Evening star., 1902-03-10
THE FUND GROWS
G. A. r. ENCAMPMENT COMMITTEE
RECEIVES CONTRIBUTIONS.
Equipment of Headquarters-Mr.C Cox's
Suggestion Regarding Fort Stevens
COMMITTEE on Decorations.

Additional contributions to the enter
| tainment fund of the Grand Army encamp-
| ment committee were reported this morning
| by Frank K. Raymond, chairman OF the
committee finance, as follows: Inc
| Dewey Hotel Company. $500: the Norman
die Hotel Company, $500: Mrs. Anna B.
Geiger, S25; La Fetra Hotel Company, $50;
Luchs & Brother. $15. Many other contri-
buttons are being entered by Mr.. Ray
mond's assistants on the committee, but
have not been reported to headquarters.
The wide interest in the encampment mani
tested by these subscriptions is gratifying
to Chairman Warner and the Business
Mems Association
The further equipment of the headquar-
ters building goes along rapidly. Today
workmen are installing electric lights, SO
that every desk in the building will be sup
piled with abundant light at all hours and
all the halls will be lighted brightly. Most
of the lights. wires and other electrical
supplies needed for this Improvement are
being contributed by local electrical agen-
cies
Mr.. W. V. Cox. president of the Second
National Bank. reported at headquarters
today with several suggestions as to the
part Fort Stevens should play in the en-
campmert exercises. Since the gathering
of ten years ago Fort Stevens has been
located, bill has been introduced to make
the site a national reservation, and wide
engagenen ntS which occurred near the site.
1t is thought TO he especially fitting, there
fore. that the Grand Army should take
some special notice of the fort, and Mr.. Cox
suggested that brief history of it be dis
tributed among the veterans by the Wash
ington committee.
Will Attend in Body.
Berdans Sharpshooters are anxious to
attend the encampment in body. and hold
1,a3r -i, In
Accordingly one of their number wrote
Secretary Rulkley from Philadelphia this
morning asking accommodations for the
sixty or seventy who constitute the Sur
yivOrS Association. and a hall wherein the
men can hold their regular reunion. This
matter has been referred to Col. John Nc
Elroy, chairman of the committee on re-
unions.
AS chairman of the committee on the
Woman's Relief Corps. Mrs Ellen Spencer
Mussey has concluded to hold the initial
meeting of that body III the Riggs Hotel
late this week The room set apart for the
Woman's Relief Corps, on the first floor of
the headquarters building, viii be used for
meetings of the subcommittee.
Committee on Decorations.
Chairman Cuno II. Rudolph of the COM
mittee on decorations announced this morn
ing the membership of his committee, as
follows:
Cuno H. Rudolph. chairman: ]. Fred
Kelly, first vice chairman A. r. OHutt
second vice chairman: t. c. Dodge, third
vice chairman; John A. koons, secretary;
Allen D. Albert, jr., r. Fl. Armstrong. +.
W. Byrn, Byron Andrews, G. W. Baird. +.
O. Beckett, James E. Bell, DR.. A. Q: Bliss,
". c. Bickford j. A. Blundon. Howard
Brooks. Walter A. Brown W. Hamilton
Bayly. Geo. W. Barnes, Clifford Berryman,
James B. Brown, II. Buckingham. w. A.
f. Church Edward L. Crane. David Gram
mer, Eugene /. Corcoran, w. w. Connor
Samuel Cross. James D. Darnell James 5.
Davis. E. NJ. Dawson, Jules Demonet, Geo.
W. Driver, W. G. Duckett, Jay Durham,
c. r. Edmonston, John B. Espey. Frank
L. Evans, ]. NJ. Ford. E. K. Fox, F. s.
Cannon Isaac Cans. A. W. Grafton, Chas.
A. Goldsmith. R. Harris, DIR; George H.
mann. w G. Hmrod J. S. Hill.
W. B. Holtzclaw, Frank Hume,
b. T. Janney, j. F. Jarvis, =. H. Jem1son'
E. McC Jones. Simon kann, d. J. Kauf-
Charles Kraemer, Dr. j. Melvin Lamb. J.
William Lee. Myer Loeb, Frank B. Lord,
Daniel Loughran, c. B: Lower, NJ w.
Louis Charles Mades n6 aHl'hs 1osenb
Mathy, George w. May, c. J. McCubbin,
w. H McKnew, John Mitchell, F. D. Mid
dleton. John Moran, w. H Moore, George
J. Mueller, T: Percy Myers James L. Nor
j. c. c. Patterson, B. W. Parker, Harry
B. Parker, Alexander X. Phillips, George
E. Potter. S. ]. Prescott p. 6. Randall,
w. H. Rapley, W. H. F. Reinecke. j. l.
Saks, James j. Sheehy. f. Richard Shipp,
w. P Spurgeon James L. Skidmore, Colin
Studds, A. c. Stenbrenner, b. H. Slime
metz, ]. Strasburger, A. 5. TAYLOR, H. II
Thorp f. S. Wescott. Charles p West, B.
White. H. T. Wheeler, Claiborne Wilson,
honorary member, Louis D. Wine.