Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1906-08-13
Thousands of Veterans and
Many Thousands of Wis
itOrS Filling City
TO ATTEND THE FORT|ETH
OF GRAND ENCAMPMtNTS
Kansas Is Making Chief Effort to
Secure For Fdvorite Son
the COmmanderShip.

Minneapolis, Mimi, Aug. 19.-Train |
after train is bringing hundreds of
veterans of the Civil war and other |
visitors to this city and it is expected
that by tomorrow more than one hun
dred and fifty thousand strangers Will
be here who have all been attracted
by the fortieth national encampment
of the Grand Army of the Republic.
The city is handsomely decorated, but
not until tomorrow, the first day of
the encampment proper, and the date
of the grand civic parade, will the
decorations be completed.
The arrangements for receiving the
visiting veterans and for supplying
them with quarters, food and other
accommodations, are as nearly COM
plete as they can be made, and every
thing has been reduced to a perfect
system. Committees, guides, physi-
clans and officials are in attendance
at the arrival of every train, and
without confusion the arriving veter-
ans are received, welcomed and di-
rected to their quarters. The hotel
accommodations are naturally limited,
but hundreds of citizens have opened
their houses to accommodate the vet
erans and their families. School
houses, and in some cases even
churches and public halls have been
transformed into dormitories for the
impecunious visitors, and on the Pa
rade and the Northrop fields tents
nave been erected for those veterans
who are willing to brave the uncer-
tainties of the weather and camp out.
The encampment opens informally
today, but there is no special program
arranged. The day will be devoted to
the reception of the visitors and to
assigning them to quarters.
Tomorrow morning there will be
the grand military and civic parade,
including the Naval Veterans, the I'm
ion eX-prisoners of war, battle of Shi-
loh survivors, United States soldiers
from Fort Smelling, Mimi, National
guards, etc. During the afternoon the
survivors of the battle of Shiloh will
hold their annual convention and in
the evening there will be a big camp
fire in the auditorium, with addresses
of welocem by the mayor and other
officials, and responses by department
commanders and others.
The grand parade of the Grand
Army of the Republic will be held on
Wednesday morning, under the direc-
tion of the communicative chief, Cen
eral James Tanner. The route of the
parade will be over paved streets and
will not be more than two miles long.
In the evening the Army of the Ten
nessee will hold reunion. The
Woman's Relief Corps will hold a re-
ception in honor of the commander
in-chief, General Tanner, in the even
ing at the Auditorium. At the close
OF the reception greetings will be ex-
changed between the various G.. A. r.
organizations, as no committees on
greetings will be received during the
sessions of the encampment of the
Grand Army and the other conven-
tiOns.
On Thursday and Friday the busiest
sessions of the encampment will be
held at Auditorium on Nicollet av-
enue and Eleventh street South. The
twenty-fourth national convention OF
the Women's Relief Corps will be held
in the Wesley NJ. +. church on First
avenue and Grant street The twen-
tieth national convention of the La
dies of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie will be held in the First Baptist
church on Harmon Place and Tenth
street. The sixteenth national con-
vention of the Daughters of Veterans
will meet at X. of p hall, Masonic
Temple.
The state of Kansas has sent a
very strong delegation and the latter
will make every effort to secure the
election of Captain Patrick Henry
COney, present department command
er of Kansas, to the post of command
-in-chiS of the Grand Army. He
has strong endorsements and his
friends will make a vigorous cam
paign in his favor.
No candidate for the honors Of be
ing the next commander of the or
ganization have arrived. The contest
is expected TO grow warmer during
The next twenty-four hours, however
The leading candidates are Capt. p
ii. Coney, Topeka. Kan, r. b. Brown
GAINESVILLE, Ohio, and Charles G. Bur
ton of Missouri. There is no contest
for any of the lesser offices.