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Show OFFICERS ELECTED BY THE .GRAND ARMY - 1 ; BOSTON. Aug. la! Jn addition to the election of XJen. Wllmon Black mar as commander-ln-ehiet of ' the Q. A. R., the following other officers were chosen: .Senior Vlce-commander-ln-chief,. John R. King, ; "'Washington,' ' D. C; Junior vice commander, George W- Pat' ten, Chattanooga. ,Tenn.'; aurgeon-gen-eral. Dr. Wa.rren R. King, Indianapolis; cnapel-in-ehJef. Rev. J. H. Bradford. WwblngtowfDC. - Later Gen. Blackmar made the follow-in follow-in taprntoV; Adjutant-general, John. -XL ' - GUindn, Massachusetts; quarterTnaster-general,'' Charles Burrows,- New Jersey: assistant quartermaster, quarter-master, ahd cuktodian of the records. J, H. rHAlcoisp. ' Pennsylvania; aeelstant adjutant-general E. B. Stllllngs, Massachusetts. Mas-sachusetts. - ' v -- Resolutions were passed declaring that any mooificatkm of the voting franchise should, be along lines of "iq-telllgenee "iq-telllgenee and finance." and not, along lines of "race and eolor" and disapproving disap-proving of the admission of sons -of veterans to secret G. A. R, meetings. , A resolution re parking the proposed fraternal convention of the survivors of the Union' and Confederate armief waevlaid on the taW. and at 3:14 o'clock the encampment adjourned sine die. s , Mrs. Mary T.Jdagej of ChlcafTo .waa elected National president of the ladies of the O. A. R. ' ; In the af tesooon " the . Grand Army delegates made a pilgrimage to Lexington Lexing-ton and Concord In automobiles. , Mrs. Olive A. Kiheen, Colorado,-and )ln . May. T. Johee, California, "'were elected as memberi of . the executive committee of the . National Women'p Relief corna -.. - - Um Ella A, Craft of Rochester. N. , Y., waa re-elected president of the Wo-men'1 Wo-men'1 Veterans' Relief union------ 1 . -. MaJ.-Gen.-D. W. Gould of Chelsea was elected commander-in-chief of the Union veterans.". ? "v T. . -i '. The latt xl the great official celebrations celebra-tions in connection with the encampment of the G. A. R. waa held last night, when 19,000 persona attended the camp fire of the Women's 'Relief eorpsj in Mechanics' Me-chanics' building. Mrs. Mary L Oilman presided . and Mies Clara Barton, and there made speeches. Among the attraction at-traction arranged in honor of the members' mem-bers' of the Grand Annyfthe electrical parade was the most spectacular, consisting con-sisting of sixteen illuminated floats. |