The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-08-28
THE ENCANP NENT
IN FULL BLAST
Promises to be the Most Successful
Ever Held.
THE NAVAL VETERANS IN LINE.
The Day Given Over 20 Men Who
Sailed the Seas Part Of Pro
.ramme Abandoned for
Lack OF Breeze.
The NAVAL VETERANS IN LINE.
(Bv Associated Press

CHICAGO, August 27.-The thirty-fourth
annual encampment Of the G. y. e. which
was formally opened last night by the
monster meeting in the Coliseum was in
full blast to-day, and in all respects it
promises to be the greatest and most sue
cessful encanpment the army has ever
held. It was estimated by railroad officials
tonight that fully forty-five thousand old
soldiers mad arrived and that three hun
dred thousand other eScursionists had
come with them. The weather was splen-
did
The right of the line on the opning day
was given to the men who sailed the seas
during the Civil War; the cheering to-day
was all for them, and all the honors were
theirs. The army will come to its own to-
morrow. The heroes of the river and sea
Of the Civil War are small band now. OF
the one hundred and thirty-two thousand
men enlisted in the navy in the early days
OF the war, less than one thousand
marched to-day, and it is agreed by the
old sailors that their number was greater
In the march to-day than it will ever be
in any parade to come. Only one battle
flag was carried by the naval veterans It
was one that fluttered from the Monitor
Winnebago when Farragut sailed into
Mobile Bay.
FOUGHT WITH DEWEY.
Beside the naval veterans of the Civil
War marched men who fought with Dewey
at Manila Bay, and also members Of the
Association of ex-Prsoners of War. They
made a short march out to the naval arch
at Michigan Avenue and Hubbard Court.
where Comnlander-in-Chief Shaw, OF the
G.. A. R., Acting Governor Warder, Mayor
Harrison and others reviewed them.
Prior to their parade the naval arch had
been dedicated with simple exercises, in
which Bishop Samuel Fallows and D. f.
Murdoch, OF Farragut Post of Chicago, took
q leading part.
The late afternoon feature of the days
celebration, the naval parade on Lake
Michigan, proved somewhat of n dsap-
pointment, weather conditions interfering
sadly with the arrangements. Besides the
revenue cutters Morrill, and Fessenden,
and fleet of excursion steamers, it had
been planned to have the large fleet of
the Chicago Club included in the parade
along the front of Lake Michigan off jack
son Boulevard, where the naval battle
took plnce but the breeze of the morn
ing died away and hardly a breath of air
was stirring during the afternoon. so this
part of the programme was necessarily
abandoned.
SHAM BATTLE.
The Government vessels. towing a string
of barSes filled with detachments from the
Illinois Naval Reserve and gaily decorated
with flags and streamers. steamed to Lin
coin Park, where sham battle occurred.
The principal event tonight was the
banquet of the Iron Brigade-Speaker
Henderson, Senator Burrows. Governors
Schofeld, of Wisconsin. and Mount. OF In
diana, and Comptroller of the Currency
Dawes, being among the speakers
The Sons of Veterans and the National
Association of Ex-Prisoners of War held
sessions during the day.
Tomorrow the great parade of the s.
A r. will occur and it is said that it will
be the largest parade held since the organ
;Zation came into existence.