The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-22
BIG RNCAMPMENF
OF THE GRAND ARMF OF THE
 REPUBLIC.


 tional encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. those business men of Washington who have undertaken to provide for the delegates and their friends have been gratified at the deep interest manifested in New England and the middle states. Guaged by the number of committees which have come to Washington from that section of the country, the attendance there during the first week in October will comprise as full representation from that territory as has marked any other encampment of the Grand Army ot the Republic, even those which have oc- cured in Boston and other northern cities. The testimony of passenger agents representing eastern and north ern railroads is that the encampment traffic from New England. New York. Pennsylvania and Maryland will sur pass that of any recent inauguration.
 This interest is traceable to several causes. The advantageous excursions announced by the New York, New Ha- ven and Hartford, Boston and Albany, New York Central, Baltimore and Ohio and other railroads: the general at- traction of Washington in October. the month in which the national capital ap- pears to greatest advantage the regu- lar programme of the encampment, and those particular features which the Washington committee designs for the entertainment of general visitors to the city at that time.
 CAPITAL AT ITS BEST.
 Ordinary business initiative on the part of the railroads has led to the adop- ton Of a uniform rate from the states indicated of less than one cent a mile. less even than one fare for the round trip.
 It will thus be possible for residents of northern New York. Portsmouth. Au- gusta, Boston. Providence or Meriden to attend the encampment with little more expense than that of trip un- der circumstances from middle Penn- sylvania But the itineraries desired by such organizations as the Grand Army club of Boston, which intends to journey southward by way of Gettys- burg, Antietam and other battlehelds, has led to the publication of a number of special routes which must appeal with great force to veterans and non- veterans alike.
 AN ATTRACTIVE PROGRAMME.
 Any programme of any national en- campment of the Grand Army Is if gen. eral interest to the people of Maryland and all Atlantic states northward. That offered this year is intended however, to be especially attractive to those communities.
 Monday, October -- the first day of the encampment-has been set apart for a public meeting at which President Roosevelt Is expected to speak. and an extraordinary dispay of fireworks, at which General Eli Torrance, command CT in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, and the executive officers of auxiliary veteran associations will en- certain as their guests the president of the United States. the members of the cabinet and many other national off, cers. This display will continue through all three evenings of the en- campment, and, although surpassing any other programme of pyrotechnics ever presented in Washington, will be entirely free.
 The second day of the encampment will comprehend a parade of rare pie turesqueness. At the head of the line will be several battalions of Sons of Veterans, uniformed in dark blue. The second brigade will consist of the Dis trict militia, in service uniform, repre- seating all branches of modern military activity. But the most brilliant color will be that contributed by the detach- mcnts of regulars-engineers in scarlet and blue; marines in scarlet blue and white; field artillery with waving scar let plumes and full service equipment of caissons and siege guns. and cavalry clattering along the wide avenue which connects the capitol and White House in uniforms of blue and bright vel low.
 The third and last day of the encamp-
 ment will be devoted chiefly to a pa thetic reproduction of the world-famous review at the close of the civil war. Instead of division after division of jubilant warriors swayed by the con- seriousness of an arduous duty wonder fully we'll performed and patriotic af- lection for country, splendidly exem- plified, there will be only a few thou sand men, with serrated ranks, march ing only half mile and holding aloft the tattewd battle flags which an entire army carried through four long and trying years. In the evening it is prob able President Roosevelt will tender General Torrance and other general officers a reception at the White House, which will have been by that time com- pletely restored to the chaste design of it's colonial builders.
 MANY SPECIAL FEATURES.
 This is, of course only brief out line of the encampment programme and is subject to change as subsequent con- ditions may determine But there will be many other occurrences of wide in- terest.
 Several monuments will be dedicated, among them one erected by the G. A. R. to Dr. Benjamin F. Stephenson, founder of the G. A. R. corps, division, and reg mental reunions will be held through out the encampment, Separate conven- tions will be held by several important auxiliary organiZations-the Union Vet eran Union, which will increase the-at- tendance by about 25,000 persons; the Sons of Veterans, who will add about 4 t1 41ao P1s f1,o