Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-07-20
G. A. r. ENCAM EMIT
CHICAGO PREPARING TO ENTER
TAIN A MILLION VISITORS.
Big Event Occurs in August VIII
Probably BE the Last Great
Gathering of the Body.

Grand Army men who have been recently
| in Chicago are greatly pleased with the
| prospects for the success of the annual en-
| campment of the Grand Army of the Re
public, which. as heretofore stated in The
| Star, will be held in that city from August
| 26 to 30. inclusive.
With their usual propensity to do things
| on an immense scale. the people of Chicago
| are preparing to entertain 100000 visitors
l during the week of the encampment. There
is, it is stated, great enthusiasm on the
subject everywhere in the country, and it is
| thought this may be owing, in part, to an
| impression in many quarters that this will
probably be the last great encampment, as
| it is considered likely that future encamp-
ments will be held in smaller cities, which
will be more difficult to reach than Chicago.
Time, too, is making great inroads on the
membership of the Grand Army of the Re-
| public. According to the most reliable in
| formation obtainable. there were 5000
deaths in the order last year, and 1t is
| feared that the loss this year will be great
| er. At this ratio, there will, five years
| hence, be an immense decrease in the men,
| bership. as compared with what it is today.
For Comfort of Visitors.
Anticipating that the crowd during the
encampment will be larger than any Chica-
go has had to handle since the worlds fair,
and that there will be great need for rest
| ing places in that part of the city where
| the parades and other festivities are to oc-
cur, the executive director, Mr.. Harper. has
| made arrangements for a large number Of
what are to be known as rest stations.
and where especial pains will be taken to
| make strangers feel lat home" This sug-
gestion of Mr.. Harper has received the
warm approval of the leading business
houses and hotels, and up to day or two
| ago there were tenders of assistance along
| this line from such well-known business
concerns the Palmer House. Marshall
| Field & Co., Schlesinger & Mayer, The
Fair, The Hub, A NJ. Rothschild & Co. A.
H Revell & Co., Fleming H. Revell. Siegel.
| Cooper & Co, Browning. King & Co..
Hunts Hotel and Continental Hotel.
very handsome souvenir is being pre-
pared by the local committee of arrange
ments, which, besides the program of ex-
erciSes during the encampment, will con-
tain large number of finely executed por-
the Grand Army of the Republic and all of
its auxiliary branches: also of a large num-
Der of the prominent buildings and interest
ing sights of Chicago.
In making arrangements for the handling
of visitors the local committee had in mind
the avoidance of the congestion of traffic
such as has been the case in many cities on
previous similar occasions. 1t is also stated
that during the festival which took place in
Chicago last fall business was almost stag
mated by the erection of court of honor
in the business section, and one of the re-
suits was that those who wanted to pur-
chase goods were unable to reach the stores
| they desired to patronize.
Court of Honor.
Michigan avenue, one of the leading thor
oughfares of the windy CITY," is to be
transformed into a court of honor of sur
passing architectural beauty and grandeur
The general plan is to construct two
| trtr r,,r11 ,al
apart connected by Corinthian columns
placed at regular intervals on both sides of
the street, forming a colonnade. broken
only by the pylonS that will flank each side
of the reviewing stand. The arches will
span the entire street at each end of the
colonnade; one will be dedicated to the
Grand Army and one to the navy. In de-
sign they will be OF the Corinthian order a
prototype Of the classics, but peculiarly
work
| The material used in the worlY.on the ex-
terror of the columns and arches will be of
stan representing marble in effect. The
opening of the arches through which the
| marching columns of the Grand Army of
the Republic will pass, will be twenty feet
wide and thirty feet high The arches will
be decorated with statuary, and the relief
panels in plaster, symbolizing approximate
| ly the different branches of the army and
navy. The frieze of the arches will contain
IN relief the names of some of the great
generals OF the army and noted admirals
of the navy. The columns connecting the
arches will be pure Corinthian shafts, dec
GRATED with shields clasping a group of
flags and containing a large fac-simile of
the different army and navy corps badges
The reviewing stand will be thanked on
either side with large four-column pylons
decorated on the top with a large American
eagle in plaster, resting on Illuminated
ball. The Presidents box and the balus-
trade guarding the space reserved for dis
tinguished guests will be decorated with
staff in rich design.
George Lauer today charged in the
Police Court before Judge Taylor with as
saulting William Warder by beating him
severely with his fist. He asked for trial
by jury, and Judge Taylor released him on
personal bonds to file during the day the
usual real estate bond for his future ap-
pearance in court.