Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-29
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A meeting OF the Iowa delegates was
held yesterday in the state head
quarters, room 314, the Raleigh, when
the official badges were distributed.
The thousands of members of all the
patriotic orders attending the recep-
tons in the rotunda Of the Capitol this
tons.
In the rotunds arranged around the
sides on poles are thirty-six flags, five
by nine feet, and twelve flags ten by
twenty feet. They represent the forty
ter is a garrison flag, twenty by thir-
ty-sfx feet. These flags are arranged
SO as not to interfere with the illumi-
nation, which requires the use of 1905
lamps. This is the regular illumina-
Band will be stationed on. the east
portico during the reception. The
portico will be illuminated by sixty
lights of large candlepower.
installed on the grounds of the west
front to give a thorough illumination
of the dome. The lens of these are
thirty inches in diameter.
Gen. e. W. Whitaker Is to be the host
at a reception at 5 o'clock tomorrow
afternoon at the Raleigh Hotel to his
former comrades of the LIST Connecticut
Infantry, the list Connecticut Cavalry
and the I'd New York Cavalry.
Post 20 of waltham, Mass, is located
at Congress Hall with twenty-six mem
| bers. three of them the wellington
brothers. Six Wellington brothers en-
listed in the civil war and f1ve are still
| living.
Col Bryan W. Bates, the only member
Of the Grand Army of the Republic lv-
Washington to attend the forty-ninth ma
tional encampment During the war Col.
Bates served in New York regiment,
later serving with q regiment from H.
is the guest Of Capt. Albert H. Van Dusen,
chairman Of the LIST Army Corps commit
tee.
delphia, has established his headquarters
at the Hotel Cochran. 14th and K streets
northwest The post held its camp
fire in the hotel parlors at 8 40 O'Clock
last evening. The affair opened with
4 band concert and serenade, with Mrs.
John B. Evans as the principal soloist.
Charles s. Blodgett. department COM
mander Of the G. A R. in South Dakota,
has arrived with the delegation from that
state and established headquarters at the
Hotel Bellevue, corner 18th and I streets
northwest The delegation includes about
thirty members of the G. A r. and twenty
five Of the w. r. C. Mrs. Minerva Van
Ess Of Aberdeen is department president
Of this organization. and Mrs. Nevada
Hereford is secretary. Mr.. Blodgett comes
from Rapid City.
The Kansas department Headquarters
are at room 106, New Oxford Hotel
Corwin A. Meek is department COM
mander.
Mrs Helen Marian Aldrich of Law
renee, Kan, serving this year as ma
tionai vice president of the Sons of Vet
erans' Auxiliary, has been an untiring
worker in the order for the past five
years. and has done what she could in
spreading the gospel of patriotism
throughout the country.
A pistol, captured by L. Morgan Da.
Wis Of Alexandria, Va, from a fedora
soldier at the first battle OF Manassas,
July 81. 1861, bearing the inscription
Hubbard Smith, from friends" is Eeld
by Mr.. Davis awaiting a claimant.
Mr.. Davis gladly will turn over the
weapon to its owner. He believes 1t
may be the properly OF one OF the vet
Grams attending the Gran1 Army en-
campment.
Thousands of Grand Army visitors
| were entertained Monday for two hours
by a concert in the court of the pension
Office by the United States Marine Band.
finance committee today announced the
following contributions to the fund for
entertainment of the c. A. r.: Equitable
Cooperative Building Association, $50:
Ralph w. Lee. IS; Charles w. Butler. S.
Mount Vernon Cafe. SO; Cochran Hotel,