Evening star., 1898-09-05
VETERANS IN CAMP
Thirty second Annual Reunion, Grand
Army Of Republic.
TEE RECEPTION At CINCINNATI
Program of the Exercises Arranged
for Entertainment.
CAMP SH ERMAN DEDICATED
Special From Staff Correspondent.


CINCINNATI, Ohio, September 5, 1885,
Tie festivities which have been arranged
for the members of the Grand Army of the
Republic and of its auxiliary the Woman s
Relief Corps. during the thirty an
began this morning amidst great enthus-
iasm and in the presence of thousands of
spectators. At o'clock the flagship was
placed in commission with appropriate
ceremonies at the public landing, and there
was music under the auspices of the Naval
Veterans Association. This was followed
by the dedication at 10 o'clock of Camp
Sherman, which is located at Chester Park
one of the loveliest spots near Cincinnati.
The program for the remainder of the
day and evening is as follows:
Eight pm, at Music Hall, camp fire in
honor of naval veterans and ex-prisoners
of war. Prominent speakers will be pres
ent, and there will be war pictures music
auspices of citizens committee. G. A. R.
The Commandery of Ohio, Military Order
Loyal Legion, will receive during the day
and evening at its headquarters, Lincoln
Club building, Sth and Race.
lliumination-S to l. pm Band concerts
and general illumination of the city. AT
camp Sherman, Chester Park, there will be
miscellaneous entertainment under auspices
A. n.
Geological Garden, open from am to L.
pm, concert and general entertainment.
AT the Ludlow Lagoon, open all day and
evening, general entertainment. At 8 pm.
sham Dattie representing Dewey's victory
at Manila, under the auspices of the citi-
Zens committee, G. A R.
The Art Museum located in Eden Park
and the famous Rookwood Pottery will be
open to visitors all day.
Two games of base ball were scheduled
for the day, one at $50 am. the other 3
pm.-Cincinnati Reds VS.. Cleveland The
thedters We're open at pm. and will be
again at S:15 pm.
Washington Delegation Arrives.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, September 5-The
special train carrying the members of the
Department Of the Potomac Arthur Hem
dricks, commander, and Womens Relief
Corps, Mrs. Anna A. Peck, president, which
left Washington at noon yesterday, via the
Chs sapeake and Ohio railroad, arrived
promptly on time this morning Command
er Hendricks says the party had a grand
time On reaching here they were weicum-
ed at the station by hundreds OF Cincinnati
people.
Large Sale of Tickets.
after the rains of yesterday and last
night there is no longer apprehension of
prcstrations from heat during the encamp-
nent- The railways are bringing in ex-
cursionists from every direction, and the
LEGAL posts are kept busily engaged in es-
ccrtng the visitors to their quarters AL
Though Camp Sherman was not dedicated
till 10 am today it was partially occupied
by veterans last night. Other tents pitched
in the parks We're also used and ali quar-
tiers will be well occupied tonight The re-
ports OF the railways indicate over 100000
tickets sold. While mery have arrived the
past two days, these railway reports indi-
rha lo1
than was ever known before at G. A r.
national encampment.
The National Soldiers Home at Dayton,
Ohio, is less than sixty miles distant and
the veterans from that institution are TAX
ing active part. Those who can participate
in the parade will wear khadi suits, the
same as the rough riders They have over
100 men in their band, the largest ever
sent to any encampment. Three other
bands from Dayton accompany this con-
uEgent, with which the Dayton posts will
also be associated. 1t is estimated by Cap
tain Harry E. Feicht and Captain T J.
Adkins that there will be 10000 people here
from Dayton.
Among the questions discussed is one to
make all engaged in the late Spanish war
eligible to membership as comrades in the
''old army.
A Grand Welcome.
The veterans of Sumter and OF Appomat-
tox, the boys who wore the blue from 81
to '65, and who carried the flag through
the storms of defeat and the sunshine of
victory, are having welcome at the hands
of the good people of the queen city of the
west, as they come to clasp hands over the
camp fires OF the grand encampment of '9S
Not promise made by the delegates from
Cincinnati to the veterans of the Grand
Army has been unfulflled; not a greeting
that was promised to these boys in blue
but Is three heartened by the people of
Cincinnati. not a door is closed and not a
shout but a welcome greets the veterans
of the civil war, whose bitter memories
have been laid to rest under the flag that
Dewey fioated ever Manila bay that
Sampson and Schley and Shafter bore to
victory in Santiago Bay, and from Santa
go Heights, where northern and southern
boys clasped hands in token of perpetual
amity against foreign foes and dissensions.
At least eleven national organizations all
composed of old soldiers and sailors. or
their wives and daughters, will hold ses-
Sions in the city this week. The National
EncamDment of the G. A. r. will be in
session two days, September and 8. The
meetings will be held in Music Hall, at 14th
and Elm streets. The three woman's or
ganizations, which are practically auxilia-
ries to the 6. A. R.. will meet as follows
Woman's Relief Corps, Scottish Rite Ca
thedral. Broadway near 4th street, Septem-
Der and o; Ladies' of the G. A. r., in the
auditorium of the new Odd Fellows Tenn
pie. corner 7th and Elm streets. Septem-
Der and 8; Daughters of Veterans, in the
Assembly room of the same building, Sep
tember : and 8.
The National Association of Naval Vet
Grams. are, by reason of prominence earned
by the United States navy in the Spanish