Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-05-20

The OfIicial Estimates Far Below the Actual
Number Coming.

The Omcial Estimates Far Below the Actual
Number Coming.
TALK AT GRAND ARMY HEADQUARTERs--oLr
SOLDIERS VINO WILL BE ENTERTAINED 81
THEIR COMRADES HERE-Posrs THAT WILL &C
INTO cAMP-HUNDREDs OF THOUSANDS CON.
| ING.
| Official estimates of the number Of people
who will be- here to attend and witness the
Grand Army encampment will almost certainly
fail to reach nything like the true figures, fol-
thousands OF the veterans and many thousands
more of their relatives and friends are coming
without giving the appropriate committee due
notice. These folks are corresponding with
friends in this city and are making arrange
ments of which the authorities know practically
nothing. That this il so must be evident to
any one who spends an hour or two at De-
partment of Potomac headquarters. There
may be heard references to the coming of this
party or that and 1t frequently develops that its
| members will occupy some comrades house OF
will camp out on his lawn or en- an adjacent lot.
To accommodate the great multitude which is
! undoubtedly coming will require no end OF
makeshifts, but everybody's comfort seems to
be assured. Several local veterans who con-
| versed with STAR reporter last night said they
were constantly in communication with friends
who were anxiously awaiting the arrival Of the
day on which they were to start for Washing
ton: some of these they would care for person
ally. while others had to be referred to the COM
mittee.
TO ENTERTAIN THEIR COMRADES.
sarbers will hs .o,artoon ,nar,bers of NV old
"-i 70 N 10y = - a.
regiment IN my mouse, saio onc ooniiaoe W
THE STAR reporter. "They wrote me to find
m for than, odd h,vo do,a IL They
quaI.ers ior Inem ana nave uohe ~. tuey
conntrr and decided to surnr;se them bv keen
ing them under INV own roof Maybe YOU think
that won't be great reunion. I have only
seen one OF the crowd since the day OF the grana
review, put ,ney seem 70 nave iouhu He gu.
somehow and am gong 10 90 as very many
U %" roci veterans VIII MAKE .ne oots pui is
snas ""snihs'o" naS ho' ioiso''en 'Ao UNIV"
'o.uei.
10y, ow lhe ora 1elows are coming nome
uialheu u siee'e-emPty omceI; IheE nav
eon soa,.eIeu tnIoueno9t tne ieh6,n gnu
ole I oi INC Iaho put uis.lhce Is .et SolnS
W pe cnr 1 Know vi tnree VINO mus. lo.tnoy
l.o ID 10 " mere III
. .h cus NIUE WINE ago neaIu ;Ia s;y
,Iat oi'e Oh MS guests mas MS res,oence III
.lonou'. ohiy yesteroa! reeeneu ios':
,io o' oahi'ioa, "Il'leh ny man "no sci ~
my couiPahy lor TWO years anu VINO conlinanoe4
II "hen was Promoteo. for long time
L.
ue''u, put no" ne sehds 10 let me Know tha' NC
mas resioeu IN Jamaica ever since !o.a peo"us .
pierced ling seemed most Mt home. Badly
wounded as he is he is coming to the encamp-
%ent, as ne says, TO tramp Tor the iast time on
, mo o tSnSemde h ne nra I torootten
and 10 worsiin the old FAC in its undefiled
temple
HOW rur vrrrp.xs W.T., COME
s,,oh ;nfo-,,.t;o,, =. h.s 80, .ooa;rad from,
Al, 40 N'' :. - ~
'ne rufal ana thlckly populated dlstrlcts OF the
states indicates the probability OF there being in
attendance upon the encampment every member
of tho r.rord 49, nh, :; ,h,,s;o.l,, ohlo 20 oe+
bare F;nan.;ai a;saL;,;t, Iii or,t no fo3re
whatever for tbonsa, \. 81 cnnmnn;t;eS are
doing "a was commoYiv do 70 dnr;no The var
tbex are tat;nn mn ~ 49, items Or holding
concerts or fas,;vaiIs o. 60 = Tbnrchos anSS
houS &c 80 e.. o., IL. onar o,,a
1 on,oo- -. 1870 III 'nesI pu, .i
Gross results IN caah ore nc 70 hs ;nyested in
Sn;sx,,,s III -nu. en go. g. a.. nSo.~ror.
and transnnrta.;n at .hoso ,r,'n .hron, aaida
their "nnprtnn;t;as f,r . tbo W." acop;ran,ent If
wsai,b ppbor .hoS ~ w INC ,ho 1,,,sIat TIE