Show ENCAMPMENT P PI I OF THE G C fl A R IS BEGUN i Throngs Attend the Dedication of tile the Coliseum Will Not Be Present j t Rev Dr of S Salt Lake is On the Program for 1 Today I Ii L Chicago Chicag Aug n en encampment encampment of the G A R was oPe ned tonight by the d of the n 1 Coliseum In which the joint campfires of the reunIon the War song concerts f for the veterans and the relIgious and other exercises for the public Incidental to the encampment will be held Mc Kinley will not b be present at any of the exercIses it was announced The ColIseum stands on Wabash aye ave Fourteenth and Sixteenth streets and within Its walls tonight were gathered persons A chorus of 1000 costumed to sent a living flag occupied an immense platform at one end of the building and close by them waS the great band of pieces that will render the con during the coming week of the Lombard a Lam fam ous singer of war times was there and sang The Star Spangled Banner from the original manuscript The dedicatory dedicator exercises proper corn com comprised an address by Frank Lowden of Chicago a response by Mayor Harri Harrison Harrison son and addresses by other local speak speakers ers Big Influx of Visitors The members of the Grand Army Anny and their friends have been pouring into the city an all day long on r regular Ular trains and innumerable specials from all parts of the country It is estimated that of them arrived today and man many times that number are expected to arrive tomorrow and Monday The chief arrival today was that of the Spanish minister the Duke D DArcos Arcos with th the Countess DArcos They were met at the Lake Shore depot by a corn com committee representing the G A R H and another representing the city of ChI ChIcago Chicago cago and escorted by the Denver fife fiCe and drum corps to the Auditorium an annex sex nex where apartments had been pro provided provided vided for them General Dan E Sickles arrived to tonight tonight night Dr Diff on The for the rel religious ex exercises exercises which are to be held In the Au Auditorium tomorrow has been arranged as follows The prinC principal pal address will be by C Shaw of the GA G A IL lie He will talk on True Patriotism I iLl Bishop Fallows will deliver the ad jc dress of greeting preceded by the ji I Lords prayer by Rev Dr F W Gun Gunsaulus saul us Rev Dr J ii D Ii i i I will conduct the responsive reading j lev Dr Hirsch will deliver an address Ott on patriotic and religious lines and 1 the final speaker on the will Lake be Rev Bev City Dr Thom Thomas ls C of Salt f ji i I ti An elaborate musical will HI t r also b be rendered The afternoon ser services vices at the he Coliseum will wiIl be for chU chil I i 1 dren and trill Include addresses by I t Shaw i 1 t Fallows FaIlows and Rev R B W Amen Arnen of Wit Wil ii Ii i O 0 II fi Court of Honor Ii i iThe The court of honor on Michigan aye ave j t 1 nul nue built in honor of the Grand Army Anny I r IL was as Illuminated ed tonIght for the first i i t time me on a smaller scale It surpasses anything seen here since I the Worlds fair if At Van Buren street on the north If 4 III and Eldridge court on the south half halfa U a mIle from Van Buren street stand great arches that on Van Busen Buren street beIng in honor of the army the other In honor of the navy Between the i two arches are placed on both sIdes ot of i the street at intervals of twenty feet l i pillars of white surmounted by a balL bail n Upon the front of each pillar is a ashield H shield around the edges of which are jf ir I electric lines of lights tl also across each shield and the whole I II I effect combined with the tasteful ar m I of lIghts upon the arches 11 made the scene tonight one of greet great j I I beauty I I The streets in the neighborhood were j it i so jammed tonight by thousands of spectators as to be almost impassable le t 1 at Absence fI f i S The presidents final decision that the I 5 gravity of the eastern situation will 1 f not allow hIm to attend the encamp 1 I ment was received with disappoint HI r I ment at G A R headquarters as well as at the Hamilton club where he was T i S expected to be the chief guest Tues 1 I I f day night There are thousands of Veterans who f t S Shad had hoped to meet the president dun dur ing the encampment said Comman Commander er it i 1 Shaw Ha and nd they will be disappointed ll I They are not the ones however to It Wish the president to leave leae his dutie if i during the present grave period il S f fA A |