Evening journal., 1914-08-12
Detroit Prepares
FOR THE VETERANS
Convention Promises to be
Banner One in History of
Gatherings
WAR MUSICIANS
WILL BE IN LINE
By The United Press.

DETROIT, Mich, Aug. I2.-That
E coming events cast their shadows be-
fore" is being demonstrated in Detroit
in the preliminary preparations and the
intense interest manifested by old sol
.diers and their children and their chill.
dren's children throughout the country
in the national eneampment Of the G. A.
R., to be held here August 81 to Sep
tember s.
NO stone is being left unturned to
make this encampment the banner one
in the history Of the annual gatherings
Special facilities are being arranged for
the accommodation of the story tellers
at the "campfres." Open house win be
kept by local local posts at the @. A. r.
building, on Grand River avenue, where
numerous impromptu campfres will be
held. The large camphres Of the week,
however, will be held in the armorv
Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday
nights, September l., and 3.
The Association OF Civil War AIusi
clans, with 200 flies, drums and buules
Will attend the encampment here IN a
body. These old veterans Will be here
day in advance of the crowds. SO as to
meet all incoming trains bearing the old
soldiers. Many OF the departments. Of
which there are about As, will bring
bands with them. The local committee
also has proposals from the Musicians
Union to provide whatever music or
what number of bands required.
In addition to these bands which win
IN nFVrrL
shutfiiing feet step lighter and the
stltiening muscles quicken, programs
VIII be arranged by all Of the churches.
IN honor of the veterans.
During the parade two thousand
school children will sing patriotic songs
as the old soldiers pass their grand.
stands, in Grand Circus Park.
The great event will be the parade
and Detroit, the city of the motor car.
will provide automobiles for all of the
enfeebled and disabled. 1t is estimated
that twenty thousand old soldiers will
be in line.
The route will be lined with twenty
ambulances and an equal number of spe-
elal police telephones will be installed
along Woodward avenue, the main thor
oughfare, for emergency use
Michigan will have four thousand in
line the morning of September 2. Ohio
and Indiana are making special efforts
TO snow under Michigan. Illinois the
Oldest departments of the country, hav-
ing been organized first and bearing the
honor OF being No. l. and consequently
having the right in line, promises 25O0.
New York, with the largest depart
ment in the country, expects to closely
press all Others in point Of numbers.
Friends and relatives and those accom-
panying the veterans, and members of
auxiliary organizations will swell the
number of parade witnesses close to
the hundred thousand mark
Buffalo, having the largest post in the
organization Chaplin Post, No. 2, G. A.
R., will give free transportation to all
its members in good standing. The post |
commanders have arranged for leave |
of absence with pay for all its veterans
employed. The members of the one |
hundred and twenty posts of the G. A.
R. in Western New York will make the |
trip by boat from Buffalo to Detroit.
Arrangements for the care of the sol
diers who may become i'll and in need |
of hospital privileges are complete. |
Every established hospital in the city |
win be prepared to do everything in its |
power to give relief.
For first aid, two large hospitals tents
viii be erected, one in Grand Circus
Park and the other back of the Soldiers
Monument in Cadillac Square. Rest
rooms will be established at all Of
the depots, hotels, various headquarters,
camp fires and wherever else it may be
deemed advisable.
The care of the patients will be
under the direction of the National Red
Cross Society. Fifty nurses and a
dozen orderlies viii be in attendance be-
sides the physicians. All steamers
carrying veterans on excursion trips will
be provided with hospital quarters,
nurses. and physicians, as viii also the
public boats, especially the police hos
pital boats and hurried to the mainland
During the encampment the national
headquarters of the Grand Army of the
Republic will be temporarily established
at the Hotel Ponehartrain, Detroit.