Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-09-10
A RUSH OF VETERANS
TO PITTSBURG TO TAKE IN TIE G. A. R.
ENOAMPMENT.
Many Persons Left the City Yesterday, and Nor
will Go To-day and TO.mOrrOw-Rail-
road Preparations

The National Encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic opens in
Pittsburg to-day. and will continue
throughout the week. Large numbers
from this locality will go to-day, but
probably the largest crowd will go in
the morning. All the passenger trains
on the B. 81 o. and the Pan Handle
were crowded yesterday with persons
going to the Eucampment. Judging
from the number of persons who left
the city yesterday and from the crowds
which passed through Wheeling, there
is to be an immense crowd at the
Smoky City"
AT half-past o'clock yesterday
morning a train in two sections from
the west passed through the city for the
Encampment. The greater part Of the
passengers were from ST. Louis, Mo.
There were sixteen coaches in the two
trains, and nine OF them were Pullmaus.
The engine leading the train was one
of the largest ever passing over the
Pittsburg division of the B. & o., and
it hauled the train past the City Build
ing apparently with little effort. About
o'clock this evening special train
from northwestern Ohio will ar
rive over the w. & Il. Z. railway
and will be taken to the B. q o.
for Pittsburg. The train is to consist
OF FIVE coaches. Two special trains will
arrive over the b. 81 o. this evening
from Cincinnati, and IL is thought that
there will be about fifteen coaches Of
them. Train No. 104 on the B. & o.
leaving the city at 5:35 o'clock, was well
filled last night. Eleven coaches were
on the train from Cincinnati. and when
it was taken to the PittsbLrg tracks
with the extra coach from this city,
there were dozen crowded cars on the
train. There were nearly eight hun
dred persons On this train.
Then the Panhandle line will do its
part, and will take fully half OF the per-
sons from this city to Pittsburg. On
the train leaving Wheeling Saturday
afternoon, there were three hundred
persons bound for the Encampment,aud
on the passenger leavinging the city
yesterday afternoon there were three
hundred more. 1t is assured that on
the trains leaving this city this morn
ing, aud at noon by the Panhandle
alone there will be five hundred per-
sons. The Pennsylvania will take tif-
teen hundred persons out OF the city
to-day and tomorrow. The agent
at the depot thinks that to-day will be
about as great one for travel as to-
morrow. Only the regular outbound
trains on the Panhandle will be run TO
Pttsburg, but on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday specials will be run from
Pttsburg to this ci.y. They will leave
the Smoky City at IL o'clock p. M, and
will arrive in this city about l o'clock
a. m. The Women's Relief Corps of
this city will leave this morning by the
Panhandle and the Posts from Parkers-
burg and Antioch will arrive In Wheel
lug TO depart on the noon train over the
Pennsylvania.
rush all week. This line will run spe-
cial trains to-day, tomorrow, Wednes-
day and Thursday, leaving the depot at
o'clock a. IN. The returning special
will leave Pittsburg to-day, tomorrow
and Wednesday, at IL o'clock p. N.
Both these specials will stop at all the
intermediate points for the accommoda-
tion of passengers. Holiday Post will
leave for Pittsburg this morning at 3
o'clock. Hancock Post, Stephens. and
Caldwell Of Moundsville, will leave the
city this morning by the b. 81 O., at Z
o'clock.
Squire Joseph A. Ankle, Depart
ment Commander of West Virginia,
left the city last night, and has estab-
lished the headquarters of the "MOun-
tain State" at Nos. II and Is Carson
street, South Side, Pittsburg. Those
numbers are the Continental Hotel, and
all the veterans from this State will be
expected to make for that location as
soon as they arrive ir Pttsburg. Where
the West Viriinia veterans are to have
their headquarters is beautifully deco
rated, aud the entire street in that part
Of the city presents an endless mass Of
decorations. Veterans from this State
may well be proud OF the location to
which they1aave been assigned.
The exercises will be opened this
morning at s o'clock, by the firing Of
the salute of tweuty-one guns from the
fleet OF naval steamers on the Monon-
gahea river. The greatest event of
fhe Encampment will be the parade and
the review OF the Grand Army, which
takes place tomorrow morning, begin
ming at $50 a. IN. Wednesday at 2
o'clock p. ~, in Allegheny, in the Com
mon Council Chamber, will be held the
reunion of the West Virginia Volunteer
Infantry.
Besides the veterans, and those inter
ested in the G. A. B., hundreds will 60
from tits city aud locality TO be spec
tators Of the great event. Most Of the
sightseers will go in the morning to
take in the parade. 1t is thought that
half million persons will see the great
nrocpssiOn