The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1914-08-24
VETS Will Be
ENTERTAINEDAT
CITY'S EXPENSE
Detroit Is Ready for Grand En-
campment of the GAR.

Detroit Mich, Aug. 24.-All ar
engagements for entertaining the Gran,
Army Of the Republic, at the expens,
o. the Detroit taxpayers for the forty
eighth annual eucampment Of the ole
soldiers here August 81 To September
have been completed, with the pros
pect that the veterans will find them
selves the object Of unusual attentions
on every hand.
For several months since the city
I council acQuicsed in proposal by
! Mayor oscar r. Marx that special
| tax levy OF : cents on every thousand
dollars Of taxable property bc made to
raise funds FOR entertaining the veter-
ans, a score Of committees made up of
zoo leading business and professional
/ men II the city has been at work with
headquarters in the mayors office
working out details of entertainment.
The souvenir programs. and BADGES,
which alone represent an outlay Of ov-
er $4,000, will be handed over to the
veterans gratis To avoid the appear
ance OF operating ON profit making
basis the city has refused all advertis-
ing propositions; both requests for add
vertising space in the programs and all
applications for permits to sell SOU
vendors or souvenir badges OF any
kind.
1t will probably be the first time in
history OF the encampments that the
G.. A, Il. men have been free from bonn
bardment 10y street hawkers.
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 coll
umns and the whole will be ornament
ed with flags and electric lights.
Throughout the city local commercial
organizations will help TO carry out an
elaborate scheme OF decoration and
illumination.
25,ooo Visitors Expected.
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 or
Ranization. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and
Michigan will he almost fully repre-
sented, each with several thousand
veterans.
1t is estimated that i'm all there will
be some $4,000 visitors. In addition
to the G, A. r. gathering there will he
the annual encampment of the Ladies
OF the q. A. r., the Woman'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 in-chief, Washington
Gardner Of Albion, Mich, who repre-
scented Michigan in Congress for 12
years will establish headquarters here
on Saturday, the 29th. Patriotic serv-
ices will be held in Detroit churches on
sunday with addresses by comrades
OF the G. A. r.
Monday the encampment will he full
ly established. The day will be large
ly given over To business meetings.
All OF the old soldiers and their COM
panions will be treated to lake excur-
sions on Tuesday afternoon. All OF
the available steamers have been char
tered for this trip. and 1t 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.
Big Parade on Wednesday.
The parade day is Wednesday, with
"A line OF march not over IL miles in
length over asphalt pavements. The
day OF the long parade for q. A. r.
men is gone. The city has made pro-
vision for several hundred automobiles
for the manned and disabled veterans
who are unable to march. Every pre-
caution will be taken to care for the
aged who over reach their strength i'm
trying to walk.
The parade will be headed by the
officers, escorted by the De-
troit post, and the line will be made
up Of all the - state departments rep
resented in the order OF the depart
ments seniority.
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