Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-24
LOOKING FOR A LEG.
A Pennsylvania Veterans Search
for a Long-Lost Adjunct.
SEARCHING THROUGH THE MUSEUM
The Last Day Of the Grand Army Visitors
at the Capital.
A TINE OF SIGHTSEEING FOR ALL

WASHINGTON, Sept. 2a-Shortly after
noon to-day the rain ceased, the clouds
broke and the bright sunshine appeared.
1t soon dried up the mud from the streets
and afforded those who remained here re-
newed opportunity to take in the sights
and to visit places of interest in surround
ing cities Many took advantage OF the
bright afternoon to visit Mt Vernon. 1t Is
estimated that about 80, 900 of the visiting
strangers made the pilgrimage to Mt Yer,
non during the present week.
The closing event in the official pro-
gramme for the encampment took place
this afternoon. The steamer Louise left her
wharf for trip down the river, having on
board the members of the encsmpmeDt
They we're the guests of the Citizens Com
mittee, aud large number were in the
party. The opportunity to meet personal
ly the men who had contributed in large
degree to the success Of the encampment
was appreciated by the Grand Army men.
The entire affair was under the direction
of Captain James G. Bell, the Chairman of
a sub Committee on Entertainment. A stop
was made at the United States proving
grounds at Indian Head to give an op-
portunity to those who desired to inspect
the grounds.
Looking for Their Lost Legs.
Perhaps the best patronized places during
the encampment were the Fish Commission
building, the, Army Medical Museum and
the National Museum. At the Fish COM
mission headquarters there has been a jam
since Monday. Nearly all of the visitors
dropped In At the Army Medical Museum,
where, since Monday last, the crowd has
averaged 20, 600 a day. The principal OBJ
jects of interest were Booths vertebr@ and
Guiteau's spleen. Up in the gallery where
the collection of fgunshot wounds on bones
Is kept there was an interest
ing gathering Several veterans de-
bones, and stood for long time contem-
plating the long-lost adjuncts The first
question one veteran of the Department of
Pennsylvania asked, as he approached the
guide In the Museum, was: "Say, doctor,
where's my leg?" The guide was for the
moment astonished, but the veteran had a
cork leg which he exhibited, and said he
had left the original at Malvern Hill. He
was shot in the leg by piece of chain, and
the wound was 80 peculiar that the doctors
put the limb in alcohol and he wanted to
see it. Where was it kept? He was sent
upstairs, and when the reporter left he was
puzzled over two specimens and did not
know which was his
The Greatest Crowds at the Museum.
The greatest crowds, however, visited the
National Museum, and the questions with
which they piled the doorkeeper would
have required Solomon to answer. Ac-
cording to the register of the doorkeeper,
who tallies each visitor, 10000 came in
Monday, q, 600 people visited the institu-
tion Tuesday, "a, 900 Wednesday, 81, 900
Thursday and %, 900 to-day.
The Washington Monument has always
excited the liveliest interest in all visitors
to the Capital City. The largest crowd
there, except once, since its completion,
was present Wednesday, when 5000 men,
women and children climbed up the steps
and 100 were carried up in the elevator
The association of survivors of the First
and Second Regiments, Berdan United
States Sharpshooters, closed their meeting
Grand Army at indianapolis next year.
Probably no feature of the entertainment
provided for the visiting crowds has been
more heartily enjoyed and more generally
admired and commented upon than the
elaborate electrical illumination of Pennsyl-
vania and the White House grounds.
Another encampment visitor died here
last night, at the Citizens Hospital. He
was Michael Geutherman, of Philadelphia
He was injured in a crush of people on
Monday, which brought on strangulated
hernia