The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-08-16
VETERANS OF The
WAR WITH SPAIN
Ninth National Encampment at
Atlantic City In September.
NOTABLES WILL Be PRESENT.
Governor Wilson, Colonel Roosevelt
and Probably President Taft-State
Of New Jersey Has Appropriated
$4,000 For Entertainment.

$4,000 For Entertainment.
Among the attractions of the ninth
national encampment of the United
Spanish War Veterans to be held at
Atlantic City, n. j., Sept to IA may
be three candidates for president OF
the United States. The presence of
Governor Woodrow Wilson is assured,
for he has accepted an invitation to
address the veterans and their fam
lilies and friends on the steel pier the
evening of Tuesday, Sept. TO- Presi-
bent Taft has tentatively accepted the
opportunity to speak to veterans rep
resenting every state in the Union.
the Philippine Islands, Hawaii, Porto
Rico, Cuba, the canal zone, Alaska and
British Columbia. Theodore Roose-
welt also has promised to attend.
New Jersey through its legislature
appropriated $4,000 for suitable en-
tertainment and display at Atlantic
City during the encampment week,
and Governor Wilson appointed Wal
ker Whiting Wick of Rutherford, G..
Ford Ege of Jersey City and Judge
Daniel A. Dugan of Orange, all Span
ish War Veterans, as the United Span
ish War Veterans encampment COM
mission to expend the money. The
commission has established headquar-
ters in the Bell-Riddle building. At
lantlc City, in charge of Robert E. IT,
wood.
War NotabIes Invited.
There also will be twenty-one con-
gressmen who are Spanish War Vet
Grams In attendance, including Hobson,
and other notables, such as Admiral
Dewey and General Miles, have been
invited.
From reveille on Saturday, Sept. Z,
until taps on Thursday, Sept. 13, there
will not be an idle moment for the
5000 veterans who will be present. En-
tertainments of all kinds will divide
the week with the business sessions of
the encampment on Monday, Tuesday
and Wednesday, Sept 0, 10 and IL.
Special honors will be paid to the
Maine survivors and medal of honor
men of the war.
The standard of the commander in
chief, Maurice Simmons of New York
city, will be hoisted at the Hotel Ru-
dolf, and the New Jersey state COM
mission will establish its headquarters
at the Hotel Chalfonte. Saturday night
at the Chalfonte the Ladies' auxiliary
will hold its annual reception. Mrs.
Effie NJ. Record of Denver, president
general of that organization, and her
staff will receive. The official encamp-
ment band will give concert
Sunday, in the Criterion theater, on
the board walk, Rev Robert Arthur
Elwood. captain in chief, and Rev.
]. Madison Hare of Jersey City, de-
partment chaplain, will conduct serv-
ices. Monday there will be two busi
ness sessions Of the encampment, and
Mayor Riddle will present a gold key
to the commander in chief, symbolic
ing the freedom Of the city. All ses-
sions will be in the auditorium Of the
steel pier, where on Monday night in
the ballroom a military reception will
be held The same night Colonel John
Jacob Astor camp, No. 2S, will hold
monster campfire in local hall,
Tuesday the Big Day.
Tuesday will be the big day of the
week, with notable visitors, including
the state senate and house of assem-
bly, of New Jersey. A business ses-
sion in the morning will be followed
by military parade in the afternoon
on the board walk. Walter +. Edge,
senator from Atlantic county and
veteran, will be grand marshal.
United States Senators Frank o.
Briggs and James f. MARITIME and Con
gresham William Hughes of New
Jersey will secure from the secreta-
ries of war and navy regular troops
and bluejackets, and Adjutant Wilbur
T. Sadler of New Jersey will turn out
part of the national guard. Local uni
formed organizations will escort the
veterans. who will parade in depart
ment formations. Moving pictures will
be made of the parade, and Governor
Wilson viii review it.
Tuesday evening on the steel pier
Colonel Roosevelt, Governor Wilson
and probably President Taft will ad-
dress the encampment at an open ses-
sion. Wednesday will witness two
business sessions with election of OFF,
GERS. A spirited contest is on for COM
mander in chief. Oscar Taylor of
Pittsburgh, John Lewis Smith Of
Washington and c. Albert Gasser Of
Newark, n. j., are candidates.
Wednesday night will furnish
spectacular parade, the annual crawl
OF the Military Order of the Serpent.
Filipinos In native costume will par
ticipate, with carabaos drawing carts.
Five hundred veterans who have ap-
piled for admission TO the order, which
was founded by service men Of the
Philippine Islands and based on the
mysteries practiced by votaries Of the
snake god Katipunah, VIII carry an
immense serpent on their shoulders.
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