The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-06-02
THE GREAT ENCAMPMENT.
From tte Buffalo News.

From tire Buffalo News.
Preparations are steadily going forward
for the thirty-frst National Encampment
of the Grand Army OF the Republic,
which will be held in Buffalo from Aug.
% to 2S. About 10000 veterans have been
assigned to quarters, committees OF la
dies having been at work for some time
securing locations for members In private
houses, boarding houses and wherever
else comfortable quarters may be had.
The response has been very gratifying
and the local headquarters at Ellicott
Square has been put at lest concerning
the ability of Buffalo to accommodate in
becoming manner the army of 1OO,OOo
veterans which General Clarkson, COM
mander-in-chief of the Grand Army OF
the Republic, estimates will attend the
encampment, and the $4,000 people who
will come in as visitors and gusts of the
city on the day of the grand parade,
Wednesday, Aug. %. On that day at
least 1000 people will march in the pa
rade These figures are based on the
number of people-400, ,O00--which attended
the Washington encampment in 1882. The
preparations this year and the Interest
taken in the Republican administration
at Washington, which marks the return
of the Republicans to power in the ma
ticn, make the above estimate fair and
reasonable. In view of the encouraging
(,
therefore every school house within
three and one-half miles of headquarters
have been allotted, and arrangements
have been made with the hotels to take
care of 5000 veterans, and private fami-
lies and boarding houses will take care of
the balance.
The arrangements for reunions during
the encampment, the reception of Presi-
dent Mckinley, Secretary of War Alger,
Governor Black and the governors of
other states, who have been invited to be
present, as well as military dignitaries
of the regular army and volunteer forces
OF the country, the presence of naval
veterans, ex-prisoners of war and the
negro veterans, will make the doings OF
great interest on each day of the encamp-
ment. The naval veterans will be enter
tained on two lake steamers, loaned by
the Western Transit company for that
purpose. Both steamers will lie at the
foot of Erie street, where the public can
view the "jolly Jack Tars" "at home" in
their river and lake palaces. Another in
teresting feature of the encampment will
be a chorus of $500 school children, gath
cred on an inclined stand, erected on one
of the big, open squares of the cNy. The
children will be grouped in the design of a
shield of red, white and blue. The sing
| ing of these children will be a pleasing
feature or the occasion, as they Will be
well trained, the drilling for which is now
| going forward and will be kept up until
the time of their public appearance.
Camp Jewett, which will be pitched al
The Front, will have accommodations fol
| from 5000 to 10000 veterans. 1t is a de.
| lightful spot near the site of the historic
| Fort Porter 1t now forms part of the
beautiful park system of the city, and its
NFia Of he ri Lob he a Hoy
| shore and Fort Erie in the distance, rem
| ders it altogether an appropriate and G
charming place for a military encamp
| ment,