The National tribune., 1906-05-03
SPANISH WAR VETS ENCAHP.
MENT,
Address Sent 10 Au Camps by ne M.
tIonaI Committee Giving an Outline Of
the Program.

Address Sent 10 Au Camps BY ne M.
tIonaI Committee Giving An Outline Of
the Program.
AS the first active move toward the
National Encampment of the United
| Spanish War Veterans, to be held at
Washington, D. c., next Fall, the fol-
lowing address has been sent out to the
hundreds of Camps in I'LL parts of the
United States:
Our Latchsfring Hangs Outward.
To Our Comrades of the United Spanish
War Veterans of all Camps Every
whereI
tee of the Department of the District OF
Columbia extends to you most cordial
and pressing invitation to attend the
Third Annual Encampment of the Unit
ed Spanish War Veterans, to be held in
the picturesque and historical city of
Washington, ID. c., during the week be-
ginning Oct 8. 1906. this date having
dore Roosevelt, President of the United
States. who will honor us with his pres
ence and who is expected to give us
one of his characteristic soldier talks.
We want you TO be the guests of the
Department of the District of Columbia
and of the Government which, largely
through your patriotic devotion to duty,
Has DteH eNdlteu 10 lUe highest ntCne
among the Governments of the earth.
The citizens of Washington will re-
ceive and entertain you in the spirit of
true Southern hospitality.
Besides being escorted to all the Gov
ernment Departments and museums and
other places of interest and historic
points in and about the city, the En-
campment Committee has prepared a
varied program for your entertainment
nf
National body, at which much business
of interest to our beloved organization
Will be transacted. and 1t is expected
the opening address will be delivered by
President 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 COM
patriots in the war with Spain; by Reg
ular United States troops and National
Guardsmen by the grim old veterans
of the civil war, and by many civic and
patriotic organizations, including a reg
iment of Minute Men in their Continen-
tai uniforms of buff and blue, and other
striking features.
There will also be rides I'm the big
Seeing Washington" automobiles to the
stately public buildings. the museums,
the monuments of distinguished Amer
leans. the picturesque suburbs of the
Capital City and to the National Gene
terry on the pretty and historic slope of
Arlington, the Silent City of the Soldier
Dead" including a pilgrimage to the
imposing monument to the dead of the
Spanish War, which was erected as a
tribute of love by the Colonial Danes.
There will be 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 Wash
ington at Mount Vernon.
Tentative arrangements are being
made to establish a great camp for the
accommodation 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. It is proposed that camps so de-
string may be quartered in the tents of
Camp Roosevelt, where a cannon will
be stationed to fire the sunrise and sun
set guns. and buglers to sound all the
Army calls from ''reveiIle" to taps"
IT is also proposed to have the COM
rades visit Fort Myer, Va, on the
heights overlooking Washington, and
witness the famous "CosSack DrilP' by
troopers of the Regular cavalry. Other
features will be provided
and. the Encampment of 1906 will be
brought to a close by big Campfire at
which prominent Army ard Navy Off
GERS and Government officials will also
be guests of the Department of the Dis
trict of Columbia
The Ladies' Auxiliaries of Washing
ton are taking an active part in arrang-
ing for the coming event, and no ex-
pense or pains will be spared to make
1t an affair long to be remembered by
those who become our guests in the
golden month of October, when Wash
ington will wear her most beautiful
Autumn garb and all nature will be in
smiling mood.
1t is the hope and expectation of the
National Encampment Committee that
the matter of coming to the Capital at
this time of our National meeting will
be taken up by the several State De-
partments and Camps at the earliest
moment, and that estimates
of the approximate number that will
come be sent as promptly as possible
to the Chairman of the Encampment
Committee, in order that arrangements |
may be made for the comfort and en-
tertainment of the visiting comrades |
and their friends.
II is urged that SO far as possible |
uniformed Camps come to Washington !
in bodies and such of these as may so |
wish will be furnished with accommo-
dations in Camp Roosevelt or elsewhere |
as desired. This is especially desirable |
AZ LiiiS NlIlt' dS lnt SlTtlSln ana person. |
mel of our organization will be submit |
ted to the scrutiny of the officers of the |
Government and the great American |
people.
1t is also urged by the Committee |
that the people of the United States |
be encouraged to take advan- |
tage of the reduced railroad and steam |
boat rates and form excursion parties |
to visit the Capital of the Nation and |
spend several days in the happy enjoy
ment of the many interesting and i'll
sights that are to be seen here |
on every hand.
Comrades. get in touch with the Ma
Iional Encampment Committee at once
If you have any suggestions to offer. |
send them along. We will thank you
for them. Get together and boom |
Washington, 1906" 1t is very much |
to our interest that the coming Encamp-
ment be made a representative affair in |
every sense. Therefore, comrades, be |
up and doing.
BY order of Maj. Fred S. Hodgson
Chairman, National Encampment Com
Walter Mitchell. Secretary
Evening Star Building, Washington,
ID. G.
Happy BaId-Headed Man.