Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-26

OF these barrels is 20 be loaded
with water and ice. metal dipper with q
NOOK handle will be the medium by which water
val be conveyed from the barrel 10 the soldier.
No contracts have yet been made for the
wash basins. clippers and other articles % tin
ware necessary to equip the free quarters;
samples are being received and within two or
tnree GAYS 1t is probable most Of the contracts
viii be closed.
sAKs co.'s DEcoRArroSs
The Electrical Equipment Company Of Detroit
j. J. Mckenna, general manager has contracted
with Saks 4 Co. Of Washington. II. c.. 10 place
about 800 lights in front of their building as a
special decoration for the approaching Grand
Army OF the Republic encampmcnt The con-
| tract was secured BY the Electrical Equipment
Company on account of Its success in decorat-
| ing the city hall OF Detroit for the municipal
authorities last year. The company now has
ten men at work preparing special emblems and
devices for these decorations.
THE ESrERrAISAESr COMMITTEE
The entertainment committee held an inter
esting and well-attendcd meeting last night. the
chairman, Gen. W. W. Burdett, presiding.
The interest conferred in the report Of the sub
committee on music. addresses and program Of
exercises, which was presented by Chairman
Geo. Z. Corson. An outline of the report was
printed In The STAR yesterday and il was ap-
proved by the full committee partial report
from the committee on carriages was made by
DIR. A. j. Huntoon and interesting statements
were made by Mr.. W. s. Roose as to the dec
Grafton of the pension Office building and the
erection OF the stand. Mr.. 4 II. Il. Richardson
In regard 10 the supper and Prof. b. 7. Janney
as to the engraved invitations.
CORPS REuSroxs
number of interesting meetings were held
bv reunion committees of army corps last
night.
The fourth corps met at the Riggs House and
decided to hold a reunion "Wednesday, Sept,m-
Der II, from $50 a. m until 1 pm. letter Of
invitation to members of the fourth. twentieth
and twenty-first corps has been sent over the
country.
| THE FIFTH CORPS.
The members Of the fifth corps resident in
Washington held their regular weekly meeting
last evening in the red parlor Of the Ebbitt
House, DIR. A. b. jameson. president of the
| reunion Association, in the chair and DR. J. r..
Raub OF the pension bureau and VIM z. Corsa
| OF the Agricultural Department secretaries In
addition to the seventy-tive members who had
previously registered with the association there
| were added the following:
| A W. Anderson. captain company +, fourth
| United States infantry: A. T.. johnson, fifth
| fennsylvanla reserves: II. l.. Smith corporal
company ID, fourth Delaware; W. ID. Ritner
| sergeant company ID. one hundred and eighty
seventh Pennsylvania; J. y. Woodwork lieu
tenant forty-fourth New York: Geo. d. Sidman,
corporal company /, sixteenth Michigan: Il. r.
Brouner, fifth New York; Samuel Bricker COM
pany ID, one hundred and eighty-sevcnth Penn
| sylSania: L. h. Brown. company II, Purnell
Legion, Maryland volunteers: Frank T. Porter
company Z, Purnen Legion. MARYLAND yolun-
| tefrs; w. j. Johnston, forty-fourth New York;
Norman II. Camp. fifth New York: JOSEPH
lrainor, company ID. Purnell Legion. MARYLAND
volunteers; 5. L. Allen, company F. seventh
PENNSYLVANIA reserves: Charles Shainbaugh,
company b. eleventh PENNSYLVANIA reserves:
Daniel D Driscol lieutenant fourteenth United
States infantry; F. f. Bogia. company u, sec
ond Pennsylvania reserves; Sidney J. Wales
colonel Purnell Legion
| 1t was announced that tents would he nro-
vided for division and brigade reunions, and
that at the large corps tent would be placed a
roster during the encampment giving the names
OF the nearly 200 army organizations that dar-
ing the war belonged to the fifth CORPS The
following committees were appointed:
Committee on badges. H. l.. Eager. chair
man; DIR. II. B. C. Clement. DR. L. i. Hance.
II. L. Prince, Jonathan W. Childs
Assignment committee. b. Jamison, chair
man; Dr. J. l. Raub. secretary, and five other
members to be appointed by the chairman
Brigade chairman-First division, first bri-
gade. Gen J. c. Abbott: second brigade. Col.
Jonathan W. Childs; third brigade. Vim. J.
Johnson; second division. first brigade. Eugene
Wells: second brigade, +. A. Fields: third
brigade, III. G. Hamilton; third division. trst
brigade, H. B. Mexican; second brigade. W.
Howard Gibson; third brigade. T. NJ steep;
| fourth division. second brigade, d. III.
Kent; artillery brigade, Thomas Broderick.
Reception committee-Col. H. b. Mexican.
chairman; j. n. l.. Eager, L. W. Clifford, Johns
McCalmont. Jonathan W. Childs, VIM r. Ped
die, DR.. J. +. Raub, w. J. Johnson Ira c. Alb
bott. W. II. b. kittson, ID. W. Harrington. III
q. Hamilton. l.. H. York. Arthur Hendricks,
Horace II. Brewer. Eugene Wells. ID. H. Kent.
lhos Frederick. A. r Bogne, Chas. Walter
/ Nm Il. r.
DIR: A. B. c. Clement, 5. Z. Thomson, II. l..
Prince.
The reception committee will hold its first
meeting on Friday night September 2 in the
red parlor of the Ebbitt House at 7:3O sherp.
The association will hold it's next meeting at
SPIN. September in the red parlor of the
| Ebbitt House.
POTOMAC CAVALRY CORPS.
The Army of the Potomac cavalry CORPS met
at the Ebbitt House. Vice Chairman Parsons
was elected to represent the cavalry corps COM
mittee before the proper committee in the mat
| ter OF securing proper railroad transportation
and suitable accommodations for comrades de-
string to visit the battlefieids south of the Po-
tomac. The chair appointed Gen. Estes and
Comrades Thomson and Wright a committee i'm
charge of the assignment of tents to the various
brlgades. Dates for reunions have been Sc
lected as follows since August IL: Eighteenth
Pennsylvanla cavalry, September 81, s pm;
twenty-nrst pennsylvania cavalry, September
20. 9a.m.; fourth New York cavalry, Septem-
Der 81, 10 am.
The reception committee was constituted as
follows. and a resolution passed adding all the
members of each regiment present in the city to
said committee:
Second Pennsylvania cavalry. Capt Albert y.
Seip; third Pennsylvania cavalry. q. NJ Thomp-
son; fourth Pennsylvania cavalry, Charles 4.
Yoder; eighth Pennsylvania cavalry. William Il
Sterne; thirteenth Pennsylvania cavalry, Col. ].
H. Devices eighteenth Pennsylvania cavalry, l.
w. Scherich; twenty-first Pennsylvania cavalry,
Thomas Flaharity: fifteenth United States cav
airy. Sergt. John Fogarty; second United States
cavalry, James Riley; fifth United States cav
| airy, Sergt. William Quinn; sixth Pennsylvania
cavalry, w. W. Wilmington; first Maine cavalry,
Gen. l. G. Estes; first New York Lincoln cav
| airy, John Hockemeyer; eighth New York cav
airy John E. Ayers and John c. Hawley: sixth
New York cavalry, d. A. Babcock; ninth New
York cavalry, Capt George c. woolley: tenth
New York cavalry, A. ]. Edison; twenty-fourth
New York cavalry, ]. S. Mcintosh; twenty-fifth
New York cavalry. John II. Wolf: first Massa-
chusetts cavalry, Daniel Shannon; fourth
United States cavalry, Capt. Frank A. Benter;
fourth Indiana cavalry, Col. II. b. Law
son; first Vermont cavalry, Henry A.
Curtis; Ringgold cavalry, james p Hart;
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