The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-05-08
WAR VETERANS MEETING.
ANNUAL ENCAMPMENT AND CAMP
 FIFE

To-Day mud To-Morrow in New Lon
 don-Govcrnor Waller to Tell His
 War Experiences-Othcr Features of
 tho Annual Assembly.
 New London, May 7.-The thirty Fourth annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic of the State of Connecticut will be held in this city to-day and Thursday, and the peo- pie of New London will have an oppor- tunity to honor the veterans of the civil war. It is expected that there will be at least seven hundred strangers in the city at the encampment and the incl dental celebration. This is the number that the members of w. w. Perkins Post, G. A. R., are preparing to enter tain for two days.
 From nine in the morning until three in the afternoon of each day refresh ments will be served in Grand Army Hall on Union street to the veterans and members of their families.
 The first day will be the principal one and there will be an abundance of bus mess and pleasure. There will be a ses- sion of the encampment in the armory from eleven in the morning until four in the afternoon, save an intermission for lunch.
 In the afternoon at APO the veterans will be given trolley ride in open cars around the main line and Ocean beach, the cars starting and returning to the Crocker House. There will be ten cars in the line and in the first car will be nyl- contain Governor Mclean and staff, the veterans and their families following. Each veteran will be presented with an American flag by the Stephen Hemp stead society, Children of the American Revolution and parties residing along the route traversed by the trolley COTS are especially invited to decorate their residences in honor of the visitors. An invitation is also extended to all the people to have the city generously dec orated, so that no matter where the veterans may go they will see that their welcome to this city is universal.
 In the evening shortly after seven o'clock the local organizations of the Connecticut National Guard will act as escort to w. W. Perkins post, the vete- ran visitors and Governor Mclean and staff from the Crocker House to the armory, where the exercises will be held. 'The procession will march down State street and countermarch around the Soldiers and Sailors monument, thence up State street to Huntington and di- rect to the armory. The armory will not be opened to the public until all the veterans are seated, which will be at eight o'clock, and admission will be by ticket.
 At the armory speeches will be made by Governor Mclean and ex-Governor Waller and others, and there will also beseveral recitations and some fine | quartette singing, with instrumental music by the Standard orchestra.
 Governor Walters subject will be My | War Experiences" and will be very in- teresting. It may not be generally | known that Governor Waller was | among the first to respond to the call | for volunteers, and he was member of the first company to leave this city. | His term of service was not long, how ever, but that was not the fault of | the governor, for his eyesight did not | come up to the standard. He entered | in O. E, Second Connecticut infantry, | Captain Edwin Chapman, Aurl 26, 1861, and was mustered into the United States service May 1, 1861. He was dis charged on account of disability June 27, 1861 He has ever been friend to the soldier and the relation of his eXper- fence as soldier will be new and very interesting. The order of exer- cises as now arranged, is as follows:
 Introductory-Jared R. Avery, con- mander Perkins post.
 Toastmaster-Depa Command CT J. K. Bucklyn.
 Prayer-Rev. Langley B. Sears.
 Address of welcome-Mayor M. Will son Dart.
 Response-Past Department Com mander Ira D. Hicks.
 Selection-Standard orchestra.
 The Grand Army of the Republic- D. R. Lowell
 Address-Governor George P. Nc r T can .H.tN .,