Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1894 — FIFTY THOUSAND IN LINE. [ARTICLE]

FIFTY THOUSAND IN LINE.

A Great Turnout of the G. A. It. at Pittsburg Next September. The National Encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic to be held in Pittsburg next September will be more successful, according to present indications, than the most sanguine friends of the city fur the annual muster place had anticipated. Esti-| mating from the number of posts al-; ready heard fr< m as a basis, it is considered certain that over 50,000 comrades will parade on Tuesday, Sept. 11. It is believed that Pennsylvania will have fully as many in line, 1.5,000, as there were in the great parade in Washington two years before. Ohio had 10,000 in line at that time, but it is not likely, unless the returns are defective, that Ohio will turn out more than 7,000, although Pittsburg is so close to its border line. New York, it is thought, will turn out ?, 500 strong. The Allegheny County posts will have 5,000 alone in one column. Free quarters have already been assigned to U,ouo comrades, most of them coming from far distant points, although it is more than three months before the time for the encampment to meet. There will be 10,000 mounted men in the procession, which will, it is judged, take eight hours to pass a f'iven point. The decorations, and iluminations by night, will be upon a scale of magnificence never before seen in Western Pennsylvania. Letters received by the Committee op Reunions indicate that there will be a remarkable gathering of former Pennsylvanians, who after they came back from the war went West to seek their fortunes, and who became farmers on government lands as homesteaders in Dakota, Washington, Nebraska, Missouri, and other Western States and Territories, as some of them were at that time. A large number of veterans originally from Maryland and West Virginia, who left their States in the sane way, will attend the encampment