The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-10-04
They Will Have a Big Reunion
Next Week.
Washington Is in Holiday At
tire to Greet Them.
OPENS ON TOMORROW.
Religious Service for Old Sol
diers in All Churches.
Grand Parade of Veterans to
Take Place Wednesday.

ICopyrighted, 1902, by Leslie Syndicate.1
Washington, Oct. 4.-Under the most
unusual conditions the thirty-sjxth an
nual encampment of the Grand Army of
the Republic opens in the national CAPT
tai on tomorrow evening. October 5th.
Religious services in all the churches
will usher in the entertainment tender
ed to the veterans. Washington had the
G. A. r. ten years ago, on which occa-
sion the sum of $40, 600 was expended for
free quarters alone: this time the total
subscribed is far less than that amount
The thinning ranks of the wasted old
Boys in Blue may possibly nnd the re-
duced appropriation not lnsufnclent.
And yet, thinning and thinner as those
ranks are they are an order or merit
in the republic whose membership and
whose patronage include the highest
and most worthy OF all our citizenship.
Commander chief Ell Torrance, viii
be escorted at the head of the Grand
Army parade Wednesday, October 3,
by a guard of 300 mounted civilians uH-
der the lead of W. S. Guide. president OF
the Business Mems association. In this
parade no BODY of men outside Grand
Army membership is ever admitted;
hence the civilians must go ahead with
the ommander-in-c chief. The famous
fighting Ninth will be seen for the first
time on the streets of Washington
The real work OF the enGaulDLllEul Will
begin on Tuesday the 18th. with pa
rade of about 10000 made up of regular
soldiers and sailors of the Civil War
and of today, visiting organizations,
Sons of Veterans, Army and Navy.
Revenue Gutter service and other
branches of the various services. The
president is expected to be recovered in
time for this parade. by far the most
impressive object lesson that our ma
tiOnal life affOrds-the broken but still
ragut, shoulder TO shoulder with the
clean limbed, brOad-chested fighters of
the modern battleship; troops from Fort
Myer and empty sleeves from the Sol
diers' Home-those who did defend, and
those who are ready with fearful ma
chimes to defend. Columbia in her hour
of need-the one going. the other COM
ing-one whose work is today, the other
a nations pride because he has done his
work well.
To say that Washington will be ready
to welcome the G. A r. very tamely
expresses it. The court of honor-all
that part of the city between Fifteenth
and Seventeenth streets, will be devoted
to reviewing stands, for the president
and invited guests and for the Grand
Army and their invited guests.
The ROchambeau and Lafayette stat
ues will not be hidden by any of the
structures in the court, and a very fine
vista will extend from the square OF
stands straight up to the White House
through Sixteenth street past the Jack
son monument. Standing with old
world, Old-time stately dignity the fig
ures of our nations early friends will
tower somewhat approvingly over the
barred heads of the bowed, the grizzled
and the manned who have made those
friends efforts worth while The grand
parade of Wednesday will disband al
Seventeenth street after passing up that
street a little way beyond the reviewing
square.
rbau tho 1a+era7 ne will l,e .Iae+ RI +t,a,,
selves and their friends. There will he
fireworks at the monument, fiotillas or
the Potomac, camp fires beginning with
the rousing one that opens things wide
on Monday night. Comrades of distinc-
ton will address large crowds. All the
old tunes will stir the blood of the vet
Grams and the populace- The old boys
will sing some that were once a terror
to the foe and now a terrible memory
of havoc, slaughter and destruction
Slckles Will be there. Gen. Russell A
Alger and Sigel-yes, he sleeps we'll anC
Will not answer to his name Lieut.
Gen. Miles, always well liked by the
soldiers, old and new. will not be there
and the regret is universal as the G. A
r. had planned to give him an ovation
1t IS announced that on October Cam
Roosevelt will be formally opened on tn,
White lot. The old soldiers will conveu,
here. Secretary John Hay will deliver tn,
Grafton of the day. Mrs. Ellen Spence
Mussey and a number of other G A r
ladies have arranged to receive the visit
ing lady Organiza lions affiliated with tn,
veterans. Washington Will strain point
to accommodate thesladies as well as thei
fathers, brothers and sons who are will
them.
There will be decorated on the occasion
of this thirty-sixth reunion the corner
stone Of the memorial bridge TO connec
Arlington with the city. Many are tn,
disappointed ones who hoped to see tn
bridge this time. for next year they ma,
not be here-indeed. many certainly vii
not. Well--they will know at all event
that soon the wayfarer may walk dry she,
from the sleeping place of the defender
to the beautiful city that they fought Il
protect
It is well to state perhaps. that the re
union committee will have its headquar
tiers on the Monument lot.
ONE OF THE OLD GUARD.