Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-15
FOR The GRAND ARNY
People OF Washington, D. C., Are
Preparing for the Nation.
al EnCampment.
Expected That This Years Re-
union Will Be the Last
Great Meeting.
Sons Of Veterans and Other
Allied Orders to Meet
Sometime.

Washington, July 15.-The people OF
| for what many think will be the last
great encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic, which is TO convene in
the national capital on Monday, Oct. 6
and remain in session until the follow
! ing "Wednesday night. After the session
on Monday there is to be a grand dis
| play of fireworks ION Tuesday will take
place the Sons of Veterans parade, the
| line of which will be augmented by the
| battalions of regular troops. The Grand
Army parade will take place on
Wednesday, ii being expected that the
actual business of the encampment will
be concluded in two days, leaving the
| third days free for this annual demons
tration.
1t is expected that the president will
tender Commander-in- chief Torrance
and his associate officers reception at
! the White house Wednesday evening.
and several of the allied orders have
receptions booked for that night.
The monument of Cen Sherman is to
be unveiled during this encampment,
also that to the founder of the Grand
Army, DR.. Benjamin f. Stephenson, of
Illinois.
While several of the allied orders of
the Grand Army of the Republic have
held their sessions simultaneously with
this great organization of veterans, this
will be the first time for the Sons of
Veterans and their auxiliary, the La
dies Aid Society. These allied orders
will swell the attendance by about 25,-
900; the Sons of Veterans, who will add
10000 to the crowd. the Association OF
| Naval Veterans, the eN-Prisoners of
War; the Soldiers of the Battlefield, the
Moments Relief Corps. the Ladies of
the c. A. r.. the National Association
of Army Nurses, the Ladies Aid to the
Naval Veterans. Daughters of Veterans
and Ladies' Aid to the Sons of Veter-
ans, contributing to the crowd.
Each one of these will hold it's own
convention That all have arranged to
assemble simultaneously with the G. A.
r. signifies that the October encamp-
lnenl VIII nave an eNtidoIullldI ftHu
immea Surable interest for all who had
any part in the great struggle.
The preparations for the encamp-
ment have been undertaken by a COM
mittee of about sixty residents chosen
at the instance of the Washington Bus
mess Mems Association and designed
to represent all that is most substantial
and progressive in the distinctive city
life of the national capital. These have
met and conferred with the executive
committee of the G. A. r. and the prep
arations have been approved by Gen.
Torrance as singularly complete and
attractive. President Roosevelt. the
members of his cabinet individually
and nearly every member of congress
have all expressed pronounced per-
sonal interest, and nearly all have
promised to attend it. With so general
a support from the city and this active
cooperation on the part of the nation
al government it seems not too much to
anticipate that this reunion of 1902 will
draw to the capital one of the largest
and most notable assemblages the city
has ever known.