The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-08-14
GRAND ARMY GATHERING,
IHIfTY-THIRD N1TJOSAL EN-
CAMPAENT And REUNION
Held at Philadelphia sept. 40,

ASDCs
Philadelphia, August 12.-The,e viii
be no trouble for the veterans who at
tend the thirty-third national encarp-
ment Of the Grand Army Of the Repu3-
lie to be held in this city the first week
IN September to find each other. The
most complete system of registratin
ever adopted will be used, SO that the
comrades are sure of meeting and fall
ing into each others arms. BY the sys-
tenn a man may find where an old friend
is located in a few minutes and this
Will be of the greatest importance to the
vetehan who comes to the city stran-
ger 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 Phtla-
delphia. The chances are that he is
fearful he would not see half OF the at
fractions prepared for him, because he
would not have any one to show him
around. The stranger, when he comes
here, will be able to find his old COM
rades of the army or navy, and having
found them he will surely see all 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 reg
istration committee, of which Harry l..
NEAL is the head, have arranged seven
thousand receptacles, designating regi-
nlents war vessels. etc, giving accom-
rnodations for one hundred and fifty
thousand names These receptacles are
five and one-fourth inches wide and
fourteen inches long and are to be hung
UP against wall, in tiers of five, start
ing two feet from the floor and running
up to about seven feet. A quick calcu-
1ation 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 a man will
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 SlIlDly dStNl Tam tiiS artli'SNA ~ S-'N
name of the regiment.
The regiments will be arranged nu-
merical1y so in order. In them will be
the name of every comrade, resident
of this city and Camden, with the home
address Of each. He will likewise find
the name of every visiting comrade who
has registered with his hotel or head
quarters in Philadelphia, during the ma
tional encampment. 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 staff officers in these
various grand subdivisions Of the ar
mics may be also located in the same
way If the veteran knows the name or
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 a resident or
a visitor, can be speedily located if he
is registered.
To accomplish that the committee
have provided an alphabetical index, di-
vided into three thousand subdivisions
by the use of the vowel sounds. 1t will
take one hundred card index drawers to
hold them. In order to handle such a
large number of names the committee
are not going to use the regular card in
dex drawer, but have provided a table,
thirty feet long and five feet wide, on
which these drawers will be placed
BY that means they will not have to
pull out the drawers to find a name, but
will be ready at all times to be consult
ed without further movement. 1t wifi
not take more than two minutes from
the time the inquiry blank is handed to
given, provided the name has been reg
the attache until the information is
istered What is wanted now is this:
There are about ten thousand comrades
in Philadelphia and twenty-five hundred
in Camden who are members of posts
and whose registration will be obtained
through the post adiutants. There are
two thousand comrades in the two cities
who are not members of the Grand
Army of the Republic, and they will
also be registered so that their old
friends may be able to find them.
Their names should be sent to the
VI the " "a IL, i II III anu
Chestnut streets, or to the registration
committee, room III, City Hall.
The comrade will thus find recep-
ton committee aggregating fourteen
thousand resident comrades, each Of
them ready and anxiously waiting to
greet his old army associates. What
that greeting will be, and what kindly
attention will be shown the stranger,
can only be known and appreciated by
one who has performed a soldiers duty
in time of war, and who has formed a
soldiers friendship. War is the highest
Of all the professions Its trials eXpe-
riences and hardships try to the utmost
mems abilities, courage and kindness
ard therefore the friendships thus
formed are based upon sterling worth
and heartfelt appreciation. 1t will be
annreciated therefore how anxiously
and expectantly the Philadelphia COM
ra6es are waiting the advent of their
old associates. and every veteran who
ram possibly come should not disappoint
his old comrades, but make special ef-
fort and be present. The general COM
uittee are exerting every effort to ac-
complish this end and the registration
registering IlC