The Encampment June 1901

CONGER, BYERS, SNYDER, PARKER, MCCLENAND, RODELL, SHERIDAN, CLANCY

Posted By: Cheryl Locher Moonen (email)
Date: 1/3/2017 at 13:49:31

Dubuque Daily Herald, June 3, 1901

THE ENCAMPMENT
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ALL ARRANGEMENT FOR THE
BIG EVENT ARE COMPLETED
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CITY READY TO RECEIVE SOLIDERS
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The Weather Man Promises
Ideal June Weather – Advanced
Guard Arriving – Gen. Byers Here
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The Twentieth-Seventh annual encampment of the Iowa Department of the Grand Army of the Republic will open in this city tomorrow and it is safe to say that it will eclipse all former events of a similar character. The city already assuming holiday attire and the stars and stripes hanging from hundreds of buildings. By tonight the work of decoration will be completed on Main and Clay Streets and the G. A. R. committee requests private persons to decorate their residence.

The advanced guards of the encampment are arriving already and every incoming train has some old soldiers who are anxious to be on the ground in time to get their bearings. The big crowd will not come until tomorrow.

The time of the arrival of Maj. Conger is not known definitely but it is thought he will get here early tomorrow morning.

Among those who have already are Adjunct General Byers, of the Iowa National Guard. General Byers has established his headquarters in the Retailers’ League and before he departs he will let the contract for the supplies for the I. N. G. encampment which will be held here the latter part of July.

Others of the early arrival are the officers of the Women’s Relief Corps who have taken quarters at the Julien. They are:
Department President Christian C. Snyder, of Creston, Iowa.
Department Treasurer Mira L. Parker, of Des Moines.
Department Secretary Georgia Wade McClenand, of Dennison, Iowa.
Department Inspector Belle T. Rodell, Dubuque, Iowa.

The executive committees have ordered the artillery salutes during the encampment to be fired at the following hours. Gun being placed on Fourth Street extension.
Tuesday morning, June 4th, at 6 o’clock, 13 guns.
Tuesday morning, at 10 o’clock, 13 guns.
Tuesday evening at sunset, 13 guns.
Wednesday morning, June 5th, at 6 o’clock, 13 guns.
Wednesday parade at 2 o’clock p.m., national salute.
Wednesday evening at sunset, 13 guns.
Thursday morning, June 6th, 13 guns.

There was some complaints made yesterday about the decorations. Persons living in the lower part of town, when they found out that no decorations were to be made on Main Street south of Second Street, registered a ringing complaint. They protested against overlooking the southern part of the town and enlisted the support of Alderman Sheridan and Clancy. The latter gentleman, it is said, interviewed the committee and the result was that an order was made to extend the decorations two blocks south. There was also complaint made about the line of march as the program states the procession will not go down further than Second Street. Downtown residents want it to turn at First Street and it is believed their wishes will be acceded to.