Evening star., 1936-09-18
Advance Guard of 900 Union
Army Soldiers to Reach
City.
GRAND REVIEW OF 1886
TO Be HELD WEDNESDAY
10th National Encampment to
Begin Sunday With Memorial
Services.

down Pennsylvania avenue before
President johnson In two days o
martial pageantry unrivaled sine
that day, 900 veterans of the Civi
War, many Of whom marched in tn,
grand review, will gather here begin
ming tomorrow for the SEVENTEEN ma
tional encampment Of the Crane
Army of the Republic.
The outstanding feature Of thei
reunion will be the grand review o
1896, to be held next Wednesday
morning. Many of the 900 veterans
their average age Is 90 years-will b.
on foot when the column. reinforced
by units of the Regular Army, Nav!
and Marine Corps and patriotic ant
veteran organizations. moves from
Twelfth street and Pennsylvania ave
nue. along the Avenue to a reviewin.
stand in front of the White House
1t is hoped President Roosevelt viii
be there to make the review, as Presi.
dent johnson was in 1865. The Dis.
trict public schools will be CLOSED
Wednesday so that students may wit.
ness what may be the final review fol
many of the surviving veterans Of the
Civil War.
The encampment is to begin Sun.
day with memorial services in many
OF the local churches. There will be
special patriotic services at IL am. In
Luther Place Memorial Church
Foundry Methodist Church and Cal.
vary Baptist Church. Sunday at 3:45
pm. there will be a special outdoor
service at National Cathedral. The
annual memorial services of the
Grand Army of the Republic will be
held at pm. Sunday in the Gov.
eminent Auditorium.
Woodring to Give Address.
The address at the memorial serv.
ices will be delivered by Acting Sec
retary of War Woodring. George W.
Offutt, general chairman of The
Citizens Committee, in charge of the
reunion, will preside. The inyoca-
tion will be pronounced by Rev. Joseph
E. Gedra and the benediction BY Rev
Howard E. Snyder.
Business sessions Of the encamp-
ment will begin Monday morning al
the Mayflower Hotel, headquarters for
the convention, with a number of COM
mittee meetings and an afternoon ses-
sion of the National Council of Admin
istration. At 8 pm. Monday there
will be a semi official meeting Of the
national encampment in Constitution
Hall, at which greetings are expected
to be received from President Roose-
welt.
Tuesday morning will be given over
to committee meetings. In the after
noon there will be a bus trip to
Mount Vernon and Arlington Ma
tional Cemetery for the delegates.
There will be fathers and daugh-
ters' banquet" at the Washington Ho-
tel Tuesday evening and a reception
in honor of Commander in Chief Clay
Nelson and his staff at $50 pm. in
the Mayfower Hotel.
The grand review. starting at 10
o'clock Wednesday morning, will be
followed that afternoon by the first
business session of the full encamp-
ment, at the Mayflower Hotel.
Wednesday night there will be q
camp fire" assembly in the Govern
ment auditorium. Further business
will be transacted Thursday morning.
Women's Group to Meet.
Coincidental with the encampment
of the G. A. r. there will be ma
tional conventions Of the Woman's
Relief Corps, the Ladies of the Grand
Army of the Republic, the Daughters
of Union Veterans of the Civil War
Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil
War and the Auxiliary to Sons of
Union Veterans of the Civil War.
The Woman's Relief Corps will
establish headquarters and hold its
meetings in the Mayfiower Hotel,
opening its program with meetings
dIlu q Udll4QCt oCAludy.
The Ladies of the G. A. R. will have
their headquarters and hold meetings
in the Washington Hotel. A pagean.
at the Willard Hotel Tuesday night
will be feature Of the program.
The convention of the Daughters
Of Union Veterans will begin Saturday
morning with a board of directors
at national headquarters, 1926
Eighteenth street. Sunday afternoon
at O'Clock there will be dedicated al
Fort Stevens a national memorial to
the Grand Army of the Republic.
Will Present Memorials.
The Sons of Union Veterans will
have headquarters at the Willard Ho-
tel. Monday morning the organiza-
tion will present a memorial bench at
the Georgetown branch of the Public
and on Wednesday will pre-
sent a memorial tablet to the city of
Washington at the Ford Theater Mu-
scum. Its business session will con-
tinue through Thursday.
The Auxiliary to the Sons, with
headquarters at the Willard, will par
ticipate with the Sons in the me-
mortal presentation ceremonies and
will conduct business sessions during
the week.
Under the leadership of Mrs. Karl
McElroy, chairman Of the Women's
Committee working in cooperation
with the District Commissioners Citi-
zens' Committee. arrangements have
been made for bus transportation to
Mount Vernon, Fort
Skyline Drive, nearby Civil
War battlef1elds and points Of inter-
est in Washington.
Mrs. McElroy announced plans have
been made for delegates luncheons"
on Tuesday and Wednesday for the
woman delegates to the various aux
Iliary organizations. Registrations
for this luncheon should Be made at
the Mayfiower, willard, Washington
or Raleigh Hotels, she said.