The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-09-10


this committee also. The committee
should leave Butte about the 18th inst,
A special rate will be made by the rail-
roads to San Francisco and return for
this committee.
special rates will also be made for
| the reception by all railroads running
into Butte, as well as for conveying the
volunteers to their respective homes
after the demonstration.
The committee also take this op-
| portunity of calling the attention of
all employers of labor to the matter of
| the employment of the volunteers on
| their return. A local committee will
| be appointed to take charge of this
| subject, and we earnestly recommend
fthet "a like committee be appointed in
every locality from which the men have
enlisted. 1t must not be said that a
single Montana volunteer who desires
it, has failed to find employment on his
return home.
Among other features it is the in
tention to form a parade on the arrival
OF the volunteers. and the committee
desire that this shall be the grandest
parade ever witnessed in the state
We therefore invite the attendance of
the members of the G. A. r. and the
rough riders who volunteered last year,
to participate, as well as the Meagher
guards, and all school cadets and other
military organizations.
Also all the fraternal and civic So
cieties, labor organizations and organ
lied associations of every character
are invited to take part. And the COM
mittee requests that all who decide to
join in honoring our soldier boys will
at once communicate with George w.
Irwin, secretary of the committee Civ
ing the name of their organization, the
number who win participate and the
H..
lected to act as aids to the grand mar
shall.
THE committee has determined to
have made for distribution and sale in
Butte and throughout the state hand
some badge which is to be a souvenir
of the return of the volunteers, worthy
of preservation. This badge will have
printed upon 1t fac-simile of both
sides Of the medal of honor which is to
be presented to the soldiers, and which
has been specially designed. The lat
ter feature will make the badge dis
tinctive and will render the possession
of one most desirable. The badge will
be sold under the direction and auspices
of the committee or arrangements, and
the proceeds turned into the reception
fund.
THE reception to the volunteers will
take on the nature of a general holiday
in honor Of the event, and the commit
tee therefore respectfully asks that the
several mining companies and others
employing men will arrange to give
their employees an opportunity to join
in the demonstration.
The committee also earnestly re-
quests that all public buildings and
every private building and business
house in and around the city be dec
Grated as far as the means of the resi-
dents and owners will permit, with the
national colorS.
LAS the committee are DESTROYS of
using the funds raised by public sub
scription in such manner as VIII most
directly aid and benefit the returning
volunteers, they invite a generous and
hearty cooperation in the matter or
such details as will tend to make the
occasion one of general rejoicing
There will be many opportunities for
doing this in theway of contributions of
flowers, of delicacies for the banquet,
for the display of fireworks in the even
ing and for the care and entertainment
of the volunteers.
"The committee feel that no under
taking of this character can be sue
cessful without the active aid and sym
pathy of the ladies of the community.
| We therefore most earnestly invite
helpful assistance and hearty support
| and cooperation in this patriotic en-
| deavor to do honor to our brave vol
unteers, to our state and TO ourselves
1.-THE work of preparation for the re-
ception has already been initiated IN a
| sririt of enthusiasm and broad liberal
| ity by our citizens, Now, let every
man, woman and child bend themselves
| In a united and patriotic effort to push
| it to a grand conclusion of which we
| may all be proud. Respectfully,
&C MITT E E OF ARRANfE-
| MENTS."
On to Manila" tells how our Mon
| tana bows faced the thickest of the fight