The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-24
ENCAMPMENT
Of GRAND ARMY
Of REPUBLIC
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, is MAKING
EXTENSIVE PREPARATIONS TO
ENTERTAIN THE OLD VETER-
ANS IN ANNUAL SESSION.

| Detroit, Mich, Aug. 24.-All ar
rangements for entertaining the
Grand Army of the Republic, at the
expense of the Detroit taxpayers, for
the forty-eighth annual encampment
of the old soldiers here August 81 to
September have been completed,
with the prospect that the veterans
| will find themselves the object of un-
usual attentions on every hand.
For several months since the city
council acquiesced in proposal by
Mayor Oscar b. Marx that a special
tax levy of cents on every thousand
dollars of taxable property be made
to raise funds for entertaining the
veterans, a score of committees made
I up of POO leading business and pro
fessional men of the city has been at
work with headquarters in the may
or's office working out details of en-
tertainment.
The souvenir programs and badges,
which alone represent an outlay OF
over $4,000, will be handed over to
the veterans gratis. To avoid the ap-
pearance of operating on a profit
making basis the city has refused all
advertising propositions, both re-
quests for advertising space in the
programs and all applications for per
mits to sell souvenirs or souvenir
badges of any kind.
1t will pobably be the first time in
history of the encampments that the
G. A. r. have been free from bonn
bardment by street fakirs.
The plan of street decorations in
cludes large white columns, twenty
two feet high, in the heart of the city.
Large oil paintings of men of valor
will be suspended between these col
umns and the whole will be orna-
mented with flags and electric lights
! Throughout the city local commercial
organizations will help to carry out
an elaborate scheme of decoration and
illumination.
Notwithstanding the ranks of the
G. A. r. are thinning rapidly each
year, the reception committee is pre-
pairing to welcome one of the largest
gatherings in the history of the or
ganization. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and
Michigan will be almost fully repre-
sented, each with several thousand
veterans.
1t is estimated that in all there will
be some 25,OOO visitors. In addition to
the G. A. r. gathering, the WOman's
Relief Corps, the Daughters of Vet
Grams, the Association of Army Nurses
of the civil war, the Sons of Veterans,
the Sons of Veterans Auxiliary, the
National Association of Naval Veter-
ans and the National Association of
Union eXPrisoners of War.
Commander in Chief Washington
Gardner of Albion, Mich, who repre-
sented Michigan in congress for u
years. will establish headquarters here
on Saturday, the 29th. Patriotic SER
vices will be held in Detroit churches
on Sunday with addresses by COM
rades of the G. a. r.
Monday the encampment will be
fully established. The day will be
largely given over to business meet
ings. All of the old soldiers and their
companions will be treated to lake ex-
cursions on Tuesday afternoon. All
of the available steamers have been
chartered for this trip and it is said
the fleet of pleasure transports will
be the largest ever gathered in the
Great Lakes.
Governor Ferris will welcome the
soldiers at the first big meeting on
Tuesday night.
Parade day is Wednesday, with a
line of march not over l l2 miles in
length over asphalt pavements. The
day of the long parade for G. A. r.
men is gone The city has made pro-
vision for several hundred automO-
biles for the manned and disabled
veterans who are unable TO march.
Every precaution will be taken to
care for the aged who over reach their
strength in trying to walk.
The parade will be headed by the
mounted officers. escorted by the De
troit post and the line will be made
up of all the A state departments
represented in the order of the depart
ments of seniority.