Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-26
INCREASED INTEREST
MAILS BRING MANY INQUIRIES
TO G. A. r. COMMITTEE.
Delegations From Twenty Sta.s
Already Provided With Head
quarters-Progress Noted.

Every mail brings to headquarters or
the citizens executive committee on the
1902 encampment of the G. A r. applica-
tions for quarters, either for individuals
or for organizations. AS the date of the
encampment draws near these applications
have increased in number until this morn
tng's mail brought enough to occupy all
the clerks at headquarters and in the Of
fee of the committee on public comfort.
This Is taken as fair indication Of the
interest excited by the encampment in
other parts Of the country. More than
half of all the hotel space available for use
during the encampment has been reserved
and the remainder is going rapidly. Most
of the desirable boarding houses in the city
have likewise been taken in advance. Head
quarters have been selected for over twenty
states The preparations for attending the
encampment made by out-of-town delega-
tions are thus as far advanced those for
the average inauguration a fortnight be-
fore March 4.
The most notable application received
today came from Mr. w. C. Round of Ma
nassas. Va. The writer has been appointed
a committee of one to arrange for the at
tendance of the Veteran Signal Corps As
ISOLATION and asks the executive commit
tee to inform him what the association will
have to pay for a hall and luncheon and
dinner served to the veteran signal men
each day of the encampment. All me1n-
bers Of the association who attend. says
Mr.. Round, will engage their own sleeping
quarters.
A meeting is to be held Tuesday evening
at headquarters of the chairman and vice
chairmen of all the several corps associa-
lions embraced in the Army of the Poto-
mac during the encampment. The call is
signed by Mr.. A. Hart, chairman of the
18th Corps reunion committee.
Application has been made by the G. A.
r. Band Of Ohio for an engagement with
1r~ ~, ont
AS has been already stated in The Star this
organization holds a peculiar place in G: A.
R. circles and has been signally honored at
many G. A. r. reunions.
Commander J. H. Moore, chairman of the
committee on information and Dr. William
Tindall, secretary to the board of District
Commissioners, are to confer Monday morn
ing next on the location of the score or
during the encampment
Second Day Parade.
Chairman Warner, Secretary Bulkley,
Col. w. H. Michael chairman of the COM
mittee on naval veterans, and Col John L.
McElroy chairman Of the committee on
reunions, have been considering for several
days a projected second days parade of
militiamen, regular troops, ex-prisoners of
war, naval veterans, Sons of Veterans, and
other kindred organizations. The belief
seems to be general that such a special pa
interest of the program, and it is deemed
most probable that one will be organized.
The matter will be definitely acted upon
at the next meeting of the executive COM
mittee
Several conferences with Secretary Moody
have assured Mr.. Warner of the hearty
cooperation of the Navy Department in
all arrangements for the encampment in
which that bureau can give assistance.
Col. Michael of the State Department, who
is chairman of the committee on the re-
union of naval veterans, desires to have
constructed reproduction of the Kear-
sarge, or some equally famous American
battle ship but the executive committee
feels unable to undertake SO expensive a
memorial. Accordingly, Mr.. Moody. has
been asked to send to Washington several
war vessels of such draught that they can
enter the channel Of the Eastern branch.
These will be especially decorated for the
encampment and will lie at the navy yard
wharf for the inspection of visitors then in
the city.
Buildings Of Historic Interest.
A first step has been taken toward the
marking Of buildings Of historic interest
now unmarked. Yesterday a letter was
sent the surgeon general of the army ask
ing for specific Information as to the hospital
placed in Judiciary Square during the war
the dimensions Of the structure, the num-
Der Of patients received, the length of time
the hospital was located there and other
items of Information along similar lines.
A meeting was held yesterday of the
subcommittee on entertainment, and bids
for river excursions, menus and street car
rides to the country were opened and dis
cussed Gen. S. S. Burdette presided, and
the attendance was good
Mr.. NJ. 1. Weller, chairman Of the COM
mittee on public comfort, is to leave the
city tomorrow for a rest of ten days.
During that time Charles F. Benjamin, vice
chairman Of the committee, will be in
charge.
Chairman Cuno H Rudolph of the COM
mittee on decorations has written Mr.. War
ner that he will return to Washington next
week. His purpose Is to execute the bonds
required by the War and Navy Depart
ments for the use of flags and bunting
In decorating other public buildings. A
meeting of his comy.1ittea ic IN bo hold