Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-08-13
BOOMING THE ENCAMPMENT
Additional Subscriptions and Encouraging
News Coming in.
MIR. Mitchell Says There viii De .
Tremendous Confederation
Of Railroad Rates.

1T is the calm that precedes the Storm"
SAID prominent Pythian to the reporter
this morning. in explanation of the ap-
parent serenity at Pythian Headquarters
Chairman Mitchell Of the public comfort
committee declared emphaticaIly that this
Woui1 be the sublimest outpouring of
knights OF Pythias which the world and the
order OF the lily had ever beheld. and that
anybody who supposed that because no
brass bands were stationed on the street
corners heralding the oncomfng of the hosts
the Pythian event would not compare favor
abfy in magnfficence and magnitude with
anything heretofore seen I'm the District of
Columbia was very much mistaken and in
tensely wrong Our people" said he. do
not stand upon the order of coming. but
they come Two weeks from tomorrow
Washington will have certainly one hun
dred and twenty-five thousand people IN
addition to its regular population. Our peo-
pie come with rush. At every encamp-
merit which we have held the indications
have been just as they are now, and the
result has always been that the city of en-
tertainment has been bulged out at the SIDES
ana the suburbs have been filled with
strangers. AT Toronto. al Milwaukee. at
kansas City. and all the other cities in
which cur encampments have been held the
Pythians have made their invasion with
rush during the few preceding days. There
never has been any very great hurrah
business about IL. At encampments we are
comers not takers.
They are making great Ire,,a ttinns for
hoFoes OF strangers at Pittsburg I'm Sep
tember IN consequence Of the Grand Army
eltcampnent, but IL Is my opinion that there
VIII be a larger number OF people I'm Wash
ington on the 18th of this month than at
Pittsburg later on. Washington X a bigger
attraction to outsiders Than PiitsDurg, and
thousands will make their vacations include
first trip to Washington, and then Pits
burg
Mr., Mitchell spoke in this strain for many
minutes and II is clear that the chairman OF
the committee which is responsible for the
proper accommodation of the coming throng
thoroughly believes that there via lie more
than hundred thousand pc bpie in this city
during the great biennial encampment OF
the Uniform Rank and the biSnnish conven-
ton OF the Supreme Lodge. knights Of
Pythias
around Headquarters this morning Il was
made rates which. although they were not
so low as they might have been made vet
they were in large majority OF Instances
eminentiy satisfactory. Some unauthorized
notices had come in. which were calculated
to discourage the promoters of the encanp-
ment. but these did not count, and every
communication received from the outside
Pythian world had a silver lining. and be-
tween all the lines of these many letters
the local Pythians could read the fuifiiiment
CT their fondest prophecies.
The citizens Pythian executive committee
VIII meet this afternoon at the new head
quarters, No. l2l6 + street. A vast variety
of matters are 10 come up for consideration,
and the Pythian executive committee will
also meet at the same place tonight for the
transaction of important business. The next
meeting of he public comfort committee -
ser for "Wednesday evening. at the Metro
politan Hotel.
Among those who secured quarters today
are Mr.. 5. T. Hull and party of five Al
bany. y. Y: A. A. Geodecker and family.
Peoria, H.: Capt Henry Hickman. Long
Branch. y. J.. and others. The list of al
ditional subscriptions secured since that last
printed in The Star is as follows: