davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1915-09-27

address welcomed the veterans to
Washington, referring to the fact that
in a sense the G. A. r. and the associa-
tion>are twins. both having been born"
in 1865. In his remarks Mr.. Moves
paid high tribute to Capt. Matthew
Gault Emery, saying that Camp Emery,
as it's name implies, is reminder in
memorium of the strong character and
public services of Mr.. Emery and OF
the civic loyalty OF his repressntative
descendants.
Col. John McElroy, acting command
er, Department Of the Potomac. fol-
lowed Mr.. Moves. eliciting a round Of
applause with the declaration that at
no former national encampment had
the G. n. r. been given such a COM
modious and convenient site for its
annual gathering.
Speaks for Wives and Mothers
Mrs. William L. Andrews, speaking
in behalf of the women who have
| aided in perfecting arrangements for
| the encampment, asked that a measure
! OF the appreciation extended to tie
services of Capt. Emery be given to
his Wife and to the loyal women of
Washington Of 1861. Mrs Andrews s,
who is chairman of the women's COM
mfttee. spoke of the inspiration given
by the wives and the mothers of such
men as Capt. Emery, and asked that,
while honoring to the full the works
of those men. the women, their help
| mates. supporters and advisers, be not
denied their need of recognition.
/ Simon Wolf closed the speaking with
! an eloquent tribute to Capt. Emery and
| to the other loyal men Of Washington,
who. without pay, without even rations
OF uniforms, banded themselves into n
body of minutemen for the defense of
the capital.
The exercises concluded with the
| singing of two stanZas of America"
by the audience.
Heirs of Capt. Emery represented at
the exercises were Mrs. Clara X.
| Henkle. nee Emery, widow of Gen. S.
S. Henkle: Mrs. Juliet H. Cox, nee
! Emery; Mrs. Mary A. Hannay. nee
| Emery; Mrs. Helen Emery Shaw, wild
ow of NJ. G. Emery. jr.; Emery Cox,
| Theodore s. Cox. Miss Ruth. Emery
| Laird and Miss Hazel Van Zandt Cox.
Evening star., 1915-09-27
only Two Founders Surviving.

the Grand Army isn't growing,
thats tcue. and there are only Maj.
y, ood and myself left of the founders,
Evening star., 1915-09-27
MT. VERNON OPEN LONGER.
Two Hours Added to Visiting Time
to Accommodate Crowds.

During this week. commencing with
today, two hours will be added to the
visiting time at Mount Vernon. in order
to give the visitors to the city during
the Grand Army encampment an oppor-
tunity to make a pilgrimage to the
home and tomb of the Father of His
Country. Usually at this season of the
year Mount Vernon is opened to Wis
istors at II am. and is closed at pm.
This week the grounds will be opened
st 10 am. and will remain open until
pm. The electric line TO Mount YER
non will run special trains to carry the
throngs expected to make the trip by
that route, and the steamer Manchester
also will run on special schedule to
accommodate the crowds expected to
go to Mount Vernon by the water
route. Thirteen years ago. when the
last Grand Army encampment was held
in Washington, more than 10000 per-
sons are said 10 have visited Mount
Vernon.
Evening star., 1915-09-27
LADIES Of THE c. A. R.
|. ARE WELL REPRESENTED
Mrs. Jameson, National President
and Active Worker, Has Head
quarters at the Willard.

Mrs. Mary L. Jameson, national pres
ident of the Ladies of the Grand Army
of the Republic arrived yesterday from
her home in Marine. Mich. and estab-
lished headquarters at the willard. The
organization is composed exclusively of
woman relatives of G. A. r. veterans.
Mrs. Jameson is the widow of Sergt.
Jameson of Troop NJ. 1st Connecticut
Cavalry. She also had two brothers III
the army in the civil war. one of whom
died in prison. She has been national
inspector of the L. q. \. r.. senior vice
president, Junior vice president and de-
partmen. president Of Michigan, to
which office she was reelected five
times. In all she has spent twenty-one
years in working for the G. A. X. Mrs
Jameson will be one OF the speakers at
the meeting tomorrow evening at Camp
Emery She will also speak at the
campfire there Friday evening.
Mrs. Nellie X. Mcmillan. national
treasurer of the Ladies of the Grand
Army of the Republic, is with Mrs
Jameson. She is from Leavenworth
Kan, and is the wife of veteran. Sc
we'll has she managed the finances OF
the organization that she has been
elected treasurer three times
DIR. Flora NJ. Davey. also with Mrs
Jameson, is a most successful physi-
clan in Minneapolis. DR.. Davey is past
| national president of the L. q. A. r.
having been elected at the meeting in
Buffalo.
New officers will be elected at the pres
ent encamp.nent. and speculation is rife
as to eligible candidates. The officers to
| be succeeded are: President. Mrs
Jameson : senior vice president, Mrs. Ethel
! Irish, Fond du Lac. Wis. junior vice
president Mrs. Hattie NJ. Warner. Kan
sas City, Mo-: national counselor. Mrs
| Edith II. Brown; treasurer, Mrs. Nellie
r. Mcmillan: chaplain. Mrs. Catharine A.
Hoyt, South Minneapolis. Mimi. patriotic
| instructor. Mrs. Sarah J. Ehrmann, Lacka-
wanna. \. Y; inspector. Mrs Annie NJ
| Michener. Pittsburgh. Pa. registrar. Mrs
Orpha u. Whitaker. Philadelphia; cor
responding secretary, Mrs. Hannah Hark-
ness, Columbus. Ohio: council of admin
| istrat ton, Mrs. Eva J. French, Monterey
Cal: Mrs. Nellie Camerford, Detroit
Mich Dr. Mary y. Martin. Seattle
! Wash Mrs. Nellie Underwood, press cor
| respondent, and Mrs. Mary +. Hazer. as
distant correspondent, both of Chicago.
Evening star., 1915-09-27
SURVIVING ORGANIZERS
ARRIVE IN WASHINGTON
Col. John M. Snyder and Maj. Rob.
ert Mann Woods Only Two Left
Who Helped to Form G. A. R..

i The only two survivors who helped to
organize the Grand Army are in Wash
ington for this jubilee celebration.
They are Col. John NJ. Snyder. COM
| mander of the Department of Illinois,
and Maj. Robert Mann Woods, past de-
partment commander.
Maj. Woods and Col. Snyder assisted
in writing the ritual of the Grand Army
organization. in making it's constitution
and bylaws, and later in spreading it
into other states.
| The delegation representing the De-
partment of Illinois by virtue of being
the parent Grand Army state is to have
the post of honor leading the parade
Wednesday.
When the Department of Illinois
heads the parade it viii be repeating
history, for in the grand review fifty
years ago the Illinois soldiers under
Gen. John a. Logan held the same po-
sition of honor. Gen. Logan was after
ward commanderin chief of the Grand
Army. He was one of it's organizers
Memorial day.
To Act as Escort.
L. S. Grant Post, No. IS. of Illinois
has been chosen by Col. Snyder as his
personal escort. This post is to be
headed by it's famous drum and fife
corps composed of civil war veterans.
Those who are on the staff of the de-
partment commander are: James J.
Healy, H. NJ. Pense, Henry Barnard, w.
J d. Broomhead. Il. G. Ingersoll. George
G; Barker. w. c. Shaw, S. NJ. Titus, A. A.
Frickes. Henry c. Young, w. II. King,
all of Post No. ). Chicago: David s.
Brown, Post 67. Peoria: Alfred d. Trox-
| ell. Post 90. Canton: J. l.. Lane, Post
10s. Macomb: $. L. Mitchell, Post 119,
Marshall: Isaac Skinner. Post Jas,
Bloomington: William Clark, Post 263
Homer: F. f. Rogers. Post 30s. Paw
Paw: G. w. Huntoon, Z. L. Jones and
W. II. Hall. all of Post 374, Waukegan;
T. A. Reynolds, Post 374, Libertyville
cago.
Headquarters of the Illinois Depart.
ment, at the New Ebbitt, room 105
was busy today registering the hun
one of the two special trains from that
state. One of the trains arrived thi:
morning. the other last evening.
| Come on Special Train.
| Col: Snyder and Lewis B. Ind. assist.
/ ant adjutant general and assistant
quartermaster general of the depart.
ment, who have charge of the head.
| quarters, arrived last evening. The
special train bringing them had sixteer
| coaches. and carried, in addition tt
! friends and families of the veterans
| $50 G. A. r. men. The delega tion prob
| ably will remain through Saturday.
Fifteen veterans, the Oldest eighty.
seven years. and the youngest more
! than seventy years. comprise the
| Ulysses s. Grant Post (Chicago, ILL.,
Fife and Drum Corps. which arrived al
| the Ebbitt last evening.
| One of the most interesting of the Hi.
! nois veterans is James r. Thacker, de
| partment bugler. He is an expert
| bugler and served in the Gath Illinois
Infantry during the war. He was mus.
| tered out IN 1865, having participated
In the grand review. Mr.. Thacker is
stopping at the Ebbitt.
Robert NJ. Campbell of Peoria, Ill.
| member of the council of administra
| ton of the Department of Illinois, is
| with the veterans from that state.
Evening star., 1915-09-27
RECALLS LEES SURRENDER.
J. H. Walker at Appomatox Court
House That Historic Day.

Recalling the day of the surrender
of Gen. Lee at Appomatox Court House,
J. IL. walker of 744 Hobart place north
west states:
II served with Gen Lees army all
through the siege of Petersburg and
was present at Appomatox Court
House. the 9th day of April. 1865, and
stood within twenty feet of Gen. Lee
and heard him speak those last touch
ing words: Men, we have fought
through the war together. I have done
the best / could for you. My heart is
too full to say more
Instead of there being 5000 gray
clad veterans there that day, we had
10000.
II wish TO say that Gen. Grant and
the brave men who followed him treat
ed us with the most generous consider
alton. / will also say that we were
not exactly living ON horse feed, al
though our food was rather scanty."
Evening star., 1915-09-27
DEVOTE THEIR SERMONS
TO PHASES OF REUNION
Many Pulpits of City Churches Are
Filled by Chaplains Who
Served in Civil War.

Throughout the city yesterday the
pastors of the churches devoted their
sermons to phases of interest to or in
honor of the visiting Grand Army vet
Grams, many of the pulpits being filed
by chaplains who served in the civil
war.
Rev. John Compton Ball, at the Metro
politan Baptist Church last night. dwelt
upon new meaning of G. A. r., which,
to him, he said. stands for, more than
Grand Army of the Republic. 1t means
the grand army of the redeemed, he
said-redeemed from fire and sword
and fratracidal strife, glad to be saved,
and that peace has come to stay. For
the present occasion. he said, the letters
might stand for golden anniversary
review"
At the Metropolitan NJ. E. Church,
Chaplain Orville j. Nave, U. s. A., re-
tired, chaplain-in-chief of the G. A. R.,
and president of the Association for
the Promotion of the Moral Welfare of
Soldiers and Sailors. occupied the pull
pit in the morning and pleaded for in
men in the service.
Chaplain Nave preached in the even
ing at the Foundry NJ. E. Church. 18th
and Church streets northwest
At the Grace Reformed Church, in the
evening, Rev. Henry Ranck had for his
text "U. S. Grant, Gentleman"
Special Services at Mount Tabor.
Special services were held in the
morning at Mount Tabor NJ. E. Church
for the United States Veteran Signal
Corps Association, the speakers includ-
ing Lieut.. George Carr Round of Man
assas, Va: George L. Thompson of New
York, Rev. John B. Speer, chaplain of
the corps. with the pastor. Rev. ].
with which Gen. Sherman signaied
Hold the fort for ] am coming" at
Kenesaw mountain was unfurled and
the familiar hymn added to the i'm
Evening star., 1915-09-27
Seventh Formal Visit of the
Army Of the Union to
the Capital.
Continued from First page)

gazed loweringly toward the capital
and guns were trained this way from
the Virginia heights, the Pennsylvania
militia and the Minnesota volunteers
came to the support of the District
forces, hastily called into service Then
the 9Th Massachusetts. fresh-stained
with the first spilling of bad blood in
Baltimore, gathered deflantly here and
were quickly followed by the 7th New
| York. This was welcome to prompt
defense.
Second. in the summer of 81. when
the Union forces fell back from the
slaughter at Bull Run. fresh forces
came sweeping down from the north
broken command. They were welcomed
with sympathy, food, shelter and Cod
speed.
two divisions of the 6th Corps valiant
lly faced Gen Jubal Early's daring at
tempt to capture the seat OF govern
ment and the directing center of the
military campaign. They were given
welcome of gratitude for proved devo-
tion in the capitals darkest hour.
| Fourth-In Mays, "a and 25-1S65.
when the war was done. the tired, but
victorious army of war-warn boys
ltrudged into the capital, paraded here
lin the grand review and were mustered
out. That was a welcome of proud
parentege and benediction for loyal
service.
Grand Army Session.
Fifth-The Grand Army assembled
here in reunion in September. 1892
Itwenty-seyen years after grim Wis
Iaged war had smoothed its wrinkled
front" They came in memorable full
ness of numbers. The battlefields
ploughed by shells had grown fertile
and yielded a harvest of support for a
prospering. Union: That was a welcome
of rejoicing in the progress that the
faithful sons in war were making in
the pleasanter paths of peace
Sixth--Ten years later the Grand
Army again attracted its triumphal
march along historic Pennsylvania
iavenue. They were fewer IN numbers
then, but their ranks were being thin
ned by ''kind Providence" not in the
guise of Mars That was welcome of
| thanksgiving that time had dealt SO
vanishing resentments and hopes until
we meet again.
| Jubilee of Peace.
| Seventh-To jubilee of peace
| cemented last year at Manassas, when
old soldiers in gray and in blue greeted
| each other in the fervor of affection
on the very battlefield where they had
! contended in bitterness fifty years be-
| fore. They are gathered today in the
capital that has become truly the home
city, the common property and gather
ing place of all the people of the coun-
try, with every tinge of sectionalism
wiped out. This is the glorious well
come of real reunion: fitting spirit
for the last reunion that probably will
ever be held in the capital by the van
| ishing "Grand Army"
| 1t was the south that gave the United
States its Washington, the capital for
which great men of the southlands
planned. which was carved out of the
! states of Maryland and Virginia. 1t
| stands today soldiers memorial. the
| shrine at which all bitterness of fifty
years ago has been laid down.
Evening star., 1915-09-27
Camp Emery Formally Dedi'
Gated as Headquarters of
the G. A. R. Encampment.
Continued from First page.)

to the capital in it's time of stress. At
the close of his brief remarks Chair
man GUIDE officially turned the camp
over to the Grand Army Of the Repub-
lie for its use during the week of the
forty ninth national encampment.
Then, while the veterans and others
in the audience stood with barred heads
in the clear September sunshine, Miss
Ruth Emery Laird and Miss Hazel Van
Zandt Cox. descendants of Capt. Emery,
pulled the cord that bound the big
flag above the entrance about its staff
and the folds of the Stars and Stripes
f1oated free over the heads of the
throng.
Visiting Veterans Welcomed.
Theodore w. Noyes, president of the
Association of Oldest Inhabitants of
the District of Columbia, in short
Evening star., 1915-09-27
ONLY TWO SURVIVE
OF GAR. FOUNDERS
Col. John N. Snyder Talks of
Formation of the 0rgani-
zation in 1866.
BEGUN IN SPRINGFIELD
BY ILLINOIS SOLDIERS
Maj. B. F. Stephenson Elected as
First Department Commander
for That State.

Col. John NJ. Snyder. one of the two
surviving founders of the G. A. r.. who
comes here as commander of the De-
partment of Illinois. tells interestingly
of how this great organization of pa
triots, spread over the entire country.
was developed.
The Grand Army comprises forty six
different departments, each state con-
stituting a department, with the eXcep-
tion that the following states are COM
bined: Georgia and South Carolina.
Louisiana and Mississippi, Colorado and
Wyoming and California and Nevada.
The District of Columbia comprises one
department under the name of the De-
partment of the Potomac. There are
approximately 5000 posts in the United
States.
The commander-in-c chief of the Grand
Army is David J. Palmer of Des Moines,
Iowa. The encampment (the business
orSanization) is made up of the past
and present officers of the Grand Army
of the Republic. past and present de-
partmental officers and one delegate
for each 900 members of a department.
In all there will be between 1,5oO and
1,600 accredited delegates, but ii is
estimated that the voting strength will
be about 1.100 delegates The remain
ing thousands will be merely visitors to
the cncampnleQt
Evening star., 1915-09-27

war vessels anchored in the Potomac
during this week. DIR. Frank f. Gibson,
chairman of the entertainment commit
tee, has arranged for motor boat and
jitney service.
In order that there might be no
overcharge for persons going to the
water front through sections of the
Evening star., 1915-09-27

city not covered by street cars, DR..
Gibson arranged with the District Com
missioners for a special license to be
issued to jitney owners At the charge
of $3.50, which will be granted only
for the term of the encampment. and
is to he granted only when applied
for over the signature of DR.. Gibson
Evening star., 1915-09-27

Accused of being implicated in a
scheme whereby the Dupont Powder
Company and some of its employees
were swindled out of $4,000 by forged
meal tickets, p. C. Dearborn was ar
rested at Norfolk, Va, and taken to
Hopewell Va.
Evening star., 1915-09-27

Falling twenty feet to the ground
when a rope on p scaffold broke, How
ard Maxwell. forty. years old, house
painter. at Baltimore, sustained in
juries which resulted in his death later.
Evening star., 1915-09-27

preSsivenesS of the occasion. In the
afternoon members of the corps flashed
signals from Munson's hill. cisible at
the Capitol. at 3 o'clock. and from the
tower of the Fairfax Theological Sem
mary, where patriotic services were
held, and from the parapet of Fort
Richardson at 5 o'clock. transmitting
biblical quotations to the G. \. r. in
Washington. Mount Tabor Church
will serve dinner to sixty of the
corps at pm. tomorrow.
Col Joseph f. Ewell. commandant of
the Soldiers Home Bath. n. V. spoke
at the New York Avenue Presbyterian
Church in the morning on American
Ideals" Others who took part in the
service were Rev DR.. William Henry
Bates. the assistant pastor; Rev. George
lH. Robinson and Rev. David Wills.
former chaplain in United States Army.
The Lincoln pew" was appropriately
decorated.
Patriotic Services Held.
Rev. J. j. Muir spoke at the evening
services at the Temple Baptist Church
on National Unity" and Rev. Earle
Whitley, at the Vermont Avenue Chris
tian Church. on "Our Country. a Memo
ry and a Vision" while Rev. Charles G.
Butler spoke at the Columbia Heights
Lutheran Church in the morning on
"The Men Who Hazarded Their Lives .
Special patriotic services were con-
Quoted by Rev. Henry T. Cousins at
Anacostia Baptist Church, his text be-
ing Patriotism, Civil Liberty and
| Trust" Logan Post, G. A. r.. and a
number Of fyaternal orders were pres
| ent.
| At the Union NJ E. Church Rev. John
MacMurray paid tribute to the deeds
| OF the veterans of the civil war. and
dwelt upon the peace and unity
| wrought by time between Union and
Confederate veterans.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1915-08-05
Prehistoric Animal.

The American Museum of Natural
History, in New York city, has recent
ly acquired the skeleton of a new
dinosaur, which has been named Sau-
rolophus, 'the crested saurian" Mil
lions of years ago this creature, which
was about thirty-two feet long and fif
teen feet high, roamed the sands and
swan the marshes of the part of AL
berta that is now traversed by the Red
Deer river. 1t lived on grass and could
escape from the flesh-eating Alberto
saurus only by its rapid swimming.
Great numbers of these dinosaurs
lived in the prehistoric coastal
marshes; psychologists have found
the remains of several hundred speci-
mems washed out Of the bank of
single quarry on the Red Deer river.
Another set of bones found in the
same region is believed to belong to the
skeleton Of a still older species of d.
nosaur, possibly an ancestor of Sauro-
lophus
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1915-08-05
Started Frozen Meat Trade.

The report that the Australian gov
eminent is buying up the meat sup
plies to hold them in readiness for
imperial needs, is reminder that the
antipodean frozen meat trade, vast
as it now is, dates only from 1882,
when the New Zealand graziers tried
the experiment of exporting frozen
carcasses to England The Antipo.
deans, however, were not the first to
hit on the idea of supplying frozen
meat. In January, 1916, three Eski-
mos arrived at Harwich with a large
consignment of game, frozen and
packed in alright cases, for which
they found a ready sale at extraordi-
narily high prices.
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1915-08-05

A change of the national admin
istration will not help the situation
in the Boise valley. Land is al
ready SO high that the crops will
not pay the interest in that section
and why people should fall over
themselves to buy it we can not see.
Boise valley has had its day as far
as real estate investments are cen
cerned and people are buying an
will continue to buy in other parts
OF the state where land is cheaper
and prospects just as bright
The Richfield recorder. (Richfield, Idaho) 1909-1931, 1915-08-05
KEEP GOOD ROADS GOOD.

There is more difference of opin-
ion about the maintenance of good
roads than about their construction.
While it is true that indifference
has resulted in defeat of more than
one proposed good road bond issue,
the records show that there has
been little affirmative opposition.
The truth is that the people as a
whole want just as many good
roads as they can afford to build
and in most communities, especial
ly in the northwest, they could af-
ford more than they have.
But the question of maintenance
is also Of Importance. 1t is
waste of public funds to build good
roads and then fail to keep them
up. This has been painfully inn
pressed upon many of the older
states. Not only have they lost
vast sums of money through ne
glect of improved highways, but
they find a sentiment against fur
Their improvement because of this
neglect.
Pennsylvania is one of the states
that has had such an experience.
In order to protect the improved
highways already built and to en-
courage further construction it was
found necessary to devise a new
plan of maintenance, and it is now
to be done through a system of
daily patrol of all the highways of
the state.
At the outset two hundred men
will be employed and this number
will be largely increased, it is stat
ed. Although this constant patrol
of the roadways will cost between
fifty and sixty-fve dollars mile
per year, it is stated it will be con-
siderably cheaper than under the
present plan and far more effective.
Road building material will be
placed at intervals along the high
ways and the patrols will use it to