Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1915-07-21
FINAL REVIEW or
c, 4. R. IN FALL
gor s0th Time Old Soldiers Of the Civil
war win Parade as They Did
In 1865.
ASS BEFORE PRESIDENT WILSON
Closing Pageant WIN YiYidIy Recall
the First March Down Penn
syIyania Avenue.


Especial Correspondence Of The Argus)
washington, q. c., July ia pat
riotic demonstration that is dividing
attention with the great war now rag
ing in the old world. is the grand re-
view and the 4sth annual encampment
Of the Grand Army Of the Republic, to
be held ia Washington, .. c., from
Sept q 70 Oct. 8, inclusive. The oc-
caslon will mark the final public pa
rsfe of the venerable veterans Of the
civil war. and will be in fact their last
grand review. In order that il may
bear The proper relation to the first
grand review Ii 1865. Colonel John Me-
Eiroy says that only members Of the
G. :. r. viii be permitted to take part
In tho pathetic pageant.
Fifty years ago the victorious union
armies. fresh from the battlefelds of
the civil war and the surrender at
Apbomattox. marched down Pennsyl-
yania avenue in Washington.
1t was a grand review Of the war
SCARED legions of Grant and Sherman
and Meade and Sheridan. and the other
famous commanders, President John
son and General Grant were in the re-
viewing stand as the veterans swung
proudly past to the exulting music of
their bands, while the battle flags that
had flown on a hundred bloody fields
waver over the host.
Thousands Again In Line.
The occasion will be the 50th ami
gersary OF the grand review. Thou
sands Of the same veterans who march
ed in the review of a half century ago.
uniformed in the union blue, will again
keep step TO martial music down Penn
sylvauia avenue, and pass in parade
before President Wilson and members
OF his cabinet, Because of the increas-
ing death rate and the feebleness of the
survivors Of the great war. it is prob
able that the grand army will never
again hold a great encampment after
the Washington event. As this gather
ing IS the last in which many Of them
viii participate, and as the anDivers-
airy of the grand review is of such his
toric significance to them and the
country. they will make great efforts
to be in Washington in September. The
encampment will therefore he the
largest and most successful ever held
by rbe organization.
Washington is making elaborate
preparations to receive the veterans,
and the nations capital will be en-
fete during the week that the famous
soldiers are within her gates.
An elaborate program Of entertain
ment for all veterans and citizens who
visit the capital at that time is being
prepared. The war department and
the navy department are cooperating
in the program.
The former has arranged for ex-
hibition drills OF United States troops,
cavalry, artillery and infantry, at Fort
Myer, which is a suburb of Washing
ton. Some of the best soldiers in the
army are stationed at Fort Myer. par
ticularly the cavalry, which numbers
among the enlisted men many Of the
greatest riders in the world. Crack
batteries Of light artillery are also
stationed at Fort Myer Aeroplaue
exhibitions are to be given by the Sig
nal corps. The Wright brothers dem
onsuated in public the first aeropIane
at Fort Myer
Fleet on Potomac
The navy department will have a
feet Of Jorpedoboat desroyers, sub
marines, gunboats, and a cruiser de-
tached from the Atlantic feet and sent
up the Potomac river to Washington,
where the ships viii remain during the
encampment. a big feature will be
campfres, at which viii be held reun-
Ions OF the various corps.
Just below Washington. on the Po-
tonlac, is located Iidian Head proving
ground, where big guns for the navy
or forttdcations are tested before being
placed on battleships or IN our coast
defelses. The veterans and visitors
VIII have an opportunity to see the
operations at Indian Head, as well as
scores Of other places of interest in or
around Washington.
During encampment week opportun-
~ VIII be Afforded the veterans to re-
visit Bull Run. Antietam, Appomattox,