Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-06-19
BANDS RAISE RATES
Problem Confronts G.. A. R.
Encampment Managers.
COMMITTEE MEETINGS
FLORAL REPRODUCTION OF THE
SEVERAL CORPS BADGES.
Association of Ladies to Look After
the observation-disclosures
Reported.
COMMITTEE MEETINGS

A controversy has been precipitated in the
camp of local bandsmen as to the rate to
be changed during Grand Army of the
Republic encampment week next October.
When the citizens committee on that re-
union appointed Mr.. E. 3. Hay as chairman
of a special committee on bands, the latter
entered into contracts with the leaders of
Washington marching organizations other
than the Marine Band, whereby the must
clans agreed, it is said, to a uniform rate
of 81 per day for each musician and twice
that amount for the leader. To this, it is
understood the Federation of Musicians, a
branch of the Federation of Labor, agreed,
and announced that rate the union
rate for the encampment. The Marine
Band certified to Chairman Hay, however,
that its rate would be So per musician, in
accordance with a custom of many years.
With this understanding Chairman Hay
proceeded to assign the several Washington
bands to various posts and announced to
those posts the terms indicated
With the statement that the Marine Band
was to obtain So per man, trouble began
among the musicians who are members OF
the federation. Accordingly, Lieut.. d. b.
Mcleod who conducts the National Guard
Band, reported to Chairman Hay recently
that the federation had fixed the union
rate anew, and had raised the price to So
per musician. This action was due, he eX-
planned, to the long march arranged for the
G. A. r. parade. Unless the citizens COM
mittee would approve this higher rate, he
said, no local musician affiliated with the
federation could march.
May Not Accede to Demand.
There the matter stands. The impress
sion prevails. however, that the citizens
committee will not grant the desired in
crease. Members of that body feel that 81
is enough for the work outlined, and argue
that not only is that rate sufficiently high,
Dut it is the rate suggested by the must
clans of the federation themselves. and ac-
cepted in contracts by leaders of several
federation bands. Chairman Hay, with
chara cteristic suavty, is confident the mat
ter can be speedily adjusted.
Secretary Buckley today announced the
following additional subscriptions to the
encampment fund NJ. II. Hall So; Huy-
lers Confectionery Company, so.
Accommodations for fifty members of the
I5th Pennsylvania have been reserved by
Mr.. Noah Lohr.
Committee Meetings.
All the evenings of next week pretty
well filled with prospective committee
meetings Those to occur this week are:
The 9th Army Corps, at headquarters to-
night at s o'clock; the 10Th Army Corps, to-
morrow night at o'clock; the committee
on encampment literature, tomorrow after
noon at 10 o'clock.
Mai. Richard Sylvester, chief of police,
called at headquarters this morning and
conferred with the officials as to the num-
Der of visitors who might be expected in
Washington during the time of the encamp-
ment. The major expresses his hearty in
terest in the encampment, and stated it
was his intention to testify to this interest
in a substantial way by contribution.
Secretary Bulkley is in receipt through
/. S. Brown, general passenger agent OF
the Southern railway, of Il map of the
Southern railway, showing the battlefields
near Washington and including portions of
West Virginia all of Maryland and all OF
Virginia. The map Is very complete, and
has elected a great deal of interest and
careful scrutiny on the part of visitors TO
headquarters.