The National tribune., 1901-05-30
CLEVELAND. ENCAMPMENT.
Preparations Being Made by the Forest
City to Entertain Grand Army Veterans.

Special correspondence to fHE NATIONAL TRIBUNE
CLEVELAND, O., May 25.
During the week, just ended decided
progress has been made in the work OF
preparing for the ,35th Annual Encamp-
ment of the Grand Army. A number of
the committees have. held meetings and
planned additional work. The remttances
Of the week have added handsomely to
the entertainment fund.
Invitations are out for Reunion of the
1st Ohio l.. A, in connection with the
Encampment. This Reunion will be held
in a court room in the new Court House,
on Seneca street, on the afternoon of
Sept. o. The Colonel Of that regiment
was Gen. James Barnett, the Chairman
of the Grand Army Executive Committee.
He is at work personally preparing for
the Reunion, and his Orderly in the ser
vice. Mr.. John ID. Wheeler, is devoting
himself to the work of reaching all the
surviving members of the regiment with
invitations. He has desk room in the
Offices of the Executive Committee. AL
ready Mr.. Wheeler has traced over 500
of his comrades out of the 1,S00 who
served. and has not reached the end of
his effort. The invitations are signed by
James Barnett, W. H. Hayward, w. +.
GoOdsperd, S. Race. G. Ii. Randall,
George W. Howe, Il. NJ. Hessler, n. A.
Baldwin, NJ. b. Gary, NJ. Y. Ransom,
w. L. Edgerton, ID. L. Cockrill, Alex
ander Marshall, J. f. Huntington. III.
Dilger w. |. De Beck and Joseph Helm,
Committee, and by John ID. Wheeler,
Secretary. 1t is expected that fully 500
will attend the Reunion.
The Annual Reunion of the 41st Ohio
will be held in Cleveland during the En-
campmcnt. The meeting place has been
changed to Cleveland from Chardon,
Geauga County. Efforts will be made
to hold Reunion of Gen. Hazen's Bri-
gade. to which the 41st Ohio was at
tachcd.
Many visits have been received mt the
rooms of the Executive Committee the
past week from members of the Grand
Army on the lookout for quarters. Among
these were Commander l.. NJ Williams,
Past Commander w. w. Fenton and
QuartermaSter G. NJ. Brown, a delegation
from Custer Post, No. g. of Conneaut. The
Post will bring A men to the Encamp-
ment next September. Comrade Fenton,
who is Secretary of the I'd Ohio indie
pendent Battery Association, says that
that organization will bring % men and
will quarter with Custer Post 1t is pos
sible that all the Grand Army Posts in
Ashtabula County. in which Conneaut is
lOtdlcu, VIII a~eHu the DnchupneHL as
a County organization.
Col. w. S. Kirk, of Ravenna, was in
the city Thursday, May %, making ar
rangcments for quarters for the Grand
Army men who will attend the National
Encampment from Portage County
There are 235 veterans of the Grand
Army in that County, and it is expected
that at least $50 of them will attend
Early in June the members of the eight
or niDn in ,tyil -,
Ravenna, the largest city in the County,
and perfect a county organization with
the view to attending the Encampment as
an association.
Senator NJ. A. Hanna became a mem
Der of the Grand Army on Thursday
night, May %, when he was mustered into
Memorial Post by Commander j. l..
Smith. At the close Of the muster num-
bef of addresses were made, including
speeches by Department Commander
TaggaIt, of Akron; Gen. II. Il. Brown, of
GAINESVILLE, and the Senator himself.
Senator Hanna was given an ovation.
Eighteen other veterans were also muster
ed into the Post. The first suggestion that
the Senator join the Grand Army was
made by COmmauder-n-C Chief Rassieur,
and on the Senator Signifying his willing
ness to accept the honor, Commander
Smith invited him 10 join Memorial Post,
and he accepted.
Many additional applications for free
quarters and halls for Reunions have been
received, but they cannot come too fast
to please Col. james Hayr, Chairman of
the Free Quarters Committee, and Col
g. G.. Dewstoe, Chairman of the Com
mittee on Campfires and Reunions, both
of whom again request that all applica-
tions be made as speedily as possible.
The Executive Committee recently re-
ceiyed letter from Gen. Samuel w. Fox,
the retiring Assistant Adjuta General of
the Department Of Florida, telling of the
burning of the Grand Army records of the
Department of Florida in the late fire in
Jacksonville. Gen. Fox wrote: The
Grand Army records are all in ashes and
the new roster which / was compiling
went also" "