Evening star., 1902-05-08
MA|NTENANCE ORDER
Ten Thousand Dollars for G..
A. R. Encampment
ASKED OF CONGRESS
API ROYAL OF, BILL PERMITTING
EXTRA RAILWAY TRACKS
For Handling Crowds of Visitors-In-
sigma of Corps to Be Display
ed by Residents.

The District Commissioners today commu-
nicated with the District committees In Con-
gress on two subjects connected with the
forthcoming encampment of the Grand
Army Of the Republic in this city. In one
the Commissioners ask for an appropria-
ton of $4,000 for the maintenance Of pub
.lic order and other purposes during the en-
campment, and in another the local au
thorities report favorably on resolution
allowing the railroads to lay temporary ad-
ditional tracks for the purpose OF handling
the large crowds expected. The letter Of
the Commissioners on the subject Of the
appropriation is addressed to the chairman
Of the two appropriations committees and
explains itselm, as follows:
The Commissioners of the District of Co
lumbia have the honor to transmit herewith
a draft Of joint resolution To provide for
tho maintenance of public order during
the encampment of the Grand Army Of the
Republic In the District of Columbia, and
to request early and favorable action there
on by Congress. A resolution making an
appropriation for substantially similar
purpose was enacted during the second ses-
sion of the Fifty-fourth Congress. and en-
titled Joint resolution authorizing the Sec
retary of War to grant permits to the ex-
ecutlVe committee on inaugural ceremonies
for use Of reservations or public spaces in
the city Of Washington on the occasion of
the inauguration Of the President-elect on
March 4. 1897. and SO forth This recon-
mendation is based upon the advice of the
major and superintendent Of police
Text of the Resolution.
The language of the resolution is as fol-
lows:
Resolved by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the United States of
y,,T
600, or so much thereof as may be neces-
sary, Is hereby appropriated from any
money in the treasury not otherwise ap-
propriated and from the revenues of the
District Of Columbia in equal parts, to en-
able the Commissioners of the District of
Columbia to maintain public order and pro-
tect life and property in said District on
the occasion of the encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic, which will
take place In said District during the month
of October, 1902
THE said Commissioners are authorized
and directed to make such special regula-
tons for the occasion as they shall deem
advisable for the preservation of public
order and the protection of life and prop
erty, to be in force one week prior to said
encampment, during said encampment and
one week subsequent thereto; such special
regulations shall be published in one or
more of the daily newspapers of the Dis
trict of Columbia, and no penalty prescrib-
ed for the violation of said regulations shall
be enforced until five days after such pub
llcat1on, and said Commissioners are au-
thOr1Zed and directed to establish a special
schedule of fares applicable to public con-
veyances in said District during the period
aforesaid.
Penalty of Violations.
Amy person violating any of the afore-
said regulations or the aforesaid schedule
of fares shall, upon conviction thereof in
the Police Court of said District, be liable
for each offense to a fine not to exceed
500, and in default Of payment of such
fine to Imprisonment in the workhouse of
said District for not longer than sixty
days. This resolution shall take effect i'm
medtately upon it's approval"
The letter approving the laying of addi-
tional railroad tracks is addressed to Sen
ator Mcmillan of the Senate District com
mittee, and is as follows:
THE Commissioners have the honor to
recommend favorable action upon Senate
resolution 81, To permit steam railroads
in the District of Columbia to occupy addi-
date the travelling public attending the en-
campment of the Grand Army of the Re-
public In October 1902 which was referred
to them at your instance for their exami-
nation and report
Committee Meeting.
The committee of the Ladies of the G. A.
r. for the national encampment, Mrs. EN-
ma Hawkes., chairman, met this morning in
the red parlor of the Ebbitt. There was
full attendance. and much business was
transacted. Mrs. Ellen Spencer Mussey,
chairman of the womans citizens commit
tee. was present, and expressed pleasure
that the ladies were enthusiastic in pre-
pairing to entertain their guests.
Mrs. Hawkes. appointed Mrs. Dell F.
Wright secretary and Mrs. +. E. Holbrook
treasurer of her committee
Miss Alice Burgess was appointed chair
man of the committee on excursion to
River View Mrs. c. G. Bolltnger was ap-
strawberry festival. and selected her
aids Mrs. E. E. Holbrook and Mrs. E. S.
Emerson Mrs. Fannie Page was appoint
ed chairman Of the committee on refresh
ments. and will be assisted by Mrs. Louise
C. Loef1er and Mrs. c. G. Bollinger.
Applicants for Quarters.
Applications for quarters continue to be
received Most Of those which came this
morning were for small parties of individ-
ua. veterans and their families. But there
has been no let-up in the flood Of COM
municattons from posts and other G. A. r.
organizations.
A meeting of the committee on concerts,
DR.. Franklin T. Howe, chairman, has been
called for next Saturday evening at 8
o'clock. 1t will be held at headquarters.
The Insignia Decorations.
Col. Nathan BlcRIoFu, past commander OF
the Department of the Potomac, is greatly
interested in the corps insignia decorations
of Washington during the national encamp-
ment. In speaking Of the love of the old
soldier for the corps to which he belonged.
and for it's commanders, Col. Bickford Said
yesterday that no one hut an old soldier
could comprehend or appreciate the almost
idolatrous affection for geometrical de-
sign.
II have heard eminent Americans ten,"
he said "how hungrily they scanned the
horizon as they neared the home port for a
glimpse of old glory, after months of
travel abroad and how the sight of the
fluttering folds of the old flag against the
sky affected them. Happily those days
are long past. for our flag is now the hon
on its stripes and growing constellation the
sun never sets. But it was feeling such
as that described which filled the heart of
the soldier during the war Of the rebellion.
The corps was all in ALI to him. 1t fed and
clothed and housed him. Through the corps
commander the whole plan of his existence
as soldier of the Union was ordered. In