The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1901-08-01
CLEVELAND ENCAMPMENT.
Citizeus Committees Preparations TO
Receive the Grand Army Legion.

Physicians Of Cleveland have organized
committee under the auspices OF the
Grand Army Executive Committee. which
will see TO it that any visitor to the Ma
tionnl Encampmcnt who may be taken i'll
or accidentally injured receives prompt
medical attendance DR. George e. Ash
nun, one of the leading physicians of the
city, formerly Health Officer. is Chair
man. The plan Of the committee Is to
locate a central medical headquarters,
equip it with the best telephone service,
and add TO it as n special feature an ell
cient corps of messengers. When the
location of this central office is deter
mined upon, the public will be fully adj
vised through the newspapers of the city
and special notification will be given TO
the veterans who are to be the guests of
the city. All that will be necessary in
emergency cases, since the fact of the
headquarters will have been thoroughly
advertised, will be to call the office by
telephone, and IL physician will promptly
respond. The services of II large number
of physicians will be enlisted by the com
mttec and these will be assigned to duty
during different hours of the day and
night. so that ut no time will the head
quarters be without Il corps of competent
men. Arrangements will be made with
the hospitals in the city to receive any
patients requiring treatment in such in
situations, and complete ambulance
service will be in operation.
Among the Reunions being arranged for
is that of the Michigan Cavalry Brigade,
the LIST Vt. Cav, and the 10Th \. Y. Cav,
Sept u, in the CaXton Building, on HUI
ron street. The President OF the Michi-
gan Cavalry Brigade is Gen. james III.
Kidd, of IOnia, Mich, who is Adjutant-
General of Michigan, and at the head Of
al, Il fhnf tnf,
two other cavalry regiments named were
in service with the Michigan Brigade dur
Ing much of the war. 1t is expected that
400 will attend this Reunion. Mr.. L. w.
Hill, Cashier of the Cleveland National
Bank, will conduct Il registration of the
comrades ut the bank, which is located
at the northwest corner of Superior and
Seneca streets.
Gen. NJ Il. Bartlett of Parkersburg,
W. Va, was in the city the other day.
He engaged rooms at the Forest City
House for both the Grand Army and
WOman'S Relief Corps Of his State and
applied for free quarters for 800 vet
Grams. Besides these 800, there will be
many veterans from West Virginia who
will stop, with their families, in boarding
houses and private homes, and the cxcur-
SiOnists from the State will be many. The
Department will bring with it the band,
% pieces, of the I'd Regiment West Vir-
ginia National Guard.
The Department of Nebraska will reach
Cleveland on the evening of Sunday, Sept.
=, on special train, having as its guests,
if the invitations extended are all accept
ed, the Departments of five other States
Wyoming Utah, Colorado, Montana and
Idaho. The train will be handsomely dec
grated with bunting, streamers and Ne
braska grain. Department Commander
K. 5. Wilcox has located headquarters
at the Hollenden. The Nebraska Wom-
ans Relief Corps will also be located at
the same hotel. A register will be es-
tablished at Nebraska headquarters in or
der that it may be of record how many
NebraSkans attended the Encampment
and for the benefit of friends of Nebraska
people i'll Cleveland who want to locate
them.
Commandcr-in-C Chief Rassieur will ac-
company Frank Z. Blair Post, of ST.
Louis, on its special train, by invitation,
arriving in Cleveland on the morning of
MED by many members of his staff and
Grand Army notables of Missouri
The Department of Kansas will be 10
Gated at the American House.
Mrs. Elroy NJ. Avery has been appoint
ed Chairman of the Loca! Committee on
Army Nurses, to arrange for the comfort
of the noble women whose association will
tons in connection with the Grand Army
The official badge of the delegates to
the Both National Encampment of the
Grand Army in Cleveland, Sept. GA, will
be very beautiful affair. 1t will consist
of Il medallion in gold and bronze and a
yellow ribbon. The pictures shown upon
it are those Of the Garfield mausoleum,
the soldiers and sailors monument, the
seal of the State Of Ohio, the emblem of
the Grand Army, and figures of n. sol
der and "A sailor. The badges will be
sent in Il sealed package to st. Louis and
will be distributed by Adj't-Gen. Sterrett,
probably at the time of the Encampment
i'll Cleveland. No one but delegates to the
Encampment will be allowed to have
badge. The die from which the badges
are made will be broken as soon as the
sealed package is delivered.
The work of the Grand Army Commit
tee on Public Comfort has now reached
magnitude. From the store
room i'll the City Hall Building, 342 Su-
perior street, in which the committee, Mr.. |
John III. Blood, Chairman. has established |
headquarters, 80 canvasserS have been
sent out TO compile Il list of all the board |
ing houses and rooms in the city where |
veterans not in free quarters can be re- |
ceivcd with their families. The vast
crowd of at least 100000 which will be |
in the city Encampnent week necessitates |
providing for the veterans and their
friends in advance.
The StOre-rOOm is Il large affair. En- |
week the Committee on Public |
Comfort will use it as an information
bureau and rest and package station.
Already Il number of downtown stores |
have offered space for rest stations and |
package-checking booths. Particular pains
will be taken to afford resting places for
delegates to the conventions of the wo-
mems organizations.
The Public Comfort Committee is ne
for Il large number of chairs
which will be placed along the streets on
the day of the grand parade. Their pri-
mary use will be for old soldiers, who, by
reason of fatigue or the weakness attend
mt upon advancing age, may drop out of
line before the march is over Several
hundred icewater barrels will be placed
on the streets and kept constantly re-
penishcd for the benefit of the public
The Convention of the National Next
can War Veterans Association will take
place Encampment week. There are liv-
ng somewhat fewer than COCO veterans
IF the Mexican War, of whom go attend
I'd last years Convention. A special COM
nittec is at work preparing for the coming
If the Mexican War soldiers, and Col. Il.
j.. Foster, of Cincinnati, the Correspond
ng Secretary of the organization, has been
II consultation with it of late.
The Union cXPrsoneTs of War, of
Cleveland, will reOrganize their association
before Encampment week, in order to be
the better i'll shape to properly receive
he delegates to the Convention of the