Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-26
ISSUES AN ADDRESS
COMMITTEES OF
SPANISH WAR VETERANS.
Proposed Camp on White Lot-Latch-
string Hangs outward--Up
and Doing.

The first general address concerning the
forthcoming national encampment of the
United Spanish War Veterans, to be held
here next October, was promulgated today
from headquarters of the encampment COM
mittee, 718 9Th street. One OF the newest
features of the program is the proposed es-
Establishment of a great camp on the White
Lot, or elsewhere, for the accommodation
Of some OF the visiting soldiers of the war
with Spain. to be christened Camp Roose-
welt. with appropriate military ceremonies.
The publication is addressed ITO our COM
rades of the United Spanish War Veterans
Of all camps everywhere" and conveys In
the headline the information that "our
iatchstring hangs outward. The announce
ment is formally made that the third an
nual encampment Of the United Spanish
war veterans fs to be held in the pic
turesque and historical city Of Washington.
D. c., during the week beginning October
8, 1905. this date having been fixed by our
comrade, Col. Theodore Roosevelt. President
OF the United States, who will honor us
with his presence, and who is expected to
give us one of his characteristic soldier
talks"
Some Of the Features.
Proposed features of the encampment are
enumerated as follows:
I'VE want you to be the guests of the De-
partment of the District Of Columbia and of
the government, which by your patriotic
devotion to duty has been exalted to the
highest niche among the governments OF
the earth.
and entertain You In the spirit of true
southern hospitality.
Besides being escorted to all the govern
ment departments and museums and other
places Of interest and historic points in and
about the city. the encampment committee
has prepared varied program for your en-
tertafnment. This will include the sessions
of the national body, at which much bust
ness of interest to our beloved organization
will be transacted, and 1t Is expected the
opening address will be delivered by Presi-
dent Theodore Roosevelt. Then there will
be the big parade which will be participated
in by our comrades of the United Spanish
War Veterans; by a battalion of Cuban
troops, our compatriots in the war with
Spain; by regular United States troops and
national guardsmen; by the grim old vet
Grams of the civil war and by many civic
and patriotic organizations, including reg
iment of Minute Men in their continental
uniforms Of bum and blue, and other strik-
Ing features.
There will also be rides in the big Seeing
Washington automobiles to the stately pub
lie buildings, the museums, the monuments
of distinguished Americans, the picturesque
suburbs of the capital city and to the ma
tional cemetery on the pretty and historic
slopes of Arlington. the Silent City Of the
Soldier Dead including pilgrimage to the
imposing monument to the dead of the
Spanish war which was erected as tribute
of love by the Colonial Danes.
There will be a reception Of our COM
rades by Comrade Roosevelt at the White
House, and a pilgrimage by steamboat
down the historic Potomac river to the
tomb of Gen. George Washington at Mount
Vernon.
Tentative arrangements are being made
to establish q great camp for the accommo-
dalton of the visiting comrades under the
stately, spreading trees on the White Lot
Just south of the White House. where band
concerts will be held. 1t is proposed that
camps desiring may be quartered in the
tents of Camp Roosevelt where a cannon
will be stationed to fire the sunrise and
sunset guns. and buglers to sound all the
army calls from ''reveille" to taps
at is also proposed to have the comrades
visit Fort Myer, Va, on the heights over
looking Washington and witness the ia
nous "Cossack drill by troopers Of the
regular cavalry. Other entertainment feat
ures will be provided and the encampment
of 1906 will be brought to a close by a big
campfire, at which prominent army and
naval officers and government officials will
also be guests of the Department of the
District of Columbia.