The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1904-08-24
WAR SURVIVORS MEET AGAIN
Veterans from North and South
Celebrate in Boston.
GREAT THRoNo VIEWED PARADE.
Many Interesting Features Marked
the First Day Of the en-.
eampment.

A reunion OF Grand Army veterans.
an exchange OF happy recollections
and fraternal mingling OF Confeder.
ates and Unionlsts, marked the open
ing In Boston of the thirty.eighth ma.
tional encampment oi the Grand
Army of the Republic. A parade of
the onion ex.prisoners OF war. blue
jackets from the United States war.
ships and others marked the opening
OF the convention. together with Its
numerous subsidiary organizations,
including the Womens RELIEF Corps,
the LADIES' of the q. A. r., and the
sons and Daughters OF Veterans.
At night, in historic Faneuil Hall,
a score OF former Confederate officers
gathered around the banquet board as
the guests of Edward w. Kingsley
Post OF Boston, as did also Lafayette
Post. of New York. and here were
enunciated declarations that the North
and South are strongly and msepara-
bly, welded with the past strife for
gotten.
In the striking pageant of the day
marched survivors OF three wars. the
Mexican War. the Civil War, repre-.
sented by the United States exprls.
oners. ana the Spanish War veterans.
The parade. composed of about six
thousand men, was reviewed by hayor
Collins, at city hail. and Governor
Bates. Senator Lodge and former
Secretary of the Navy John d. Long
at the state house.
The grand parade on Tuesday was
tstt tt9ag oil t,sr t.nIV -
About $4,000 veterans were in line.
Five and one.half hours were re-
quired for the parade to pass a given
point, and II was n severe strain on
the old soldiers, but generally they
bore the hardship well. More than
three-score of them dropped from the
ranks from exhaustion and heat pros.
tration and were cared for at the field
and civic hospitals.
At the end OF the route Commander.
in-chief John C. Black. of the Grand
Army of the Republic. held his review.
Several former Confederate officers
occupied places in the stand and the
preeminently picturesque feature of
the parade was the Living Flag"
formed by 1000 children dressed vari.
ously in red. white and blue, and
seated near the reviewing stands.
Every soldier of the marching army
raised his hat as he passed this pic.
ture, while the childlpn Joined in
Dixie" and the Battle Hymn of the
Republic"
Gen. Wilmon w. Blackmar of Bos-
ton, was elected commander.in.chiet
of the Grand Army of the Republic
by acclamatlon at the closing session
of the National encampment to-day,
and Denver was selected as the place
for the encampment OF 1905. The
other National officers elected were:
Senior vice cOmmander-in-chief. John
r. King, Washington; junior vice com
mander, George w. Patten, Chattanoo-
ga. Tenn; surgeon general. DR.. War.
ren \. King. indianapolis; chaplain-in-
chief, Rev. j. II. Bradford, Washing.
ton.
Gen. BlaCkmar made the following
appointments: Adjutant general, John
Il. Gilman, Massachusetts: quarter
master general Charles Burrows, New
Jersey; assistant quartermaster gen
eral and custodian of the records. ].
Henry Holcomb, Pennsylvania assis.
tant adiutant general, e. b. Stillings,
Massachusetts.
The G. A. r. convention was ad.
jOurned sine die shortly after 3
o'clock Thursday afternoon. The
principal business was the passage of
the resolutions declaring that any
modification of the voting franchise
should be along lines of Intelligence
and fitness and not along lines of race
and color" and disappearing of the
admission Of Sons of Veterans to
secret G.. A. r. meetings and the lay.
ing on The table of resolution regard.
ing the proposed fraternal convention
of the survivors of the Union and
Confederate armies.
AT the Faneuil Hall dinner. Cover
nor Bates gave the welcome of the
Commonwealth, and several Confed-
crate officers declared for the spirit
of unity between the North and
South.