Evening star., 1915-09-25


added attraction to the entertainment
program next week during the encamp-
ment of the Grand Army. In the court
of the pension bureau, on G street, be-
tween 4th and 5th streets northwest,
which has been lavishly decorated in
welcome to old soldiers, the Marine
Band will give concert at } O'Clock
Monday afternoon. Commissioner
Saltzgaber today said that the public
is not barred from this concert, al
though it is to be given primarily for
the old soldiers and their friends, who
are here for the encampment, and have
had few opportunities to hear this
band.
Delaware probably will have the dls-
tinction of bringing the Oldest mem
Der of the G. A. r. to the current en-
campment Asst. Adjt. Gen. J. 5. Lit
zenberg of this department says that
he is going to bring comrade VINO Is
ninety-eight years old.
New York county will have bat
TALON all it's own in the parade, ac-
cording to reports received here: Ihe
members of the forty posts IN inns
county have organized themselves lnto
what they term 1.-The New York County
fteduuudI teiS Ni'i ~
lished at the New oxford Hotel
A band of thirty pieces Will accom-
pany the organization, and 1t is eX-
pected that fully 400 will be in the
line. Commander S. c. van Tassel OF
Farragut Naval Post, No. SIG, will be
grand marshal, with Col. Joseph B.
Lord of Robert Anderson Post as ad-
jutant general and chief of staff.
Rev. Charles Q. Brown, the famous
bugler and orator, has been invited pS
the Society of the Army of the Cumber-
land to deliver the ADDRESS at the
union of that society at Camp MAT
thew G. Emery, and has accepted HIS
theme will be Maj. Gen. George IL.
Thomas and the Army of the Cumbef-
land" Comrade Brown Will come as
near doing this theme justice as any
man in the country, for. as an active
minded, observant boy. he really lived
the history of the Army of the Cumber-
land in the years that he spent IN the
ranks of the Sd Ohio Cavalry.
Men who have been in the civil war
and who have gone through the trying
pioneer days of the west with the ac-
companying Indian fights and pad
mem rows will come to the Grand
Army encampment from Montana.
There will be Capt. j. b. Cathn, VINO
in command of the civilian soldiers,
mostly all veterans of '61-'65, came to
the rescue of Gen. Gibbons, who was
nenned in by the Nez Perce Indians at
the Big Hole battle. 1877; Comrade
Lockwood, who bears the marks OF IN
dian battles: Comrade Charles Bielen-
burg cattle king of Deer Lodge, who
carried the message from Big Hole TO
Butte a distance of seventy mics,
which brought reinforcements 10 Gen.
gibbons: Thomas McGirl, whose ranch
ioins the Custer battlefield; Depart
nlar lanes GOSS and Brig.
Cen. l.. S. Wilson of the goth Corps. one
of the first to enter the city OF SaVan-
nah. December, 1864, and J. NJ. Linuly
of Bozeman.
Mrs. Margaret Carey Wright. mem
her of the Woman's Relief Corps for
many wears and a member of the press
committee, is coming from the Pacific
coast to the national convention.
Mrs Wright is also an officer OF the
Dauehters of Veterans organization
and is "a member of the Southern Cali
fornia Press Association. She is not
only a devoted worker for the veterans S
and a loyal teacher of patriotism, but
is a writer and traveller of note. She
is a member of the National Assoela :
tion of Patriotic Instructors and vice
president of the American Woman S
Press Association, both of which Will
hold meetings at the same time as the
encampment of the q. A. X.
Mrs. Mabel Rawson Hirons. acting
president of the Clara Barton Memo
rial Association. will have headquarters
during the Grand Army encampment al
1415 F street, in the Lineal Society OF
the Spanish War restroom. She will
be glad to see the oxford Mass, dele
CATION and all others interested in hon
oring the memory of Clara Barton.
When Lieut.. George Carr Round
president of the Veteran Signal Corps
Association, signals the start of the
Grand Army parade from the dome OF
the Capitol Wednesday morning he
will use an historic war relic which
he has just received from Thomas j
Stewart, adjutant general of Penpsyl-
vania. 1t is known as the kenesaw
flag. This flag was used in sending q
message from Gen. Sherman to one~oi
his division commanders from Kenesaw W
mountain to Allatoona pass, eighteen
miles away, October 5, 1864, over the
head of Hoods army. The MESA ge
was: Hold the fort. I am coming
1t is the theme of a popular hymn.
Isaac Cans. chairman of the decora-
tions committee. today issued an ap-
peal to all merchants on both sides
of the Avenue and on the side streets s