The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-09-02
OLD VETERANS.
GRAND ARMY ENCAMPNIENT AT ST.
PAUL.
Thirty thousand Comrades Unite in
Concentrating the Dark Days
Gone By.

ST. PAUL. Mimi, Sept. There is
a surplus of American patriotism in
st. Paul tonight The Grand Army OF
the Republic is in town $4,000 strong,
according TO the conservative estimates
sent by state departments to national
headquarters.
That number is expected to march
in the grand parade tomorrow morn
ing. st. Paul IS congested with a host
Of strangers. Fifty thousand is the
average estimate Of the number Of visi-
tors from adj parts of the Union The
every street in the business district
was enhanced tonight by brilliant cleo
trio illumina tons. The flag for which
the veterans fought omnipresent.
Martial music from many bands and
the marching of grand army posts
would give the city an appearance of
a home coming from the war were it
not for the absence Of those weapons
with which the boys in blue once
fought.
FOR COMMANDER-IN CHIEF.
There are four openly talked of can
didates for the position of commander
in-chief. They are Comrade Charles A
Ballou, of Providence, R. l., Rear Adj
miral Richard w Meade, u g. N, of
Lafayette Post, New York City; John
c.. Linehan, of Concord. junior vice
commander Of the New Hampshire de-
partment, and Major T S. GARRISON of
Nebraska. The strength of the quar-
tette has not been sufficiently crystals-
lied to admit Of a prediction as to the
successful candidate. But by general
consent, however this seems to be the
casts time for the coveted place.
The dusty road of six miles from this
city to Fort Smelling was thronged
from early afternoon until late at night
with the gray haired men in blue and
other visitors. More than 5000 people
went out to join in the reunion of
Minnesota veterans who We're sent to
the front from the historic fort, and to
witness the parade of the regular SOL
diers stationed there. The Minnesota
men made the state capitol their rem
devious and went out in street cars to
the army post. At the Hrestern end of
the bridge which spans the Mississippi
river the
SURVIVORS OF THE WAR
from Minnesota marched under an arch
of welcome. They passed the frowning
bluffs which fringe the low stone build
ing and round tower erected in 1920.
Over the garrison common they
marched and came to a magnificent
arch Of hewn logs, which marks the
entrance to the parade ground and
quarters Of the army post. Welcome
from Garrison No. 81 greeted the
visiting thousands from one side of
this unique arch. On the reverse were
the words Our Country and Our Flag"
An immense eagle between flags orna-
mented the centre on each side and on
the summit of the arch were stationed
together an anchor and a gun with
carriage.
Colonel ]. X Page, commander of
the post, his s-aff and the ladies of the
garrison, held a reception al the
colonePs quarters. Columbia Post No.
7O6, of Chicago. Commander H. G. Pur-
inton, seventy-five strong, was especi-
ally invited by the colonel. There was
q general happy reunion of Minnesota
veterans on the spacious grounds. The
third United States infantry, which is
the only body of soldiers stationed at
the fort now, paraded at shutdown.
There was a brilliant social func-
ton in the evening at Summit park
and in the Kittson residence on Sum
nit avenue when Commander Walker
was received With hundreds of other
veterans by a ladies' committee of St.
Paul.
C. F. Sheriff, of Pittsburg, was elect
ed president of the Ex-Pensioners of
War association today. He was vice
president of the organization.