Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-08-24
DETROIT IS READY
FOR GRAND ARMY
Entertainment at Camp Next
Week Will Be Furnished
by the City.

Detroit, Mich, Aug. 24.--All Arrange.
nents for entertaining the Grand
Army Of the Republic, at the expense
OF the Detroit taxpayers for the lsts
| annual encampment of the old soldier.
here Aug. 81 to Sept. have been
completed, with the prospect that the
| veterans will find themselves tho nh.
| ject of unusual attentions on every
| hand.
For several months since the CITY
council acquiesed in a proposal By
| Mayor Oscar 3. Marx that special tar
levy of cents on every thousand dol.
| lars of taxable property be made to
raise funds for entertaining the vet.
Grams, score Of committees made IN
| of 200 leading business and profes-
| sional men CT the city has been at
| work with headquarters in the mayors
Office working out details of entertain.
| ment.
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 proft-mak-
ing basis the city has refused all ad.
vertising propositions; both requests
for advertising space in the programs
and all applications for permits to sell
souvenirs or souvenir badges of any
kind
Notwithstanding that 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 organ
ization. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and
Michigan will be almost fully repre-
scented, each with several thousand
veterans.
1t is estimated that in all there will
be some $4,000 visitors. In addition
to the G. A. R. gathering there will be
the annual encampment of the ladies
of the G. A. R., the Women's Relief
Corps, the Daughters of Veterans, the
Association of Army Nurses Of the
Civil War, the Sons OF Veterans, the
Sons of Veterans Auxiliary, the Ma
tional Association of Naval Veterans,
and the National Association Of Union
Ex-Prisoners of War.
Commander n chief Washington
Gardner of Albion, Mich, who repge-
sented Michigan in congress for II
years, will establish headquarters here
Saturday, the Goth. Patriotic services
will be held in Detroit churches Sun
day with addresses by comrades 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
excursions 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 Tues
day night.
The parade day is Wednesday, with
a line of march not over one and one
half miles in length over asphalt pave
ments The day of the long parade
for G. A. R. men is gone. The city
has made provision for several hun
dred automobiles for the MANNED and
disabled veterans who are unable to
march. Every precaution will be TAX
en- 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 Al state departments
represented in the order OF the DEPART
ment's seniority.