The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-08-31
Outlook for The
G. n. r. EnCampmeDt
Special Correspondence OF The Tribune.


IN LESS than two weeks the city OF
l Cleveland will contain within her
corporate limits more people than
have ever been here before by many
thousands. IT is estimated that the
thirty-f1fth national encampment of
the Grand Army will bring TO the city
three hundred thousand people, pos
sibly more. or these, one hundred
thousand will be the veterans them
selves. Cleveland is situated within
belt or thickly populated territory. and
within fve hundred miles Of the city
the majority OF the members OF the
Grand Army reside.
The city will present dazzlingly
beautiful appearance. The public
square will be surrounded by white
columns, surmounted by American n
eagles and electric balls and inscribed
with the names of great war generals.
These will he festooned and connected
by fifteen thousand electric lights. The
columns will be of staff ard there will
he sixty four OF them. The day decor
ations will be on Bond street, where
the grand-stands and the reviewing
stands are located. They will begin at
superior street. where there will be two
double columns sixty feet high. The
day decorations will consist of patri-
otic colors in bunting and will be ex-
ceedingly handsome. The sixty-foot
columns will be surmounted by figures
of victory. The executive committee OF
the citizens committee TO arrange for
the encampment will issue handsome
souvenir book, which will be in the
hands of Messrs. Vinsen & Kerner.
booksellers. There will also he a hand
some souvenir badge and an official
programme.
The encampment proper. or business
sessions of the encampment. will be
held September l2 and l3. in the Euclid
avenue opera house. Much interest
centers in the pension questions which
will be before this convention, and in
the election OF officers for the ensuing
year. There are already three or four
candidates in the field for commander
in-chief, and there have been some an
| nouncements for several of the other
Offices On Friday evening. after cleo
tion, there will he given in the chamber
of commerce auditorium reception to
the outgoing and the incoming com
manders- s-in-chief. The Womans Relief
Nol ISs lduSHltTS Oh ' eIcTdnS, Lanes
of the Grand Army of the Republic,
National Association of Naval Veter-
ans, National Mexican War Veterans
association and National Associa ton Of
Union ex-Prsoners Of War and Ma
tional Association of Army Nurses of
the Civil war will also hold conventions
in Cleveland during Grand Army week.
There will be several hundred regi-
IN nj do Nd
unions. The Sons of Veterans and
Loyal Legion will have headquarters
during the week. The last named will
keep open house in the commercial
travellers rooms in the Masonic temple.
Headquarters for the Grand Army and
all the other national organiza tions will
! be in the Hollenden. The state and de-
partment organiza atoms of the Grand
| Army will have headquarters at all the
leading hotels.
There will be two parades, that of
| the National Association Of Naval Vet
Grams on Tuesday, September 10, Perry's
victory day, and the grand parade of
the Grand Army on Wednesday, Sep
tember H. In the first will also par
ticipate the National Associa ton of
Union eX-Prisoners of War, the First
Light artillery and the Seventh regi-
| ment, Ohio Volunteer Infantry asso-
| citation. The First Ohio was the only
| light artillery regiment that went to
| the war from Ohio. More than five
| hundred of its twelve batteries will be
| in line. 1t will hold a large reunion in
| the court room No. I, in the new court
| house, September Q. General James
| Barnett of this city, was its colonel
| The grand parade will he only two
| miles long, lest the veterans should be-
| come fatigued. 1t will march from
Euclid and Case avenues down Euclid
| to Bond street, to Summit street and
| disband. The review will he on Bond
| street, opposite the central armory, by
| President Mckinley and other digni-
taries. There will be two thousand
school children, periodically attired, on
grand-stand at the foot of Bond
street, TO sing war songs as the vet
Grams disband.
The committee on public comfort is
taking all possible measures to secure
| the comfort of the visitors in resting
places, information bureaus public
| toilet rooms, public ice water stations
! public benches, guide books, city maps
bulletins of information and in every
| conceivable way The office Of this COM
mittee is at No. 342 Superior street, in
the city hall building. The special in
Vitations sent few days ago to con-
| spicuous men in all walks OF life, in
viting them to be present at the en-
campment, are being accepted In great
| numbers, and the number of prominent
men who will be present is alone a suf-
| ticient incentive to attend the encamp-
| ment. There will he ample sleeping
room in Cleveland for the guests. The
citizens are patriotically offering 10 re-
ceive the veterans in their homes and
| there are many and large hotels and
boarding houses in the city. Altogether
1t looks as though the encampment in
| Cleveland would be the banner gather
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