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avenues of the residence portion and
Iroin top to dome of the big of5ce build
ings in all manner of designs could be
seen the national colors
-The train bearing Commander-in-Chief
Walker and his staff did not arrive until
11 oclock Monday night The regular
program however was gone through
with So enraptured was the General
with the scene and the animated colors of
the decorations that he for the moment
forgot that he was in the midst of a crowd
of curious hundreds and did not heed the
words of Capt McCarthy commander of
jthe department of Minnesota who stood
at the entrance to the Hotel Jiyan to es
cort him inside Mrs John A Logan
without whom no encampment has seemed
complete to the old veterans was there
and witnessed the parades and took part
in all the encampment receptions As they
idolized her warrior husband so also the
old soldiers admire her and her greeting
was a warm one
Formal Protrram
The formal program of the encampment
fwas begun Monday evening at 830 when
la reception was given at Hotel Ryan to
the Commander-in-Chief and Mrs Walk
er by the citizens committee and citiz ns
of St Paul The hotel was gayly dec
orated for the occasion and several thou-
VETERANS ARRIVING IN ST PAUL
sand persons shook the hand of the Com
mander At the same hour at the State
Capitol there was a reception to the Grand
Army the Womens Relief Corps and
Sons and Daughters of Veterans Mrs
Marie Hazenwinkle president of the Min
nesota Womens Relief Corps was in
charge of this reception It continued
until 12 oclock and it is estimated that
at least 30000 veterans passed through
5the capitol during the evening The scene
about the womens headquarters at the
iKittson mansion was animated
The principal spectacle of Tuesday was
he parade of the naval veterans and the
ex prisoners of war escorted by the Third
United States Infantry which was re
rviewed from the Ryan Hotel by
Walker Tuesday after
jnoon took place the reunion of Minnesota
troops at the State Capitol at 1 oclock
jand at Fort Snelling where they were
entertained by Col Page commandant
Tuesday evening the women of the citi
n committee held an open air reception
rimit Park and Summit avenue On
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the main platform at Summit Park were
stationed Gen Walker and his staff and
a few of the distinguished guests
Wednesday at 10 oclock the grand
parade of the Grand Army of the Republic
HEADQUARTERS WOMANS G A R COM
MITTEES
started and this event was looked forward
to with great expectation by all The
parade was under command of Commander-in-Chief
Walker and it is estimated
that there were 30000 veterans in line
The official rder of march was as fol
lows
First Division Veteran Signal Corps
Departments of Illinois Wisconsin
and Pennsylvania
Second Division Departments of Ohio
and New York
Third Division Departments of Connecti
cut Massachusetts New Jersey Cali
fornia Maine Rhode Island New
Hampshire Vermont Potomac
Virginia North Carolina
Fourth Division Departments of Mary
land Nebraska Michigan Iowa
and Indiana
Fifth Division Departments of Colorado
Wyoming Kansas Delaware Mis
souri and Oregon
Sixth Division Departments of Ken
tucky West Virginia South Dakota
Washington Alaska Arkansas
New Mexico Utah Tennessee
Seventh Division Departments of Louis
iana Mississippi Florida Montana
Texas Idaho Arizona Ueorgia
Alabama North Dakota Okla
homa Indian Territory
Eighth Division Department of Minne
sota
The reviewing stand was at Smith Park
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ADMIRAL RICHARD WORSAM MEADE
When the Commander-in-Chief reached
the stand a salute of seventeen guns was
fired and the national colors were dis
played on the flagstaff The colors car
ried by departments and posts saluted the
reviewing officer
The lady visitors to the encampment
were handsomely entertained by the fair
sex of St Paul and elaborate arrange
ments had been made with this end in
view One of the unique features was
a ladies drive which took place Thursday
morning and was one of the novelties of
the reunion Three hundred carriages
were used for the occasion and they made
a procession nearly two miles long the
pageant being a very picturesque spec
tacle
Story of the Order
Maj B F Stephenson was the founder
of the Grand Army of the Republic and
Decatur 111 was the place of the first
meeting The idea originated further
JOHN C LINEHAN
back than that however During Sher
mans expedition to Meridian in February
1864 Stephenson and Chaplain W J
Rutledge were tentmates The former
then proposed the formation when all the
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boys were mustered out of such an organ
ization as the Grand Army has grown to
be The two talked it over and planned
a good deal during the war and did not
forget nor stop their planning when the
war had closed Considerable correspond
ence passed between Stephenson and Rut
ledge and they met in Springfield in
March I860 to compile a ritual for the
proposed order The first post was organ
ized in Decatur in the following month
April 6 1S6G by Stephenson The first
State convention was held in Springfield
July 12 of the same year As commander-in-chief
Dr Stephenson issued a gen
eral order on Oct 31 calling for the first
national convention of the Grand Army
of the Republic The convention met at
Indianapolis Nov 20 and representatives
were present from Illinois Missouri Kan
sas Wisconsin New York Pennsylvania
Ohio Iowa Kentucky Indiana and the
District of Columbia The convention
added the words sailors to the Spring
field constitution All soldiers and sailors
of the United States army navy or marine
corps who served between April 12 1861
and April 9 18G5 and were honorably
discharged and members of such State
regiments as were called into active ser-
GEN J A GIVEN
vice were made eligible to membership
It was also provided that no person who
had ever borne arms against the United
States should be eligible
Politics was responsible for the first set
back received by the G A R In 1S66
the disputes between President Johnson
and the majority in Congress were the
means of greatly hindering the growth of
the body Political disputes also caused
such great disorder in the post rooms that
many members withdrew The army lead
ers realized the injury that was done and
took steps to counteract it One of these
steps was heradditiontothe declaration
of principles that this association does
not design to make nominations for office
or to use its influence as a secret organiza
tion for partisan purposes During the
next year political discussions were
barred from its meetings
Another drawback was the grade sys
tem of membership which was tried for
two years There were three grades dur
ing that time those of the recruit the
soldier and the veteran The re
cruits had no voice and could not have
until two months membership when they
could become soldiers who transacted the
business After six months in the second
grade the soldiers could become veterans
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B F STEPHENSON
Founder of the G A II
who alone were eligible to department
and national offices
When politics had been banished and the
grade system had been thrown out the
army began to grow at a wonderful rate
There are now more than 7800 posts and
about 400000 men In 1873 the number
was 27100 in 1878 it was 31016 in 1883
it was 215446 in 1888 it was 372960 in
1889 it was 397974 and in 1890 it was
409484 This appears to be the high mem
bership mark In June 1S93 the number
was 397223 and it has fallen slightly be
low that since
The 1000 or more ex railroad employes
of Cincinnati who have been on the black
list for participation in the Debs strike
and who have been unable since to secure
employment have been called to meet next
Friday evening to take action to induce
the railroad companies to reinstate them
Count Szecsen de
Temerin grand mar
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1 pie attended the
thirtieth national en
campmentof the
Grand Army of the
Republic at St Paul
The encamp ment
this year was one of
the most successful
ever held Cheap
railroad rates cool
pleasant weather
and a good program
of e n t e r t ainment
combined to make
the meeting especial-
fir attractive to the veterans of the army
and navy and thousands of the gallant
told boys took advantage ot this tavoraoie
Ichance to spend their annual outing where
jthey could renew their old friendships
and talk over the memories of the days
jofGL
j St Paul was decked out in her hand
somest attire the decorations being both
pleasing and appropriate From every
housetop in the saintly city floated the
Ted white and blue banner that extended
-a greeting to the veterans while across
jthe streets and up and down the wide
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DAVID R FRANCIS
Who Succeeds Hoke Smith as Secre
tary of the Interior
The resignation of Hoke Smith as Sec
retary of the Interior was followed by
HOKE SMITHS SUCCESSOR
the appointment of ex Gov David R
Francis of Missouri as his successor
Mr Smith resigned because he differs
with the administration on the question
of supporting Bryan The Georgian is a
Bryan man His successor is a Democrat
ic gold man
Francis is 46 years of age is a native
of Kentucky and a Washington Universi
ty graduate He entered mercantile life
as a clerk in St Louis when 20 years old
later went into the commission business
on his own account and became success
ful In 1SS4 he was president of the St
Louis Merchants Exchange and the next
year was elected Mayor of St Louis In
1SSS he was elected Governor of Mis
souri and served one term four years
When President Cleveland was making
up his Cabinet four years ago Francis
was slated for Secretary of the Interior
but had to give way to Smith
CONCERNING THE CROPS
Government Reports of Their Con
dition in Many States
The reports as to the condition of the
crops throughout the country and the gen
eral effect of the weather on the growth
cultivation and harvest of same as made
by the directors of the several climate and
crop sections show that the past week
has been very favorable for farm work
especially threshing which has been
greatly retarded by the rains of previous
weeks Plowing for fall seeding has prog
ressed favorably although portions of
the middle Atlantic States Kansas and
Oklahoma need general rains to put the
soil in condition Some winter wheat has
bWn sown in Ohio Michigan and Mis
souri and also in New England and the
middle Atlantic States but in the last
named section but little seeding has yet
been done owing to dry conditions of
soil Cotton picking has made rapid prog
ress and all reports indicate that the crop
of this year will be secured at an unusu
ally early date In Arkansas the whole
crop will be gathered by Oct 15 and in
Texas the greater part will be picked by
that date while in the eastern portion
of the cotton belt picking will be com
pleted much earlier in Georgia by Sept
15 and some have already completed pick
ing in Mississippi As compared with
the previous week the general condition of
cotton remains unchanged the outlook
for top crop being very poor Much corn
has been cut and the late crop is maturing
rapidly although somewhat retarded by
cool weather in Ohio Iowa and Missouri
While the bulk of the crop will soon be
safe from frost its quality would be better
if no frost occurred within three or four
weeks In Tennessee Indiana and Penn
sylvania the bulk of the tobacco has been
housed and cutting is progressing rapidly
in Ohio Kentucky Virginia Maryland
and New York Drought conditions in
Southern New Jersey Western Tennessee
and in portions of Maryland North Caro
lina Alabama and Louisiana still con
tinue Light frosts occurred in New En
gland New York generally in the upper
lake region and in North Dakota and Ne
braska causing but little damage
VOICE OF VERMONT
Republicans Elect Their Entire State
Ticket by Great Pluralities
Vermont ihas declared for Josiah Grout
Republican for Governor and for the
Republican State ticket entire by a ma
jority that equaled the prediction of the
most confident Republican manager The
total vote cast was by far the largest
in the history of the State The Senate
will be almost if not unanimously Re
publican There were some close fights
for the election or county officers but
generally speaking the Republicans swept
everything No particular part or section
of the State can be selected from which
to draw a lesson as the figures show the
same everywhere tremendous Republican
gains even over the figures of two years
ago which were thought to be phenom
enal
The Charles H Pearson Fruit Packing
Company and the Aughinbaugh Canning
Company each made a deed of trust for
the benefit of creditors at Baltimore Both
concerns were controlled by the same
capital Assets 100000 which will cov
er all liabilities
THE BATTLE EIELDS
OLD SOLDIERS TALK OVER
ARMY EXPERIENCES
She SfcM sad the Gray Berlcw Incidents
of thm XAt War and In Graphic and
Interesting Manner Tell of Camp March
and Battle Thrillln Incideata
Wandering of The Rebel
The story of The Rebel in Its wan
derings over the South Is one of in
terest Survivors of the Army of Ten
nessee especially remembered the little
sheet that found Its way to the camps
daily and inspired the boys with re
newed energy and hope for the cause
they deemed the right Like the loved
and Inspiring Dixie The Retel fired
the Southern heart by Its very name
The Rebel first saw the light Aug 1
1S62 in Chattanooga It was a four
column folio published by Franc M
Paul Thousands of copies were sent
to Braggs army at Tullahoma Tenn
and often the supply was inadequate to
the demand owing to the fact that the
publishers press a drum cylinder
could not print them fast enough
Often the press was kept going all
day to supply the demand from the
army sutlers
So popular did the Rebel become in a
few weeks that the publisher in Octo
ber 1862 engaged the young but ver
satile and rising journalist Henry
Watterson to edit the paper Mr Paul
brought to the assistance of Mr Wat
terson Mr Albert Roberts a vigorous
writer and trained journalist of Nash
ville He was a humorous writer
using the nom de plume of John
Happly
Watterson and Roberts kept the Reb
el at white heat and the paper grew
in Importance and size after the pub
lication began
Well does the writer who gives this
account In the Boston Herald remem
ber the eagerness of the army for the
highly prized papers The boys in
camp could not rest until its arrival
every morning on the train from Chat
tanooga
When General Bragg began his re
trograde movement in the spring of
63 to Chattanooga the Rebel was sup
plied to the army with much difficulty
When the army arrived there the pa
per was in still greater demand
In the summer of that year how
ever it became evident that the Fed
erals were coming to Chattanooga for
the purpose of capturing that impor
tant poirft And then it was the Rebel
began its meanderings over the South
The paper was removed to Marietta
Ga Messrs Watterson and Roberts
staying in Chattanooga for a few days
after the plant had been shipped The
shelling of Chattanooga in that month
soon convinced the editors that they
too must go if they would avoid cap
ture by the Federal army and they
left to join the paper
Editor-in-Chief Watterson had been
sharply criticising General Bragg
while the paper was in Chattanooga
One evening he visited a gentlemans
house in that town and it happened
that General Bragg was also a visitor
The two gentlemen had never met and
while waiting for the host to appear
after being ushered into the parlor by
a servant Watterson and Bragg be
gan a casual conversation which soon
turned upon the war Although he
knew he was in the presence of an
officer of high rank Watterson little
suspected it was the commander-in-chief
of the army He indulged in
some criticisms of General Bragg as he
had been doing in the Rebel The gen
eral listened for a while in almost
speechless wonder but controlled him
self till his fiery critic had abused him
for some minutes when he arose and
addressing Mr Watterson asked
Do you know who I am sir
The editor replied that he had not
that honor
My name is Bragg sir said the
now fully arecsed commander
Of course Watterson was somewhat
taken aback but In his most courtly
and chivalrous manner assured General
Bragg that he had not meant to be of
fensive but that his criticisms were
made in good faith and from motives
of sincere desire to promote the wel
fare of the Confederacy But apologies
were not asked nor given
General Bragg however never forgot
nor forgave his critic After the battle
of Chickamauga while the paper was at
Marietta Watterson continued his at
tacks on General Bragg who informed
the publisher of the Rebel that unless
the Irate editor were discharged the
paper could not come into his lines
Mr Watterson then realized that he
must seek other friends for he was not
the man to retract a word nor to be
dictated to As editor-in-chief he
would write his sentiment so he be
came one of the staff of Lieutenant
General Leonldas Polk After serving
a short time in that capacity Watter
son resigned and became editor of one
of the papers published in Atlanta
After an uneventful existence in Grif
fin for awhile the approach of the Fed
eral army to Atlanta in July of that
year warned the publisher that he must
move on if he would keep the Rebel
afloat and save his scalp so it was
taken to Selma Ala that fall
Here it was that the eventful paper
came to an untimely end with the Con
federacy It had so long and faithfully
upheld It was in the latter part of
April 1S65 that Selma was taken by
General Wilson The Federals knew of
the existence of the Rebel and one of
the first things they did to appease
their wrath was to fire its office which
was in a building beside the river and
built partly over it The Yankees print
ed a small sheet in which they an
nounced their victory over the rebs
and probably the general orders from
headquarters announcing the surren
der of the armies of the Southern Con
federacy They then threw the ma-
terlals In the river and burned all th
files they could find
stole a Steamer
There is now before Congress a bill
appropriating 20000 to be paid to
Robert Smalls a negro politician of
Charleston S C The money is to be
paid for the performance of one of tho
most daring feats of the Civil War
May 12 1862 the Confederate steam
ship Planter the special dispatch boat
of Gen Ripley the Confederate com
mander at Charleston was lying at the
wharf in Charleston The officers had
all gone ashore leaving on board a crew
of eight men all negroes Among them
was Robert Smalls who was virtually
the pilot of the boat For some time
previous he had been watching for an
opportunity to carry into execution a
plan he had conceived to take the
Planter to the Federal fleet This he
saw was about as good a chance as ho
would ever have to do so Consulting
with the balance of the crew Smalls
found that they were willing to co-operate
with him although two of them
afterward concluded to remain behind
The design was hazardous in the ex
treme The boat would have to pass
beneath the guns of the forts in the
harbor Failure and detection would
have been certain death Fearful was
the venture but it was made Wood
was taken aboard steam was put on
and with her valuable cargo of guns
and ammunition Intended for Fort Rip
ley a new fortification just construct
ed in the harbor about 2 oclock in
the morning the Planter silently moved
off from her dock steamed up to North
Atlantic wharf where Smalls wife
and children together with four other
women and one other child and also
three men were waiting to embark
All these were taken on board and
then at 325 a m May 13 the Planter
started on her perilous adventure car
rying nine men five women and three
children Passing Fort Johnson the
Planters whistle blew the usual sa
lute and she proceeded down the bay
Approaching Fort Sumter Smalls stood
in the pilot house leaning out of the
window with his arms folded across
his breast after the manner of the
commander of the boat and his head
covered with the huge straw hat which
the commander wore on such occasions
The signal required to be given by
all steamers passing out was blown as
coolly as if Gen Ripley was on board
going out on a tour of inspection Sum
ter answered by signal All right
and the Planter headed toward Morris
island then occupied by Hatchs artil
lery and passed beyond the range of
Sumters guns before anybody suspect
ed anything was wrong When at last
Planter was obviously going toward
the Federal fleet off the bar Sumter
signaled toward Morris island to stop
her But it was too late As the Plant
er approached the Federal fleet a white
flag was displayed but this was not at
first discovered and the Federal
steamers supposing the Confederate
rams were coming to attack them
stood out to deep water But the ship
Onward Capt Nichols which was not
avsteamer remained opened her ports
and was about to fire Into the Planter
when she noticed the flag of truce As
soon as the vessels came within hailing
distance of each other the Planters er
rand was explained Capt Nichols
then boarded her and Smalls delivered
the Planter to him
Dutchman and Prisoner
At the breaking out of the war I en
listed with a Dutch neighbor and we
were soon put on picket duty together
The officer of the guard finding the
Dutchman utterly ignorant of the ordi
nary duties of a picket concluded that
he would at least know enough to
watch a prisoner So he placed the
Dutchman in charge of a prisoner with
instructions to shoot him If he attempt
ed to escape The name of this Dutch
man was Hans and he was inclined to
be of an obliging disposition although
not over bright and having a little 1oo
much confidence In human nature The
prisoner was tied with his hands be
hind him to a tree and soon was on
friendly terms with the Dutchman He
managed In some way to loosen his
hands and then asked the Dutchman to
do him a favor by taking a handker
chief out of his pocket and wiping nis
nose Hans placed his gun against the
tree and proceeded to do as requested
but suddenly the prisoner struck him
on the side of the head and knocked
him down seized the gun and skipped
The Dutchman got up rubbed his eyes
and said Jiminy Christmas I dot dod
vas an elefand kick
Then looking around he said Mine
prisner vas gone my goon vas gonar
und I guess I petter bo back by de
camp out
And thus he reported that his pris
oner had escaped
Hoc Kat Dosr
Ed Trick of 3 urlington VL who
served in Company G Second Vermont
is the man who played the practical
joke on the officers of a New Jersey reg
iment The Vermont regiment cap
tured some sheep one night killed
dressed and hung them up Daring
the night the servant of the New Jer
sey officer stole the sheep and they
feasted Trick had had a hand in get
ting and killing those sheep and of
course felt ugly In the Vermont regi
ment was a large Newfoundland dog
One dark night Trick killed and dressed
the dog and hung it where the sheep
had hung In the morning the dog was
gone and it was soon found that the
Jerseyites bad stolen the Newfound
land dog carcass and eajoyed another
feast pronouncing it the finest mutton
they had ever eaten It did not take
long for the news to spread throughout
the corps and whenever that regiment
made its appparanee on the march or
in a fight or was passing by any other
regiment their fellow soldiers com
menced barkin Thick says it was a
case of hog eat dog He has never for
given those lerseyites and says hQt
never will