The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1892-08-25
A GREAT CITY'S WELCOME.
A Monster Parade and a Mag
nificent Showing for Our Gall
liant Boys.
MUCH WORK COMPLETED.
Marvin E. Hall Chosen Com
nander-in-Chief, and CIncln-
natl Next Year.
WITH OPEN ARMS.
Helena's Homes and Streets Given Up to the
Sons.

Helena's Homes and Streets Given Up to the
Sons.
Trains from North South East and West poured
into the beautiful Mountain City and deposited
their burdens the doors of the hospitable citizens
Battery A, Montana National GUARDS: tnunoerea
It's greeting TO the COMMANDMENTS Chief Barlow =
Weeks, who arrived Sunday evening. hundred
Sons were his unforned guard. Those OF his stan
accompanying him were Adj't- Gen. Tobias end
@. M.-Gcn. Carkson. The Commander ana ms
wife were quartered at The Helena Hotel.
Headquarters fitted up i'm the Denver Block.
The walls finely decorated with paintings.
flags. deer and elk heads, and some mineral speci-
comfort and convenience possible, and numerous
the visitors that awaited themselves thereof.
All Helena was alive with people ana laVlshiy
decorated with flags aud bunting.
A handsomer, more manipulating lot of
strangers than the Sons and a sweeter, more
womanly gathering of women than their auxi-
iaries the Ladies' Aid Societies, Will not be soon
seen again. unless it be at the National Encamp-
ment of the GA r., when so many OF the same
people will visit the Capital City.
The exercises began Monday afternoon, Aug. 3.
with public reception, with nearly a complete
representation of the delegate membership. There
gathered TO the Auditorium a great concourse OF
the Grand Army, W. r. c. and hosts of the citizens
being in attendance and largely swelling the num-
bers OF Sons and Daughters The addresses OF wei
come and the responses were eloquent and in
excellent FORM and the speakers were frequently
interrupted with enthusiastic cheeriRg.
James b. Walker of L. =. Grant Camp, i. Helena,
presided and on the platform were Commander
in-Chef Weeks, Adjutant- General Tobias Maj. A.
p. Davis. Gov. Toole, Mayor Curtin, Judge Blake,
Col. c. B. Nolan, 4. p. Sterling, Of Wsdsworth
Post, AR and members of the Ladies' Aid So
ciety.
Gov. Toole offered a welcome to Montana In
the course of il he said
Commencing with the Order of the Cincinnati.
which sprRng from the fires of the Revolution. q
long array OF societies might be psraded 10 Illus
the devotion of the American people TO those
heroes who contributed TO the establishment and
perpetuation of civil liberty in this country. but
none had a worther inception and fulfills more
NAT IN fhQn q
Through your organization the purposes of lauda-
BILE ambition transmitted from generation to
generation. public and private virtues are kept I'M
furnished. and love of country is blended with
the love of those who gave force and character to
q great cause. In that awful emergency their
vRlor supreme. their endurance was super
human. their suffering was intense, their confidence
abiding their victory complete, but their
reward remained ~ what prophetic vision had
portrayed, peaceful. prosperous and united coun-
try. Whatever was worthy of accomplishment in
that great struggle is worthy OF commemoration,
not in the narrow sense of kinding anew dead
flame of sectional luminosity, but in the larger
sense that may be thankful for. more than ex
ultant over. the achievements of the men to whom
you are SO closely related by the ties OF blood and
affection"
Il hardly know how on your behalf Sons of
Veterans and members of the Ladies' Aid" said
Col. Weeks in his response Il can make answer
10 this wonderful and glorious welcome from Mon
tanas Governor. We come from all parts of the
Union; from Union that has been very aptly
said to be bounded by the aurora borealis on the
NORTH by the torrid zone on the south. on the
east by the memory of the past and on the west
by the setting sun. We have come from pine-clad
hills in the east and from the broad, rich prairie
stretches of the middle West. out through these
great mountains, natures gaieways down whose
rocky sides in lmpid brooks flow streams of silver
into the heart of this treasure State--hther
have come TO hold our 1lth annual Encampment
AT Minneapolis were told that il we should
come 10 Helena the State of Montana would be
ours. From what her Governor has said feel
shat the United States To those OF ue
from the East especially, the warmth and breadth
81 our welcome is refreshing TO a degree.
In our egotsm and sefconceit we claim to be
the most unselfsh organization in the world. We
ask nothing for ourselves. We exist to keep alive
q sentiment. the ennobling sentiment of patriotism,
aud 10 smooth the rugged path Of life for
patriot fathers, and for those they may leave be-
hind them when they answer the last taps
Mayor Curtis and others on the platform followed
with suitable remarks, Miss Josephine Munhol-
land, National Secretary of the Ladies' Aid Society,
of the most talented well beautiful of
Illinoiss daughters spoke q few words in behalf
OF her Order and the band played. concluding the
exercises.
In preliminary session the National Council after
o'clock disposed of the first business matters of
the Encampment.
in the evening magnificent social reception
rendered the Sons and Ladies of the Aid Society
a. Brosdwster. Reena's beautiful resort. and IL
was long after midnight when the crowds
turned TO the city. Thus did Helena welcome her
visitors