Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-09-05
GAR. HOSTS|N DENVER
Flags and Streamers Greet
War Veterans.
MANY THOUSAND THERE
HOSPITABLE CITIZENS MEET IN
COMING TRAINS.
Candidates for Office Have Arrived
Ex-Prisoners Of War Hold
Convention.
Special Dispatch to The Star.

special Dispatch to The Star.
DENVER, Col. September 5.-Denver is
a city transformed today. With hundreds
Of thousands of flags and streamers gayly
waving. 200 bands playing in different
streets and multitudes of vari-colored cleo
trio lights twinkling welcome to the hosts
of veterans who are attending the thirty
ninth national encampment Of the Grand
Army of the Republic, Denver Is by night
fairyland by day grand old rollicking.
hospitable, patriotic city. These are be-
tween 100000 and $4,000 visitors here to-
day. and the city is theirs
Beginning with last Wednesday. the rush
of visitors began. On that day five hurried
ly made up trains on the Burlington came
in from the east. The reports Of attend
ance throughout Missouri and Kansas had
grown to such an extent that hundreds
became convinced that unless they started
Immediately they would have no chance Of
entering the city. Accordingly. about 5000
persons who originally had no intention Of
coming until Saturday of last week arrived
here on Wednesday.
Three hundred attendants, divided into
shifts of 100 each, meet every train, night
or day, that comes into the station. The
visitors are directed to the rooms they have
engaged or turned over to the accomiEoda-
lions committee in one of the tents where
they can secure reservations In case they
have come unprepared. Guides are sent to
accompany those who feel unable to find
their way about the city. BY Thursday
afternoon there We're at least 5000 visitors
to the encampment already in Denver.
Every hour since then more
crowded trains have arrived. until now the
number is well over 1O0,00 The rate or
/ cent per mile is the lowest for long dis
tances over Monday in Denver, and it will
probably be many years before 1t is again
in effect. This, in great measure. accounts
for the huge crowds that are now in the
city.
All the candidates for the office of COM
mander-in-chief are in the city. The fight
for the position is not expected to be very
close as all indications seem TO point to the
election of Corporal James Tanner OF
Washington, d. C. The following depart
ments. with 3O5 woes, have unanimously in
dOrsed him for the office: Virginia and
North Carolina. Arkansas. Texas. TenneS-
see Kansas. New Hampshire, Wisconsin,
Michigan and New York. A majority OF
the representatives of seven departments
for example, twenty-one of twenty-nine del
egates of the Department of the Potomac
entitled to 224 votes, and more than 100
other individuals. aggregating over one-half
OF the total membership and two-th!rds or
the average attendance, have notified the
!, chairman Of his congressional committee
that they will vote for him.
His most active and dangerous opponent
is probably Gen. Robert Brown of Zanes-
willie, Ohio He has the Ohio and Pennsyl-
vania delegations pledged for him and a
large number of scattering votes. No espe-
cial line can be drawn on his prospects,
however, or those Of the other candidates,
Gen. George Stone of San Francisco and
Senator Charles G.. Burton of Nevada, Mo.
1t is probable that Gen. Stone will With
draw. as up to the time he arrived in Den
yer he was undecided whether to permit his
name to be used. The overwhelming strength
OF Gen. Brown and Corporal Tanner renders
inadvisable the candidacy of Gen. Stone.
At O'Clock this afternoon the convention
OF the NatiOpal Association of Union Ex-
Prisoners of War will be held in the taber-
nacle at Goth and Lawrence streets. In the
large lecture room Of the same structure
and at the same time the women's auxiliary
of the organization will hold its national
convention.
These are the first of the meetings to be
held. At 7:30 o'clock this evening a camp
fire of the Union ex-prisoners of war will
be held In the tabernacle. and from to 10
o'clock a reception will be rendered Com
mander- in-chief John r. King by the Ma
tonal Women's Relief Corps in the parlors
of the Brown Palace Hotel.