The Portland daily press., 1899-07-11
AN IMMENSE MUSTER.
Some interesting Things About
the G. A. r. Encampment.
where Bosworth Post ana Maine Men
wnu BE Chartered.

The thirty-third National Encampment
and Reunion of the Grand Army Of the
Republic at Philadelphia from September
to 2. inclusive. will be the greatest Of
9. A. r. annual encampmenta The at
tendance OF veterans and disting uished
guests viii be larger than ut any previ-
GUS reunion, the arrangements for the
affair are being conducted on grander
scale than ever before, and everything
one for the City Of Brotherly Love.
One thousand members Of the ofeani.
q ton that was dear to the heart Of the
lamentsd Grant win come from various
parts of the United States and from Can
ada, Honolulu and Brazil.
The quotas will be something like this;
New York lofty and stated, $1,000; New
England States. 5000; Pennsylvania,
10, 600; Delaware, 500; New Jersey, 1000;
Maryland, 1000; Ohio, 1000; Illinois,
6, 900; Southern States $4,000; and the
Western States, $4,000. These are the
present estimates OF the General Commit
tee. and they will increase rather than
diminish. Hotels will be enlarged for the
occasion, while the Committe on Camp
ami Free Quarters will provide sleeping
places for s5 900 men. Camp James A.
Sexton. In Fairmount Park, which was
dedicated on July 4, will alone have
tents for 10000 veterans.
At recent meeting of the Encamp-
ment Executive committee. the several
subcommittee made favorable reports.
The Committee on Decorations reported
that 1t has made extensive arrangements
for the decoration of Broad street. The
expenditure In this respect will be $50, 600
The Committee on Music has secured al
of the brass hands available Tor miles
around, and there will be more bands In
Philadelphia during the celebration than
ever before. Halls have been engaged
80 that every regiment represented can
hold reunion, md the Committee for
Camp and Free Quarters will act as hos,
for q company of 900. The COMMITTEES
ON Finance has thus far secured Si6,0 0t
in donations, and it is expected that the
| 3 90, 600 desired will be forthcoming.
This Is in addition to the $4,000 appro-
priated.
THE BIG PARADE.
The parade on September s will have
80, 00G men In line. Tho routs will b.
practically as follows;
Start from Broad and Cumberland
streets and march down Broad street to
Morris, countermarch up Broad street
to Chestnut, to Fifth, and fiisperse.
President Mckinley, members of his
Cabinet, and other prominent guests will
ride in the line of the parade In
barouches.
ENCAMPMENT HEADQUARTERS.
The hotels of the city will be taxed to
their full capacity to receive the wealthier
Posts that are DESTROYS of first-olass ac.
ccmmodations and are determined to be
quartered together. The hotel which Ia
to be the he adquarters will be the scene
| Of incessant activities, from the begin
ming to the end of the week. The first
floor will have in Its main corridor a d.
reotory of all Posts and delegations, an
Invaluable convenience, when one recol-
lects the difficulty OF friend finding friend
in strange city and OF the manner In
which the Interchange of business be.
tween Posts will be facilitated.
In the several parlors and In the nu-
merous rooms will be established the
headquarters Of the Commander-in-C Chief
and those of all the state bodies
1t Is thus evident that the great central
point of the encampment will be the Con.
| tinental hotel. Everything will radiate
from the general quarters, and Thousands
OF the members of home and visiting
Posts will find their way to the corridors
and rooms of this house.
The Lafayette hotel has undertaken
to accommodate no less than 700 veterans,
and 1t has decided to stretch to do 1t. The
extension will be accomplished with the
aid of the Hotel Hamilton, at Broad and
Walnut streets, which opens regularly on
September 30, but will receive about 20t
of Colonel Bakers guests during the
week beginning September 8. The La
fayette has received large number of
| applications for rooms from regular pa.
irons who are members of the Grand
| Army. and the hotel has closed contracts
/ with three of the most prominent posts
in the country for accommodations dur
ing encaio pment week. The Ransom
Post. of st. Louis, brings 400 men, AND
the Lafayette and John A. Dix Posts, o