The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1915-07-10
C. A. R. VETS
| PREPARE FOR
BIG REUNION
AFTER 80 YEARS OF PEACE
TROOPS TO MARCH AGAIN
ON AVENUE

OK, narchcd down PennsSlVanla ave-
nuo in Washington.
1t was grand review of the war
SCARED legions of Grant and Sher-
man, of Meade and Sheridan, and the
otAer famous commanders whose
"boys In blue" had preserved the
Union. President Johnson and Cen
oral Grant were in the reviewing
stand as the veterans swung proudly
past to the exulting music of their
hands, while the battle flags that had
flown on hundred bloody fields
waved over the triumphant host.
This thrilling pageant, of national
interest. will be reproduced as far
as possible during the forty ninth
annual encampment of the Grand
Army of the Republic, which will be
held in Washington, September ~
October 8, next, according to the an
nouncement made here today.
Ut will be the fiftietn anniversary
of the Grand Review Thousands Of
the same veterans who marched i'll
that review a half century ago uni
formed in the Union blue, will again
keep step to martial music down
PENNSYLVANIA avenue, and pass in
parade before President Wilson and
members of his cabinet 1t will be
the last time the veterans will march
in Washington and the last time
that hundreds of them will ever
again attend an encampment, as the
aged men are fast passing away
The Grand Army, which survived
four years of campaigns and never
surrendered, viii soon have to lower
its standards, defeated 'by time, the
only enemy able to Vanquish the
veterans. Because of the increasing
death rate and the feehleness of the
survivors of the great war ii is prom
able that the Grand Army VIII never
again hold great encampment after
the Washington event AS this gath
ering is the last in which many of
them will participate, and as the
anniversary of the Grand Review is Of
such historic significance to them
and the country, they will make great
efforts to be in Washington in Sep
tember. The encampment will
therefore be the largest and most
Successful ever held by the organi-
zation
Washington is making elaborate
preparations to receive the veterans,
and the nations capital will be en-
fete during the week that the fam
Gus soldiers are within her gates.
Government officials and the peo-
pie of the capital are unit in ex-
tending invitations. through the press
of the country. to. the nation to visit
Washington during G. A. X. week.
Plans are being perfected to make
the encampment and the Grand Re-
view an event of national Importance
An elaborate program of enter
tainment for the veterans and citiz-
ems who visit the capital at that
time is being prepared The War
and the Navy Depart
ment are cooperating in the pro-
gram.
The former has arranged for eX
hibition drills of U. IS. troops, cav
airy, artillery, and infantry at Fort
Myer which is a suburb OF Washing
ton. Some of the best soldiers in the
Army are stationed at Fort Myer, I
the cavalry, which num-
lers among the enlisted men many I
If the greatest riders in the world. Il
rack batteries of light artillery are !,
llso stationed at Fort Myer. Aero
,lane exhibitions are to be given by Il
he signal corps. The Wright broth
RS demonstrated in public the first
eroplane at Fort Myer.
The Navy Department will have all
leet OF torpedohoat destroyers. sub |
aarines, gunboats, and cruiser de-
aehed from the Atlantic fleet and
ent up the Potomac river to Wash
ngton, where the ships will remain
uring the enoampment. A big fea-
ure will be camp fires, at which will
e held reunions of the various corps
{ the Union armies.
Just below Washington, on the Po-
,mac. is located Indian Head prov
lg ground, where big guns for the
avy or Notifications are tested be-
re being placed on battleships or I
our coast defenses. The veterans
Id visitors will have an opportunity !