Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-20

ments are being made to have all or near
ly all of the specials arrive in time for the
delegates to be present at the prelimi-
nary meetings to be held Wednesday night.
From New England.
Vermont is going to send a good-sized
delegation. The start will be made Tues
day. July.7, and from New London the
party will proceed by sound rteamer to
New York. Coming over the Royal Blue
line it Is expected that the journey will be
ende< Wednesday about 1 o'clock, leaving
SIMPLE time to the delegates before the pre-
liminary Wednesday evening meetings
open.
The enthusiasm never was higher in
New Hampshire over a convention than at
the present time about Washington, &C."
is the testimony Of the granite states ex-
cursion manager. The circular issued by
him shows an attractive itinerary for the
delegation. Those who will join the party
will meet at Nashua Junction the day
prior to the convention, and start about
O'Clock In the afternoon for Providence. r.
L. There, together with the Rhode Island
delegates, steamer for New York will be
boarded. At Jersey City the delegations
from Vermont. New Hampshire and Rhode
Island will unite and come conventionward
together. New Hampshire and Vermont
will be chartered at the Grafton. and will
be entertained by the members of the
Union NJ E. Church. while Rhode Island
goes to the Richmond and will be cared
for by the Fifteenth Street M. E. Church
In It's new edihce.
But New England and the east will not
furnish all the delegates which the local
union will entertain. The west Is alive to
the Importance of the gathering. and will
be well represented at the capital city. 1t Is
expected that from $50 to 800 will come from
far-away Minnesota. while in still further
western states preparations are in progress
for organizing special convention excur-
sons.
From the West.
Minnesota has issued one of the most at
tractive circulars that has up to this time
reached the committee Of '96 headquarters
1t is printed in colors, beautifully illus
trated, and one entire page is given up to
map of the official route Of the party-via
the Burlington route to Chicago and then
over the Baltimore and Ohio to this city,
The special train bearing representatives
from the state of the flour mills will leave
Minneapolis Monday evening, July 6, and
will be run through solid to this city with
out change. A dining car will be attached,
and meals will be served for the entire dis
lance. A short stop will be made at Chi
cago Tuesday morning, and 1t is antici-
pated the delegation will be safely landed
at the Baltimore and Ohio depot and on its
way to its hotel, the ElSmere about We'd
nesday noon.
Even with such long railroad journey
it will be possible for an Endeavorer from
Minnesota to attend this years convention
and return at an outside cost of $50. Stop
over privileges are allowed these delegates
at Deer Park, Mountain Lake Park and
Oakland; and in returning. passengers have
choice of routes from Baltimore to Chi
cago. either via Cumberland and Bellaire
or via Cumberland and Pittsburg. A num-
Der OF Minnesota speakers will be heard at
convention meetings. and in other ways
the delegates beyond the Mississippi will
make known their presence at the July
gathering.
Joining with the excursionists from Min
nesota will be perhaps half hundred from
North Dakota. who will also establish ho-
tel headquarters at the Elsmere
From Distant Points.
Nebraska expects to send In the neigh
hood of one hundred and fifty delegates to
Washington. The Endeavorers in that
state are very loyal, and a lively interest
is being manifested In the convention, the
subject Washington, '96." being a regular
part of the program at each of the district
conventions now being held throughout the
state. Arrangements are being made to
arrive in this city about Wednesday noon
July 8. by way Of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad. This delegation has been as
signed to the Fourth Presbyterian Church,
and the visitors expect to find accommoda-
lions in the private homes in the vicinity
of that church
The newest acquisition to the family of
states-Utah-will have some of its young
people at the convention In Salt Lake
City especially the Endeavorers en-
thusiastic, and the excursion manager con-
f1dently expects to bring at least a dozen
delegates with him. which he considers a
good-sized delegation from Utah, consider
ing the number and size of the societies
there and the great width Of continent to
be crossed in the journey.
Colorado had sixty delegates last year at
Boston's convention, and hopes for as
many this summer. In California the
transportation committee is theoretically
at work stirring up an interest in the con-
vention and booking delegation that will
travel week before reaching the place
where 1T Is to be held. But Christian En-
deavorers like to attend the annual gath
erings of the organization to which they
are so loyal, and it is this that is the cause
of such unusual activity among young peo-
pie all over the country. and that makes
Washington the objective point In the plans
OF scores of thousands of those who ex-
pect to attend the approaching convention,
and the center Of interest to many other
thousands who will be unable to make the
journey.