The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-06-26
ELABORATE PREPARATIONS.
Details of the Arrangements
for Entertainment Of
the Veterans.

week of September are hard at work
and they say that the demonstration in
| this city will exceed anything that has
ever preceded it. Philadelphia is patri-
cite to the core and when she sets out
to make the soldiers of the rebellion
welcome she intends to do 1t to the
queens taste" Thousands of the men
of 81 who passed through here on their
way home or to the front know what
was done FOR them and few will ever
| forget it. Her Union and Cooper shop
refreshment saloons and her magnitl-
cent army hospitals went right to the
! hearts of the boys" and they are still
! talking about them-those who are
above the cold, cold ground. For be it
| remembered that over a million of the
| brave souls who fought in that bitter
/ strife are lying all over the land in
their last resting places. But they are
not forgotten and on Memorial day,
every year fresh garlands are placed
upon the mounds under which they
sleep and their deeds will live in his
tory forever.
Well, good old Philadelphia intends
to give the boys such a rOusng well
come in September that they'll hardly
| know where they're at" when she's
done with them. Do they deserve it?
| Yes, and more, very much more than
Philadelphia even can do for them and
that's saying a great deal. All sorts of
plans are being arranged for the "Old
vets" and the program is already such
a big one that it's enough to make ones
head swim. The boys will hate to leave
us, once they're here. But let them all
come and bring their wives and child
rem with them and We'll show them that
we are just as nice as we We're So years
ago We hope they'll find us even bet
| ter But let en- come and see for them
| selves.
Gen. Wagner and Col r. B. Beath
are the mainstays on the committee and
| they have lot of hustling fellows with
I them, so that the encampment is sure
! to be an "eye-opener." What the COM
mittee doesn't know about making peo-
pie happy isn't worth knowing. When
you leave the headquarters, you have
to walk but a few steps and then you
are in old Independence hall with the
bell which rang out liberty to all the
world in 1716, The bell alone is worth the
visit to the city.
But let's get down to business. One
of the prettiest attractions at the great
encampment will be the camp in Fair
mount park. There will be accommO-
dations for 10000 men in tents, with
cots for four men in each. The camp
will be pitched on a beautiful plateau of
Is acres, overlooking the charming
Schuylkill, with the city in the dis
lance. 1t will be accessible from all
parts of the town at all hours of the day
and night, and viii be guarded by a
battalion of the Sons of Veterans. In
the heart of the city there will be free
quarters for fully 10000 additional COM
rades, so that all who come will be sure
to be cared for. Then again, the COM
mittee on public comfort have done a
big thing. They have arranged a plan
of registration for the visitors, so that
one will be able to find an old cQmrade
of the war a any time day or night,
| in 'steen minutes by the town clock, "
which, by the way, is the biggest clock
| in this big world. How convenient
that will be, particularly late at night.
| But that's only one of many good ideas
of the hustling committee, which comes
to ones mind on the spur of the mo-
ment.
| We hear that Secretary of State Hav
will be here and at the camp fire will
read poem which he has been asked
TO write and dedicate to the veterans
There will be a night of it, sure, at
that camp fire. President Mckinley.
| himself veteran, viii be there, and,
IN addition to Secretary Hay, he'll have
| nearly all the members of the cabinet
along
The following is the program for
the week as revised:
Monday, September 4. Reception of
visiting posts and delegations at rail-
! road stations; parade of naval veter-
/ ans
Tuesday, September 3. Parade of the
Grand Army of the Republic; reception
at the Academy of Music to the Ma
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Relief Corps; Ladies of the G. A. R.:
Daughters Of Veterans and other Ma
tonal societies. The president of the
United States and members of the cab
met, the governor of Pennsylvania. the
mayor of Philadelphia and many other
distinguished officials, comrades and
guests are expected to be present.
Wednesday evening. Receptions nv
the WOman's Relief Corps, Ladies' Of
the G. A. r., and Daughters of vet
erans The Dog Watch" of the Naval
Veterans will be held at the Academy
of Music on Wednesday evening. and
the camp fire of the National Associa
ton of Union ex-Prisoners of War =
the Academy of Music on THURSDAY
evening.
The business sessions of the various
national organizations and CORPS, diyi-
sion, regimental and other reunions
on Wednesday and Thursday. On Fri
day, there will be a great naval review
on the Delaware river, which. 1t is an
ticipated, will be the grandest event
ever seen in this country
AS this letter is intended mainly for !
the veterans, it will be well TO give
some other facts and then they NAV
clip the entire article and bring it with |
them to the encampment for their
guidance. These additional facts are
contained in the following arrange |
ments just completed by Capt. John NJ |
Nanderslice, chairman of the committee |
on camptires and reunions for the reg
mental, corps and other reunions:
Armies of the Potomac. James and |
West Nirginia.-AI the commands of |
the Army Of the Potomac the First |
Second, Third, Fifth, Sixth, Ninth |
Eleventh and Twelfth corps: Of tie
Army of the James the Tenth. Eigbt- |
eenth and Twenty-fourth CORPS: of
West Virginia, the Eighth corps; of the
Defenses Of Washington. The Twenty |
second corps, will hold their reunions /
IN Odd Fellows hail, Broad and Cherry |
streets. The corps and division socie |
ties will meet in the auditorium. drill 4
and other large rooms, and the reei- |
mental associations viii meet in the |
thirty lodge and other smaller rooms /
The Twenty-fifth corps. the coIorcd !
troops of the Army of the james win |
meet in kater hall. 1880 South street |
the coiored citizens having made ar |
engagements for such meetings.
Armies of the Cumberland and Ohio
All commands Of the ARMY of the Cur,, -