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Cincinnati Is Taken

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Parent Issue
Day
11
Month
November
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

Cincinnati, Sept. 6. - An invasion of Cincinnati by the vast army of veterans who wore the blue began in earnest. For nearly a year the city has been preparing for the attack and the thoroughness of its preparations is evidenced by the cordial welcome with which the visitors are received. The citizens, both of the city and its suburbs, have thrown open their doors for the entertainment of the investing forces, and those who cannot find accommodations at the crowded hotels are being royally provided for at Camp Sherman and elsewhere.

Probably at no place where former encampments have been held has more elaborate preparations been made for the accommodation of the veterans, and each citizen appears to have appointed himself a committee of one to see that Cincinnati's reputation for hospitality is fully lived up to during the present week. Camp Sherman is rapidly filling up. Six thousand veterans will be provided for in the tented city and as many more have been assigned free quarters in schoolhouses and other pubic edifices, which have been converted into barracks for the time being. A novel feature of the camp, and one which is meeting with the hearty approval of the veterans, is a big tent provided with telephones, telegraph facilities, conveniences for correspondence and all the latest newspapers and periodicals.