West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1915-08-26
PRESIDENT WILSON AND HIS
CABINET TO REv|EWvETERANS
Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniver-
Sary OF the Grand Review to DC
Held in City of Washington Next
Month-Gives Promise of Being
Gala Affair

| WASHINGTON. ID. C., Aug. Ss.-
President Wilson and members al his
cabinet will review the $4,000 @. IA. II.
veterans who will march down his
toric Pennsylvania avenue next SEN
? tcmhcr when the nftieth Anniversary
ot the Grand Review is held I'm the Ma
tional Capital.
: Tho President was i'm his Office I'm
the White ouso one sultry afternoon
| last July when the names of seyeral
prominent Neutrality-suspicious. were an
nounced. When the visitors were
| seated I'm the Presidents Office. tbev
explained they were representatives OF
the citizens committee OF Washington.
formed TO arrange the entertainment
OF the forty-ninth encampment and the
httieth anniversary OF the grand re-
Wow OF the q. A. II. at the national
capital the week beginning September
~ The spokesman told the President
that his help was needed because Il
might be the last great gathering OF
the veterans who saved the nation I'm
the days of 81.
President Wilson's answer waa
bricf' but 1t was decidedly to the point.
lio told the committee he was ready
To give his full cooperation and agreed
to review the veterans.
Acting under orders from Secretary
OF War Garrison and Major General
Wood, United States regulars will give
exhibition drills during the week OF the
encampment at Fort Myer. Va. short
distance from the national capital. on
the grounds adjacent. A special feat
ure of these drills will be exhibitions
by the U. $. medical corps.
feature of the military demon
Btrations during the week will be n
wig-wag signal contest between ex-
perts OF the signal corps of the Civil
war and of the u. S. army. Lieutenant
George G. Round. who flashed the last
signals before the fall OF Richmond.
VIII wig-wag n message from the dome
of the capitol to n comrade statIoned
on the roof OF the treasury building.
mile distant. The old method OF
transmitting signals by torches will
also be shown by the veterans. while
the up-to-dato methods of field tele-
phony and wireless telegraphy will be
demonstrated by experts OF the regu-
lar army. Many of the old. forts which
surrounded Washington I'm the days of
the civil war have been put I'm readi-
ness for the signal contests and NJ
night the city will be girded by the
flashes of the signal torches I'm the
hands OF the men who defended the
capital years ago
Secretary Daniels has placed the
Marine band at the disposal OF the
veterans for the week and a series OF
concerts will be given. The full band
OF 90 pieces Will also participate I'm
the grand review, Wednesday. SEN
tember 20, when $4,000 men will be I'm
line. The secretary OF the navy has
also promised the Washington COM
mittee that one vessel OF each tyne I'm
the United States navy that can navI-
gate the Potomac river. will be in
washington harbor and will be open
Tor inspection by members OF the @.
A. X. and visitors during the encamp-
ment. The fleet will include the light
er cruisers, torpedo boats, submarines,
while one OF the most modern moni-
tors will be moored beside a vessel OF
the same type Of ironclads of the civil
war.
In addition TO the war ships two
naval areoplanes and two hydroplancs
Will be brought TO Waahingtin from
tho aviation base at Pensacola. Fla,
and exhibition flights will be given Iy
experts Of the navy