Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-10
FLAG DAY CONCERT
G. A. R. COMMITTEES PERFECT
THE PROGRAM.
Music to Be Interspersed With Ad
dresses-Meeting of Committee
on Reunions.

Secretary Buckley of the citizens execu-
tive committee on the 1902 encampment of
the G. A. R. and DR.. Franklin T. Howe,
chairman of the committee on concerts,
announced today the full program of ghe
Flag day concert, to be given under the
auspices of both committees at the Ma
tional Theater next Saturday. The pro-
gram promises an entertainment of ex-
ceptional drawing power, and is taken as
nsuring a very large attendance.
Music for the occasion will be furnished
by the Marine Band. the Apollo Quartet,
a special chorus of 200 school children and
Mrs Thomas C. Noyes. The last named
will sing the Star Spangled Banner" The
school children have been thoroughly
trained by Prof. Edward Tracey and will
be led by Director Santleman Of the Ma
rine Band They are to render several
patriotic hymns. The Apollo Quartet is
one of the beSt-known glee clubs in the
east. Its present members are Messrs.
William Mcfarland and Perry b. Turpin,
tenors; Frank Reside and j. Walter Hum
phrey, basSos.
List Of Speakers.
Commissioner Macfarland will preside.
The addresses of the evening will be de-
livered by Senator Spooner. Representative
George A. Pearre of Maryland. Gen. B. F.
Bingham. commanding the Department of
the Potomac, G.. A. r., and Mrs. Ida A.
Oldroyd president of the Woman's Relief
Corps. These talks will cover wide
range. and. while all four will be compare
lively brief, will no doubt prove the chief
features of the concert.
Perhaps the most popular number of the
program will be drill by the winning COM
pany of the HIGH School Cadet Corps. DR..
F. r. Lane, supervising principal of the
high schools, and the other school authori-
ties have arranged that the successful COM
in the program and perform the maneuvers
suitable to such drill ground.
One other feature is announced-an illus
tratiOn and the story Of the cutting of a
five-pointed star by Mrs. Isabelle Worrell
Ball. This is regarded as a particularly APP
propriate number in a fag-day program and
has already excited much comment.
By a vote of the committee on reunions,
which met last night at G. A. r. headquart-
ers. 1t was decided the camp on the White
Lot should be named Camp Roosevelt. Ten
years ago this city of tents was called SIM
ply Grand Army Place. The committee in
tends that this year 1t shall be known as
Grand Army Place-Camp Roosevelt
colonel John McElroy, chairman of that
committee, presided over the meeting. Cen
eral Cyrus Bussey was announced as chair
man of the subcommittee on the It'll Army
Corps, and Mr.. G. W. Honey was made per
manent secretary of the reunion commit
tee The committee also approved the ap-
polntment of the following as members of a
special committee on the reunion Of the 18th
Army Corps: Fletcher White, chairman;
DR.. Horace Coleman, vice chairman; Colo
mel +. b. Payne, Major H. L. Dean A. B.
Chatfeld, Captain E. C. Dougherty Colo
mel H. l.. Bruce. George Grndley. ]. r.
Wathers. Captain James W. Meisser and
j. W. Miller.
Alleged Imposter.
Reports have reached NJ. 1. Weller, chair
man of he committee on public comfort.
that an impostor, who represents himself as
an agent Of the committee named, has been
making canvass of the city and collecting
s. from each house as a Registration fee"
the number of persons deceived is not
Known put the committee hopes it is not
large. Mr.. Weller has an authorized agent
for this work, Mr.. n. G. Miller, who bears
letter of identification from Mr. Weller
as chairman of the committee No other
person is authorized to make any canvas
in. the name of the committee y, y,,hiio
comfort and no fee of any kind is cha eed