The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1894-09-19
NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT.
18TH G. A. R.
Pittsburg Throneed With Boys in Blue
and Gay with Decorations.

began on Saturday and increased with each
successive hour. Many Posts arrived Sunday
evening and most OF them were attended with
cornet bands and marched to their respective
quarters with music, flags and banners
Pfttsbrrg and Allegheny are both hand
somely decorated. Many Of the decorations
are elaborate, some unique, and all beauti-
| iul. Several OF the principal streets are liter
ally lined with flags and bunting.
| The parade and review OF the Grand Army
| OF the Republic which took place on Tuesday
/ was the chief feature OF the encampment
/ The weather was very fine and countless
multitudes OF spectators packedthe sidewalks
/ and filled the windows and house-tops along
the line Of march. The procession was many
miles In length, and occupied four hours and
| seventeen minutes in passing a given point
II took the Pennsylvania department alone
| one hour and thirty-hve minuets to pass
Massachusetts had 600 men in line; Illinois,
| $50; Missouri, 500: Indiana, 1000; Minnesota,
250; Wisconsin, $685. Oregon 3O Washington
and Alaska. 10; Kansas. 100; Colorado, 80;
| Nebraska. 80; Iowa, 80; California and Ne
vada, s0i South Dakota, IA; West Virginia,
900; Maryland 500; Georgia l2 Tennessee 80:
Kentucky 80; Virginia and North Carolina
! 30; Louisiana 10; Florida 20; Delaware rs;
Maine s5; New Hampshire 40; Rhode Island
5Oj New Jersey 400; New York 1.600: Ohio
! 5000 and Pennsylvania between 10000 and
$4,000. The only states and territories not
| represented in the parade wero New Mexico,
Utah, Arizona Alabama and Indian territory.
| Among the distinguished visitors in atten-
dance ON the encampment are: Governor
| Pattison, OF Pennsylvania; Governor Nc
| kinley, Of Ohio; Senator John B. Gordon. of
/ Georgia, commander-ln-chief OF the United
| Confederate Veterans; Ex-Gov Pierpoint. OF
West Virginia; Ex-Gov. Hoard, OF wiscon-
sini Ex-Gov Lucien Fairchilds, Of Wisconsin;
/ Ex-Gov John Scott, of Nevada; Gen.
Sickles; Corporal Tanner, the ex-pension
| commissioner.
Tuesday evening several reunions were
held campflres took place at Old City Hail,
In the West End, in the East End. in Allie
gheny and on the South Side, and Gen. Cor
don delivered a lecture on The Last DAYS Of
the Confederacy in Lafayette hall.
Wednesday was reunion day more than
! fifty having been held. The One Hundred
and Fifty-Fiith regiment of Pennsylvanie.held
n reunion the steamer Katie Stockdale and
took an excursion up the Monongahela river
simultaneously. The final parade OF the en-
campment, that of the Union Ex-prisoners Of
the War, took place Wednesday morning
! The marchers were preceded by an escort
OF 30 mounted police and the new Eighteenth
regiment band.
| The opening session OF the Twenty-eiphth
encampment was held in the New Grand
| Opera House at ten o'clock Wednesday fore
noon. After calling the encampment TO order
! Commander Adams introduced Gov Pattison
who delivered an eloquent address of well
come. Addresses Of welcome were also de,
| livered by the mayors OF pittsburg and Ale-
! gheny. Henry Watterson, Of Louisville Ky,
made short but eloquent speech In which
he invited the veterans to hold their next
annual encampment in Louisville. He was
frequently applauded and at the close of his
address was accorded an ovation. A quartet
| from Akron, o., next entertained the andi-
ence with song, after which the Convention
went into executive session.
Wednesday closed with the greatest social
event OF the week. For the entertainment of
visitors great ball and banquet was given in
the new and as yet unoccupied buildings
erected by Westinghouse for manufactory.
The buildings are of vast extent and TO this
circumstance they owed their selection as
she scene OF revelry. To these buildings
| 5000 guests were conveyed by special trains
Governor Pattison and his staff of Pennsy-
vania, and Governor Mckinley, Of Ohio, hon
ored the occasion with their presence, and
the wealth, beauty and fashion OF Pittsburg
and Allegheny were largely represented by
those In attendance.
At the national assembly OF the encamp-
ment on Thursday forenoon, Thomas q.
Lawler, OF Illinois. was elected commanders
in-chief for the ensuing year. He Is 81 yenrs
of age, and Is native OF Liverpool. England.
He came to this country when child.
The fire works on the Monongahela river
/
fiery ,spleador, and was enjoyed by myriads OF
people.
-5cAMPMENT NOTES.
The Vincent Post OF Erie. Pa. went to the
encampment on special train carrying with
them several battle flags and also old Ned, a
| horse captured by Ben +. Crawford, Of Com.
pany c., sixteenth regiment, Pennsylvania
cavalry from General Enrly's brigade. Ned
Is 80 years old, and walked from North East
10 miles away Sunday morning
Albert Neal OF indianapolis, Ind, mount.
ed on his old gray horse Bill Travelled all the
distance from indianapolis overland. Neal
claims his horse Bill is "a years OF age and
that he and the faithful animal went through
both wounded In the battle OF Spring Brook
In 1864, but recovered from their injuries.
Thomas Edgar,a veteran from wlmerdlng.
Pa, became insane at Pittsburg Monday and
was taken to ahospital.
The veterans from jamestown, ". Y, had
with them In the parade two brass cannon. a
nine and twelve pounder, which served
through the war.
An interesting feature OF the New York dele
cation in the parade was the continental drum
corps, composed of men ranging tn age from
~ to SO years. They had served In the Black
Hawk, Mexican and Civil wars. wore three
cornered hnts with red and white cockades
and carried drum that was beaten In the
revolutionary war.
In the big parade Louisiana and Florids
were represented by soldiers mostly co!ored
| Those from Louisiana carried sugar cane.
while those from Florida bore banana tree.
and a stuffed alligator. The Texans carrcC
steer horns.
Seven survivors Of the Kearsage crew ar,
resent. They are: Henry =. Hobson
Austin Quinby, William b. Poole, Thomas
Buckley, Julian q. Baker, james o. StonC
and John Pope.
Among those attending the encampment 4
ID. II. Ellis, OF Somerset county, Pa, who Il
one OF l6 survivors OF the Monitor.
The next national GAR. .encampment is (,
held at Louisville In 1895.
On Thursday Mrs. Emma r. Wallace, o
Illinois, was elected president Of the Woman
Relief Corps.