The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-08-14
A ROYAL WELCOME
Awaits Veterans of Civil War at
the Quaker City.
THE NATIONAL ENcAHPMENT
And Reunion of the Grand Army Of
the Republic Next BrOnth-Thc Pre-.
paratlons Making At Philadelphia
for the Reception and Entcrtatn-
ment ofths Old Soldiers.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, August IA
There viii be no trouble for the veter-
ans who attend the ,thlrty-third- ma
tIonal encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic, to be held in this city
the first week in September, to find
each other. The most complete sys-
tenn Of registration ever adopted win be
used, 80 that the comrades are sure Of
meeting and falling into each others
arms. BY the system. man may
find where an old friend Is located in a
few minutes. and this will be Of the
greatest Importance to the veteran who
comes to the city stranger and alone.
he may have been in the city before,
but he will now want to meet some OF
the men who were with him during his
campaigns. Well. he'll find It easy to do
this. What this man wants to know Is
what are the special inducements for
him to come to Philadelphia. The
chances are that he is fearful he would
not see half OF the attractions prepared
for him, because he would not have any
one to show him around. The stranger,
when he comes here. win be able to find
his old comrades of the army or nnvy,
and having found them he will surely
see nii that IS to be seen.
He can get the information he needs
without any loss Of time. The way that
Is TO be accomplished is this: The regis
tratIon committee. of which Harry Il.
NeaiI is the head, have arranged 1000
receptacles, designating regiments. war
vessels, etc, giving accommodations for
100000 names. These receptacles are
I'VE and one-fourth inches wide and
fourteen inches long and are to be hung
up against wall, In tiers OF I'VE, start
ing two feet from the floor and running
up to about seven feet A quick calcu-
lation will show that It will take to do
that about six hundred and fifty feet in
length Of wall space. That space will
be divided into states, regular soldiers
and navy and marine corps and then
sub-divided according to the individual
organizations furnished under those
heads or by ships, all that man VIII
have to do will be to go to the grand
division in which his comrade enlisted,
whether the state or the United States
service, and when he has found that he
will simply ascertain the number or
the name Of the regiment.
The regiments will be arranged num-
erIcalIy, so in order. In them will he
the name of every comrado, resident
Of this city and Camden. with the
home address of each He will likewise
flnd the name of every visiting comrade
who has registered with his hotel or
headquarters In Philadelphia, during
the national encumpment. Parts Of this
wall space will also be set aside for the
army headquarters, corps headquarters
and division and brigade headquarters,
so that the comrades who served as
commanding or stan officers in these
various grand subdivisions of the ar
niles may be also located in the same
way. II the veteran knows the name OF
the man he is after, but does not know
the name OF the organization in which
he served, all he has to do Is to fill up
little inquiry blank ready for his use
and hand It to the attendant ready to
serve him and by means OF the card in.
dex, the comrade, whether n resident or
a visitor can be speedily located, II he
is registered.
To accomplish that, the committee
have provided an alphabetical index,
divided into three thousand sub-divIs-
ions by the use OF the vowel sounds. 1t
viii take one hundred card index draw
era to hold them. In order to handle
such a large number Of names, the COM
mlttee are not going to use the regular
card index drawer, but have provided
table, thirty beet long and five feet
wide, on which these drawers VIII be
placed. BY that means they will not
have to pull out the drawers to lnd a
name, but will be ready at all times to
be consulted without further move
ment. 1t will not take moro than two
minutes from the time the inquiry
blank Is handed to the uttnche until the
Information is given, provided the
name has been registered What Is
wanted now is this: There nre about
10000 comrades in Philadelphia and
$500 In Camden. who are members of
posts .and whose registration win be
obtained through the post ndJutants.
There are 1000 comrades in the two
cities who are not members OF the
Grand Army OF the Republic. and they
will also be registered. no that their
old friends may be able TO find them.
their names should be sent TO the head
quarters Of the G.. A. r., Fifth and
Chestnut streets, or to the registration
committee. room la. City Hall.
The comrade will thus ind a reccp.
ton committee aggregatlng fourteen
thousand resident comrades, each of
them ready and anxlously whiting to
greet his old army associates. What
that greeting VIII be. and what kindly
attention Will be shown the stranger,
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