Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-21
NO TROUBLE TO GET MONEY
Everybody Willing to Contribute Toward
Entertaining Returning Volunteers
CANvAssNG COMMITTEES MEET SUCCESS
Veterans of the Civil War Take n
Hand and Farmers Are Eager
10 Give Good Things for
the boys to Eat.

the Boys to Eat.
There is now no question but that the
funds necessary to defray the expenses of
the reception to the Fifty-fi first Iowa will be
raised without any difficulty in this city.
The soliciting committees are hard at work
and so far have met with the greatest sue
cess. Chairman Hart of the finance commit
tee reported yesterday evening that S1,555
was in the treasury as the result of the work
Of the three soliciting committees. The
committee to which was assigned implement
row and the territory adjacent turned in
$500 yesterday afternoon, after one days
work, while the committee working Broad
way west Of Main street secured $50. The
committee in charge OF the district east OF
Main street has collected upwards OF 5000.
The donation of s25 from the Modern Wood
men OF America, it is believed, will be fol-
lowed by like subscriptions from other fra
ternal organizations of the city. The High
school teachers notified Chairman Hart last
evening that they had subscribed s14.
AS soon as the work of canvassing the city
for subscriptions is completed the 81 badges
or ribbons will be placed on sale. To facili-
tate the sale of the ribbons the finance COM
mttee has divided the city into four dis
trcts and committee Of six appointed for
each district, whose duty will be to push the
sale. The committees, with their districts,
are as follows:
District No. ALI that portion OF the city
lying east Of Main street and north or
Broadway including the east side of Nam
street and the north side OF Broadway: E.
H. Lougee, Chris Straub. William Larsen,
Dell Morgan, Thomas johnson, E. D. Full
Ter.
District No. ALI that portion of the city
lying east OF Main street and south OF
Broadway. including the east side OF Nam
street and the south side of Broadway: Pat
Ganoude, ]. j. Keith, Ed Brown. John Gret-
ger, jr., John T. Pugh D. E. Stuart.
District No 3-All that portion Of the city
lying west of Main street and south OF
Broadway, including the west side OF Nam
street and the south side of Broadway: W. Il.
Dawson, Frank Hoagland, Cory Reed, Henry
Atkins, w. ]. Jameson Petre Smith.
District No. All that portion of the city
lying west of Main street and north OF
Broadway, including the west side OF Main
street and the north side Of Broadway: Theo
Guitar, Court Grahl l. Lovett, o. Vien'
]. F. Montgomery, Rev. ]. G. Lemen.
Old Soldiers CO-Opernte.
AT the meeting of the executive commit
| tee Yesterday morning j. c. DeHaven and
| Judge Carson, comprising the committee
| from Abe Lincoln post, Grand Army OF the
| Republic. were present to talk over wha'
part the old soldiers should take in the gen
! eral arrangements for the reception IL 's
| expected that large number OF the Veter'
ans Of the civil war from all parts of the
| t1,nt In, IN q 1
| welcoming home Iowas gallant soldier boys
and they will necessarily have to be cared
| for The two committees decided that the
| Grand Army post should care for and en-
| tertain the visiting veterans and that the
| Grand Army hall on Pearl street should be
| designated as headquarters for the veterans
| and their families
| Chairman Lipe Of the committee on nails
| and headquarters reported that measure
ments taken showed that the large hall II
| the Masonic temple would be able to accom-
| modate 62S persons at the banquet; Odd Eel
| laws hall 410; the third floor of the Else
! man building, 52S. ard the fourth floor
the same building, 43S. By utilizing these
three buildings 1904 persons could be ac
| commodated at the banquet. The commit
| tee also reported that it had secured tht
| following halls and places to be used a
headquarters for the different companies II
the regiment: The county court house, th
city hall the Ganymede Wheel club rooms
in the Grand Hotel annex, Hughes hall, Re
publican club rooms in Metcalf building
Labor Union hall at 1O1 Main street, For
esters' hall on third floor Of Brown block
Owl club rooms in same building, knight
of Pythias hall in Merriam block, Wood
men OF the World hall, Masonic lodge rooms
Odd Fellows lodge rooms and Marcus hall
where the Dinner is Prepared.
Proprietor Matthews of the Ogden hous
has offered the committee the use for tha
day OF the large dining room and kitchen c
the hotel The refreshment committee, 1t
expected will make use OF the kitchen {
the Ogden house to prepare the banquet II
The refreshmcnt committee Is hard a
work and is soliciting contributions fror
the more wealthy farmers throughout tn
county OF poultry, butter and eggs an
; vegetables. This plan was suggested b
some OF the farmers themselves, who nc
tilted the committee they were willing an
ready to do their share toward entertainin
the soldier boys.
The executive committee decided yeste
day that Governor Shaw should be invite
to deliver the address of welcome and MayC
Jennings wrote to the governor at Sa
Francisco asking him to do So Invitation
were also sent out yesterday to every cal
didate for the state Legislature.
The transportation committee has met wi
/ unqualified success in the matter of secu
ing low rates from the various railroad
/ Some OF the local ticket agents have alreat
received reduced rate schedules which she
!, that the rates given are even lower tht
" the basis applied for by the committee, Th
, | ha eli n
for the round trip from all towns with
d a radius OF 200 miles from Council Bluff
u The reduced rates made by the railroads (
the day OF the reception are to apply TO
towns throughout the state.