Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-08-06

John W. Douglass, the chairman Of this COM
nlittee. needs no introduction to the citizens of
Washington. He was born in Philadelphia, but
at the age of ten removed with his parents to
Erie. Pa, where he received his education
graduating from the Erie Academy He
studied law under the late Chief Justice Thomp-
son of Pennsylvan and was admitted to the
bar of Erie in 1851. When the campaign Of
1860 was begun Mr. Douglass did woman service
for Abraham Lincoln. He was afterward made
collector of internal revenue for the nineteenth
district of Pennsylvania and held that position
until 1869. when he was made first deputy COM
missioner of internal revenue. In 1871 he was
appointed commissioner of the bureau and
served four years. retiring in May 1875 From
that time until he was made Commissioner
which was on May 16, 1889, he has practiced
law in Washington.
The members of the committee are as fel-
lows: John W. Douglass. chairman; Alvey A.
Adee. F. C. Ainsworth. G. G. Augur. Job Bar
nard. A. Baird. Rev. VIM. A. Bartlett. j. C.
Breckenridge. Rev. Walter H. Brooks, S. s.
Carroll. George Chandler, Calvin Chase, Rev.
Thomas S. Childs. Robert Christie, W. E. Clark
richardson Glover. {. c. Cole. Rev. Geo. H.
Corey. Jno. d. Cotton. Horace s Cummings
Wm E. Curtis, &. b. Davis, Matthew G. Emery
0. H. Ernst. ID. W. Flagler William NJ. Folger
B. +. Gilkeson. Lewis A. Grant, A. W. Greedy
Rev. F. J. Grimke, Rev. Teunis S. Hamlin. Jno
E. Herrell. E. Kurtz johnson. Bishop John J.
Keane. J. C. Kelton. S. P. Langley, Gustave
Lansburgh, Samuel G. Lemley, L. L.
Livingston, James N. Lyme, Chas.
LYMAN. Robert Macfeely. G. Mallory.
Fred. L. Moore. Il. L. Meade. A. C. Mathews.
A. b. Nettleton. Rev. s. NJ. Newman. Simon
Newcomb. Frank W. Palmer J. G. Parke, Rev
William L. Parson. Seaton Perry, ]. w. POWELL
DIR. G. b. Puryis, George NJ. Ramsay, Daniel ".
Ransdell, Z. Francis Riggs, John W. Ross, w.
oil Tn1, G.hN ELL
Sewall. DIR. F. ]. Shadd. George II. Shieldi.
Rev. Rush r. shipper. Rev. Green Clay Smith,
John ii. Smythe, James Il. Solely, Rabbi l..
Stern. Edwin Stetart. n. B. Sweitzer. John W.
Thompson. W. S. Thompson. s. Van Vliet. Rev.
Jacob A.. Walters Henry H. Wells. Smith A.
Whitfield. o. b. Wilcox. Edwin Willis. Simon
Wolf. Carroll d. Wright, Ii. G. Wright and
John r. Young.
EXCURSIONS TO THE BATTLEFIELDs.
One of the most interesting features of the
Grand Army encampment, one. indeed, which no
other city in the country can offer, will be the
series of excursions to battlefields Few per-
sons have any idea of the number of battlefields
within five hours railroad travel of Washing on
Within that circuit the armies of the Potomac.
the James and the Shenandoah. besides smaller
command. have Tough. on more than 100
fields. the victims counting more than half of
the killed and wounded in the Union armies
1t is computed that more than 300. 900 Union
soldiers have fought on those grounds, aud as
a majority OF the survivors will probably come
to Washington. most of whom will want to re-
visit these places, the arrangements will neces-
sarily be on scale never before attempted in
the line of excursions.
The citizens committee has been fortunate
In securing the services of an excursion COM
mittee whose makeup comprises over sixty
prominent citizens and soldiers. and which
gives every assurance that so Ear as railroad
facilities will hold out, nothing will be left I'M
done to make these excursions successful.
The committee is as follows:
Charles p. Lincoln, chairman; Charles F.
Keefer, secretary; Ira c. Abbott William Il.
Austin. Robert Alton, Joseph Y. BaIlou, Rich
ard J. Beall, Francis A. Reuter, John W. Brad
bury. James II. Brown, Charles G. Cole Viii
liam A. Cook, William Dickson, George p Da-
Wis, Charles r. Douglass, John b. Dowd,
Charles l.. Dubois, J. NJ. Edgar. BENZ. NJ.
Newton Ferree. Alexander Freeman, Abraham
B. Frisbie, ID. W. Classic, Daniel NJ. Goodacre,
Amos J. Cunning, William George Hall.
Abraham Hart, Marcus S. Hopkins, Henry N.
Howard, Edward B. Hughes. Andrew ]. Hun
toon, HenryT. Hutton. Albion B. Jameson,
Lewis. William II. Liverpool. John p. Lothrop,
Samuel G. Lovejoy, William d. Mack. Al6xar,-
der +. Mcmillan, Robert H. Marcellus, Simeon
H. Merrill, Henry H. Moler, William B. Nor
gan, james F. Oyster, E. Southland Parker. Ma
than 3. Prentice. D: Gray Purman, John p.
John g. Slater. Thomas W. Smith, VIM. J.
Stephenson, John s. Stodder, Henry c. Swain.
VIM. B. Thompson, George White, Daniel
Williams, Leander p. Williams, George G. p.
Wood, Thomas D. Yeager, BENZ. +. worrell.
The chairman Of the committee, Col. Charles
p. Lincoln, deputy commissioner OF pensions,
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