Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-26
Seventh Annual Meeting Will
Be Held at Des Moines,
August ID Next
THOUSANDS WILL ATTEND
Great Efforts Being Made to Enter
tain the Five Thousand Veterans of
the War With Spain Who Are Ex-
pected to Be Present-cummins to
Make Welcoming Address.


annual meeting Of the Army of the
Philippines, which will be held in Des
Moines, August 13, IA and Is, 1906,
promises to be the greatest gathering
of the society ever held. Already the
local committees are assured of an at
tendance of 1000, principally from CEN
trail and western states, including
some of the most prominent men in
the United States. While President
Roosevelt and Secretary Of War Taft
We're forced to decline the invitation
to attend, which was signed by Adj
yet they aided the meeting by coun-
demanding the order sending the 18th
U. S. cavalry from Fort Des Moines
to the Fort Riley maneuvers until after
could participate in the big parade aul
also give half days review and ex-
hibition drill in honor Of the visitors.
Secretary of Treasury Shaw, who
was war governor of Iowa during the
Spanish American war, will be here 20
represent the administration and make
an address and will be seated for the
first time in a great many yeas upon
the same platform with his m ast bitter
political foe, Governor Albert r. cum
Minis, of Iowa, who will make the well
coming address to the visitors. Con-
gresham John A. T. Hull of Iowa,
chairman of the house committee on
military affairs, will speak of the pro-
gress of the American army and the
thanks due the volunteers who went to
surrection 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 Pytbias
hall, and in the evening there will be
smoker" at the same place. There
will be songs by the guests and spec
ial vaudeville entertainment, to say
nothing of the refreshments the yisi-
tors like best.
The forenoon of the second day will
be spent at Fort Des Moines, the new
So, OOO 900 home of the Eleventh cav
airy. U. S. A. The visitors will be
rendered reception by Col Earl D..
Thomas, and his officers, and later
there will be review and special ex-
hibition drill. In the afternoon there
will be the second business session,
and in the evening an ex-
hibition of wrestlip~ and boxing at
the Iowa Athletic Club free to all Wis
itors.
In the morning Of the last day will
come the big parade, with Col. Earl D.
Thomas, as chief marshal. The Elev-
enth cavalry will be the escort of
honor to the visitors who will follow
their commander in chief, Col. A. S.
Frost, of Evanston, ILL.,, thru the prin-
cipal streets. The visitors will be
formed by departments and camps.
Following the visitors will come the
civic societies of the city, and the To-
cal military organizations, and the last
division will be special affair under
the heading LAS it was in the Philip
pines and is the inspiration of the
men and transfers of Fort Des
Moines who will have some 100 mules
and twenty army wagons in line. This
wagon and pack train will be equipped
as for a campaign and escorted by
cavalry and infantry. There will be a
band Of Filipinos in proper costume,
carabaos from Luzon with their native
captured prisoners from
General Luna's army, and Filipino
women in carriages, smoking the real
Manila cigars An insurgent army in
costume will attack the wagon train at
various places, and after the street
fights are over, the insurgents will
come in and be amigos" and join with
a glee club in singing the old songs
coined in the Philippines, and which
those who saw service in the islands
love so we'll.
In the afternoon of the last day the
closing business session will be held
and in the evening there will be regi-
mental camp fires and reunions closing
up the meeting.
There is already hot fight on for
the next annual meeting. Kansas City
wants it, and so does Syracuse, N. Y,
Minneapolis, Mimi, and Atlantic City,
N. J. Kansas City appears to be in
the lead and will send special train
full of rooters to try and land the
gathering next year.
sToLYPlN TELLS WHY.