Omaha daily bee., 1905-08-13
FIVE HUNDRED STRAY BIRDS
Eagles from East Will Stop in Omaha on
Flight to Denver.
OMAHA WANTS THE NEXT CONVENTION
Elaborate Plans 20 Entertain visitors
and secure Next National
Gathering for the
Gate City.

Sunday Omaha aerie No. SS, Fraternal
Order Of Eagles, with committees from the
Commercial club and the knights Of Ak
Sar-Ben, will entertain over 500 Eagle dele
gates enroute from New York, Pennsyl-
vania, West Virginia, Indiana and Ohio to
the Denver convention. The dele
cations will arrive on a special train over
the Northwestern at II a. m and depart
over the Union Pacific at 4:1O. Elaborate
preparations for the entertainment OF the
visitors are being made by the committees
Yin charge. Fifty carriages. besides auto
mobiles and trolley cars, have been en-
gagged. The Commercial club rooms and
the Eagle hall will be open to the dele
gates. Yesterday afternoon d. H. Christie,
president of the local aerie Of Eagles. re.
ceived kilograms from the eastern delega-
tions announcing their arrival here on Sun
day.
The entertainment Of the eastern Eagle
delegates next Sunday mas peculiar signih-
cance, in view of the fact that the Omaha
delegation OF Eagles. 200 strong, will go to
Denver next Monday to attend the seventh
annual convention Of the order with one
OF the strongest bids ever presented by an
Omaha delegation to land large conven-
tion in Omaha
Boom for Convention.
The boom to secure the next national
convention Of Eagles in Omaha has taken
tangible form, in that the Commercial club
and knights of Ak-Sar-Ben have taken
hold of the tow line with the local delega-
tion Of Eagles. On behalf of the citizens
of Omaha in general the mayor will send
an invitation to the Denver convention
asking for the next convention, while the
Commercial club and the Knights of Ak
Sar-Ben will support the mayors invita-
tion with theh individual bids.
When the Omaha and Nebraska delega-
tions reach Denver next Tuesday they will
be loaded for big game, and IL concerted
action will do II Omaha will have the
next convention. which means much for
the city. The invitations of the mayor,
Commercial club and Knights of Ak-sar-
Ben will be presented at the Denver con-
vention by some prominent Omaha man,
yet to be announced
Cincinnati and Boston are known to be
after the convention, but as there have
been four conventions already in the east,
and as next weeks will be the third in
the west, Omaha will have some geograph-
ical argument, to say nothing Of the other
inducements that will be offered
Last year the convention was at Balti-
more, where over $1,000 delegates and mem
bers Of the order were taken care Of Den
yer is preparing TO entertain 10000.
One of the cards up the sleeve of the
Omaha delegation in making it's bid for the
next convention is the promise of a $4,000
entertainment II the convention is secured.
Should the convention be landed it will be
held during the Ak-Sar- Ben fall festivities.
All local Eagles are requested to assist
in the reception of the delegates next Sun
day
Thomas H. Greevy OF Altoona, Pa, presi-
dent of the Fraternal Order of Eagles for
the state of Pennsylvania, has wired his
brother, M. ]. Greevy OF this CITY, that he
will be with the Quaker Eagles.