The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1905-05-09
GALA WELCOME
FOR VETERANS
Marysville in Holiday Garb
in Anticipation of G.. A. r.
Convention for This Week
FRUIT FOR VISITORS
General Blackmar, National
Commander in Chief, in Los
Angeles on His Way North
Special Dispatch to Tn. Call.

MARYSVILLE, May s.-Arrange-
ments have been completed for the
department encampment of the Grand
Army OF the Republic. which will con-
vene in this city on Wednesday morn
ing. The convention will hold ses-
sions for three days and a grand ball
on Friday evening will be the closing
feature. The veterans are expected in
large numbers tomorrow, and already
many have arrived. The several COM
nlittees and officers of Corinth Post
NO. SOB, in this city, will welcome the
visitors and see that every want is at
tended to. Department Commander
Charles Rice will arrive on Tuesday
evening
The city is in holiday attire, the
streets being literally supplied with
flags and banners. while every business
house is decorated and the homes dis
play bunting. 1t is expected that fully
two thousand visitors will be enter
tanned, and accommodations are in
readiness.
Colonel H. C. Beach of Sherman
Post of Oroville will be grand marshal
of the parade. His aids will be Past
Commander Allen Cooley of Marys-
vile and Colonel G. w. White of Co
lusa. The committee of entertainment
consists of Post Commander James
Haynes, Captain John P. Swift and G..
w. Sutliff of Corinth Post and many
prominent business men Of the city.
Headquarters have been established
on Fourth street, and the ladies have
reception rooms at the corner Of Fifth
and d streets. Here refreshments will
be served to the visitors, and large
quantities of fruit have been donated.
On Friday afternoon the visitors will
be treated to drive through the Yuba
and Suffer orchard districts.
A meeting Of the department coun-
ell of administration will be held at
department headquarters in the West
ern Hotel at o'clock on Wednesday
morning, and the thirty-eighth annual
encampment of the Department of
California and Nevada will be called
an hour later in Hopkins Hall, to con-
tinue all day. A reception will be held
in the hall at s o'clock on Wednesday
evening, when the Marysville band
will render a concert. The business
session will continue in Turner Hall on
Thursday morning, and the grand pa
rade will start promptly at 2 o'clock
in the afternoon. Thursday evening a
banquet will be rendered in Hopkins
Hall.
In addition to the visiting Grand
Army men there will be hundreds of
ladies in attendance at a session of the
Woman's Relief Corps. The ladies Of
the Improvement Club have charge of
the entertainment of these visitors.
Los ANGELES, May S.-Com-
mander in. Chief Wilmon Blackmar of
the Grand Army of the Republic, and
party, arrived in Los Angeles tonight.
General Blackmar's party consists of
the Commander in Chief and Mrs.
Blackmar, Adiutant General ]. E. Gill
man and Mrs. Gilman. Mrs. Brewer
and Francis E. Pratt. A reception was
rendered the party tonight at Elks
Hall by the local posts of the G. A. R.
Tomorrow they will be taken to the
Soldiers Home at Sawtelle and later
will depart for the north to attend the
State encampment at Mafysville.