The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1903-03-12

ENCAMPMENT.
National Officers Visit San Fran
cisco to Arrange for the Big
Reunion.
Special correspondence to THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE.

San Frapcisco, Cal, Feb. %, 1903.
Yes, we are to have great big, record
breaking time here in San Francisco thi
year, and the comrade who fails to com
is going to miss the time Of his life.
Did you ever get up early in the morn
ing and so out into the streets of grea
city when the first gray streaks of dawI
were family struggling on the eastern
horizon?
You saw then an empty, silent, passive
thOroughfare, asleep in the arms of Time.
You listen. There is football, an early
pedestrian, his somber pattering making
slow-time, dismal music on the funeral
air. He looms up in the distance and
goes plodding by. Another. comes, and
still another, by twos and by threes, until
at last the sun breaks out in all his splen.
dor and then you look about and see the
world awake, crowds sweeping here and
there like the wash of restless sea. The
pattering football has swollen into the
pounding throes of commercial activity.
We are in the early stages of that busy
day. Comrade Putnam has doomed up in
the early dawn, getting up betimes that
he might secure pleasant quarters for his
New England comrades, who are coming
in body.
Mrs. Lodusky Taylor, National Presi-
dent of the w. Il. c., and COMMANDMENTS
Chief Stewart have arrived, bringing with
them their train of delighted tourists.
Already, therefore, the sun has appeared,
the highway is open TO travellers and the
door wide open for the coming guests.
Yesterday two very delightful receptions
were giyen-one to Mrs. Taylor by Lin
coin Corps, 8. Mrs. G. Mason Kline pre-
siding. COngratuiatOry and complimentary
speeches were made and everybody was
happy. Ice cream, cakes, coffee and sand
witches were too numerous to mention.
Last night COmmander-in-Ch Stewart
was received by George II. Thomas Post.
Commander Stewart gave the comrades a
very enjoyable talk. 1t was n very busy
day for him. In the afternoon he had
been taken to the Assembly Hall of our
City Fathers, where he addressed the
Board and was formally welcomed by
Mayor SchmitZ. During the day steady
stream Of comrades had poured in upon
him at his hotel. He stands it well, how
ever, and in answer to my application for
a message to the comrades on the other
side of the Rockies, he exclaimed, very
heartily: .3,7 ~
Yes. tell them I am in Paradise and
feel like flying. Why, over there in the
East they are shivering with the cold, and
here l see sunny skies, beautiful flowers
aud balmy air. Just tell them to come
come to this land of sunshine, and they
will realize the practicability of the old
story of land flowing with milk and
honey"
To-day the Commander went up
to Sacramento to pay a visit to the State
Legislature and to interview Governor
Pardee. You should know, by-the-by, that
last month a delegation from the various
Posts, consisting of Maj.-Gen. Shafter,
Gen. Warfield, Col. c. Mason Kline, Col.
Il. c. Dibble, Past Department Com
mander Solomon, Commander John f.
Sheehan, of Meade Post; Commander
Cutler. OF Thomas Post: Col. Smedburg,
Past Department Commander Geo. Stone
and others, went up to the State Capitol
and asked the Legislature for an appro-
priation in order that we NAV fittingIy
receive the war heroes of '61-'65. Mai.
Eugene +. Schmitz accompanied the
party.
Ihe proposition was readily acceded to.
A resolution was offered the following day
$4,000 for the purpose Of
entertaining our old comrades;
t was adopted unanimously. Thus, you
zee, success was given its christening, had
Is breakfast and is now floating in our
winds with the gOdspeed of the
pillars Of the State. Indeed, we gave the
tncampment local send-off also. On
lincoln Day veterans from the various
In sNrrt,l
iressed the children. In the evening
Union Square Hall was filled to overflow
ng by comrades and their families. The
several Posts of the city had united for
he occasion and given n most magnificent
Entertainment under the auspices of the
Lincoln Monument League. Instead of
he usual set grafton, a representative
rom each of the city Posts gave a short.
harp address, referring in glowing terms
o the assured success of the coming Ma
ionaf Encampment.
Tonight Gen. Stewart will be again
eceiyed and feted at Bnai Birth Hall by
he comrades of Lincoln, Thomas, Gar
leld, Meade and Cass Posts. If he is not
endered speeches. by this preliminary
ound you will hear from him again,
ounding the assembly call with blast
hat will make Bunker Hill SILVER and
Bull Run Creek run dry.
Hotels! BOarding-houses? Places of
accommodation? Restaurants? MY dear
nquiring comrades, set your minds at rest.
Warfeld and Hooper, of the
california and Occidental, have each an
ndia-rubber hotel of infinite capacity, and
here are 80 more. AS to lodging houses,
hey are without number. In regard to
estaurants, put me down as saying on my
equation for veracity that living is
heaper here, OF its kind, than in the CITY |
f New York.
l will make this little reservations:
ave heard of fellows living on 10 cents
day and getting bloated. They un-
0ubtedly thrive on diet with which I |
m not familiar, but for those who want |
good, substantial, Christian meal, one |
ihich will enable you to forgive your
n =, and go to sleep as if shriven from |
II iniqulty, commend me to the restau-
ants OF San Francisco.-W. w. STONE.
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