The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1898-08-23
PREPARING A WELCOME
Arranging for the Reception
to Our Regiment.
DETAILS ARE FORUM
intense Enthusiasm Displayed Over
the Patriotic Undertalxfng-Com-
missioner Ross Appoints Il Conn
mittee of Vice Presidents for the
Mass Meeting-War Department
Displays Much Interest

Washington will give her gallant boys
such welcome as will go down into his
tory with a ring. when they return
weary from the trenches in front of
Santiago.
Interest In the proposed reception to the
District regiment has reached the stage
Of intense enthusiasm and no city in the
Union will Guido the glory of the recep-
ton TO Homecoming soldiers which will
be accorded the District Volunteers by
the citizens of this city.
Every class is represented in the great
committee which is preparing the pro-
gram, AMI everybody will yell. cheer and
make a brave show of coiors when our
soldiers come marching home.
Activity of Mr.. Ross.
District Commissioner John w. Ross
one of the beading figures in the move
ment to extend a royal welcome to the
patriotic sons of Washington who ac-
companed the First District of Columbia
Volunteer Regiment to The front. ard
the success of the undertaking win be
due, more than any other one thing, to
the prompt manner in which he interest
ed himself in the project by calling for a
mass meeting at the National Theatcr
tomorrow night.
Speaking of the undertaking yesterday
Mr.. Ross said. yes. i am very deeply
Interested in the matter Not especially
in my official capacity as acting
president of the Board of Commits
sioner, but just as any ordinary citizen
and lover of his country ought 10 be. A
mass meeting is perhaps the best way
of attesting the anxiety of the people of
the District to welcome the soldier boys
! home. and for this reason the call was
issued. 1t will take place at the Ma
tional Theater and every citizen of the
District ought to be there
Vice Presidents Appointed.
Mr.. Ross win be chairman Of the meet
ing and Edwin B. Hay will act as Sec
rotary. Mr.. Ross late yesterday after
noon selected the following repres enta-
tive citizens to act as vice presidents of
the meeting:
Mr. Justice Seth Shepard, Mr.. Justice
A. c. Bradley, Capt L. H. Beach John
W. Douglas. Samuel Z. Wheatley, l. G.
Hine, George Truesdell, James CT. Ber-
ret Theodore w. Noyes, Walter s.
HutchiHs. Rev. II. N Couden, Rev. III. w.
Ennis. Rev. B. L. Whitman, Rev Frank
II. brIstoi, Kew Samuel Domer, Col Hen
~ May Emmons S. Smith, Robert l.
Fleming, John Joy Edison. Isadore Saks,
Arthur Hendricks, s. W. Woodward
Dominick l. Murphy. Nathaniel Wilson,
N /. Weller. Archibald GreenIees, L. w
Richie, J. j. Darlington. A. s. Worth
inston, Myron NJ. Parker, S. c. Busey,
H W. Baum, R. Ross Perry Job Bar
Eard, c. c. Willard, Mrs Mary Lockwood
Mrs A. A Birney. Mrs. Mary NJ North,
j. Whit Heron, Thomas w. Smith. John
+. Book, Rev. Cornelius Gillespie William
oscar Roome, Thomas j. Morgan, A T.
Britton. d. j. Lee Adams, Major James
E. Bell, Col W. W. Dudley
The interval between the announcement
of these names and the holding of the
mass meeting is so short that it is i'm
possible for Mr.. Ross to notify each vice
president officially of his appointment.
He has, therefore. requested The Times
to announce the list. and TO request all
persons whose names appear above to
apply TO the ushers al the main entrance
TO the theater and state that they are
vice presidents. and they will be shown
to seats reserved for them on the stage.
Questions of Finance
Mr.. Ross also said that the final ar
engagements had not sSaen made, but that
this afternoon. One of the matters to be
| disposed of will be the naming of COM
mittees on arrangement and finance.
The District regiment is now en- route
to Montauk Point where it is expected
to arrive almost any hour. Mr. Ross was
notified by the War Department yester-
day that the remaining battalion which
includes Company G, of which one of his
sons is a member, left Santiago Sunday
night. They are expected TO arrive at
Montauk Point shortly after the first
battalions are disembarked. Probably
two or three weeks will elapse before the
regiment arrives here.
1t will be placed in detention at one
of the northern camps, probably at Mon
tauk Point, for rest and reeuperation and
arrangements will then be made for the
trip home. After reaching Washington
the boys will probably be mustered cut
of the service