Evening star., 1902-09-12
Official Invitation.

/ this meeting will be merely adjustment
| Of details.
Official Invitation.
| Chairman B. H. Warner of the citizens
| executive committee, l.. NJ. Saunders of the
| committee on invitations and William Hahn
| of the committee on printing have agreed
on a form for the official invitation to the
| encamPment, and arranged for it's execu-
| tion by the Law Reporter Company of this
| city. About 1000 to be issued, the list
/ of specially invited guests being designed
| to include every officer of the national and
| state governments whose position would
| make his presence a matter of interest to
! the veterans. Among these the President,
| the members of his cabinet, the members
| of both houses of Congress. the justices of
| the United States and District of Columbia
/ supreme Courts and Courts of Appeal, the
governors of the several states and the Of
! hcialS of the District of Columbia will be
/ included as matter of course.
| The invitation will take the form of a
/ plain. heavy card, which will be dec
/ GRATED to correspond generally with the in
| Vitations issued from the White House. 1t
/ will, however. have two distinctive features
/ an engraved fac simile of the badge worn
by members of the G.. A. K. in the upper
| left-hand corner and an engraving of the
| Capitol dome in the lower right hand cor
ner. The inscription will be as follows:
! The citizens OF the national capital re-
| quest the honor of your presence during
| the thirty-siXth annual encampment of the
| Grand Army of the Republic during the
| week beginning October Il, 1902, Washing
! ton. d c.
| 'BRAINARD Fl. WARNER. Chairman OF
| the Executive Committee.
| 'LCRiN NJ. SAUNDERS, Chairman of the
| Committee on Invitations
| Accompanying this Invitation VIII be a
| separate card, inscribed as follows
| "A prompt reply is requested, addressed
! TO l.. NJ. Saunders, chairman invitation
| committee. corner 18th and G streets north
west. Washington, d. c.
Secretary Buckley to Gov Montague
| Secretary Bulkley has sent the following
| letter to Andrew J. Montague, the governor
| of Virginia:
The thirty-siXth nat onaI encampment
/ Of the Grand Army of the Republic will be
/ held in Washington in October, beginning
| on the 9th day of that month. The indica-
| tiOnS that great numbers will visit
| the battlefeIGs near the nations capital
| and particularly those conflicts in the state
/ of Virginia.
! 1T is quite unnecessary to attempt to
| suggest to NiTginian a DISPOSITION of tina t
| hospitality for which he is Justly famed
| out | am sure that any cOurtesies that the
/ people OF that state may fit to extend
! to the Union veterans during their visit
| Will be as deeply appI ecattd as they will
| be gratefully remembered.'
call for a meeting OF the 1st Army
! corps mas been issued by Chairman VIII
| lam w - buIltN OF the reunion pt
| in the following form:
| fhere Will be a meeting of the resident
! members OF the 1st Army Corps with the
| reunion committee of the lst Corps
Mghoay' september Is, at 1:3o pm. in the
| red parlor of the Ebb:tt House Please at
| tend This will be the last meeting before
! the G. A. r. encampment."
chairman w. Clifford Long of the fire
| "ofhs committee met Mr.. Frank Dietz. the
representative of the Payne Fireworks Com
pany, this morning and with the latter ar
ranged at the War Department the nre.
Iimlnaries to the occupation of the monu-
ment grounds. 1t is expected workmen will
go to work in the park indicated by Mon
day next at the latest
cortland Sanders Post, No. 81 of Phila-
delphla has deputation in the city ar
Ianglhs TO obtain quarters with meals for
wednesday, Thursday and Friday of en-
campment week. About 100 men are ex-
pected to attend from this post The I'M
wisdom OF delay was never more manifest
than III the experience of this post which
now hnds It almost impossible to find suit
able lodgings.
Andrew Crawford Post No G, of the De-
partment OF Ohio which will march 100
men in the parade. has been ulartered at
NO lio2 r street northwest.
MIR. Dayton at Headquarters.
Representative y. G. Dayton of West Vir-
Slnla who is chairman of the congressiop-
al committee for the coming encampment
at headquarters today. He came from West
virginia to obtain searchlights from the
Navy Department for the use of the COM
nlttee on illuminations during the encamn-
ment week, and to attend to other matters
before the departments in which the en-
campment is Interested Mr. Dayton saws
the attendance from his district will be
very large. although the campaign at that
time VIII have assumed vigorous proDor-
uons he expects large vote, but thinks
lly
sues at stake.
Reception to Commander-in-Chief
The national president of the Woman's
Relief Corps, Mrs. Calista Robinson Jones
has issued invitations to the reception
which the Woman's Relief Corps will ten
der Gen. Ell Torrance. commander-in-chief
or the Grand Army of the Republic and his
offlcial staff. The invitations are very eIe-
CANT affairs and are embossed with the
coat-of-arms of the United States in cO!ors
rhe reception will be held Wednesday even
ing, October $, from = TO q O'Clock j.,
Eenuon Hall. While invitations are issued
TO several thousand people the receDtiop is
public. and all friends of the Woman's Re-
llef corps will be cordially welcomed by
lhe national president. Mrs Ida A. Old
royd president of the Department of Poto-
mac, and Mrs Ellen Spencer Mussey have
been invited to assist Mrs. Jones in re-
ceiving.
tlonal STAFF Will ASSIST tie ..aiIoua. p.,g.
dent: F
Mrs. Ida Toner Miller. national presi-
ueht OF the Ladies Aid, Sons of Veterans
has accepted the invitation of Mrs, Mus
sey' chairman of the woman's citizens
committee, for herself and staff to assist
MIS- Mussey in receiving on Wednesday
evening. October s. Mrs Mller's official
| star, which Is included in the invitation.
| is as follows: Mrs. Ida Toner Miller
president; Mrs. Blanche T Hemstreet
MrS
| Junior vice president Mrs EsteII w. lIar-
| hour, Mrs Mary l.. Warren members of
council; Mrs. Julia A. Moynahan, secretary:
ars. katie +. Hardcastle, treasurer: Miss
Rose G. White. chaplain: Miss Jennie Nc
BRIDE, inspector: Mrs. Lima B, Mcdowell
mastering and installing officer: Mrs Annie
X carpenter, chief of staff; Mrs. ]. w
Morgan, press correspondent: William r.
Moynahan, judge advocate
Gen. Ell Torrance. comma nder- -in-chief of
the Grand Army of the Republic has ac-