Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-05
G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT
COMPLETING PREPARATIONS FOR
FLAG DAY CONCERT.
Important Committee Meetings To-
night-Women Of the Relief Corps
Actively at Work.

All the gentlemen directly interested in
the Flag day concert, to be given in the
Columbia Theater, June IA. for the benefit
of the G. A. r. encampment fund. were
busy today completing the program. BY
tonight 1t is expected the whole concert.
addresses, drills and musical numbers will
have been definitely settled and that the
committee can announce a Flag day cele-
bration which will surpass in every way
any similar exercises ever held here.
The speakers decided upon are said to be
particularly able and popular statesmen,
but pending final arrangements the COM
mittee is unwilling to announce their names.
Commissioner Mcfarland will preside and
speak briefly in opening the concert. A
chorus of 200 school children will sing sew
eral patriotic anthems.
One of the most interesting features of
the entertainment will be a drill by the
winning company of the High School Cadet
Corps, for which Secretary Buckley, DR..
F. T. Howe, chairman of the committee on
concerts and the school authorities are now
completing arrangements. At present. of
course. no one can tell which company will
win the annual drill, but the principals of
all the high schools have been communi-
Gated with and the cooperation of the ca
diets invited in case their boys should OBJ
tain the trophy.
Committee Meetings Tonight.
Several important committee meetings are
to be held tonight at G.. A. r. encampment
headquarters.
Chairman Mitchell Dyrenforth of the COM
mittee on fireworks will take occasion to
explain to his associates his general plan
for the encampment pyrotechnic display.
1t is his purpose to make the fireworks
one of the distinctive attractions of the
encampment. The display will be free OF
course But for the convenience of the
public, seats will be provided at low rates
and the committee expects to clear a hand
some profit thereby. AS the encampment
will continue three days. Mr.. Dyrenforth
plans the fire works display shall be dvid-
ed into three sections, one for each night.
Unless his plans miscarry the encaMpment
committee will clear IS 900 through the sale
of seats for the fireworks.
The other committees which are to meet
tonight are: The survivors of the Army of
the Tennessee. the survivors of the 5th
Army Corps. the survivors of Shields Di-
vision
Committees of Women.
Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey. chairman OF
the woman's citizens committee. has re-
turned from the east and will open her
office in the national encampment head
quarters. on New York avenue. within a
week, and will be at home TO all callers
there during the morning hours
Mrs. Ida A. Oldroyd, chairman of the
subcommittee on women reller corps, mas
called a meeting of her committee at ma
tlonal encampment headquarters on New
York avenue for Monday evening. June ..
On invit alton of DR.. Howe. chairman OF
the national encampment committee on con-
certs. Mrs. Oldroyd, president of the De-
partment of the Potomac. will be one of
the speakers at the entertainment at CO.
lumbia Theater on Flag night. Her subject
will be The Womans Relief Corps and
Patriotic Instruction." Mrs. Oldroyd said
to Star reporter this morning that June
A. Flag day, had been unnoticed until the
Woman's Relief Corps in 1890 began the
work of instituting patriotic teaching and
exercises in the public schools.
we are striving to get the children in
the schools of the country to study the
Constitution, which we believe to be the
bulwark of our free institutions. Further
more, we want history taught Alright that
the children of today. who will be the rulers
of tomorrow. may walk upright in the light
of our splendid achievements under the
nag toward greater prosperity and
grander national renown."
There will be meeting of the committee
on historic literature Friday evening. June
8, at 140o New York avenue. at 4:15 o'clock.