The record-union., 1897-08-25
GRAND ARMY
ENCAMPMENT.
Buffalo Thronged With Veterans
and Their Friends.
Expected That Over Three Hundred Thou.
sand viii Have Arrived by Morning.
President Mckinley, Accompanied
by Secretary of War Alger,
Arrive, and Were Given a
Hearty Reception-NavaI Veter-
ans and Ex-Prisoners of War
Have a Big Parade.

BUFFALO On. ". Aug. 24-Another
beautiful day greeted the veterans of
| the c.. A. r. to-day. All night long
trains We're arriving at brief intervals,
depositing their loads of veterans and
sightseers. This morning thousands
were gathered around the different sta
tions as early as o'clock and the prin-
cipal streets were a jostling crowd of
! humanity.
| The features of the day We're the
| arrival of President Mckinley at
o'clock this afternoon, the banquet ten
dered him by Columbus Post of Chicago
and the parade of naval veterans and
| ex-prisoners of the war.
| The programme for the day also in
Guided the meeting of the army nurses
reunions of the First, Second Third,
| Fifth, Tenth and Twenty-fourth Corps
reunion of Loyal Home Workers: con-
vention and camp fire of national vet
Grams, G. A. r.; bicycle road race; an
| Illuminated bicycle parade; camp fire
of ex-prisoners of the war and numer-
Gus receptions rendered them by the
ladies of the various auxiliary bodies.
! During the day many organizations
held reunions.
| The railroads centering here estimate
! the number of passengers landed in
| Buffalo during the twenty-four hours
! ended at midnight as 145, 900. It is es-
timated that there will be at least 49,
600 more before the big parade to-mor-
row, which will bring the grand total
of the encampment visitors up to the
number that has been expected right
along, $50
| The feature of this morning was the
second parade of the celebration and
first in which Grand Army men took
part. The Naval Veterans Associa-
ton and the ex-Prisoners of War AS
ISOLATION, together With the survivors
of Erie County regiments and other
organizations, composed the Grand
Army contingent of the parade.
! The Naval Veterans wore the uniform
of the United States naval service, and
made a splendid appearance AS they
rolled through the streets in the roll
ing gait of men-of- war crowds cheered
/ them to the echo. The ex-prisoners of
war, of the rank and file of the G. A.
r., wore the uniforms of their respec-
tive posts, and on each coat was fas-
! prison in which they had been con-
fined. AS the names of Andersonville
Libbey, Salisbury, Bell Isle, Florence
Castle Thunder and other places of the
historic We're read the cheers became
deafening.
President Mckinley arrived here al
3 p. M, accompanied by Governor
Black and Secretary of War Alger
The party, escorted by a squadron OF
mounted police, was driven direct to
the Hotel Niagara. The President,
with barred head, bowed repeatedly in
response to the cheers of those assem-
bled on the sidewalks.
Rear Admiral Sears called the twelfth
annual convention of the Association
of Naval Veterans to order this after
noon. About 300 delegates were in at
tendance. Daniel NJ Kelley of Phil
adelphia, was elected Rear Admiral for
the ensuing year over w. M. Atkins by
a vote of 81 to 13.
AT the opening session of the Ladies
of the G. A. r. to-day every State ex-
cept Iowa and Indiana was represent
ed. Mrs. Catherine F. Hirst, President
presided.
Colonel Sexton Of Chicago has with
drawn as a candidate for Commander
| in-Chief
OF Cincinnati's success in her race for
| the next encampment, there appears to
/ be little doubt, although Denver doomed
up to-day as an aspirant for that hon.
or.
Among the prominent arrivals to-day
We're General Lew Wallace and former
COMMUNICATIVE Chief Thomas Lawler.
The National Association of ex-Pris-
oners of War met in national conven-
| ton to-day, with Commander Charles
r. Sheriff of Pittsburg in the chair.
| The attendance was the largest since
the organization of the association. The
report OF. the Acknowledgement showed
sixty-three local associations and a to-
tai membership of 2204.
These officers were elected: Com
mander, Charles r. Sheriff, Pittsburg:
| Senior Vice-COmmander, J. I. Kilgour.
Brooklyn; Chaplain, John S. Ferguson,
Keokuk, Iowa; Historian, Lewis r.
Fortescue, Philadelphia: Quartermaster
General, S. H. Long. East Orange, n.
J.; Executive Committee-Ex-M Mayor
Dorm, St. Paul; James Atwell, Pitts
burg; Isaac Z. Selley, Minneapolis. and
John P Donohue, Wilmington, Del
The Loyal Home Workers held a
meeting today with TOO delegates, rep
resenting fifteen States present. The
annual reports showed that the order
was making steady progress, its mem
bership now exceeding sixteen thou
sand.
President Mckinley visited the camp
fires during the evening at two of the
local churches, and the crowds that
greeted him were tremendous. He
spoke briefly at one, saying:
Ladies and Gentlemen: The sad
der part of the reunion of the old
soldiers of the army is that every an
nual encampment we miss many famil-
| lar faces. Our comrades are diminish
ing with the passing years; the circle
is narrowing, and every annual roll cal
discloses one and still another not pres
ent but accounted for. They have
gone from human sight: they have
passed from association with us here
any longer; they have gone to join tbs
great majority of that army with which
they were so long associated. and they
sleep tonight within those green tent;
whose curtains never outward swing.