The Portland daily press., 1897-08-25
PORTLAND MAINE, WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 25

cloec9 eso an aSp1rant for the honor.y "A
IIose uo friend of Col Linehan of New
Sro lre -, massachusetts, candidate, will with
L%M electsd sooner than see a western man
sr Ag 1A General Gobin's headquarters, Penn
y aaahia, New Jersey and Delaware are
S;s Si;a1hed t1s for the Pennsylvania man and
th lia friends friends say he will be in the fight to
1t is estimated that nine thousand
veterans have arrived in camp. The
sefterans began cleaning up their tents
.,amt na,ar breakfast today and the street de-
paareinent was out bright and early. By
.,ane ndne . clock the camp presented very
Le ileaC and cleanly appearance. At that
nuar civilian guests were beginning to
arrive and at one o'clock besides the
ono onou ousands of veterans there were over 30
IVY people In and about the camp.
among the prominent arrivals today
we're zen. Lew Wallace and General t.
L. Lawyer. The Buffalo society of Yer
ianon0ers gave reception to the q. A. K.
department. Of Vermont and the Vermont
4mSpartment of the women's relief corps.
I ne attendance was large and included
state.
AZ e the opening session of the ladies of
Cne IA. 4. today every state except Iowa
ana Indiana were represented. Mrs.
Catherine F. Hurst, president, in her ad-
Dress stated that fifty-eight circles were
organized @ dur ing the present year.
Elghteen hundred delegates from the
r., together with two hundred guests
We're given a sail on the lake on the
steamer City of Buffalo.
A bicycle road race from Tonawanda to
gne city line about nine miles, for mem
pers OF the 6. A. R., was run in the
aIternoon The first man in was Scott W.
| snyder of Springwater, N. Y. He is 40
HlS Time was twenty two minutes. Mr..
Snyder had fifteen seconds handicap, J.
" Smith, "a years old of Cleveland, was
second man. He started at scratch J.
l.. buskirk, Sc years of age, was third.
| ae belongs to post 556. Cleveland. John
Maxwell ofiBuffalo was fourth. s.s ...
| Rear Admiral Cyrus Sears called the
18th annual convention of the National
| Association of Naval Veterans to order
this afternoon. About three hundred
delegates were present. Daniel +. Kelly
OF Philadelphia was elected rear admiral
over William Atkins by vote of "a to 13.
A resolution was adopted urging the
Secretary of the Navy to accept the plans
of Baerer and Webbe of New York for a
Porter to be erected In Philadelphia or
Washington.
| The committee on resolutions reported
against the removal of gold stripes from
the uniforms of the naval veterans. After
fierce fight the matter was unanimously
laid on the table for q year.
| resolution approving the project OF
the late Gen. VIM. B. Hazen to establish
a sanitarium on Castle Pinckney island
| in Charleston, S. c., harbor, was unani-
mously adopted.
| Another fight arose over the report of
the committee on the revision of the con-
stitution which proposed to SO amend the
constitution regarding classes two and
three, which consist of sons, grandsons
| these might be expelled from the national
association An animated discussion
ended in tabling the report.
| The National Association of Army
Nurses met today with National President
Mrs Emily e. Woodley of Philadelphia
in the chair, and after listening to the ad-
dresses of the president and senior vice
president and the various reports, ad-
J iourned in order to allow the members to
take a ride on the lake.
| u This was the day for the G. A. r. to
pay tribute to the President of the Unit
ed States, one of their comrades, and
with such fervor did they perform that
duty that the afternoon will go down in
the memory of those who witnessed it as
the moment that the special train that
bore the President to the city arrived un-
til he retired tonight it was one glorious
and spontaneous glorifcation and Presi-
dent Mckinley said that he had never be-
fore half appreciated the warmth of senti-
Inent among the veterans. From the de-
potsto the Niagara Hotel the streets were
lined with people, and at the hotel the
police and soldiers from the nearby bar
racks, even with the reinforcement of ex-
tras, had difficult work to keep the null
titude in position. Even when, with
Mrs. Mckinley and Gov. Black, the Presi-
dent had entered the hotel and vanished
from sight, there followed after him the
cheers of the people until he had to come
to the balcony, where he said:
II come to greet you and to thank you
at the same time for your generous well
come. The Grand Army of the Republic
seems to be on foot today, but not carry
ing arms. Those were long since laid
aside and the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie is today dedicated to peace (Applause)
and the Union forever. l am glad to
be in the city of Buffalo with my COM
rades of 81 and '65 and my comrades
| now. I thank you all and bid you good
afternoon
| Shortly after O'Clock Columbia Post,
dressed in handsome fatigue coats and
white duck trousers, arrived at the hotel
anu dCU6u dS 6SCOTU W UllO IColuOlV w ullC
Elliott building, where the post enter
tanned the President at banquet.
| In the reception room of the club the
President met the prominent citizens of
| Buffalo and then little later he entered
the great banquet hall as the guest of
honor of Colum bia Post of Chicago, with
five hundred other distinguished guests
and soldiers At the guest table sat
| Commander G. Fl. Mcconnell Of Column
| bia Post, toastmaster of the occasion !;
President Mckinley, Commander-in in Chief
T. S. Clarkson, Archbishop, Ireland,
Mayor Jewett, Gen. Russell A. Alger,
Gov Frank S. Black, Gen. Jas. E. Cur
tbs, Chaplain-in- Chief Mark B. Taylor of
Brooklyn, Charles W. Anderson, the ne
gro orator; Wilson S. Bissell, William J.
Connors, Col. Swift, Gov. Pingree OF
Michigan, Past COMMANDMENT Chief L.
W. Lawler, Representatives Mahany, Al
exander, g F. Porter 6;53aa:s johnson n Of Chica-
Gen. Walker, Gen. Romits, Col. Jno. d.
Weber, Col. J. H. Horton, Col. Atkinson,
Alderman Fitch of Chicago, Henry d.
Estabrook of Chicago, Fred w. Peck of
the Chicago Auditorium, Gen. Jno. S.
Wise and Augustus F. Scheu,.
When an elaborate menu had been dis