The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-09-01
EXPECT 10000
PITTsBURG PUTS liz FIGURES on
ENCAMPMENT ATTENDANCE.
Belief that o q, OOO Veterans Alone VIII
BE on Hand When the Annual
Parade starts.

PITTSBURG, Pa, Aug. 31.-Secretary
Head. of the committee on accommodation.
of the G.. A. r. Encampment, to-day made
his first official estimate of the number
of visitors expected during encampment
week. Up to date he has provided for free
quarters for q. 724 old soldiers. and there
are requests for 725 not yet assigned. As
has been the case of other e~ncampments,
three times this number of veterans will
be present. swelling the number to $4,000
or $4,000 old soldiers alone. The visitors
are expected to swell this number to at
least 10000. Chairman Sample, of the
parade committee. received a letter from
Governor Pattison in which he refuses the
request of the TO permit the
331 battle flags now under seal in Harris
burg to leave their present safe quarters
for the hazardous journey to this city to
be exhibited at the encampment. While
he desires to further the interests of the
gathering in every way possible, the Gov
ernor concludes that the risk of railroad
wreck. fire or other accident is too great
to allow of the removal of the flags, which,
once destroyed, can never be replaced.
This decision is a great disappointment
to the G. A. r.. managers.
The general on entertainment
for the coming national e-ncampment of
the G. A. r.. has thus far secured twenty
five prominent campfire speakers. In adj
dition there are about a dozen more. in
GLIDING General Sickles, Henry Waiter
son and Secretary Stewart. The arrange
mentS have been made as follows:
Old City Hall-Past acknowledgements
preside: United States Senator c. F. Man
derson,. of. Nebraska; Henry Watterson,
of louisville Rev; William Corby; of No
mander Of Indiana; Gov. William McKin-
Bray. of Madison, Wis; Rear Admiral b.
s.. Osborn. of New York.
Carnegie Hall-Past Commander-in-chief
William Warner, of Kansas City, to pre-
side; Governor Mckinley; Past Command
er-in-chief Russell A. Alger, of Detroit;
Secretary of State Waters, of Massachu-
sets; Senator Henderson and Colonel Gray.
East Liberty Presbyterian C~hurch-Past
Commander-in-chie Louis Wagner. of Phil
adelphia, to preside; Judge Charles d.
Long,, of Detroit; Past Commander-in-chief
George S. Merrill, of Massachusetts; C. w.
Hazard. of Monongahela City; Gen. Daniel
E. Sickles, of New York; ex-Gov. James A.
Beaver. of Bellefonte; Past Commander-in-
chief John Palmer. of Albany; ex-Gov. F.
H: Pierpont, of West Virginia.
Forty-fourth-Streat T.. p. Church-Cor-
poral James Tanner, of Washington, to pre-
side; General Beaver: John Palmer; Past
Chaplain-in-chief d. B. Lowell, of Kansas;
Judge r. III. Cochrane. of Toledo; Gen. j.
b. Cheadle. of Frankfort, Ind.
Turner Hall, South Side-Past Command
er-in-chief A. G.. Weissert, of Madison,
Wis, to preside; Church Howe. department
commander of Nebraska; Rev. T. H. Hag-
CERT, of st. Louis; Capt. w. A. Ketcham,
of indianapolis; Rev. Walter Elliott, of
New York.
West End-Gen. j. r. Carnahan. of In
dianapolis, to preside; Henry Z. Hicks. of
Minneapolis; Rev. H.. l.. Stewart, of Steu-
b~enville; Capt. J. w. Crawford. the poet
scout" of Chicago; Past Department Com
mander II. J.. Stewart, of Norristown.
a letter from ex-President Harrison, just
received, states that he cannot come to the
'encampment. This is the cause of much
regret among the veterans.