Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-07-19
STATE HEADQUARTERS
Eighteen Departments are
Already Located.
FIREWORKS DISPLAY
ILLUSTRATIONS FOR THE EN-
CAMPMENT SOUVENIR.
Talk Of a Citizens Escort Meetings
Held Last Night-Cavalrymen
Will Issue Circular.

table has been prepared at the head
quarters Of the citizens executive commit
tee on the 1902 encampment of the G. A. R.
which indicates the location of state head
quarters during the period OF that reunion.
Eighteen states are represented. AS has
been previously announced, Communicative
Chief Torrance. his staff and the officers
Of the national executive committee of the
G. A. r. are to be located at the Ebbitt
House. This fact has helped in the selec
t1on OF the same hotel as headquarters for
the states Of Connecticut. Minnesota, New
Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. The
other headquarters locations follow: Illi-
nois at the Regent; Indiana at the Riggs;
Iowa at the Barton: Kansas at the Oxford
Kentucky at No. 1913 street northwest;
Maine at the Metropolitan: Massachusetts
at the Cochran; Michigan at the Arlington;
Missouri at the Hamilton: New Hampshire
at the National; Ohio at the National:
Rhode Island at the Normandie; West Eir
ginia at the Barton.
The officers Of the executive committee,
MI w. Clifford Long, acting chairman of
the committee on fireworks, and Represent
atfve Dietz Of the Pain Fireworks Com
pany spent several hours this morning in
discussing the prospective fireworks dis
play. According to present plans, the pro-
gram Will be presented five nights. begin
ming with Monday. October 6, and will last
from about until 1915 O'Clock each even
ing. In Mr.. Dietz's judgment the con-
formation of the ground about the monu-
ment makes that site the most advantage
Gus in all the United States for such a dis
play. The ground rises with an ever-in-
creasing slope. he says, until just at the
base of the monument it has fully as much
incline as the balcony in a theater. This
makes 1t possible for 200 600 persons or more
to view what Mr.. Dietz designates as set
pieces" and Spectacular displays"
The program will be of an unusually varied
nature. 1t will begin, probably. with the
unfurlng Of a huge American flag a thou-
sand feet in the air. and include Juggling,
slack-wire performing and other aerial
feats, to be presented in the light Of sky
rockets and bombs. The climax will be a
delineation of the fall of Pek1n. in which
several hundred Washington young men
will participate. and which will have an
especial charm because of the construction
about the monument of artificial lake
to represent the River Pei Ho.
Corps Reunion and Old Pictures.
Committee meetings are announced as
follows:
Subcommittee on the Army Of the Ten
nessee at headquarters Monday evening;
the subcommittee on the 7th Army Corps,
including all who served west OF the Mis-
sissippi river, and the subcommittee the
23d Army Corps at headquarters Tuesday
evening; the subcommittee on the 9th Army
Corps at headquarters Wednesday even
ing; the medical committee at headquar-
ters Thursday evening.
The collection of pictures in the hands of
the committee on historic literature has
been augmented by three water colors, the
work of Miss Mary Glennon. These water
colors represent the old Stone Hospital,
with the tents about it, as it was during
the war. This building is now the historic
home of Mrs. John 4. Logan. Another pic
ture is of the Mt. Pleasant Hospital aud
there is also ('3mnhp!I al
Miss Gennon's father. Patrick Giennon,
was the surgeon in charge of Campbell
Hospital during the war.
The pictures, which are made from orig
inals in the possession of Miss Glennon,
show great inclosed in high board
fences, with long rows of sheds and white
hospital tents. Most of the land once SO
occupied is now thickiy built up with rows
OF stone houses. Stone Hospital. then iso-
lated on the top Of a steep hill, is now one
of the show places Of the city.
Miss GennOn has also large collection
Of war photographs. which she has placed
at the disposal of the committee. AS the
Brady collection of photographs now in the
War Department is fairly full, and Gen
committee. the souvenir will probably pre-
sent the finest collection of war pictures
ever gathered into one volume
A Citizen Escort.
Preparations are being made to provide
the parade of veterans Wednesday, October
s. with an escort of citizens uniformed in
black frock coats, dark trousers and high
hats, similar to that which usually heads
inauguration parades. Chairman Warner
was marshal of the civilian division of the
last inaugural parade and headed his divi-
sion with such a troop. The success of his
plan on that occasion has led him to pro-
pose even a larger escort for the G. A. R.
veterans
Meetings We're held last night of the fol-
lowing organizations: The Thirteenth Army
Corps Association, the cavalry corps of the
military division of the Mississippi. the Sur
vivorS of the Loudoun Rangers. The first