Evening star., 1902-08-16
GONE TO GETTYSBURG
Gen. Torrance and staff to
Spend Sunday There.
PERI ECTING PLANS
RECEPTION AT PENSION BUREAU
DURING ENCAMPMENT.
Regatta on Potomac River a Feature
of the Entertainment-Cir-
culars Issued.

Gen. Ell Torrance and his staff, with the
single exception of Quartermaster General
Burrows left Washington this afternoon at
o'clock for Gettysburg, Pa. Their pur-
pose is to spend Sunday on the battlefield
and conduct in the open air simple, un-
ostentatious religious service appropriate to
the scene and occasion. Monday morning
the party Will return to Washington and
conclude as far as possible the prelminar-
les to the establishment here of permanent
headquarters for the G. A. r. in anticipa-
ton of the Forthcoming encampment. Col.
burrows. the only member of the COM
manders staff who will not make the trip
to Gettysburg, left at noon today for his
home in Rutherford, N. J.
According to present plans the head
quarters Of the commander-in-chief will be
located in building opposite the offices of
the citizens executive committee on New
York avenue. An entire floor of a new
building has been rendered the executive
committee by Mr.. Charles Eckstein, as
heretofore announced in The Star. and Sec
retary Bulkley regards the assignment of
half OF that space to the nder-in-
chief the best use to which it could be
put. 1t is probable Mr.. Harrison Dingman
will be Col. Burrows assistant in charge
of the offices.
The party spent the morning inspecting
the new government printing office build
ing. with an eye to adapting it for use as
barracks during the encampment as pro-
vided by law. It was agreed that the
floors, which will be completed by October,
will accommodate about 5000 men. Already
requests have been received for about 1000
men
AS several weeks remain during which
applications will be received, Colonel Bur
rows estimates the total number of re-
quests for free lodgings will reach 10000 or
more. If possible. the national staff will
prevent any veteran from Slee ping under
canvas so late in the year as October. The
group left the building highly pleased. ''I
have been publisher myself" said Colonel
Burrows, but l never saw such palace
for use as printing office"
Commissioner Wares Suggestions
Chairman Warner of the citizens execu-
tive committee, received this morning a
letter from Eugene f. Ware, commissioner
of pensions of which the following is a
part:
The idea of holding a reception at the
pension bureau on some day during the en-
campment IS without doubt good feature,
because there will be a very large number
of pensioners here. They viii all want to
come to the bureau, and it will proba bly,
please them to have some hour or part of
a day set for that purpose. l am also con-
templating the printing of some souvenir
status cards, being cards upon which pro-
posed pensioners can ask their status
These to be filled out and returned as soon
as possible after the encampment.
81 will make a large detail of clerks to
attend to the wants of the soldiers in that
regard, that it can be done in such
shape as will be pleasant to all.
"As you are in charge. I respectfully
submit to you the situation and will be
pleased to have you set such time for the
reception as in your judgment would be
the most convenient and pleasant for those
who will come"
For the fulfllment of this plan of the
commissioner, Mr.. Warner this morning
created special subcommittee of the gen
eral reception committee, of which Mr. w
Hamilton Bayly chief clerk of the pension
bureau, is named as chairman and Capt
l.. w. Kelly and a. D. Albert, prominent
veterans now in the bureau, are named as
members
Fund for Boat Club.
After several days of planning and calcu-
lating Chairman Warner has been enabled
to set aside 800 of the encampment fund
for the assistance of the Potomac Boat
Club in preparing for it's October regatta.
Mr.. John Hadley Doyle, president of the
club, wrote Mr.. Warner recently, setting
forth the prospective features of the boat
ing event, and asked whether the regatta
campment program. To this the officers
of the executive committee have noW
agreed and the regatta will from this
time onward be advertised as extensively
any other feature of the reunion. The
prospect of picturesque regatta on the
upper Potomac, wei organized and well
conducted, with races of international in
terest and an attendance of many thou