Report of the General committee for the thirty-third national encampment of the Grand army of the republic and attendant reunions held at Philadelphia, September 4 to 9, 1899 . a higher rate for rooms and meals,or either, than is charged by this hotel at this date. Second.—That we will not require any persons to engagerooms for a longer i>eriod than three days. Third.—That we will not assign to or place a larger num-ber in any room than may be necessary to occupy the samein a comfortable manner, nor increase the number of per-sons in any room after the same has been engaged by mutualagreeme


Report of the General committee for the thirty-third national encampment of the Grand army of the republic and attendant reunions held at Philadelphia, September 4 to 9, 1899 . a higher rate for rooms and meals,or either, than is charged by this hotel at this date. Second.—That we will not require any persons to engagerooms for a longer i>eriod than three days. Third.—That we will not assign to or place a larger num-ber in any room than may be necessary to occupy the samein a comfortable manner, nor increase the number of per-sons in any room after the same has been engaged by mutualagreement. Fourth.—All necessary help and toilet and other neces-saries will be provided, that guests may be made comfortableand have prompt and proper attention. A very large number of applications for rooms were re-ceived, the letters promjitly answered, and, so far as yourCommittee has knowledge, all the applicants were satisfac-torily taken care of. We believe that all the hotels did their best to accommo-date the immense crowds that were present, and we thinkthey were successful. The total expenses incurred by j^our Committee were$ P. H. FRATZ, Chairman. (34). The Committee on Invitations and Courtesies respectfullyreports that it had prepared a beautifully-engraved cardof invitation for the ceremonies of the Thirty-third AnnualEncampment of the Grand Army of the Republic. The card having been approved by the Executive Commit-tee, was mailed from the General Headquarters, under thesupervision of Secretary Beath, to the officers and members ofthe National Encampment of the G. A. E. and of the Na-tional Conventions of the Womans Eelief Corps, the Ladiesof the G. A, R., the Daughters of Veterans, and other similarorganizations; to every Department officer and Post Com-mander of the G. A. R. throughout the United States; to theLoyal Legion and the Union Veteran Legion, the Naval Vet-eran Legion, Union Ex-Prisoners of War; to the officers ofthe Sons of Veterans and officer


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