The National tribune., 1899-06-29
THE GRAND ARMY.
What Veterans are Doing for the
Good of the Order.
NATIONAL ENCAMPMENT.
Camp for 10000 Veterans Official Program-corps Regi.
mental aud Other Reunions.

Camp for 00oo VetefansOffical Pfogfam-Cops kegi'
mental aud Other Reunions.
One of the prettiest attractions at the
great Encampment will be the camp in
Fairmount Park. There will be accom-
modations for 10, 600 men in tents, with cots
for four men in each. The camp will be
pitched on a beautiful plateau of % acres,
overlooking the charming Schuylkill,
with the city in the distance. 1t will be
accessible from all parts of the town at all
guarded by battalion Of the Sons of
Veterans. In the heart of the city there
will be free quarters for fully 10000 ad-
ditional comrades, so that all who come
will be sure to be cared for. The Commit
tee on Public Comfort has arranged plan
of registration for the visitors, SO that one
will be able to find an old comrade of the
war at any time, day or night, in 'steen
minutes by the town clock which, by the
way, is the biggest clock in this big world.
Secretary of State Hay will be at the
Campfire, and will read poem which he
has been asked to write and dedicate to the
veterans. President Mckinley also has
promised to attend, as have nearly all his
Cabinet
PROGRAM FOR THE WEEK.
The following is the program for the
week, as revised:
Monday, Sept. 4.-Reception Of visit
ing Posts and delegations at railroad sta
tions; parade of Naval veterans.
Tuesday, Sept. 5.-Parade of the Grand
Army of the Republic; reception at the
Academy Of Music to the, National En-
Ladies of the GAR; Daughters of
Veterans, and other National societies.
The President of the United States and
members of the Cabinet, the Governor of
Pennsylvania, the Mayor of Philadelphia,
and many other distinguished officials,
comrades, and guests are expected to be
present.
Wednesday evening. by the
Woman's Relief Corps, Ladies of the G. r.
and Daughters of Veterans The Dog
Watch" of the Naval Veterans will be held
ats the Academy of Music on Wednesday
evening, and the Campfire of the National
Association of Union ex-Prisoners of War
at the Academy of Music on Thursday
evening.
The business sessions of the various
National organizations and Corps, Divis-
ion, Regimental, and other Reunions
(about 200 of these alone) will be held on
Wednesday and Thursday. On Friday
there will be a great naval review on the
Delaware River, which, it is anticipated,
will be the grandest event ever seen in
this country.
Col. J. NJ. Vanderslice, Chairman of the
Committee on Reunions. has made the
following arrangements for Corps, Repi-
mental, and other Reunions during the
National Encampment of the Grand Army.
ARMIES OF THE POTOMAC, JAMES, AND
WEST VIRGINIA.
Potomac, of the First, Second, Third,
Fifth, Sixth, Ninth, Eleventh, and Twelfth
Corps; of the Army of the James, the Tenth.
Eighteenth, and Twenty-fourth Corps;
of the Army of West Virginia, the Eighth |
Corps, and of the defenses of Washington, |
the Twenty-second Corps, will hold their
Reunions in Odd Fellows Hall, Broad and i
Cherry streets, Corps and Division Socie-
ties meeting in the auditorium, drill, and
other large rooms; Regimental Associa-
tions in the 80 lodge and smaller rooms.
ARMIES OF THE CUMBERLAND AND
OHIO.
All commands of the Army of the Cum
berland, of the Fourth, Fourteenth, Twenti-
eth. and Twenty-first Corps, and of the
Army of the Ohio, the Twenty-third Corps,
will meet in the armOfy of the 1st regiment,
Broad and Callowhill streets, Corps So
cieties meeting in the drill room; Regi-
mental Associations in the company and
other rooms.
COLoRED TROOPS.
The Twenty-fifth Corps, the colored
troops of the Army of the James, will meet
in Kater Hail. 1880 South street, the col
pred citizens having made arrangement
Tor such meetings.
ARMIES OF THE TENNESSEE AND SOUTH
WEST.
All commands of the Army of the Ten
nessee, of the Thirteenth, Fifteenth, Six
eenth, and Seventeenth Corps; Of the |
Southwest, the Nineteenth Corps, will |
meet in the State Fencibles Armory, Broad |
and Race streets.
OTHER REUNIONS.
The several army societies will meet in |
Industrial Hall, Broad and Wood streets, |
which will be used as a general rendezvous |
All these halls are within three blocks of |