The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-04-10
WORK ABOUT FINISHED
Money Will be Collected Next
Wednesday
FOR THE ENCAMPMENT
Greetings Sent Out to Friends
and Posts.

By Wednesday of the present week the
campment in charge say that they will
have all of the details finished and ali the
money collected that is necessary to en-
| terrain the Boys in Blue royalty. The
general reception rooms will be in Her
man & Hess old stand on East Douglas
avenue. The encampment viii be held
here on Wednesday, Thursday and Fri
day, April 70, q and q. The committee
yesterday sent out the following greet
ing:
The local posts of the G. A. r. send
greetings 10 all their comrades through
out the department OF Kansas, and extend
10 them the most cordial and urgent in
vitation TO be present at the grand en-
campment in Wichita on April 90 q and %
"a third of century is just being COM
pleted since the war drums throb was
hushed and the battle flags were furled.
The span of a generation has passed DUR
ing the time that we. as the Boys in
Blue have been steadily but irresistibly
transformed into the veterans in gray.
Time, with his keen, cutting scythe, is
rapidly decimaring our ranks and now
ing down the survivors of our battalions,
spared by the lead and iron showers Of
the martial field. Let US close up the
gaps as in days gone by, and come closer
together where we may feel the warm
pulsations of kindred hearts, beating
within each others breasts, the old, old
song of loyalty and love. Thus shall we
gather new courage and inspiration to
fight well the remainder Of life's battles,
and TO meet, at last, the unconquerable
foe of all mankind, without blemish on
our names, without the tremor of a fear.
I'VE can hardly BE- true to the beautiful
watchwords of our organization, unless
we avail ourselves of every possible
means of deepening and intensfying the
feelings of fraternity. These annual re-
unions are the love feasts of our order.
In their blazing camp-fires are fused and
forged the chains of indissoluble broth
erhood.
Here also is nourished the precious SEN
timent of charity and love-the noblest
impulse of the human heart. The claims
Of the desttute-unprovided for by a gen
erous goVernment-the tender care of the
sick and crippled, the giving of advice and
counsel to the soldiers widow in distress,
the helping hand to orphan children, are
sacred heritage to us, we may not,
and we should not disregard.
In these grand rallies we light anew
the fires of loyalty. No fuel need be added
to the fame of patriotism that has burned
for over thirty years in the heart of every
surviving soldier of the republic, bright
Ia
Rome, but the rising generation may be
inspired and profited by the grand spec
tacle of a united band of patriots, who
proved their loyalty in the hot and smok-
ing furnace of battle, marching again in
line, their grizzly heads erect, their stiff
fened limbs revivified and keeping time
TO the thrilling music of the fife and
drum. Especially is it appropriate in
these days when the atmosphere is
charged with the ominOus scent of car
mage. that the old soldiers of the union,
the ''old guard" of the nation, should as
semb1e and give voice to the emotions of
patriotism that stir their hearts. Most
of US have passed the line where we could
hope to bear the physical burdens of
campaign in the field, bat the spirit OF 81
has not grown old nor feeble
Let us come together once again, ere
the curtain falls upon our lives, and re-
new the memories of old days, recount the
blessings of the present, and inspire each
other with courage and hopefulness for
the future.
''All the comrades of Wichita, together
with her large hearted citizenship in gen.
eral, unite in extending their warmest
words of welcome and hospitality to every
comrade, to the ladies of the G. A. r.. the
Ladies' Aid society, the Womens Relief
Corps-God bless them all--and to every
Son of Veteran, within the department OF
Kansas.
by order Of Garfield post
JOHN J. JACOBS,
Post Commander.
al. 7. KRAMER. Adjutant.
"Bggleston post:
"LEONIDAS KICK.
Post Commander.
"JNO. r. MOORE, Adjutant.
Wichita KAN April s. 1895"