Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-06-25

eral Carnahan, commander of the uni
form rank, lives at Indianapolis, but Ills
fame rs an adjutant general Is national.
On Tuesday, Aug. 30, the grand process
sion will be reviewed by the president,
and thereafter tho competitive drills and
the special business of the order will be
almost the only formal proceedings.
Ono particularly gratifying feature is
that the encampmcnt is to DO u national
affair in the largest sense of the word.
Every state will be represented, the north
and south about equally, and east and
west the same, except as to tho most dis
tant states There is no politics, no sec
tionul feeling, nothing but the bond OF
brotherhood warmed by the sentiment SC
readily excited by the story of Damon and
Pythias. During the famous Grand Army
cncampment there were &C. 900 houses reg
istcrcd for the reception of dodgers, which
was moro than half the total in the city.
Down to date nearly 1000 have been reg
istercd for the Knights, and the number is
rapidly increasing. OF course the hotels
have matlo the usual promises of not rails
ing prices and ditto the market men and
restaurant keepers. The exact figures as
to railroad Rates for the whole country
cannot be published for some time, but
the PythianS have II reputation for having
outdone any other order in getting special
rates, as witness their $50 round trip tick
cts from Washington to Kansas City dur
ing the cncampmcnt there in 1892
Active Local Life.
But enough of the knights-too much
perhaps for those who do not enthuse read
lily ever such organizations. The encamp,
ment is, however, but the principal one OF
many events of the summer, and the num-
Der is destined to increase rapidly in the
f1t = n no
with its $40, O0O 900 endowment, will be the
meeting place of many a national and in,
ternational organization of scholars, and
all the great religious sects are fast COM
ing to look upon Washington as fnvorite
place for their big meetings. Even now il
is scarcely possible to pass fortnight here
in the summer without striking some kind
of great annual meeting, and hereafter the
vacation of congress will be n time OF
about as much local life as its session.
When wcnricd of whatever meeting he is
attending, tho visitor can take his choice
of excursions to 20 different places rich in
natural and historic interest and can find
within the District limits scenery of every
variety.
Down tho river every morning go five
excursion boats to Mount Vernon, and
from the landing there it is but light
task to row across to Marshall Hall, on the
Maryland side, the historic home of Chief
Justice Marshall. One may leave the city
at convenient morning hour, pny his
patriotic respects to the tomb of our polit-
ical Moses see all other sights in that re-
gion and reach the city long before dark
all for IS cents. Just this side of the tomb
is River View, which may be called the
Concy Island of Washington as place of
popular resort, though it is but n grassy
,l,,,
is Arlington, lovely resting place of the
patriot dead, and on the other side the
heights of Georgetown, and at the foot of
the great hill there navigation on the
Potomac may be said to end.
Other Interesting Scenes.
Eight miles or SO farther up the noted
Glen Echo, with imposing bluffs and an
island in the river, and beyond that Chau-
taUQua, not SO noted rs its great name
sake, but still famous. All these may be
reached by the cars, and beyond them, pos
sibly 1 miles from the city, is Cabin John
bridge, the largest masonry arch in the
world and the ono by which Washington's
water supply is brought to the city. Last
In that direction and II miles from the
capitol urc the great falls of the Potomac,
n cataract we'll worth seeing, which is to
furnish in the near future the motive pow
cr for II great electric plant that will do
all for Washington which niagara has
done for Buffalo. On the Virginia side of
the Potomac and but three miles away
from the city is Fort Meyer, the pct caval-
~ post OF the United States, where all tho
display tactics of cavalry may be witness
ed daily. and once week there is great
model drill with all the frills that mill
tary mon know how to put on. OF tho
historic forts built by Mcclellan when
he was keeping all quiet on the Potomac
there are stll remains enough to interest