Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-09-28 | Page 5 | President Extends Welcome to Veterans

PRESIDENT EXtENDS WElCOME TO iii VETERANS I Cordial Greeting Given Com- Com mander in of G. G A. A R. R at White House Washington ton Sept 2 27 President Wilson tonight welcomed to Washington Washing Washing- ton the Grand Arm Army of OC tho Republic It t was as the first day of at the ninth forty-ninth annual reunion of oC tho the men who ho wore the blue during the civil strife strite of fifty years rears ago The President gave 30 a I cordial greeting to Col David I I. I. I Palmer commander in chief of or the Grand Arm Army who called to 1 pay n his re- re The greeting g was prophetic of or next Wednesday when tho the President will review the remnant of the tho union host that made Pennsylvania avenue historical In 1865 Tho The thousands of ot otera veterans ns to par- par I In the tho celebration of or the review r ij tift fifty years ago of the greatest arm army fr I that the world had known at that timet time t Thc are here hero eager ealer to retrace tho the f r steps steps of or that historic march when Grant stood beside President Johnson I f j and and saluted them when General Sherman Sherman Sher Shor- man led lcd thorn them from th the capitol to tho the Corner corner of or the treasury treasur building where hIs equestrian monument now stands to he them Inspiration Tonight old union soldiers fraternized ln tn Illumined streets with survivors of ot the confederacy man many of ot whom have come b by special Invitation to Join In Inthe Inthe the fiftieth anniversary of at American peace Formal proceedings of or tho the reunion Ion which will include camp fires fire gatherings gatherings gather s-ather- ings of or former prisoners of or war an and dog do watches of oC survivors orM of the ol old navy na will wille begin e ln tomorrow At night President ent Wilson 1 Is to address the ass as- as l s posts nt at the first general E Session cession 11 I