Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-07-31
SEVENTH ANNUAL
MEETING OF ARMY
BOYS WHO FOUGHT IN THE PHIL
lPPlNEs GATHER IN DEs
MONIES
Soldiers at Fort Des Mcines Are AL.
lowed to Delay Their Practice March
Until After This Meeting-Numerous
Speakers.


Speakers.
Des Mo1nes, July 2S.-The seventh
annual meeting of the Army of the
Philippines, which will be held in Des
Moines, August 10. IA and 15, promises
to be the greatest gathering of the
society ever held. Already the local
committee Is assured of an attend
ance of 1000. principally from cen
trail and western states, including some
of the most prominent men in the
United States.
While President Roosevelt and Sec
rotary of War Taft were forced to de-
cline the invitation to attend, which
was signed by Admiral Dewey and
twenty-five generals, yet they aided
the meeting by countermanding the
order sending the 18th U. s. Cavalry
from Fort Des Moines to the Fort Reilly
maneuvers until after the meeting so
that the regiment could participate in
the big parade and also give a half
days review and exhibition drill in
honor of the visitors.
secretary shaw speaks.
Secretary of Treasury Shaw, who
was war governor of Iowa during the
Spanish-American war will be here to
represent the administration and make
an address and will be seated for the
first time in great many years upon
the same platform with Governor AL
bert B. Cummins, Of Iowa, who will
r1aLn tho uyn1c0ninrr Cd tn
visitors. CONGRESSMAN John A. T. Hull
of Iowa, chairman of the house COM
mittee on military affairs will speak of
the progress of the American army and
the thanks due the volunteers who
went to the front in 1898, and put down
the insurrection in the Philippines the
next two years.
Every effort has been made to make
the visitors welcome Merchants will
decorate their places of business as
never before. Headquarters will be at
the Slavery hotel, and reception COM
mittees will meet the incoming trains
and escort the visitors to the hotels
and boarding houses. This will take up
the morning of the first day. In the
afternoon the first business session
will be held at the Knights of Pythias
hall, and in the evening there will be a
Smoker" at the same place. There
will be songs by the guests and spe
cial vaudeville entertainment. 10 say
nothing of the refreshments the visi
tors like best.
The forenoon of the second day will
be spent af Fort Des Moines, the new
100000 home Of the 18th Cavalry U
S. A. The visitors will be rendered
a reception by Col. Earl D. Thomas
and his officers, and later there will be
a review and special exhibition drill
In the afternoon there will be the sec
ond business session, and in the eve
ming an exhibition of wrestling anc
boxing at the Iowa Athletic club, fret
to all visitors. =
i Plan Big Parade.
In the morning of the last day will
come the big parade. with Col. Earl D
Thomas as chief marshal. The It'll
Cavalry will be the escort of honor tt
: the visitors who will follow their com
mander in chief. Col A. S. Frost O
Evanston, ILL.,. through the principa
streets. The visitors will be formed b,
departments and camps. Following
the visitors will come the civic socie
: ties Of the city, and the local militar,
organizations, and the last division
will be a special affair under the head
ing CAS- it was in the Philippines" an
is the inspiration of the men and team
, sters of Fort Des Moines who will hav
some 100 mules and twenty arm
S wagons in line This wagon and pac
1 train will be equipped as for can
paign and escorted by calvary and II
fantry. There will be a band of Fill
pinos in proper costume, carabao
: from Luzon with their native atten(
: ants, captured prisoners from Genera
r Luna's army, and Filipino women i
< carriages, smoking the real Manila C
gars. An insurgent army in costum
will attack the wagon train at variou
places, and after the street fights ar
over, the insurgents will come in an
: be amigos" and join with glee clu
in singing the old songs coined in tn
Philippines, and which those who sa'
g service in the islands love so we'll
O In the afternoon of the last day tn
Y closing business session will be ,hel
t and in the evening there will be reg
: mental camp fires and reunions closin
), up the meeting.
. There is already a hot fight on &c
y the next annual meeting. Kansas Cit
n wants 1t, and so does Syracuse, n. Y
: Minneapolis, and Atlantic City, J
: J. Kansas City appears to be in til
: lead and will send a special train flu
Of rooters to try and land the gathe
ing for next year.
p EDDYVILLE.