The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1915-09-27
49TH annual REUNION G. A. RS.
Opens TODAY At WASHINGTON

gress. Besides the veterans in line
there will be Sons of Veterans. va
rious citizens military organizations,
troops of the regular army, marine
corps and sailors from the fleet.
The parade, it is estimated, will
require about three hours in pass
ing. Gen. Miles, as honorary grand
Marshall of the parade, will have
army and navy object as his aides.
Col. Holsey, chief of staff to the
Commander-in Chief of the G. A. R.,
will be the active marshall. As
special guard to Comma nder-in Chief
Palmer will be the U. s. Grant Post
of Brooklyn. N. Y. Veterans will
march in their respective Grand
Army departments. the line being
headed by the Department of Illinois
which was the first to be organized
after the war.
On Thursday and Friday business
meetings of the encampment, with
sessions Of allied organizations will
be held. After the election of grand
officers Friday the veterans will pro-
ceed to Arlington National Cemetery
where President Wilson will lay the
cornerstone of O. nav national
a y,ry nj hoo frn
be a public reception in the Capitol
Thursday evening under the auspices
of the Women's Relief Corps. This
organization, cooperating with the
women of the G. A. r. will plant two
trees, one on each side of the boule-
ward leading to the Lincoln Memoir
ial in Potomac Park. The first
spadefull of earth in planting the
first tree will be turned by Com
mander-in-Chief David j. Palmer,
while Mrs. Sarah K. Fulton, Presi-
dent of the Womens Relief Corps,
will have that honor in planting the
second tree.
One of the events for today will
be the wig-wagging of a MESSAGE of
greeting and good will to visiting
veterans from President Wilson. The
message will be sienalled by men ia
miliar with the old Myer code which
was sent from station to station
about Washington by survivors Of
the signal corps of fifty years ago.
Signalling features of the en-
campment will continue throughout
the week under charge of Lieut..
George Carr Round, president of the
United States Veterans Signal Corps
Association. The main station Of
the veteran signal corps Will be on
the heights of Georgetown in the ex-
IRENE western section of Washing
ton and upon the spot where the
government had its Signal Instruc-
tion Camps during the war. Mt.
Tabor Methodist church which
stands there will be the head
quarters. From that point welcomes
will be wig -wagged and messages OF
peace and good will to the world are
to be sent. other stations are estah-
lished at Fort Stevens, Fort De
Rnssy: the National Soldiers Home.
Fort Richardson, and the Dome of
the Capitol.
Secretary Garrison and Secretary
Daniels have co-operated with the
to entertain the veterans.
Regular troops from Fort Myers are
to give daily drill exhibitions on the
Washington Monument Ground
while submarines. torpedo boats and
other small naval craft unknown to
civil war times are to be on exhihi-
tion in Washington harbor in the
Potomac.
Mingling in the throngs of wearers
of the blue who have reached here
are wearers of the Confederate Gray
who were especially invited to at
tend the encampment. The invita-
tions we're extended as a result OF
the union of the Blue and the Gray
at Gettysburg two years ago.