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State. War. ana Navy Department build
ings stand.
Corner Eighteenth Street and New
York Avenue, "Octagon House Resi-
dcncc Of President Madison after burn
ing Of the White House by the British
in 1914.
Corner Eighteenth and q Streets-Of-
fee of depot quartermaste for supply
ing the Army OF the Potomac.
Corner Nineteenth and | Streets
northwest-Provost marshal general 5
Office. Department OF Washington.
1856 Thirty second Street, Forest
Hall''-Uscd as military prison.
The organization OF u Joint committee
OF the Eleventh. Twelfth and Twentieth
Army Corps was effected last night with
committee adjourned to meet Tuesday
evening ut 1880 O'Clock at encampment
headquarters.
The Fourth Army Corps held a meet
ing last night at the Ebbitt House.
Postal Conveniences.
To afford postal facilities for the Wis
iting veterans who may make their
headquarters in Grand Army Place.
around the various reunion tents. Post
master John H. Merritt has decided to
establish one or more postal stations
upon the White Lot during The encamp-
tai supplies will be kept on hand at all
times 10 meet any demand. It is also
proposed to provide conveniences for
registering mail matter and in every
manner to conserve the convenience OF
the visiting veterans.
Postmaster Merritt has taken the mat
ter under his immediate supervision, AMI
between now and the opening of the en-
campment he will perfect plans for the
proper handling of all matter that may
be sent 20 the city. He has suggested
that before leaving their homes all visi-
tors should be advised as to the postal
arrangements so as TO avoid confusion
in securing their mail. All matter sent
to the postal stations on the White Lot
should bear the name of the organiZa =
tion TO which the veteran belonged. in
Guiding the regiment and company. In
this manner it will reach its destination
with little difficulty.
A house to house canvass of all of the
buildings along the lines of march that
will prevail during the encampment will
be inaugurated Monday morning for the
purpose of interesting the residents and
owners in the decoration of their build
ings. Mr.. Cuno H. Rudolph, chairman
OF the committee on decorations, is
deeply interested in the work and has
engaged Mr. W. G. Himrod. an old vet
eran who is well known in the city, TO
undertake the canvass.
Decorating Line of March
81 hope that there will not be a build
ing along the lines OF march that will
not be decorated in some manner" Mr.
Randolph stated yesterday. and in max
ing his rounds, Mr.. Himrod will ascer-
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EXCURSIONS.
A Popular River Outing.

The steamer Harry Randall will make
another OF her popular trips to the
resorts in the lower river this after
noon, leaving her wharf here at 5:45 p.
m. No further stops are made after
leaving Alexandria. until Colonial
Beach is reached. Landing her passen-
gers there. the steamer continues on to
Coltons. Piney Point, and St. Georges
Island. reaching the last named point
about 5 "a m. Sunday. Those who make
the trips will have ample time to en-
Joy fine salt water bath and TO 60
grabbing and fishing. for the steamer
does not leave St. Georges until ] ..
m Sunday All the resorts named above
are visited in turn, and Colonial Beach
is left at p. m. A delightful sail is
had up the Potomac. and the steamer
reaches here about 10 p.' m.
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tain what flags Will be required by the
| decorators. 1t is the purpose of the
I committee to furnish all the flags that
may be wanted as long as its supply
holds out. but it is impossible for us
to undertake to furnish bunting. set
pieces or other decorative material of a
/ like character. 1t is most probable that
The committee will not offer cash prizes
| for the best decorations. but handsome
| gold medals. incased in leather. The
first prize will probably be worth $3.50
/ or more
Mr.. :. 3. Hege, chairman of the com
mittce en- transport alton to battlefelds.
called on Secretary Barry Bulkley yes
tcrday afternoon and laid before him the
resolution adopted at the meeting of his
committee on Thursday evening re-
garding the printing of $1,000 circulars
containing information concerning the
battleields in the vicinity of the city
and how they are reached II vas de-
cided that Mr.. Hege should proceed in
the preparation of the matter for the
circular.
Colonel Peabody. who will have charge
of the headquarters of naval veterans,
at 1912 New York Avenue. was busily
ts4EdStu NtSititdN dlltA NUN III Ai''iAE
up the quarters that have been assigned
to the committee. of which Colonel
Michael is chairman. Already the room
gives evidence OF the elegance of sur
roundings that will prevail.
Picture of President.
Occupying a conspicuous place on the
wall. opposite the entrance to the room.
is life-sized portrait Of President
Roosevelt. the work of the famous por-
trait painter. Mr.. J. Reading Kelly, of
New York This picture formed per-
tion of the exhibit of the state Depart
ment at the Pan-American Exposition.
Another portrait that will be unpacked
later is OF Admiral Porter. over which
will be draped the flag that once waved
from the mast OF his flagship.
Col. Harrison Dingman. who is rep
rcsenting the general officers of the g.
A. r. in the assignment of free quar-
ters, occupies a front room. which is
being neatly fitted uD. Col. \. Noel
Brakeman. the chief marshal of the vet
erans' parade. will jointly occupy this
Office with Mr.. Dingman on the coca
sion of his visits to the city.
OHe Ol lH' stuh6tSA liiti ~ Ndtls Il
musket in the civil war was 4 caller at
the rooms of the public comfort com
mittee yesterday. He is Mr. z. n
Burtt. of Allegheny, Pa. A. the time of
his enlistment Mr.. Burtt was but IS
years and 10 months old. Mr.. Burtt
called ir company with Messrs. James
Lowrie and \. VI. Bryan, members of
a committee appointed to secure quar-
tiers for 100 members of Abe Patterson
Post, No. SS. of that city. who are to
attend the encampment.
Mrs. II o. Hicks, OF 215 East Capitol
Street. closed a number of contracts
yesterday for housing and feeding q
grea, number of veterans at her several
houses. Col. o. II. Ruppey Post, No. Il,
of pittsburg, Pa, secured accommoda
tions for 100 members, and L. 5. Grant
Post. No. ;. of Philadelphia, for the en-
tertainment of 200 more.
Colonel Hassendembel Post, No. 1S
CT ST. Louis. will make its headquarters
with Mrs. E. Hedges, 1921 l Street
northwest. A portion of the post will
have to he quartered at the home of
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Mrs. Martha Marston, at IA Eighteenth
Street northwest. These two contracts
provide accommodations for 125 men,
but il is proba BILE that the post will
bring $50 members. The arrangements
are being made by Mr.. Francis p.
Becker, quarter master of the post.
Kearsarge Band Coming.
The Kcarsarge Band. which will be
brought from Boston by the Kearsarge
Naval Association, of that place. is
seeking quarters for its thirty members.
\ meeting of the Third Army Corps
reunion committee, of which Mr.. a, NJ.
c. Richardson is chairman and Mr..
Charles f. Benjamin secretary. has been
called for this evening.
Many prominent automobilists met
Yesterday with Chairman B. II. Warner,
of the citizens executive committee
and discussed the proposed parade of
horseless carriages. 1t was agreed that
such an undertaking might be made a
most attractive adjunct to the encamp-
ment; that Washington offered peculiar
advantages for an automobile display,
and that the support of prominent own
ers might easily be obtained.
Parade of Automobiles.
The plans of the committee provide
for a parade of automobiles decorated
with flowers and entirely free from ad-
yertisements. The Linz could be limited
in length. the exhibits could be properly
supervised by the committee in charge.
bands OF music might be carried at in
tervals in the line and the whole affair
ha ba nf hpnt ifpI md
almost unique flower parade. Several
gentlemen were suggested to head the
committee, among them Senator William
A. Clark and Representative o. II. 7.
Belmont selection was not made.
The effect of the meeting was TO give
the project more definite form than 1t
had attained heretofore. and practically
to insfre an automobile parade for Mon
day, October 8, the first day of the en-
campment.
Mrs Ellen Spencer Mussey. chairman
of the Woman's Auxiliary after commu-
nicating with the national presidents of
several of the women's organizations.
has telegraphed from her summer home
in New Hampshire that the big recep-
ton will be held, most probably in Con-
yention Hall. Wednesday evening of en-
campment week.
Relief Union are diligently at work pre-
pairing for the entertainment the dele
gates to the national convention of that
organization. Several lawn parties and
similar schemes have been resorted to to
help swell the available fund for the en-
tertainment of the visitors.
The Potomac River Regatta
President John Hadley Doyle. of the
Potomac Boat Club. who is in charge OF
the arrangements for the big regatta on
the Potomac Monday afternoon, Octo-
Der 6, as another feature of the enter
tainment OF the visiting veterans, was
a caller at headquarters yester-
day. He reported to Mr.. Bulkley
that already the scope OF the regatta
had enlarged far beyond the ideas which
first suggested the effort. Mr.. Doyle is
receiving every encouragement from the
citizens committee and is confident OF
having the greatest regatta ever held
on the historic waters of the Potomac.
Mr. j. Fred De Berry. the composer
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Sunday Trip to Colonial Beach.

The trips of the steamer Arrowsmith
to Colonial Beach each Sunday are among
the most enjoyable of the all-day trips
out of Washington. The ride of $50 miles
on the river is very pleasant. particu-
larly in this warm weather. The steam
er Is one OF the most comfortable, on the
river and plenty OF time is given at the
beach to enjoy its many attractions. To-
morrow the steamer will leave her
wharf here at 8:i5 a. m. and Alexandria
at 9:15. No further stops will be made
until the beach is reached. On the re-
turn trip the steamer will reach home
about 10 D. m.
Trips to the beach are made every
morning except on Monday and Satur-
day.
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note that II is receiving the encourage
ment of our merchants generally. There
will be an immense concourse Of people
in the city at that time and business
will be inevitably benefited
There will be meeting of the Iron
Brigade this afternoon, at the office of
Gen. W. w Dudley. in the Pacific Build
ing. F Street. near Seventh Street north
west. The meeting will be called at 4 30
o'clock. The first division of the Third
Army Corps has been called to meet at
8 o'clock at encampment headquarters.
l405 New York Avenue northwest.
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of the official G.. A. R. march for the
encampment, has received letter from
| Bandmaster Hamper. CT the United
States Engineers Band. who states that
| the march has elected the highest
praise wherever It has been played. He
| states that he will make IT a feature of
| the program of that band on the day of
the parade OF the veterans. Mr.. De
Berry is having words set to the music
and will shortly publish song and
chorus set 20 the music of the march.
Washington Times Newsboys Band.
James Lourie. Charles y. Burtt. and
J. NJ. Bryan, representing Patterson
Post. No. IS. OF Pittsburg. Pa. called at
headquarters yesterday to engage accom-
modations for fifty men or more and a
band of twenty pieces or more. The
committee expressed a preference for
the Times Newsboys Band. and stated
that they would at once enter into ne
gotiations for their services.
William H. Hahn said yesterday with
reference TO his recent statement in The
Times regarding the prospective trade
incident 10 the Grand Army encamp-
ment. and the method by which the
same might be increased and aided in
October next: Il wish 1t understood that
what had TO say was intended as a
suggestion for thought by our mer-
chants. and have been, fear, mis-
understood.
To Secure Additional Trade.
THE Business Mems Association has
outlined nothing definite in this mat
ter. But 1t Is clearly of the opinion
that there should be a closer union and
fuller cooperation among the mer-
chants of our city. The shops OF Wash
ington are as well equipped for business
as are those in our largest cities. 1t is
a significant fact that good many OF
our buyers come from Baltimore.
What | am anxious to develop Is a
sentiment that will encourage and at
tract to the city of Washington the trade
of all the outlying districts. There is
no reason why the shoppers within
radius OF twenty or even fifty miles of
Washington should seek other cities to
do business when here at the Nations
Capital we have facilities surpassed by
none. This encampment in October will
undoubtedly present an opportunity for
an enlarged fall trade and 1 am glad to
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LOCAL MENTION.

Ranks as the Highest Grade by Doctors.
H.. ss,fest vine to Use is Speer's Port Grape
Wine; il ranks above ali others fJr iBedcil
purposes: IL IS a diretic and tonic. For weak
~ and aged per-ons II las equal, being
I---e isOn rare grape.
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TOPEKA STATE JOURNAL. SATURDAY s. 1902.

hostilfties- They repudiate war as
means of settling international difficult
ties. They rejoice that women
throughout the world are beginning to
feel their responsibility for human con-
ditions outside the home as well as
within its sacred walls. They ask wo-
MEN everywhere to adopt as their own
the task assumed by the International
Council of Women"
1t may be noted that the clubs which
have taken part as such in the annual
May women's peace demonstrations are
almost exclusively those devoted to
some special purpose or reform and
hardly at all the women's clubs whose
members read papers, rival one another
in fashionable dressing and hold month
~ high teas. 1t is hard to say why.
but SO far as appears not one of the
fashionable women's clubs has as yet
discovered that the feminine sex has
any call to help on with international
peace arbitration.
The ladies of the average high tea
club would probably become interested
in the effort to abolish wars If they
were to read some of the documents SO
carefully prepared by the peace dem
onstration women and kept for distri-.
button by Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead, 80.
Pinckney street, Boston.
Lie AdSAIOndOiC CluD ldQl6S WOQlQ
learn from these demonstration papers
that pile of one dollar bills over fifty
two miles high would be required to
pay the yearly cost of ornaments in
Europe even when no war is on, in
plain figures, 1000, 600. 900. This vast
sum is diverted every year from
schools, from food and clothing for wo-
men and children, from the arts and
industries of peace that make mankind
happier and more comfortable. In sew
eral countries of Europe mothers work
in fields, break stone upon roads and
engage in the ordinary toll of mascu-
line day 1aborers because the men are
in the armies.
Since 1850 the worlds population has
doubled. The worlds debt in that time
has quadrupled, and nearly all this in
creased burden has come because of
wars Civilized nations now owe $32,-
100000, 900. Furthermore, the United
States, the most peaceful of the ma
tons. even before the Cuban war, paid
in pensions an annual sum seven times
as great as the total combined income
of all it's colleges. Another point which
the ladies drive home is that armies
take from every country 1.-The very flow
err of youth. II war killed off the
"weaklings, the idiots and criminals"
it might not seem SO monstrous, but it
always takes the very bravest, stron-
gest and best of a land. The peace
demonstration women ask If it is not
time for peoples that have abandoned
tattooing, eating raw flesh and other
savage practices also to do away with
the savagery of settling differences by
force of arms.
The Hague conference in 1900 estab
lished by consent of the participating
countries an International court of ar
bitration. The Women's International
Peace Council ask their sex everywhere
to use all influence possible in favor of
this court of arbitration.
LILLIAN GRAY.
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4. new PROFESSION FOR WOMEN.

be known de1icate1y through written
cards that for sufficient consideration
she would write club papers on any
subject whatsoever whenever ladies
had not time to do it themselves. That
was how she put it. "All communica-
lions sacredly confidential" she wrote
at the end. From that day her finan-
cial star rose. It has gone higher and
higher and as yet shows no dimming of
its resplendency. Poor Cousin Almira
lives in luxury, dresses beautifully and
is invited everywhere
Only once she made break BUSH
ness increased SO rapidly that she was
obliged to employ stenographer and
typewriter. On the occasion of the
break there were two papers to be writ
ten, on opposite sides of the question.
whether the new colonial policy of the
the republic Mrs. Piper was requested
to take the affirmative, Mrs. Dancer
the negative
Poor Cousin Almira's secretary got
the papers mixed, forwarding Mrs.
Dancers to Mrs. Piper and Mrs. Piper's
to Mrs Dancer. The papers were sent
to the ladies only a day or two before
the club meeting. Mrs. Piper discover
ed the mistake. but the infinite tact
that characterizes the feminine sex
was equal to the occasion. She said
when she came to think over the ques-
ton that it seemed to her there was
really only one side to it and that side
she would advocate. As to Mrs. Dancer
she read the paper she had received.
and neither she nor the rest OF the la
dies ever knew the difference.
ALMEDA ANDERSON.
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the city, and it was a large city. She
had no time to keep up with current
news in papers because every moment
was required for the more important
task of keeping up with the styles in
dress, furniture and stationery. What
should she do? Suddenly she thought
of poor Cousin Almira, who had read
newspapers to the cranky father-in-
law Almira's guardian angel must
have impressed the thought upon her
mind.
"Almira,A she said, come and stay
with me two weeks and write me a club
paper You know all that's going on
and you have time to write"
Then Almira blessed the gods that
she had had to read the newspapers SO
long to old Papa Crinnon- She wrote a
paper on whether standing according
to the philharmonic poise has really a
farreaching spiritual influence on the
human character. 1t was a transcend
ent success, and Mrs. Crinnon won by
reason of it the reputation of being the
ablest club paper writer of the season.
She was in Immediate and urgent re-
quest for paper for several others of
the sixty-seven sisterhoOds. Almira,
the poor cousin, was in demand. What
might be called her club paper visit ex-
tended over months.
By that time an inspiration had come
to poor Cousin Almira- She could
grind out papers for the thousands OF
clubwomen in the city to read at their
meetings and do it the year round The
amount of brain effort required was
not beyond her.
! Here was poor Cousin Almira's OPP
portunity. She grabbed It She let Il
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WOMEN'S WORK FOR
WORLDS PEACE

should witness a united effort of wo-
mankind to the end that peace might
blossom throughout the earth.
The work of furthering the peace
movement has naturally been taken up
by women's societies in the United
States, mainly those connected with the
national council. The international
council is composed of the national
councils of the various countries.
Many women's organizations interest
ing and unique take part insthe worlds
arbitration movement that is being
zealously pushed by their sex. Among
these are the American Federation of
Nurses, whose peace committee woman
the present year has been Miss M. A.
Nutting; the National Council of Jew
ish Women. committee member, Miss
Sadie American; the Woman's Relief
corps, Mrs. Kate Brownlee Sherwood;
the N. w. C. r. u, Mrs. Hannah J.
Bailey; National Association of Bust
ness Women, Mrs. Lynelen Evans;
Loyal Women of American Liberty,
Mrs. I. C. Manchester.
The demonstration has not attracted
much attention or made much noise,
but has been worked quietly and ear
nestly. The national committee women
of each organization arranged local
meetings among the branches of their
ficient to Justify it. Thus there are
circles within circles, all touching at
the circumference; first, the great cir
Gle of the International council, then
the national councils, next the different
organizations belonging in any country
to the council and finally the affiliated
local societies connected with each. It
is working plan or organization that
for thoroughness and efficiency would
be a credit to any church or state sys-
tenn.
Nine. Selenka the German lady who
started the demonstration, is still at
the head of the International work. and
to her all local reports are forwarded.
A general resolution adopted at the To-
cal meetings in the United States sets
forth the women's plans as follows:
Resolved, That American women.
assembled for the purpose of consider
ing the fruits of war and the fruits of
peace, do solemnly pledge themselves
to meet annually to hold a demOnstra-
ton on behalf of peace and arbitration.
They commit themselves to adopting
as their own that ideal of loving broth
erhood which can be realized only
through the cessation of international
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T The Hague, Holland, begin
~ ming May IS, 1900, was held the
International peace conference
4 a called by the car of Russia,
that conference from which so
much was hoped and from which thus
far so little has apparently resulted
Some time previous to this arbitration
conference Nine. Marguerite Leonora
Selenka of Munich, Germany, organized
an international peace demonstration
among the women of all civilized coun-
tries. to take place May Is, three days
before the meeting of the worlds arbi-
tration council. Nine. Selenka believed
that thus woman might add moral
weight and influence to the peace move
ment.
Women of twenty different nations
participated in the demonstrations of
May, 1900. At the head of these in the
United States was and is Mrs. May
Wright Sewall of Indianapolis, founder
of the International Council of Women.
Little has been heard further of the
doings of the general international
peace conference, but again in May,
1901, the women of various countries
united in imposing peace demonstra-
tions. These took the shape of meet
ings at which addresses were made,
statistics of the destructiveness and de-
mOrallZat1On caused by war were read
and the weight of it's cruelty and horror
as bearing down upon women and chill
dren were set forth Resolutions were
adopted calling upon women to work in
every way they could devise to forward
the day when all countries should settle
their differences by arbitration instead
of by war. The individual duel has
been re1egated to the past relic of
barbarism;. let the international duel
follow, as unworthy a civilized age,
said the women's resolutions. Follow
ing their meetings they caused to be
printed and distributed leaflets and ad-
dresses. saying in many pages what
General Sherman once said in three
words-'war is hell
In July 1901, the executive committee
of the International Council of Women
held a meeting at The Hague, and there
it was arranged that the international
council itself should take charge of the
peace movement in future and that
henceforth it should be made an annual
demonstration in all lands. Because
the original meeting of the worlds ar
bitration conference at The Hague was
held in May it was further decided that
each coming of the fair month of May