Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-09-08
FOR G.. A. r. VETERANS.
COMMANDER GIBSON ISSUES A
NJ CIRCULAR LETTER TO ALL
THE COMRADES IN THIS
safe REGARDING THE MA
TION!AL ENCAMPMENT.

&s% If1E CUMRADES IN This
SAFE REGARDING THE MA.
I. TIONAL ENCAMPMENT.
Headquarters Department cf North
Dakota, Grand Army of the Republic,
Valley City, N. D., Sept. l, 19O2-Cir-
cular No. 1: Dear Comrades
coming national encampment at
Washington. D. c.. which will be held
from Oct & to II, offers us another
and probably the last opportunity to
visit as a body of veterans, the city.
which to us. must ever be the most in
teresting, as well as the most dearly
loved Of the commonweaIths of our
country. To every American the city
of Washington is sort of Mecca; but
to us it is something even more; for
it is the heart of national life; and it
typifies and represents the object for
which we SO gladly offered the greatest
sacrifice men can make.
Forty years ago many of us march
buoyant hearts. The beat of the drum
was not more confident than the beat
of our hearts; the shrill fife was not SO
high as were our hopes. All my COM
rades, who of us can look back upon
the first visit to Washington without
fond smile of regret. Little did we
knew the stern work before us; and
not, even the most doleful fears of the
most homesick lad among us could
paint the experiences of the days
which heightened into weeks. into
months and ranged their back trail in
to long years which followed, before
we again looked upon the dome of
the capitol.
Our ranks have been sadly broken;
our banners tattered and no city OF
place on earth would look so dear to us
as Home, Sweet Home-be it ever so
humble. No sightseeing then. Now
we can return and look upon the fruits
of our labors. The grandest city in the
Union; its very existence was made
possible by what was done by you;
and each of YOU had a part
The commander: desires to call to
your attention that now is the time
to make ready to go. Everything
Gaossible has been done to make the
trip a grand success. Rates unprece-
dented have been secured. From st.
Paul to Washington and return the
railroad fare is S23.90. Tickets on
sale I'd. Bird and 4th. From Valley
City ito Washington and return is
S29.65. We shall never agin stand
on the old fields together. One dol
lar and thirty, cents takes you from
Washington to Antietam and Getts-
burg battlefields and return You can
visit them all-Spottsylvania Cold
Harbor, Petersburg, Shenandoah VAL
ley, Charlottesville and Richmond.
and forty more, all for a few dollars.
Cannot .you-all of you-come with
us and have this great qualification?
Bring your wives and friends whom
you have been telling about these
very places for the past forty years.
Do not think this or that hinders you.
But march out-and go! North Da-
kota ought to make the best showing
it ever has. Do not forget the official
route. over the Northern Pacific to
st. Paul; Wisconsin Central to Chica-
SO; and Baltimore. &: Ohio to Wash
ington; leaving Valley City, N. D.,
Friday RI morning, Oct. g.: at sos a. M,
arriving at St. Paul $50 p. m. and
leave St. Paul at 7:4O p. NJ on Wis
eonsin Central railroad; arrive in Chi
eago 9::3S a. m. Saturday; leave Chi
tcago over the Baltimore & Ohio rail-
road at 1910 a. M, arriving in Wash
ington, if there is no delay Sunday
noon, Oct. 5s5in time for rest, and
ready for Mondays parade.
Posts desiring special tourist cars
from ST. Paul should notify Wiscon-
sin Central a. a.;couple of days previous
to, leaving home. The Wisconsin Cen
tral and Baltimore & Ohio will re-
eeivet and carry over their tracks to
Washington without change any spe-
cial or tourist cars Of any road, the
North l,'a Dakota comrades from any
point in the state may turn over to
them.
MI = Headquarters will be established at
room Z, Heqndon house, 1885 New
York avenue N. w, two blocks from
treasury building where all the com
rades re1eordially invited and rooms
engaged for the sleeping of twenty
five persons at 81. pei. day, which can
be secured by writing the command
er Write to YOUR friends to call on
yoa at the Herndon. Yours in f. c.
and =.
j, 6. GIBSON.