The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-09-30
REUNION MATTERS.

Half Fare Rates TO EmpOr1a on All
Kansas Railroads "A Petition Being
Circulated to Have the City Decor
ated, Etc.s Etc.
1t was accidentally discovered yesterday
morning that the big Santa Fe tent which
the general passenger agent had promised
to the reunion was not IN Topeka as he
supposed but was IN San Francisco. tire
quires two freight cars to carry this tent
the tent pole being more than tho length
of the cars. Mr.. Nicholson of the Santa
Fe has taken the necessary steps to have
the big tent here on time.
The reunion committee are under obi
cations to the railroads centering IN En-
poria especially for cheap transportation
of tents and other favors. All the roads
in Kansas will carry passengers to and
from the reunion at half fare, which on
account Of the location will enable the
people of the State generally to attend at
less cost than any former reunion.
The Second regiment of the Kansas
National Guards and all of the Third
Fe or branches hsYe been rendered to the
reunion committee for guard and escort
duty and will attend with regimental and
staff officers. Arrangements have also
been made for the transportation of the
guns of the ARTILLERY department of the
Kansas National Guards, which Will be
used in the great sham battle to be fought
on the forenoon of Friday of the reunion.
A petitlonshas been circulated to-day to
the mayor and city council that the mayor
issue his proclamation requesting all citi-
gems to decorate their dwellings and places
of business in a suitable manner and ask
ing the city council to provide tor the erec-
ton of an arch of welcome across Com
mercisl street north OF. the railroad.
Arrangements were affected yesterday
for the free transportation of bands and
drum corps to the reunion with ali g. A.
r. posts purchasing as many as fifty tick
at one station.
The flag brigade ofyoung ladies. dsugh-
tiers of veterans, report themselves to the
committee as organized, in practice, and
ready to come.
A beautiful lithOgraph of the Western
Driving and Exhibition Park which COM
poses a portion of Camp Falrchild, hiss
been placed in the hands of the committee
by the owners of the park, to be used as a
reunion advertisement
The labors of the committee on enter
tainment in the city are resulting most
satisfactorily and the committee will have
at its disposal comfortable places for ovel
five thousand people.
Reports from different localities of Or
CARNATIONS which will attend are toe
numerous to parucularize. 1t is es
timated by the committee that the attend.
ance from all parts of the state will equa
that of any former reunion.
Four wells in different parts of the II
union grounds have been sunk into thu
gravel bed at a depth of twenty-five feet
and an unlimited supply of more excellen
water obtained, which, with the pipesIron
the city water works. which have beeI
laid in the grounds, viii furnish water ii
great abundance.
The twenty acres of timber in the ex
hibition grounds have been thorough!
cleared and trimmed. and converted into
magnificent grove tor the use OF the re
union.
The grounds of Mr.. Logan, lying mort
OF Soden's grove. have been rendered t
the reunion, and, altogether the grouHd
will be ample and in point of beauty AM
fitness, can not be surpassed In tn
state of Kansas.
The final order of the department com
mander which will embrace all details G
arrangements and all needed information
to the g. A r. of the state and the publ
IN general Is In course of preparation, an
with the programme of exercises, Will b
issued as early IS Tuesday of next weel
/ Reception committees and other con
mIttees for the special duties Of the reunio
week viii be appointed and announced l
: due time.
The reunion committee on prepsratio
of grounds have suffered serious embaI
rasment In'the ILLNESS of their chairman
Captain T. E. Mcmillan. for the past tw
weeks. He is now convaiescent, and u
good work goes grandly on.
There will be over twenty five bands i
attendance, all from this state There al
some 1ne ones among them.
The organization of the En- poria Elan
! beau club will he completed tonight.
! VIII be. a fine feature of the reunion.
: Il is stated as almost certainty Il /
General Phil. Sheridan viii be here o
{ the 6lh IN attend the reunion and make
speech TO the grand old army.
Judge Waterbury takes so much plea.
ure IN his work that he says If 1t WASH
for the newspaper reporters be would g,
fat