Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-04
Subscriptions for Entertaining
G. A. R. Encampment.
TIE DEPARTMENTS AID
PLANS FOR ENTERTAINING MEM
BERS OF SHIELDS DIVISION.
Interest in the Floral Decorations in
the Public Parks-The
Corps Badges.

The citizens committee on the 1902 en-
campment of the Grand Army of the Re-
public announces the following subscrip-
tons. nearly all of which have been re-
ceived during the past two days: Bureau of
engraving and printing, $2S43O Hotel Ban
croft, SIS; Julius Lansburg $50; s. c.
Bryan, So; l.. Egloff, So; Charles F. Shelton,
$40; ]. Wells, So; S. Pitzer, 81; J. Steinle,
s.; Charles E. Engle, 50; A. C. Whitney,
81; N. NJ. Mccormick, 81; A ]. Birming-
ham, So; Senator Hawley, So; Colonel
Thomas Hopkins, $40; w. V. Cox, $40; A
Guide & Bro, $50; Simon Lyon, So; James
Topham, So and Joseph L. Hodgkins, $40
These contributions provide very good
basis for the canvass to be made of the
departments. and incline the committeeman
to expect returns from each branch of the
service at least as advantageous as those
obtained from the employees of the bureau
of engraving and printing.
Ten applications for specifications, but no
bids were opened at last nights meeting Of
the committee on privileges and advertising,
winch had been especially called to receive
BIDS for the encampment program and
souvenir. The committee will now readver-
tise for bids Answers to the requests TO;
information We're sent out today by Chair.
man Frank H. Pierce, and the committee
hopes for better results at it's next meet
ing.
Shields Division Plans.
Col. w. S. Odell and several other surviv-
ors of Shields Division assembled at head
quarters last night and talked over the
entertainment to be extended their COM
rades from other cities Capt Odell was
made chairman of the special committee on
that subject, DR.. Lawrence Wilson was
appointed vice chairman and Alfred Shaw
was selected secretary. A meeting was
called for June II to effect a permanent or
ganizat1on. Among those who attended last
night Were John Finn Sth Ohio Philip A.
Bier, West Virginia Volunteers; John Har-
rlngton, West Virginia Volunteers; joseph
E Hart. 18th Indiana; Thomas D. Adams,
West Virginia Volunteers E. L. Thomn-
son, 10th PENNSYLVANIA Volunteers and 1,
s. A., and Alfred Shaw, 10th PENNSYLVANIA
Volunteers
Survivors of the Army of the Tennessee,
comprising the 18th, 18th. 18th and 17th
Army Corps, will meet at headquarters
next Thursday. A meeting Of the 9TH Corps
Association has been called for June "a
The Corps Badges.
Capt. o. A. Tharpe. who has been tenn
porarily in the city, is much Interested In
the floral decorations that are being placed
IN the parks and public reservations in an
ticipation of the coming of the G. A. R.
veterans.
II noticed one not uncommon error in
The Stars very pretty report of last Satur-
Day he said. II have fad for collecting
all such data, and l think l have twenty
clippings on corps badges which give
kearney the credit for commanding the list
Corps.
LAS 1 have said" he continued, the error
is not uncommon and it comes about some
what naturally, because Gen. Kearney was
the originator of the corps badge idea, the
frst to put 1t to practical use, and people
come naturally to the conclusion that the
Of fho 1cf
Corps. instead of being, as 1t really is, the
lozenge' or diamond of the Sd Corps
1t may not be uninteresting to your
readers to know that it was a fit of temper
that brought corps badges into existence
Gen. kearney was hard stragglers and
had fashion of rounding them up in most
emphatic language. After one of the bat
ties in which there considerable de-
moralization with much struggling, Ken.
kearney halted beside knot of men. whom
he believed to belong to his command He
discharged a volley of explosives and or
dered them to report to their commands At
once.
He was met by equally emphatic
protest and the information that he was
barking up the wrong tree and that the
officers he was rebuking did not belong to
his command at all.
Gen. Kearney is reported to have re-
marked that he'd brand his men so that
he'd know them hereafter. He then dis
mounted. and taking his red saddle blanket
cut 1t into diamonds. These he ordered his
men to wear on their caps. The idea was
popular and was soon dubbed the Kearney
patch
Shortly after the battle Of Fredericks-
burg Gen. Hooker, then in command of the
Army of the Potomac, issued a circular
dated March 81. 1863, prescribing the de-
vice for a badge for each corps for the
purpose Of ready recognition of corps and
divisions Of this army, and to prevent in
justice by reports of struggling and mis-
conduct through mistakes as to their or
ganiZatiCns."
Big Colorado Delegation.
Captain Thorpe, who halls from Colorado,
says that there will be a large attendance
from the west at the national encampment.
washington is a city that the old soldier
loves to visit he said land with rates put
at comfortable figure the attendance will
reach well near high-water mark We do
not hope to see Washington again after
this encampment," he said, lat least as an
organization. We are getting too old to
travel across the continent, and hundreds
drop out every year now
Captain Thorpe was in WASHINGTON the
last time at the grand review in '65 Il
thought the white city at Chicago the
most beautiful thing l had ever seen" he
said, but Washington is fairer. The i'm
provement is almost too great for me to
comprehend. But, then, this ought to be
unless our national legislators are lacking in
national pride 1t will rival all the famous
cities Of the world
Mr.. o. d. Thatcher who was a member
of the 1st Regiment, Minnesota Volunteer
Infantry: LIST Brigade Indiana Division "a