Evening star., 1902-03-18
MANILA AND PRETORIA
LECTURES ON TWO WARS FOR
BENEFIT OF g. A. r.
Correspondents to Give Result Of Their
Observation-Disclosures Com
mittee Appointed.

The executive committee on the Grand
Army encampment has arranged for a
course Of two lectures to be given in Wash
ipgton within few weeks for the benefit
Of the encampment finance committee. 1t
is thought theater may be obtained free
Of charge, and the other expenses may be
kept SO close to nothing that the gross re-
turns may be contributed to the encamp-
ment fund.
Two war correspondents-Messr Joseph
Stickney and James F. Archibald-are to be
the lecturers. The former saw service with
AGmiral Dewey from the time Of the ad-
miral's departure from Hong Kong until
after the battle Of Manila bay, and acted
as Admiral Dewey's aid on the bridge Of
the Olympia. Mr.. Archibald was engaged
as correspondent In South Africa for
many months. with the Beers until the
fall Of Pretoria, and with the English un-
der General French for about two months
In preparation for these lectures each Of
the correspondents is having prepared
about 200 lantern slides, all made from
photographs taken while at the front.
Mr.. Archibald, who is to deliver the first
lecture will describe the South African
war as he has seen it, without prejudice or
bias and without expressing any opinion on
the right of the conflict. The peculiar con-
ditions which have prevailed in the Trans
vaal, the picturesque aspects OF the cam
paign and the application Of modern prin-
ciples of warfare to actual field service VIII
be the chief subjects of discussion.
Mr.. Stickney will present numerous views
Of Subig bay, many pictures taken during
the battle of Manila bay and afterward
and collection Of portraits Of the men
who took prominent part in the campaign
His position as an aid to the commanding
officer bespeaks the confidence reposed IN
him by Admiral Dewey. There will be no
personal opinion advanced in Mr.. Stickney' 8
lecture. Both talks are designed rather as
expositions of the pictures exhibited than
as stories of the two campaigns. A COM
mittee of newspaper correspondents is to be
formed to arrange the preliminaries of the
two lectures.
Committee on Gran Stands.
Colonel O. G. Staples has announced the
personnel Of the committee on grand stands
and parks and reservations as follows: o.
G. Staples, chairman; Gashorie De Witt
Henry A. Willard, Samuel Ross, Edward
Thomas, A. P. Clarke, Daniel Loughran,
John A. Hamilton, Thomas E. Waggaman,
w. H. Dyer, DR.. r. H. Graham, John
Leetch Henry F. WoOdard, Judge L. II.
Anderson, w. w. Burdette
The following committee appointments
were made this morning: To the committee
on excursions, of which Colonel Arthur
..
Hawkes., Charles E. Capehart. Adolph G.
Wolf, Myer Cohen and F. G. Richard; to
the committee on transportation to battle
fields and the committee on transportation
to the District Of Columbia. W. F. Gala.
han; to the committee on finance, ]. S.
Spaulding, II. l. Maeder and John S. Far
rell.
A meeting Of the finance committee will
be held tomorrow night in the red parlor
Of the Ebbitt. Chairman Frank X. Ray
mOnd will then announce the subscriptions
which have been received since the list Of
subscribers was recently printed in The
has been received Chairman Warner will
call a meeting Of the executive committee
Woman's Executive Committee.
Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey. chairman Of
the woman's executive committee of the
national encampment. Is receiving cordial
response from all whom she has invited to
serve upon her committees, and thus far
has had but one or two declinations Very
great pleasure has been expressed, Mrs.
Mussey says, that Mrs. U. s. Grant has SO
kindly accepted the Craftsmanship of the
reception committee. Mrs Grants health
Is such that active participation in reunion
in the coming national encampment is very
great, and the veterans are looking forward
with pleasure to the opportunity to grasp
the hand Of the wife of their old COM
mander.
1t is not known yet where this reception
will be held. Ten years ago the rotunda of
the Capitol was the scene Of this great So
cial review 1t was equaled but once before
in the history Of the survivors of the war
Of the rebellion, probably, and that was at
the grand review on Pennsylvania avenue
at the close Of the war. Brilliantly lighted
and flag draped, the rotunda was crowded
for five long hours with uniformed men and
elegantly gowned women. Then the doors
had to be closed, the receiving party being
unable to endure longer strain of hand
shaking.
It was said at that time that nearly half
the veterans at the reception had at one
time another during the war camped in
the Capitol. Doubtless there will be hun
dreds of the veterans who would be de-
lighted to repeat this reception experience.
Mrs. Mussey has appointed as chairman
OF the subcommittee on ladies of the G. A.
r. Mrs. Emma A. Hawkes.. Mrs Kate
Lemon has been named as vice chairman.
The other members of the committee are
Mrs Florence Barringer, Mrs. Adde r.
Perkins, Mrs. Fannie NJ. Calvert Mrs. EN-
ma E. Holbrook, Mrs. Josephine Johnson,
Mrs Louisa c. Loeffier Mrs. Mary A.
Oneal,, Mrs Villa ]. Lewis, Mrs. Emma j.
Kistler, Mrs. Mary Engle, Mrs Fannie E.
Worden, Mrs. Edith S. Emerson, Mrs. Mary
F.. McKenna, Miss Emma F. Hayward,
Mrs. Maude Rudolph, Mrs Alice Burgess,
and Mrs. Emma Hempler.
Mrs. Ida A. Oldroyd, chairman Of the
Woman's Relief Corps wing of the general
committee. has appointed Mrs Annie W.
Johnson vice chairman. She will report her
committee members In a few days. Mrs.
Mussey desires that these committees be
very carefully made up, as she wants all
to be harmonious. AS there will be some
200 women on Mrs. Mussey's lists it will be
seen that each chairman has to select her
material with extreme care.
Mrs. MuSSey says that the impression has
gone abroad that all she needs to become
| an eleemosynary institution is a bank ac-
count and a board of directors, if applicants
for places are any Indication Mrs Mussey
says she has not single paid position at
her disposal, and will have none at any
time.
''Noel House."