Show ADVANCE GUARD Of GRAND ARMY READY fOR MJ MEET Voting D Delegates legates on onWay onWay onWay Way to Cincinnati for forGathering forGathering or Gathering Cl CINCINNATI CI A Tr 0 O. Aug 23 A AP P The The advance a guard of oC the Grand Orand Army of ot the Republic bivouacked d dhere here tonight ready for tor its sixty sixty- fourth annual encampment Between and SOO voting dele dole gates sates 2000 other members and added thousands of ot visitors from allied patriotic organ organizations were en n route to Cincinnati front from nearly very every state in the union Commander Commander Comman Comman der In Chief Edwin J. J Foster loster bearIng bearIng bear bear- Ing ng the title with Ulysses S. S Grant arrived yesterday and nd sal said everything was ready for forthe forthe forthe the boys bos The encampment opens tomorrow with a concert b by tho United States marine band sent here by special act act ct of or congress and dedication of oC three trees treM and a a. flagstaff In tn Eden park ark The Thc annual conference ce of oC federated societies allied with the G. G A. A R. R will be held later In n the day with a banquet In Jn the evening e The first business session will beheld beheld be held eld Wednesday tho the two days pro pre ce ceding being spent in attesting to credentials meetings of the executive Ive tive committee council of of- of adminis- adminis ration and conferences between departmental commanders A business session Thursay Thurs Thurs- da day ay including election of ot officers will II leave everything clear for tor a pilgrimage up the Ohio river FrIday FrI FrI- day ay to the birthplace of ot General Grant at Point Pleasant 0 O. His grandson grandson U. U S. S Grant III UI will be officer f fleer r of or the day The trip will end nd the encampment n Allied organizations meeting here next ext week include the thirty sixth convention of or the National Association Association Asso- Asso of or Army Nurses of or the Civil War Var the forty eighth convention of oC the lie National Women's Relief corps the he forty fourth national conven- conven lon of oC tho the Ladles of or the G. G A A. Ric R- R the ic fortieth national convention o of Dau Daughters of ot Union Veterans of oC tile tho Civil War Val the ninth forty annual encampment of or Sons of or Union Veterans Veterans Vet- Vet erans rans of the Civil War Oar and the for for- ty ty-to fourth y-fourth rth national enc encampment of oC the lie Pittsburg Sons of or Union Veterans Veter- Veter ans ns of ot the Civil War G. G M. M Mowry of oC Valley Head Ala a confederate lerate veteran asked permission to attend the union encampment encampment en- en and was waa promptly invited in invited in- in to do so S |