The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-06-13
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sWASHIreGToN. D. C.. June 1as---
If the high officials OF the Grand Army
los che Republic for the department OF
West Virginia agree win the sugges-
tfio1 OF the committee OF West Virginia
tSociery OF the Disrricoof Columbia,
which has IN charge plans Tor wei
coming and entertaining the old sol
isdfers, their families and friends VINO
will come here next September to
attend the semd-centennsal encamp-
ment Of the. Grand Army Of the Re
public, the West Virginia headQuar
tiers VIII be at the Powhattan hotel
one of the finest in the city. 1t is 1or
Gated at Seventeenth and the Avenue,
one block beyond the Write House
The West Virginia vets may rest as
sured that they need not be ashamed
to say. Il am stopping at the Pow
haitian" but rather proud of the fact,
for there S none better than the Pow
haitian IN Washington
The committee has secured remark
able concessions in the way OF rates
from Manager Owens, himself an old
West yrginian and for many years
and upsuntH few months ago, man
ager of the Raleigh Instead OF his
regular rates, or increased rates, he
wants his West Virginia folk to stop
at.his fine. big hotel so earnestly, that
he has offered rates that are surpris-
ing1y low, when the high character
of this hostelry is taken into consid-
Grafton ass24
It was at the Powhattan that the
big banquets of the West Virginia
Society are held and It is there thai
the society maintains its ofdc4a4 head
quarters. It will be there that the
entertainments for the West Virginia
visitors during the encampneas VIII
society will maintain its Information
bureau. There the visitor who may
waut to locate, West Virgiulans reste
dent in the capital and any oshers an
formation or assistance he nay re-
qmre, can get his needs attended to
cmeerfu1ly and speedily
The committe in charge has not
worked out its plans in des-i1 but Z
is hard at work Ex-Governor Gecrse
Wesley Atkinson is chairman Of the
committee There are number-a
Virginia CA r. men no TsreSidanS
here, who are members. The active
work is being done. by tl1s younger
men. however.with thesapp-oya1and
under the direction OF rae elders.
Charles Brooks Smith is sec etary OF
the committee and Col j. W Ilian1sDe
Grange. who has done more than any
other individual to make the STAGE So
csety here a great success. rs 1he as
sistant and IS devoting all the time
he can spare from his private inter
ests IN promoting the success CT the
plans to give the old soldiers from tie
state t-the time Of their IvsS during
their attendance on the en- cannpsnent
washington's most historic SPOTS
to be replaced. For more thaa 700
years the stone steps on the east front
of the capitol have staged many event
full and historic scenes There each
president has taken the oath of Office
and delivered his inaugural address;
there President Lincoln made his Fam
Gus second inaugural address; there
Coxey tried to make a speech there
which he did not get TO make there
until twenty years later, there auto
mobiles have sought to ascend for adj
vertisinG purposes. and various other
efforts have been made to stage,
stunts" including that Of the mo-
ton picture men when dancer
trIpped it lightly down the fight In
Grecian sarb, and there the sudra-
sists reviewed their parades- An
this, and the constant stream OF visit
ors Gor LEGISLATORS and those having
business IN the capitol seldom use
this entrance) have worn the Virginia
freestone or sandstone thin It Is
cracked IN spots and Is unsightly as
well as dangerous. The new steps
viii be either OF marble or granite,
and the work Is to be completed be-
fore winter sets IN