Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-01
BOYS WILL MEET HERE
Sessions Of United Brigades Of
America Begin Next Week.
PROGRAM OUTLINED
ATHLETIC CONTESTS AND COM
PETITIvE DRILLS PLANNED.
Committees Are Actively at Work and
Meeting With Gratifying Success
Roster Of Delegations.
PROGRAM OUTLIN ED

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reach Washington by next Thursday. The
| active work of the convention will begin
Friday and continue until Sunday. The
| program as finally arranged was given out
| today. It is as follows:
| Friday. October 7-10 am, athletic con-
tests. Van Ness Park, 18th and b streets
northwest; 2:30 pm, Mount Vernon excur-
sion, 7th street wharf southwest; 7:3O PM.
| competitive drills. Bope cup, hospital and
| signal, Convention Hall, 5th and L streets
| northwest.
Saturday, October $3.50 am. business
| session. Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church.
9th and K streets northwest, opposite Car
negie Library: PM. street parade: pm. :.
popular meeting Mount Vernon Place M.
! E. Church.
| Sunday, October es PM. mass meeting,
Mount Vernon Place M. E. Church.
| The delegates unless otherwise directed,
| will report for assignment to the hospital
| ity committee at the First Presbyterian
| Church, John Marshall place between c
| and d streets northwest, near both railway
| stations.
Committees Hard at Work
Much work is being accomplished, it is
| stated, at headquarters. in the Washington
Loan and Trust building, and elsewhere
| Throughout the city to make the conven-
| ton a success.
The finance committee, of which Mr.
| James E. West is chairman, is hard at
work collecting funds. Other members of
| this committee are Mr. ]. Tillman Hen
| drick, Rev. Chas. Alvin Smith and Messrs
A. r. Server. l.. M. Mooers, w. l. Simpson
| r. A. Chaplin, JAS P. McCurdy, Ed. A.
| Stevens, H. c. Graves, ]. e. Paul. Addi-
| tional subscriptions to the 1882 heretofore
reported in The Star have been received
from the following: Byron S. Adams. S1e
E. S. Parker. $40; S. H Walker, $40; K. A.
Foster, So; Smoot, Golfer & McCalley, So;
| Mrs Della Webster and friends in the
| Western Presbyterian Church, 50; M. E.
| Allies, IS. or S54 in all, and grand total OF
| s3G3.
A meeting of the hospitality committee
| was held Thursday afternoon and the
| whole matter of entertainment was care
| tee is: Rev. C. II. Butler. chairman; Mrs.
Della Webster. Mrs. NJ. Bean. Miss Ardell
Payne, Messrs. Geo. Scott Webb, Claude
| C.. Caylor, Jas o. McAllister, Maurice OF
| terback, J. M. Croft, Eugene c. Brown,
| Rev. Edgar E. Kicks
| roster Of the delegations to date is as
| follows:
| Baltimore will send her celebrated Bri-
! gade Battery ID forty strong. Capt. H.
| w. Walker, commander, is also colonel of
| the 1st Regiment. Major General j. E.
Pearson. commanding the Maryland divi-
| sion, will be present with his stall Cadet
| Companies A. B and M. composed of quite
| young boys, will be well represented. and
Company L. Capt. Harry l.. ThurloW. COM
| manding. will also send delegates Mary
| land will have about $50 boys present, it is
/ said.
! Pennsylvania will, it was stated today by
| the committee have the largest delegation
| of all the states Pittsburg. where brigade
| headquarters for the whole country are
| located will send Company G, Sd Regiment.
| commonly called 1.-The Generals own, be-
| cause Major General II. p Bope, comman-
/ der-in-chief, is also captain of the COM
! pany The 100 members will come as
| guests of General Bope. and will, with him.
| be chartered at the Ebbitt House, where
national headquarters VIII be located our our
| send provisional battalion OF 12O Dogs
| composed of parts of Companies Il, + ana 1,
Troop A, and commanded by major mar rcy
| G pair From Allegheny application LOT
| quarters has been received from the froVl-
| dence Military Association, 100 boys, COM
| handed by Capt. Frank H. Burkhart
Rows From Philadelphia.
| pbi,adelphia will send from the 1st Penn
.v,vania Regiment 100 boys, under COM
! r,and of Col. L. d. Mitchell The Attn Reg
| irnent Col. j. H. Scroggins. Will bring
contingent of about twenty-five. HAZE
ton and Lancaster. Pa, will each be repre-
scented by somewhat smaller delegations, IN
charge. respectively, of Commandant Harry
Olewine and Col; JOS h Cudnpp, th Ga Ia,
ter of whom is editor of the Brigade Boy
the official organ of the Boys Brigade.
New York will send a few delegates from
Amsterdam Gen. VIM. P. DAILY, division
commander for the state, being in COM
mand.
Wisconsin sends three members of Com
pany E, LIST Regiment. from Neenah.
From New Jersey ten members OF Com
pany A, Sd Regiment, at Beverly COM
manded by Capt. VIM. c. Richardson, will
be present.
Connecticut, so far as is known. will
have but a single representative, in the
person of Capt. Harold S. Case of Company
9Th Regiment. of WinSted.
A number of the commands will, accord
ing to their request, be quartered together.
Battery 'B' of Baltimore will be located
in the Minutemen's armory, adjoining Con-
vention Hall, together with the 1st Penn
sylvania Regiment. The Cadet companies
from Baltimore, composed of little boys,
will be assigned to homes. The Sd Regi-
ment, Pittsburg. will be quartered at the
Y. NJ. c. A., as will also the Providence
Military Association of Allegheny. The
Lancaster. Pa, delegation will be enter
NJ. E. Church. Mr.. j. NJ. Croft of the hos
pitality committee from that church. who
halls from that city, having made that re-
quest. The Lancaster company is organ
ized as battery of light artillery It
will bring their breech-loa ding cannon and
will participate in the street parade and
fire the customary salutes
Inc 4th PENNSYLVANIA contingent will
be entertained at the University Park Mis-
sion. near Howard University Rev Edgar
II. KICKS OF the hospitality committee as
sisted by rev. STERLING N. Brown pastor of
the mission, and Rev. Daniel E. Wiseman
have charge of this part of the care for the
delegates.
Those Who Will Entertain.
1t Is the purpose of the committee to ex-
tend so far as possible the hospitality of
Washington homes to brigaders coming to
the convention. Requests for private en-
tertainment have been made through the
various churches, and a number of friends
or the brigade have responded. Those who
have signified willingness to entertain
delegates are Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Tar
ring, Mrs. M Bean. Mr. ]. ]. Darlington
Mir. Ellis McClees. Mrs. JOS. J. Caylor Dr.
D. Percy Hickling. Maj Geo. A. Armes,
Mr. E. s. La Fetra, Mr.. and Mrs. d. w
neck, Mr.. and Mrs. l.. F. Randolph Mr.
Edwin Yost, DR.. Allen Walker Mr. Theo
A Harding Mr.. John Marion. Mrs J. NJ f.
bowling. Mr.. A. Y. Everett, Mr.. and Mrs
James NJ Pickens. Mrs. Chas. Lewis, Mrs
]. w. Payne and Miss Ardell Payne, Mrs
J. II. Sands, friends in Assembly's Presby-
terrain Church, Prof. Court F. Wood,
friends in Waugh NJ. E. Church, Mrs. B. w
King. Mrs. C. L. Shear Mrs. Morris Bean
Mrs. NJ. L. Mooers Mrs. G. A. Fraser,
Mrs. j. w. Dyer. Mrs Fannie L. King,
Mr.. and Mrs. Milstead. Mr. and Mrs. Berg,
Mr.. and Mrs. Cozzens and a number Of
friends in the Western Presbyterian
Church. as reported by Capt. w. 1. Simp-
son.