Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-11
RETURN OF THE VOLUNTEERS
Men Of the Fifty-Firt Iowa May Be Home
in Time to Vote.
PARTY STARTS TODAY TO MEET THEM
Special Train with Adjutnnt General
Byers ON Board Leaves This
Morning Enroute for the
Pacific Coast.
PARTY STARTS TODAY TO MEET THEN

Emmet Tinley, secretary of the local eX-
ecutive committee in charge of arrange
ments for the reception to the Fifty-hrst
Iowa volunteers, received the following let
ter yesterday from Adjutant General Byers:
STATE OF IOWA, ADJUTANT GENER-
AIS OFFICE, DES MONIES, Oct 9. 1899
DDEmmst EN- net Tinley,, ESD, Council Bluffs, la;
and In reply will say that our train for
San Francisco, or rather our special car,
Buns at i2:5o.' We 'hUi have e now We a u party of
tIhirtyIthree for, this special car for San SS.
VIII arrive in San Francisco on the 18th.
we do not expect the troops to arrive there
day sooner than that cannot give You
an idea as to when they will start for home
for the reason that am not advised
board the transport with the regiment to
preparSe, them for muster-out If there was
T the st G san arFvms R
Council Bluffs on the morning of the Sth,
or rather. If we can get ready to leave San
we will then arrive in Council Bluffs on
Monday morning the 9Th, the day, before
return the boys ali to their homes so they
may participate with their blue clothes
| upon election day Very respectfully,
NJ. H. BYERS, Adjutant General
general expects the regiment to arrive in
this city on or about November 5, provided
| the troops were mustered out on board the
transport. If this was not done it will
| take, it is estimated, about three weeks to
| complete the muster-out and it will be well
| towards the end OF November before the
regiment can be expected to reach Iowa.
| This means that the committees having
the reception in charge must have every
| thing in readiness so that when 1t Is known
definitely what day the regiment will reach
here, there need be no delay or hindrance
in completing every arrangement, even to
the smallest detail.
! Mayor ]. M. Howland Of Villisca notified
| Secretary Tinley yesterday that he had ap-
pointed the following from his town to
act on the reception committee: J. NJ. Pat
ton. E. c. Gibbs, c. M. Kennedy, M. Cow
| gill and Z. o. Gardner.
Mayor T. Q. Record OF Glenwood has noti-
| fed the executive committee of the follow
| ing appointments by him: Reception, Hon.
| John Y. Stone, d. L. Heinsheimer, F. NJ.
Shriver, ]. F. Record; parade, w. l.. Tubbs.
| Mayor Record also enclosed to Secretary
| Tinley letter he had received from c. F.
| Mears Of Silver City, in which the latter
stated his town has a uniformed drum corps
OF ten pieces that wants to be present and
assist in the demonstration, provided its
expenses can be paid.
At meeting Of the transportation COM
mittee the following resolution offered by
j. M. Mitchell was adopted:
Resolved, That the secretary communicate
with the chairman of the Western Passen.
ger association, applying for round-trE
rate at 50 per C. cent Io Of the one-way fart
200 miles from Council Bluffs, and free
transportation for all bands in uniform OF
all lines of railroad leading into Council
Bluffs on the occasion of the reception OF
the Fifty-frst Iowa volunteers, on date:
to be determined later.
The local representatives of the severa
railways were requested to correspond will
their passenger agents, urging upon then
! the Importance Of favoring very low rat'
} for this occasion If low rate is secured
Chairman Davenport is Of the opinion tina
, the size of the crowd that will be in Coun
Gil Bluffs on that day will only depend ol
the number OF coaches that the roads vii
!, be able to supply. He states that adVlce
from all along the line of the Burlington
every town is preparing to send large dele
cations. The local representatives of tn
other roads all say their advices are to tn
same effect and that some OF them fgur
! that anywhere from $4,000 to 10000 peopl
D can be expected here from all over tn
state.
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of it's cars for the free transportation o
bands on the day of the reception and TO
other uses which the transportation commit
tee might designate.
1t has been suggested that an effort b
made to secure at least one piece of artil
lery from Fort Crook, and Manager Dim
mock OF the motor company has offered tn
| Irish Mall on which to transport it,
Chairman Hart of the finance committe
reports that he is meeting with much en-
couragement and is of the opinion ther
will be little or no dificulty in securin
5 the $4,000, which is the amount estimate
as necessary to defray the expenses OF tn
5 reception.
A call for a meeting OF the executiv
i committee at Secretary Tingley's Office a
10 o'clock this morning has been issued
with request that every member be pres
: ent