Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1899-08-22
rhirty-Thtrd National Reunion of
the Veterans.
IT WILL Be HELD At PHILADELPHIA.
Particulars OF the Coming Reunion
Information ms to Rates, Hotel
Accommodations and Re-
ception Arrangements

philadelphia, Aug. 16.-There will
be no trouble for the veterans. who
attend the SD national encampment of
the Grand Army. Of the Republic to be
held in this city the first week in Sep
TENDER. to find each other. The most
complete system OF registration ever
adopted will, be used, so that the COM
rades airs sure of meeting and falling
into each others arms. By the sys-
TEN. man may find where an old
friend is located in 4 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
We're with him during his campaigns.
Well. he'll find it easy to do this.
What this man wants to know are
What are the special inducements for
him to come TO Philadelphia. The
CHANCES are that he is fearful that he
would not see half of the attractions
prepared for him. because he wonld
not have any one to show him around
The stranger, when he comes, here,
will be able 10 find his old comrades Of
the army or navy, and having found
them. he will surely see all that is 10
be seen. :,
He can &c. the information he needs
without any loss of time. The way
that is to be accomplished is this: The
registration committee. of which Harry
L. Neall is the head. have arranged 700
receptacles, designating regiments, war
vessels, etc. giving, accommodations for
100000 names. These reeeptacles are
81 inches vide and IA inches long.
and are to be hung up against wall,
in tiers of five. starting two feet from
the floor and running up to about
seven feet A quick calculation will
show that it will take to do that about
$50 feet. in length of wall space. That
space will be divided into state, regu-
lar soldiers and navy and marine corps
and then sub-diyided according to the
individual organizations furnished un-
der those heads. or by ships. All that
a man will have. to do will be to go
tothe grand division in which his com
rade enlisted, whether the state or
United States service and when he
has found that he.will simply ascertain
the number or the name of the regi-
ment.
The regiments will be arranged num-
ericallv. 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 like
wise find the name of every visiting
comrade who has registered with his
/. hotel or headquarter I'M Philadelphia,
during the national encaippnlent. Parts
ofthis' wall space will ,alsosbe set aside
for ME- army headquarters, corps head
quartersiand division and brigade head
quarters, SO that the comrades who
served as commanding or staff officers
in these various grand subdivisions of
the armies may also be located in the
same way. If the veteran knows the
name of the man he is after, but does
not know the name of the orsHnizatiou
in which he served, all he has TO do is
to fill up little inquiry blank ready
J. for his use and hand it to the attend
ant ready to serve him and by means
of the.card index, the comrade, wheth-
err resident or a visitor, can be speed
lily located, if he is registered.
TO accomplish that the committee
has provided an alphabetical index, di-
vided into 1900 subdivisions by the
use of the .vowal sounds. 1t will take
one hundred card index drawers to
hold them. In order to handle such a
large number Sf names, the commit
tee is not goinp to use the regular
card index drawer, but has provided
a table, thirty feet long. and five feet
wide. on which these drawers will be
placed. BY that means, they will no,
have to pull out, the drawers to find