The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-08-13
OLD SOLDIERS
THRONG BOSTON
-
Hundreds of q. A. K. Men
Gathering in the Bean
City
DECORATIONS ARE. ELABORATE
Flags and Incandescent Lights, Bunt
ing and Flowers Make the City
Have Gala Apprenticeship
Reunion Expected.

Boston, Mass, Aug. 12.-Boston to-
day has capitulated to the advance
guard of the Grand Army veterans,
the forerunner of the tens of thous-
Rnds who will be here during the COM
ing week for the annual national en-.
campment. These, with the ladies ac-
companying them and the immense
throng of visitors attracted to the Hub
by the eneapment and low railroad
rates. have swelled the city S popula-
ton to such an extent as to cause one
to wonder if allthe inhabitants of
Greater Boston have been enforced in
side the city's limits.
All day long delegations have been
arriving from north, south, east and
west BY hundreds and fifyies they
have come, in coach, parlor cars, sleep
or and special until by tonight there
will be assembled here an army the
like of which has seldom been seen
before in Boston.
The entire city has donned holi-
day dress and on every hand flags,
banners, gaily colored streamers and
flashing lights greet the eye. I'M
mense numbers of incandescant lights
have been arranged to represent every
known emblem of the Grand Army
and its affiliated organizations. The
illuminations, to be seen tonight for
the first time, promise to surpass any
thing of the kind ever attempted here
before. The principal illGminations
viii be on Commonwealth avenue,
where thousands Of electric bulbs have
been strung from tree to tree, across
the avenue mall. At various intervals
electric badges Of the Grand Army
land the relief corps have been suspend
Cd across the walk. forming archways
fer pedestrians.
The Public Gardens will lie ablaze
with electric lights ard decorations
over each entrance of the Gardens are
1cstoons and draplngs of bunting. A
continuous line Of red, white and blue
ele ctric lights extend around the gar
dens. interspersed with appropriate
designs. From Charles street as far
% West street the historic Common
io decorated and at night VIII be re-
81 lendent with thousands of lights.
All the halls and hotels that will
be used during the week have been
handsomely decorated. Mechanics
Hall, where the grand camp fire is to
DC held, has received thousands of
yards of bunting ard hundreds of flags
Both ON the exterior and interior Oil
paintings of famous veterans of the
Civil war adorn the walls and CALLER
les Of the hall. Faneuil Hall, "The
Cradle Of Liberty" and fremont Tenn
pie where the convention of the Wo-
mans relief corps will be held have
been tatefully decorated.
About the corridors of the Vendome
hotel, where encampment headquar-
ters were opened today, much gossip
vas heard among the veterans already
arrived concerning the contest for
COMMANDMENT Chief to succeed Gener-
al John C. Black, of Illinois. So far
there are but two active candidates
in the field, but the contest between
them promises to be very spirited.
They are General w. w. Blackmar
commander of the department of Mas.
sachusetts, and Past Department Com
mander John C.Shotts of New York.