A new article has been added at Newspaper Abstracts > United States > California > San Francisco http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/index.php?action=displaycat&catid=591 Direct link to article: http://www.newspaperabstracts.com/link.php?id=57461 Submitted by: barbara-dave Article Title: Washington Times Article Date: August 13 1903 Article Description: GAR Page-5 Article Text: The Washington Times August 13, 1903 GAR Page-5 SAN FRANCISCO FILLING WITH ARMY VETERANS San Francisco, Aug. 13 - from now on until next Monday strings of special trains will be pouring into the city their loads of veterans bound for the G. A. R. encampment. Hotels and lodging houses are already filling up rapidly with the visitors. Up to noon yesterday 3,500 persons had passed through Ogden, Utah, with G. A. R. tickets. There will be about three hundred special cars, carrying fully 7,000 persons. Commander-in-Chief Thomas J. STEWART and party, from Philadelphia, now at the Grand Canyon, Col., are due to arrive here on Saturday. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ CA-Old-News ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ NewspaperAbstracts.com - Finding our ancestors in the news! TM http://www.NewspaperAbstracts.com Also visit our other sites: http://www.AncestorsOnTheWeb.com http://www.Genealogy101.com http://www.AutumnWindz.com