The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-29
TO MEET MRS. MCCLELLAN.
WIDOW OF OLD VAR COMMAND FIR EXTENDS INVITATION.
To Army of the POtOmac-The Coming UnveiIlng of the Mcclellan statue.

To Army of the POtOmac-The Coming
 Unveiling of the Mcclellan Statue.
 The following announcement has just been issued:
 To veterans of First Connecticut:
 The Army of the Potomac meeting in Washington, May 1, 2 and g. The Me- Clellan statue is to be unveiled May Z. On Friday morning. May 8, I propose a trip on electric cars to Arlington, a photograph of Fort Richardson and hard tack and coffee" for the last time on our old drill ground at Fort Berry. Mrs. Mcclellan. our patron saint, writes me special invitation to the boys, to shake hands," How many are left of the 1,800 she reviewed March ', 1862 ? Will each one drop me postal?
 Comrades Filler of Go. F and Calhoun of Co. B join me in this invitation, which has the approval of Major Gil- bert, the president of our Regimental association. We will be at headquart- CTS at the Ebbitt house to meet you. Railroad fare the usual one and a third fare on certificate from your home of flee General Henry c. Dwight is our commander this year and is entitled to a big escort.
 Turn out the guard.
 Grand rounds"
 GEORGE c. ROUND, co. G.
 Manassas, Va, April 20, 1907.
 The coming reunion Is the thirty seventh annual Following is the full program: On the first day, from 1 to 8 o'clock ?. m, members of the society will register with Lieutenant Halliday, the treasurer of the society. From S:30 to Il D. m. there will be card recep- tion at the congressional library, with Major General George L. Gillespie, U. S, A., chairman of the reception com mittee. Ladies are invited. On Thurs day the meeting. of corps societies will be from to Il a. m., there will be trolley trips etc., and at 2:30 will come the unveilirg of the statue of Major General George B. Mcclellan, President Dwight presiding. Prayer will be of- fered by Bishop Satterlee, and General Horation King, secretary of the society, will give a brief sketch of the statue, which will be unveiled while a salute is fired and the United States marine band plays 'The Star Spangled Ban nef."
 President Roosevelt will make an ad- dress and there will also be addresses by Major General Daniel E. Sickles, Major General O. o. Howard and Major General Granville M. Dodge, interspers- ed with music by the band.
 The public exercises of the society will take place at o'clock in the evening, when the orator will be Hon. Martin w Littleton, ex-president of the Borough of Brooklyn, New York.
 On Friday, the time from g a. m. to 1 p: III. will be devoted to viewing public buildings and places of inter- est. The president will give a recep- ton at 2:30 o'clock In the afternoon to members of the societies of the Po tomac, Tennessee, Cumberland and Ohio, and their guests with ladies, in the east room of the White House ' Major General Joseph F. Sanger, U. S. A., will be chairman of the com mittee. At 2;45 o'clock automobiles will leave the east entrance of the White House for drives all around Washington and the suburbs, and at 6 o'clock the banquet will be served. Charles Lyman being the chairman of the banquet committee. For those who remain over, there will be steam boat and trolley excursions to Mount Vernon on Saturday, and for Sunday and Monday a trip can be arranged to the Jamestown exposition for the visitors.