The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-08-31
VETERANS TO Be
GIVEN VERY BEST
TOLEDO SUPPLIES
Clean Beds Beneath Safe
Roofs viii Be Provided for
Old Soldiers During Their
Stay at Harbor City.
RED, WHITE AND BLUE
USED IN DECORATIONS.
Committees Have Left Moth
ing Out That Would Add to
Pleasure of Guests, Who
Honor City With Visit.

When the delegation from Sol Mere
dith Post G. A. r. and those from 9th
er posts of Wayne county gather at
Toledo. Ohio to attend the annual en-
campment they will be accorded the
finest sort of hospitality ever exper-
fenced. Chief among the list of sur
prises in store will be the free lodging
accommodations, which call for beds
beneath roofs upon which to sleep.
This does not mean a tick spread on
the floor of a shack, either.
skirmish line of veterans entered
Toledo yesterday, surveyed the pro-
fusely decorated streets, noted the
Welcome G. A. r." signs on almost
every house and building, scanned the
program of campfires, parades, music
and spectacles arranged for the forty
second national encampment of the
Grand Army of the Republic, and had
no questions for the multifarious men
with the ASK Me" badge. They were
satisfied.
The forty-second encampment will,
veterans declare, go down in history
with a most laudatory chapter devoted
to committee which abandoned the
traditional tents and domiciled the old
soldiers under real roofs and on real
beds.
The veterans in Toledo last night
ran no risk of colds and rheumatism
from sleeping on the straw-strewn
ground or from dew-soaked canvas
Nor will those who come Monday and
Tuesday. All will be adequately hous-
ed. .----.-----=--s-r --sr-=-
There was something in the tents
of former reunions which appealed to
the imagination of the veterans and
stirred their memories of war days,
but many of them paid for it with
pneumonia and rheumatism, and they
were unstinted in their praise of the
present arrangement.
1t is stated that the appeal of May
or Brand Whitlock ard Chairman j.
Kent Hamilton, that citizens throw
open their homes to care for the visi-
tors, met with a general response that
passed the expectations of the origin
ators of the plan. And in the great
majority of cases homes were thrown
open free Of charge.
Very Accommodating.
An information corps in addition to
the ASK Me" army has been scatter
ed about the city at strategic points,
and the tents wherein they await in
quiries bear on signs readable for
blocks the word Information"
Householders generally have
agreed to keep their porch and front
window lights burning that the strang-
er may have their assistance in find
ing his way at night. AS to decor
ations, they are red, white and blue in
feyery material lending itself to that
color scheme, and of every design,
from the customary festoon draped by
human hands to parabolas draped by
| a mischevious wind
Not only are the principal business
streets elaborately decorated. but the
resident districts followed suit, and
| family parties on their front porchea
tonight sat behind draperies of Ameri.
can flages and bunting
With the exception of the California
delegation, which arrived 400 strong
on special train this afternoon, arri
walls today were mostly small parties
| from nearby towns, coming in by troll
ley. There are eight interurban lines
entering this city and many delega
| tions from nearby points in Michigan
Indiana and Ohio will avail themselves
| of this means of travel
| Tomorrow great excursion OF
veterans and their friends and famil
! les is expected. No accurate forecast
of their numbers can be made at this
time, but the local committee is pre-
pared to care for from $4,000 to twice
that number.