The Washington times., 1902-10-12
SCENES OF THE GREAT ENCN>pNENT OF The VETERANS
CITIZENS LOOK BACK AT WEEK
FENCAMPMENT WITH PLEASURE

proved a cheering feature to the tramp
at tie corner of Fifteenth Street and
Pennsylvania Avenue, upon the Treas
Try reservation.
Through the economic evolutionf
and phenomenal innate financiering OF
o. G. Staples. esq. chairman of the COM
mittee on stands. the cost of erecting
this immense structure was reduced
through an arrangement by which the
contractor was given the use of the
greater part of the material. The re-
sponsibility was thus taken from the
executive committee. This was com
mendable. though it was necessary to
decrease the number of children.
1T will be remembered that in 1877,
under the direction of Comrade Tracy.
there were l.26S singers. while upon this
occasion seats were provided for only
$40, and those who heard them sing can
testify to the fact that untiringly and
almost increasingly they sung with a
will. from the approach of the right of
the column to the extreme left OF the
District of Columbia escort.
'It is also a pleasure to report that
the expense all told of this committee
will be covered by S125.'
A meeting of the executive committee
of the womans auxiliary has been
called by its chairman. Mrs. Ellen Spen-
Ger Mussey, for Monday afternoon. at
Ais O'Clock, at encampment headquar-
ters, 1405 New York Avenue north
west. On this occasion the affairs of the
committee will be settled.
Citizens Final Meeting.
The meeting of the citizens executive
committee will be delayed until the re-
ports of the subcommittee have been
received and the final settlement of ac-
counts made.
Work is progressing rapidly in the
dismantling of the headquarters build
ing. and the offices will be abandoned
during the week Thereafter all COM
munications should be addressed to the
secretary, Mr.. Barry Bulkley. at the
rooms of the Business Mems Associa-
tion. in the Bend Building.
Prior to the adjournment of the Army
Nurses Association an expression of
commentator for the services of Mrs.
Ellen Spencer Mussey was prepared by
a committee consisting of Cornelia Han
cock. Salome NJ. Stewart, and Rebecca
Lane Price. copy was given Mrs.
Mussey, as follows:
The National Association OF Army
Nurses of the civil war expresses its
heartfelt appreciation of the courtesy
and kindness manifested in providing for
the comfort and entertainment of its
members during the G. A. r. encamp-
ment
We are not unmindful of the amount
of personal. physical and mental effort
it requires to carry to a successful end
ing such an undertaking; and when we
can truthfully say we were perfectly
comfortable in our hotel, luxuriously ac-
commodated with an assembly room and
invited to a reception given by our be-
loved Presidents wife, we can say with
tur, You did carry out your chairman
ship to beautiful ending
General Torrance took occasion yes
terday to comment upon the excellent
that had prevailed
the gathering and expressed
pleasure at the attention he and the
members of the organization had re-
ceived on every hand. He spoke par
of the order that had prevailed
throughout the week
General Torrance and the members of
his staff who reside in the West expect
to leave this morning for their homes.