Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-08-27
PROGRAM ADOPTED
|F0R NATIONAL MEET
Veterans of Foreign Wars
| Plan for Encampment to
Be Held Here.

| Following a meeting of the central
committee of the Veterans of Foreign
Wars last night. in conjunction with
! the encampment committee and the
Ladies' Auxiliary committee, the final
draft of the program of the national
encampment of the order, to be held
iSeptember 1915 was approved. The
draft was sent to the printer today.
| Arrangements have been made for
| representatives of local posts of the
veterans. committees from the aux
! iIiarieS and Boy Scouts to meet incom-
| ing delegates at the Union station
September II. II and 10 and conduct
the visitors to their hotels.
| Reservations for Delegations.
| The entire Ebbitt Hotel has been
reserved for the Pennsylvania dele
cation. The Maryland delegation will
| be placed at the Harrington. hum
dred individual requests for reserva-
| tons have been received for the
! Washington and the Willard. These
requests for reservations are coming
| in so fast that the committee in
| charge of taking care of them is about
three days behind in it's work.
! The committee on parade, which will
be. held the afternoon and evening of
Tuesday. the 18th. reports that dele
| cations with the colors and guards OF
honor in full regalia for each of the
| foreign embassies will march i'll the
parade as escorts.
| Hotels and rooming houses are re-
! spending to the call for quarters for
| delegates and numerous letters have
| been received at headquarters of the
central committee of the Veterans OF
| Foreign Wars. at 31S Metropolitan
Bank building. offering accommoda-
tions for small parties and groups for
| the week.
Local Headquarters at the Ebbitt
| The local headquarters. beginning
September 10. will be established at
| the Ebbitt Hotel. The national head
| TENDER IS in the Willard.
| Mrs. Marie NJ. Forrest conferred last
| evening with the committee from the
| local posts and the community cen
| tiers to complete plans for the tab
leaux representing various instances
! in connection with the A. E. F. and with
other foreign wars. Capt. Edwin 5.
| Bethlehem, jr., Equity Post, has been
elected vice chairman of the state CEN
; trad committee.
! Favor to Federal Employees.
| An executive order has been issued
granting leave to all federal employees
who are members of the Veterans Of
, Foreign Wars to attend this encamp-
ment. 1t is expected that between
eight and fifteen thousand delegates.
exclusive of their families, will arrive
! in Washington for this convention.
Maneuvers at Camp Meade will be re-
productions Of complete division in
tact, including tanks, airplanes. ma
chine guns artillery and support
| troops in action. 1t will be a replica
of the taking of Chateau Thierry.
| This phase of the encampment, which
will occur September II. is being
handled entirely by the War Depart
ment and troops are rehearsing now
| for the affair.
! The War Department has issued an
! invitation to DR.. Simon of the local
board OF education to arrange for the
attendance Of school children at this
time. so that they may get a definite
idea of instances of American history.