The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1897-08-24
GRAND ARMY WEEK
Indications That the Buffalo En-
campment Will Be the
Biggest Yet.

BUFFALO,, Aug. 24.-Grand Army
week opened with fair weather. AL
indications point to a colossal encamp
ment beyond the expectations of thu
most sanguine citizen. Train loads Of
veterans and their friends are con
stantly arriving, and Q person might
think there vas a great parade in prog
ress as the posts march up the mair
streets to their headquarters.
The reception of Thaddeus s. Clark
so1, commander.in-chie of the Grand
Army, constituted the first event Of the
week of the encampment.
He was met at the station by local G.
A. r. men and members Of the recep.
ton committee and escorted to the
hotel, where he was officially received
by Colonel Winans, chief OF the head
quarters staff.
The programme for the day included
the formal opening Of Camp Jewett at 4
O'Clock, a civic parade and a reception
at 8 p. N. to Commandment. Chief
Clarkson.
All day the veterans were arriving
by thousands. The various railroads
entering Buffalo report that in addition
to the hundreds Of regular trains, sched-
ules have been prepared for the arrival
of 245 specials during the next AZ hours.
Camp Jewett, as the "City of Tents" is
known, is all ready for its inhabitants,
and was formally opened at 4 O'Clock
this afternoon.
Ample arrangements have been made
at the camp and elsewhere for the care
of the sick. Three hospital tents have
been erected at Camp Jewett, each in
charge Of q competent staff Of physi-
Clans.
Colonel Winans of COMMANDMENT.
Chief Clarkson's staff estimates the
number Of visitors to Buffalo during the
week at 200 200, making the largest en-
campment ever held. In speaking Of
the choice Of the veterans for the next
encampment Colonel Winans said that
SO far as his information went there
was but n choice among the delegates
and that was Cincinnati. With regard
to the encampment being held in Rich.
mond, Va, he asserted there is nothing
in it. The people down there do not
want it and the veterans do not
care to go there.
Colonel Winans says Pennsylvania
will send the most people to the Ell.
campment with New York second and
Ohio third in attendance.
Among the later announcements Of
candidates to succeed Commander-in.
Chief Clarkson are the names Of JOIN
c. Linehan of New Hampshire, George
H. Innis of Massachusetts, James A.
Sexton of Chicago and Joseph S. Goblin
of Pennsylvania.
The decoration of the city with bunt.
ing and electric lights is elaborate.
Ladies Will Try Again to Unite.
During the week, a further effort will
be made to unite the Woman's Relief
Corps and the Ladies of the G. A. r.
There has been a good deal Of discus.
sion over a possible union, but it is the
desire of the Grand Army that the
tenets Of the Women's Relief Corps pre-.
vail as to the eligibility clause, and the
Ladies Of the G. A. r. do not want to
give up on that point SO that the matter
Of a union seems as far away as when
the two organizations took to different
paths.
ITO cherish and emulate the deeds of
our noble army nurses, and Of all loyal
ONE who rendered loving service to
our country in her hour Of peril" is
the aim Of the Woman's Relief Corps.
The Ladies of the G.. A. r. accept
only the "wives, mothers, sisters and
daughters Of honorably discharged sol.
diers," and reject the ''loyal" woman
who had no relatives in the war to
whom she can trace relationship"