The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-09-11
THE GRAND ARMY IN KENTUCKY
R0USING RECEPTION rendered
THEM IN HOsPITADLE LOUIS
VILE.

Many Thousands Now PartaISing of
Kentuclxy's Free-Hearted HOspi-
taIity and Additional Veterans Are
Constantly Pouring In-COnvicts,
who Once Were Soldiers But Now
Confined in the Penitentiary Across
the River in Indiana, Are Treated
TO n Holiday and n Fine Spread.
Many Are Being Left Behind Who
Cannot Find Even Standing Room
ON the Trains.
Louisville. Ky. Sept. 1O-To the full the
legion of the Grand Army visitors enjoy
ed Kentucky hospitality to-day and roy
ally it flowed upon them. Business men
generally, but especially in the wholesale
districts, left their establishments for the
day and gave themselves and their time
10 fraternizing with the department dele
cations and posts, while society women
by the hundreds deserted their homes and
worked numerically 10 make things pleas
ant for their sisters from abroad.
The number of strangers here tonight
is nominally estimated, but most all Of
the figures are in the neighborhood OF
175,OOO, and at least $4,000 more will be
brought in during the night and morning
in time for the grand parade The in
pour to-day was incessant, and the streets
for miles were uneomfortably crowded
with pedestrians. vehicles and marching
delegations.
There are reports tonight that several
trains from distant points are in a block
ade, with slight chances of reaching here
in time for the demonstrations to-mor-
row, while passengers on trains arriving
from Tennessee. Indiana, Ohio and this
state say that at every station people were
left behind through inability to get even
standing room in the coaches.
Denver is in the lead for the next en-
campment, but the women are working
hard for St Paul.
The heat to-day was intense and many
old soldiers were Frustrated Twelve were
taken to the city hospital. None of the
cases are serious.
Across the river, in Jeffersonville a cell
ebration unique in eneampment annals
was in progress all day. Within the walls
of the Indiana penitentiary are forty-four
convicts who once wore the blue. In order
that they might not be debarred from
some Of the pleasures of the reunion,
Warden Hart has organized little en-
campment of his own, and the imprisoned
veterans have been given two days holi-
day, with leave to mingle and exchange
"reminiscences. A camp fire and a visit
of sympathy from a delegation of the wo-
mems relief corps, together with change
in the prison menu, by a spread of all the
delicacies of the season will also tend to
mitigate ghe feelings of modification with
which the conviets read of the goings on
of men once comrades a few miles away.
The leading feature of the day was the
annual reunion and parade of the eX-
sailors, and additional interest attached
to the event from the fact that ii Is
probably the last time that the jack tars
will be seen at a Grand Army cncamp-
ment, sentiment in the organization IA
voring the holding of future conventions
in the east at places best suiting the ma
jority Of the members. Eclat was there
fore given to to-day's turnout by the CO.
operation of the ex-pfisoners of war and
of the survivors of the celebrated Mis-
sissippi river ram feet, which was put
into service at Pittsburg and Cincinnati
and took part in operations in the Mis-
sissippi, Yazoo and Red rivers as well
as in the great naval battle before
Memphis. The line formed at 10 o'clock
and was over three miles long. Tens of
thousands of spectators nedged the road
way and gave the marchers an enthusi-
astic recognition.
After the parade had disbanded and the
old tars had devoted an hour to rest and
refreshments, the annual convention of
the National Association of Naval Vet
Grams opened in the circuit court room OF
the court house. Francis b. Allen of
Hartford. Conn, rear admiral command
ing, presided, and two hundred delegates
responded to the roll call.
In his annual address Rear Admiral AL
len said that the association now number
ed 1900 ex-sailors in good standing an
increase of Is per cent. during the year.
New local associations had been brought
into existence at Marquette, Mich, Los
Angeles, Cal. Portsmouth, Va, and St.
Louis Mo. No local associations had been
disbanded and peace and harmony univer-
sally prevailed.