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ner will present to his associates such plans
as have been meanwhile agreed upon, and
the committee will give those plans it's final
consideration.
The chief item of business to be thus
| discussed is the encampment program, now
in somewhat chaotic state. Half dozen
separate meetings are now scheduled for
the afternoon of Monday, October 6. In
spite of express contract provisions to the
contrary, various subcommittee have ar
| ranged public meetings at times set for the
fireworks displays. The time of the several
parades is now matter of much doubt.
These few instances will indicate the need
for speedy adjustment of the encampment
schedule. BY Friday evening, unless all
present plans miscarry, every matter of this
nature will have been adjusted. Chairman
Warner will then prepare and ANNOUNCE,
probably Saturday, the program for the en-
campment in tnal form, as far as it's chief
features are concerned
Sketch of Virginia Campaign.
The Chesapeake and Ohio railroad has
furnished for use at encampment head
quarters a folder for the thirty-sixth ma
tional encampment of the Grand Army Of
the Republic. 1t includes complete his
torical sketch of the Virginia campaign
edited by Gen. H V. Boynton, and a map
of the battletields prepared from the off
cial records of the War Department. The
history of the Virginia battletieids is very
lilolOuSI ne various campaigns through
that picturesque territory are most III
structively and thoroughly set forth The
folder shows also the commands and COM
manders of the opposing forces in the state
or Virginia, gives a roster of the COM
manders Of the Union and confederate ar
mics, gives the military forces of the
United States in 1902 as organized in the
dlfterent states, and indicates the national
| and Ohio line. The beautiful poem of
Theodore O'Hara, The Bivouac of the
Dead" is made one of it's features 1t
gives a synopsis of the battles and engage
ments occurring from 1861 to 1865 within
the limits of Virginia, the losses sustained
by the opposing forces and comparative
statement of the number of men furnished
and deaths in the United States army dur
ing the war
This contribution is largely due to the in
strumentality of Mr.. w. S. Bronson. as
sistant general passenger agent of the
Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. who has
Deen lndefatigable in his efforts to assist
the encampment, and is chairman of the
local Passenger Agents Association. Mr.
Bronson was one of the first to see the de-
STABILITY of Washington as the place for
holding the thirty-sixth national encamp-
ment, Is member of the executive com
mittee and has been of great aid in the
work OF preparation for the event
Committee Rooms Offered.
Secretary Bulkley received this morning
from Mr.. Charles EckStein of No 1412
New York avenue the offer of four COM
modious and attractive rooms opposite the
present committee headquarters for use Of
subcommittee until October TO- In ac
cepting this offer Mr.. Bulkey explained to
Mr.. Eckstein that the rooms would prob
ably be used for the working subcommit-
tees of the larger committees and would he
in demand from this time until October /
This tender is most gratifying to every one
connected with the citizens committee as
the present building, large as it is is not
fully adequate to the demands being made
upon it.
Cyrus Sears, special aid to Commander
in-chief John O. Shaw of the Naval Vet
eran Association. and Henry F. Dorton.
commander of the Naval Veteran Associa-
ton of Maryland, both of Baltimore, called
at headquarters this morning to discuss
the preparations for the entertainment of
the old seamen of 81. Both expressed the
fullest confidence in the success of the en-
campment. In Baltimore. they said there
We're fifty-two members of the association
and practically the whole membership in
tended to be present at the Washington en-
campment.
AS they went out the door Commander
John S. Walker of Lincoln Post of Poto-
mac Department, G. A. R., entered He
had come, he explained, to assure the Off
GERS of the citizens executive committee
that the members of Lincoln Post number