Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-09-24
The Encampment Booklet.

The Encampment Booklet.
Word has been received at encampment
headquarters that the encampment booklet
will be finished by the binders and ready
for sale at the close of the current week.
This is in abundant time for the uses of the
special committee on encampment litera-
ture. The work has been done by Byron 8.
Adams & Co. Another printing announce
ment made today Is that the 900 invita-
lions prepared for the executive committee
have been received and are now being is
sued.
Mr.. T. W. Smith. president of the Board
of Trade, has signified his acceptance of ap-
pointment as judge to pass upon the deco
rations made for the encampment.
The return of Mr.. Frank K. Raymond of
the finance committee to health and energy
was made manifest this. morning by his
success in securing from the Mothers
Bread Company subscription of 500.
There also added $50 from the Monkey
Printing Company. Mr.. Raymond has
been ill for the last week SO, but now
that his strength is restored he will con-
tinue his solicitations. and most beneficial
results are looking for the citizens eXecu-
tive committee.
The colored veterans will entertain the
visiting veterans at Convention Hall on
the night of Friday, October 10, and have
obtained the hall for that purpose.
Patriotic exercises will be conducted I'M
der the auspices of the Embury Chapter,
! Epworth League, of Mount Zion NJ E.
| Church. on Sunday, October 5, 1902. This
| entertainment is very heartily approved
by the citizens executive committee, and Is
an additional proof of their interest in the
encampment.
Meetings of Committees.
Committee meetings are to be held today
as follows: Committee on Examinations, to
choose cups for prizes. at headquarters this
afternoon at o'clock; committee on the
reunion of the I'd Army Corps and the La
dies of the c. A. r.. at headquarters this
evening at : 30 o'clock.
B. H. Warner. l.. P. Shoemaker, Barry
Buckley and Cuno II. Rudolph have been
appointed additional privates of the police
department. for duty in connection with the
G. A. r. encampment.
Reunion of Women's Societies.
The program for the big reunion of wo-
mems patriotic organizations at Camp
Roosevelt Tuesday of encampment week is
about completed Mrs. Margaret Ray
Wilkins of Illinois, past national president
of the Woman's Relief Corps, will be enc
of the principal speakers. Mrs. W1ckens
was one of the charter members OF the
national orga MIA ton of which she later be-
came president. She will speak on the
subject, The Hand That Rocks the
| Cradle
| Mrs. Emma Wall. national president Of
| the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Re-
| public will be another of the principal
| speakers. Both of these ladies are Kan
sans.
Yet another Kansas woman will be upon
the program Mrs. Belle C. Harris of En-
| poria who is the national senior vice pre5i-
dent of the Woman's Relief Corps. Mrs
| Harris will sing the Star Spangled Ban
ner."
Many other fine features are projected
The army nurses will be represented o.
one of their number probably. One feature
will be THE Story of the Flag" In tins
I;ttI tote ElSa Howe and Miss
Josephine Oldroyd Tiefenthaler, Will have
a prominent part. The Marine Band Is
scheduled for that hour and the famous
"Modocs'' of Topeka. Kan.
The souvenir program which the woman
executive committee is preparing Is to be
very handsome. When Mrs Mussey found
that all her subcommittee, as well as those
of the men had been cut out of the official
program she immedia tely consulted with
| her committee and the result was a deter
mination to issue comprehensive program
| of her own, in which the list of all the COM
| mittees should appear. The souvenir Will
| be embellished with the flag in colors and
! with pictures of the Grand Army badge and
| the Capitol dome, and will contain a sketch
/ by Mrs. Mussey on Women of War Days"
| Mrs Mussey will hold a reception for the
| National Association of Army Nurses In
| the Mother Bickerdyke tent at Camp
Roosevelt. Tuesday afternoon. from to s.
| Mrs. Brenton will receive the friends of the
Army Nurses Association from 10 am to
5 pm. Thursday and Friday, in the Moth
| er Bickerdyke tent.
| Mrs Matte E. Mcclure and Mrs Shoe
| maker have been added to the executive
| committee Mrs. Torrance, wife OF General
! Ell Terrence, commander-in-chief Of the
Grand Army of the Republic, will stand at
| Mrs. Mussey's right in the receiving line
! and Mrs. J. b. Foraker of Ohio will be Mrs
| Mussey's second in line.
| Colonel b. +. Bingham, commander of
the Department of Potomac. G. A. r., and
| Mrs. Ida A. Oldroyd. president Of the De-
| partment of Potomac, W. r. c., have ar
| ranged to hold reception Tuesday evening
| of encampment week in honor of the COM
| mander-in-chief of the G. A. R., to which
! all patriotic organizations are to be invited.
/ The reception will be held in Grand Army
| Hall, and the stan officers of both depart
ments will assist In entertaining the guests.
Twenty-Third Corps.
The meeting of the sd Corps committee