Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1898-09-10
SKETCH BOOK OF BAXTER.

SKETCH BOOK OF BAXTER.
From the sixties we pass to TIT
nineties, aud single out week IL
1893. II is the week Of the Inter
State Soldiers Reunion. Notwith
standing the efforts put forth BY
false statements in regard to thii
reunion II surpassed in many ways
the most sanguine expectations o.
it's many friends.
First, In regard numbers, Baxter
Springs nor Cherokee county has
ever Witnessed any gathering that
could approximate to this. A very
conservative estimate placed the
number present on Thursday al
sixty thousand; others extended II
to seventy.five thousand, hence the
number that visited New Camp
Logan during the week far ex'
ceeded 100000.
In the second place, the marvel Of
the week was the perfect order
which reigned in every part of the
camp. Doubtless the positive and
ringing words from the president
and commander at the opening had
much TO do with this marvellous
fact. Between $1,000 and 5000 pres.
ent on Thursday, and but one
drunken man found in camp and
one small boy. Such fact cannot
be found in the history of any en-
campment with one.tenth that
number present. We were on the
grounds Eve entire days and nights
and those were the only intoxicated
persons we saw. We have attended
many Methodist camp meetings.
but never saw one that made Q rec.
ord equal to the reunion week Of
1893.
For the immense number present
much is due Mr.. Cooper for secur-
ing the extension of the Memphis
switch TO the west door of Camp
Logan; also for the vast number
of new tents that adorned the
grounds, while other reunions have
been without; also for the means
that rendered II possible for Com
rade Hartley, with his comparative
ly small number of men, to change
a wilderness of weeds and under.
brush into q garden spot for GO
much real enjoyment aud to sup
ply the one hundred acres of hu,
manity with ample privileges.
Much honor is due Col. Weldy for
his matchless influence in many di
rections. Through his daily paper
for weeks before the reunion, and
by the thunder bolts he hurled a,
those few who sought in every way
to defeat the success of the reunion
of 1893; his affable and genial man
ner upon the platform and through
out the entire week; the lesson Of
generosity he has furnished for all
in closing all his business and sus
pending daily paper for the entirt
week so his employees might at
tend the seventeenth annual gath
ering of old soldiers In Baxter
Springs. s. o. Mcdowell. who wat
the originator of the Baxter reun
ions. also deserves much credit fol-
the influence of his able pen and
his firm loyalty to Baxter Springs
in behalf of all her reunions. His
address on Tuesday evening, be-
fore very large audience deserves
a conspicuous place in the archives
of this memorable association.
Capt. Boyer, the secretary; J. p,
Hartley, license agent; ]. ]. Fribley,
treasurer; Quartermaster McGreg'
or, E. G. Hogan deputy attorney,
and the efficient police with some
others, all deserve much praise for
their labor in rendering the reun.
ion of 1898 a grand success.
The lessons to be learned from
the last reunion are: 1. This 10 not
the last. 2. That the officers of the
Memphis railroad have discovered
that within one mile of Baxter is
the finest resort for excursions that
can be found on the whole length
of their line. 8 That other roads
have been aroused to a conscious
ness of this fact and may find q
way to- Baxter Springs. 4. That
the view from Camp Logan 10 the
finest that can be found between
the Rockies and the Appalachians
5. Il furnishes an ideal of land
scape beauty such az was never
presented In one day to 5000 hu
man beings In the great west. Q
Il IL the grandest advertising
scheme for Baxter Springs tina
could be devised. What the grea
watering places on the Atlantic
coast are TO the towns and cities o
the East such will Camp Logan b
TO the soldiers of both the civil and
Spanish wars and their sons and
daughters with their many friends
There were persons that came 30
miles TO enjoy our last reunion.
A special lesson to Baxter SPRING
should be the wisdom of separat
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