The National tribune., 1906-07-26
THE 10Th NATIONAL
ENCAMPMENT.

THE 4oIH, NATIONAL
ENCAMPMENT.
Continued from page IL
Assignments -wih be made as applied
for. and the Apn1eant will be asked to
make a deposit to guarantee the occu-
pancy of the, rooms assigned. Persons
arriving In the city who have not ar
ranged for accommodations will be as
signed to quarters upon application at
the Headquarters Bureau, which will be
conveniently located. A score of fra
ternity houses near the University offer
an exceptional opportunity for parties
of from 3 to 25 persons to be quartered
together during their stay in the city,
and they can be arranged for upon ap-
plication.
Reunion places will he provided by
the local Committee for all organiZa-
tions applying for the same. In MAX
ing application officers should state the
day and hours when the Reunions win
be held and the probable number that
will be in attendance. so that the Com
mittee on Reunions may make the as
signment of places SO that there VIII
be no conflict The several Court
rooms and other rooms in the City Hall
and Court House. numbering over so.
Will be used for Reunions, and If these
are not sufficient, halls in the vicinity
will be provided for that purpose. The
following organizations have already ar
ranged to hold Reunions. but dates have
not all been determined:
Regular Brigade, Fourteenth Corps;
Iron Brigade; Eagle Brigade; 65th ILL.,;
29th Mo-; 5th n. Y. Cav; 5th n. Y. H.
A; 116th n. Y; 1st Wis. Cav; I'd Wis.
Cav; Sd Battery Wis. L. A; 18th Wis;
18th Wis; S2d Wis: 29th and 4ith
Wis: Old 1st Reg't Mimi; Sd Mimi;
4th Mimi; 5th Mimi; 9th Mimi; 18th
Ill. Cav; 9th Wis; I'd Mimi: 18th
Wis; 37th III. Regimental Battery; 18th
Ohio; 33d Ill.
The headquarters for survivors OF
Minnesota regiments will be in the City
Hall, opposite the Third avenue en-
trance.
Other Reunions will be the Medal of
Honor Veterans; Civil War Musicians;
the Old Guard columbus. o.; Naval
Veterans: United States Veteran Signal
Corps; Mississippi River Ram Fleet;
Berdan's Sharpshooters; Union Ex-
Prisoners of War; Army of the Tennes-
see Associations; Survivors, Battle of
Shiloh, and California Volunteer Vet
eran Association.
The Parade.
1t has been promised that the parade
shall not be over two miles in length,
and there are to be some creature COM
forts furnished the veterans which they
have never before received. The WO-
mans Relief Corps is going to prove
entirely worthy of its name. The IL
Corps of Minneapolis, with the Corps
at saltwater, Osseo and Excelsior, will
erect Is tents. one at each of the sta
tions where the Is divisions of the pa
rade will fall into line. There they will
hold receptions and do all they can for
the comfort Of the old soldiers. Bread
and butter and coffee will be served, for
it is not unlikely that the last divisions
will have long and tedious wait
The teH.s9which have been donated,
will be erected on Monday of G.. A. r.
week, and each Corps can decorate its
tent and add torits comforts. friendly
rivalry Is going on among the Corps as
to which viii! nave the handsomest dec
orations and the most creature COM
forts. The bread has been donated by
one firm and the butter as well as the
coffee has also been donated. Bread
and butter the women have chosen to
serve, particularly because Minnesota is
the real bread-and-butter State. Bou-
tonnieres for the veterans will also be
distributed from these tents.
But that isn't all the Woman's Relief
Corps Is doing They will have water
for the veterans to drink, all along the
line of march, and at each of the Is
divisions stations where the bread and
butter Is served there will be hundreds
of camp stools for the veterans to sit on
while they are waiting for the line of
march to move. Usually they have to
stand in line for two or three hours. so
as to hold their proper position while
the line is forming. and 1t gets awfully
tiresome, so the w. r. c. of the city
have determined to mitigate this in
some measure. In fact. things that Mrs.
Martins splendid corps of women are
doing are cropping out all the time.
When the veterans parade they will
see a stand filed with colored children
from the five colored churches in the
city. singing patriotic songs as well as
their Sunday School hymns, on the line
of march. Last week pastors and their
wives from the five colored churches in
Minneapolis met with the Executive
Committee Of the Woman's Relief Corps
to decide upon some representation. Not
only will the stand be filled with the
singing children, but a group will be
detailed to strew flowers in front of the
Grand Army veterans as they pass the
stand.
The Minneapolis Red Cross Corps
during the Grand Army Encampment
will be one of the most useful and ef-
fective organizations of the Encamp-
ment. DR.. c. A. McCollom, Chairman
of the Committee on Health and Com
fort. will be in charge. The members
of the Corps will be drawn from the
Sons of Veterans, who are volunteering
their services.
The Sons of Veterans Executive Com
mittee Is interested in the work of Or
ganizations, and plans to organize $50
sons and grandsons of soldiers and sail
ors of the civil war as a Red Cross
Corps. Uniforms will be provided and
the members instructed in stretcher
drill and first aid to the injured. 1t is
also planned to give members of the
Corps special police powers, which will
make them a valuable addition to the
police force and will aid in the work of
the Corps.
The doors of every hospital in the
city will be thrown open during En-
campment week and medical services
will be free to all old soldiers.
1t seems that there was little doubt
about this at one time. The big and
mighty people of the city hospitals de-
clared that their doors would be closed
to all strangers-people who did not
live in the city-but public sentiment
quickly brought them to time. and II