersey City man to come in sight
was judge Advocate Emanuel Sands of
the official staff. Then everyone broke
into cheers as Van Houten Post bore its
| battle-worn flags past the stand. Ex-
actly why these pathetic bits of bunting
should make a young woma Who never
saw a battle feel u thrill of intense
patriotism interfering wit her breath. /
don't know, but there were several such
young women. l know of one. Zabriskie
Post and Ed ward A. Stevens ~(naval) Post
were cheered as they passed headquarters.
Zabriskie Post is quartered on Pennsyl-
vania avenue, and enjoys itself ike so
many cadets.
OPENING OF THE CONVENTIONS.
The following day conventions opened
in earnest. The Woman's Relief Corps
assembled at ten O'Clock for general or
ganization. It WAS the opening of The
ance was large. The ladies of the g. A.
r. met In Elks' Hall. Mrs. NJ. 0. Cartilage
in the chair. The society differs from the
| w. II. e. in that its members must be
either wives, mothers, sisters or daugh-
tiers Of actual veterans, while the Relief
/ Corps is composed of loyal women,
whether relatives of G. A. r. men or not.
New Jersey has an important finger in
this pie, Mrs. NJ. A. Stevens of Newark
/ and Mrs. Anna E. Grub of Camden be-
ing high officials. Mrs. Stevens is Past
Department President of New Jersey,
| and now State Counsellor. She recently
organized the new U. S.. Grant Circle,
the only organization OF the order in
Washington. Her portrait has become
familiar through the daily press. which
has published a most execrable likeness.
Mrs. Grub has suffered more from these
pictorial ISLANDERS. She is a tall, majestI-
cally proportioned matron, with dark
eyes and a regally poised head, and the
cuts are enough to make angels weep.
Mrs. Grubb has been the National Treas
urer since $50. Her work in Camden.
Metuchen and Trenton has won her we'll
deserved laurels in her order. She is a
soldiers wife and intensely proud, Of it, /
rejoice 20 say.
The Daughters of Veterans shave head
quarters at Wimodaughsis on I street.
Ut may help you in ~pronouncing this re-
markanle word to remember that it
stands for a club composed entirely of
wonen-wlveS, mothers, daughters and
sisters. One may meet more delightfully."-
bright and interesting young women here
than would keep a whole city alive any
where else.) The organization is com
posed of daughters and hters
OF soldiers in the late war. The uniform,
worn only on very special occasions, is of
dark blue cloth with army buttons. made
with straight skirt II plain waist. and
worn with a fatigue cap OF regulation
pattern. The whole arrangement is a de-
lightiul compromise between rigid mas
cusinity and feminine furbelows, and
gives the most uninteresting girl an air
of Importance. Then there are the Ladies'
Relief Union, auxiliary to the G.. A. r..
tine Ladies' Naval Veterans Relief Assoc
citation, the Army Nurses and thousands
of women who do not belong to any
special organization, but whose hus-
bands. fai hers or brothers wore the blue.
AN OBJECT LESSON IN PATRIOTISM.
TIE whole ehcampment Is one great OBJ
ject lesson In patriotism. When you see
some cid boy borne along OF a cot, both
legs left on Malvern Hill or the Wilder
ness. but waving a flag and taking Off his
hat TO the picture Of his General, it makes