Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-09-10
Ten Thousand Marched in the
Louisville Parade.
100000 VEI. OlS IN TIE CITY
The Blue and Gray Walk Arm in
Arm Today.
THE ERA OF GOOD FEELING


Special From STAFF Correspondent.
LOUISVILLE. KY, September 10-The
Yankees have taken Louisville. The city
has fallen without a struggle. 1t was
case of unconditional surrender. The Grand
Army of the Republic made the capture.
They carried picket lires. outposts, breast
works, and finally, the city. Meeting with
no resistance.
The Department of the Potomac was in
the front rank of the invaders, and the
colored troops behaved nobly. The boys of
the Mount Pleasant Drum Corps acquitted
themselves CALAMITY. For the first time
since the war the members of the Grand
Army of the Republic. as an organized
body, have met in the south. They are
now camped as welcome guests in city
and land which they once invaded with
military forces. The welcome which they
have received was quite as warm as in the
first invasion. The degree of fervor is the
same, but the circumstances are different.
This idea of invading Dixie has evidently
proven immensely popular with the Grand
Army posts. They are coming in numbers
astonishing, although gratifying, to their
posts.
Great heavens, did we leave that many
Of them!' calculated one-armed ex-con-
federate on the street.
1t is indeed a source of wonder to see the
multitude of ex-soldiers gathered on the
streets of Louisville thirty years after the
war The great states of Ohio, Indiana
and Illinois, close neighbors to Louisville,
have turned out the veterans to this en-
campment by the thousands. Michigan,
Pennsylvania and New York are in easy
reach and low rates have proven a sue
cessful temptation. The favorable condi-
tions have resulted in an attendance which
to
that subsequent national encampments will
never be so large again.
Magnificent Hospitality.
The reception of the visitors by the city
is on such scale Of magnificent hospital
ity as to cause general expressions of sur
prise and delight. Proverbial southern hos
ptality has apparently exerted itself to
the utmost in this case. Grand Army peo-
pie can date time hereafter from the Louis
willie encampment. The decorations of the
city make glitter OF glory by day and a
blaze of light by night. Bunting and cleo
trio lights form the combination.
The spirit of the people here toward the
visitors is manifested in a thousand little
ways, and is sincere and unm.stakable.
1t is spirit Of most cordial and unaffected
welcome. There is nothing maudlin in the
sentiment which prompts them TO extend
the hand of welcome to the northerners.
1t is merely a frank and open expression
of the idea that their former foes are now,
in time of peace, their honored guests.
Apparently there is no abandonment of
any of their own sentiments or memories
about the war. They are merely relegated
to the background for the occasion. There
is no blending of the blue and gray. 1t Is
all blue now. One does not see anything
in sign or symbol or hear anything in
street or hall to offend the most sensitive
or patriotic veteran. The Louisville peo-
pie are proceeding with the idea that this
is not reunion of the north and south,
n he
south.
The Washington Delegations.
The Washington delegations began to
reach the city about 8 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, the first section of the special
tain over the Chesapeake and Ohio reach
ing the headquarters of the Department of
the Potomac, the Old Guard, the Woman's
Relief Corps snd the Drum Corps. At the
depot a line of parade was formed. headed
by the drum corps and the Washingtonians
marched to their quarters.
The parade made an interesting display,
and the Old Guard whose fame has pre-
coded them, were heartily cheered along
the route. The Mount Pleasant Drum
Corps, consisting of eghty-six bugles and
drummers, seemed to catch the town. The
inspiriting martial music which they
thumped from their drums and drew from
their bugles caused big crowd to follow
them.
Commander-in-Chief Anderson of the De-
partment of the Potomac and his staff are
Quartered at the Calf House, and have
opened headquarters there. The Old Guard
and the drum corps are in the school build
ing comfortably situated, although sleep
ing on mattresses on the floor. Lincoln
Pest, No 3, and some of the men from the
Soldiers Home are in another school house.
Members of Rawlins, No. /, and Kit Car
sen, No. 2, are scattered over the city in
private quarters. The colored patriots of
Charles Sumner Post, No. o. are comforta-
tod in Snhn
List night the veterans turned in early
after their long trip from Washington. I
made the rounds of the quarters of those
who were settled, and found all well. The
Boys of the drum corps, nothing daunted
by sitting up thirty hours in the train,
were playing Indian in their big room and
turing handsprings over their mattresses.
You can't lose u.s." cried a bugler as he
turned double flip flop over his bed and
landed on sleeping drummer boy, who
Immediately got up and proceeded to thump
him. both being extinguished with a blank
ct by Director Churchill.
They are lively as a bag of 1eas,"
said Mr.. Churchill, land having a bar
rel of fun
The Department of the Potomac is pre-
pairing the business which it will bring be-
meets in convention. This business in
cludes resolution asking Congress to de-
clare the birthday of Lincoln a national
holiday, resolution supporting the efforts
to obtain military instruction in the public
schools; there will also be brought before
the encampment the proposed changes in
constitution to allow the Sons of Veterans
to attend meetings of Grand Army posts.
1t Is reported that an effort may be made
to bring before the encampment the resolu-
tion indorsing the proposition to have the
government buy Appomattox and make it
national park. The Department of the
Potomac in its annual encampment last
February refused to indorse the plan. A
number of Washington people are said to
be interested in it.
After the Next Encampment.
1t is the idea of some of the prominent
eastern delegations to have the encamp-
ment of 1897 held in Baltimore in case of
ST. Paurs getting it in 1896 This plan is
in danger of being frustrated, however, by
the entry of Buffalo in the field for the en-
campment of 1896 If it goes to Buffalo it