St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-09
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.

1AlIass Meeting of Citizens Held yesterday
to Raise Fmmd For Entertaining The
old Veterans.
Yesterday afternoon mass meeting of the
citizens of Minneapolis, together with COM
mittees from the board of trade, chamber of
commerce and the Grand Army of the Re
public, was held at the chamber of commerce
for the purpose of instituting steps toward
raising fund for the proper entertainment
of our guests during the Grand Army ma
tioual encampment, which opens here on
the 21st inst.
The meeting was called to order by his
honor the mayor, at 1925. John DeLaitlre
was elected chairman and Pliny Bartlett sec
rotary.
Capt Gilman announced that Capt Rea
had been chosen by the G. A. r. to make u
statement relative to the measures by which
the members G. A. r. was invited to come
TO Minneapolis to hold the encampment.
Capt. Rea then made the explanations re-
ferred TO and which have been printed in
these columns heretofore.
Capt. Snyder, of the G. A. R. finance COM
mittee, stated that the committee had been
somewhat dilatOry in its work. When the
committee first commenced its work, it was
understood that the members of the Grand
Army, would, to large extent, pay their
own way. OF course it was found that the
local expense would be considerable, prob
ably amounting to $40, 900. II was expected
that the various parties who will naturally
make something out of the encampment were
expected to contribute something, especially
the railroads Until last Thursday nothing
definite was known as to what the railroad
companies would do; their action has already
been made public. The committee then had
on hand 81, 500, contributed as follows
From Gen. Washburn. ..................$1,0 900
From G. a. Pillsbury. ................... 1000
From j. j. Hill. 1,0OO
From Il. b. Langdon. ................... 500
From d. Morrison. Observation-Disclosures. 800
From .. NJ. Larraway. .................. 5OO
What we want is enough to make bp the
deficiency.
Mayor Pillsbury then addressed the meeting
briefly, expressing the pressing need of
prompt and decisive action. He said men
were coming to Minneapolis from nearly
every county north of Mason & Dixon's line
and goodly number from south of it.
r. Barden followed in the same strain
and was hopeful. He believed Minneapolis
citizens would be equal TO the emergency.
A. T, Aukeny was the next speaker. He
believed there were 1000 men in the city
who would give $40 each to swell the fund
Judge Rea requested that all citizens who
were willing to entertain guests should lose
no time in sending their address to the G.
A. r. Com mittee.
Some talk came up about the probable
completion of the West hotel in time for the
encampment, and Messrs. Pillsbury, Rea,
Babb, Barton and Dale were appointed a
committee TO wait on Supt. Burlington and
ascertain just how things were. 1t was then
decided to appoint committees representing
the leading business of the city to canvass
the city and solicit subscriptions.
The committees were appointed from
among the memberships of the board of
trade, chamber of commerce and G. A. r.
for the purpose of canvassing the city for
subscriptions to the fund. The committees
will meet in joint session this afternoon.