The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-27
ADVERTISED RIGHT
BY BURLINGTON
MINNEAPOLIS rs THE q. A. r. EN-
CAMPMENT CITY.
Railroad Officials Correct Error and APP
pease Wrath of Encampment People
From Way Down East Come Re
quests for Quarters for Members Of
the Grand Army.

Minneapolis and not st. Paul is to be
the 1906 encampment city of the G..
A: r., according to an elaborate folder
which has just been published by the
burlington road, and members of the
public affairs committee Of the Com
GUS objection to the recent lapse of the
Burlington in advertising St. Paul as
the encampment city, announce that
the typographical error incident is
satisfactorily closed
When folder advertising the Grand
Army encampment in ST. Paul was dis
tributed by the Burlington late in
The Burlington officials recalled the
was due to typographical error.
10 show their good faith the officials
of the Burlington have not only printed
IN Minneapolis at the roads expense
10000 copies of each of the two book
lets issued by the Grand Army com
duction to the Great City Of the Great
Northwest, and Things You Want
to Know About Minneapolis" but they
arranged for the publication Of $4,000
Grand Army folders advertising the
encampment and the beauties Of Min
neapoIis. These folders and booklets
were issued today and will be generally
CuS route OF CQc
Burlington. A perusal of the folder
will leave no room for doubt as to the
| convention city, for the word "Minne-
| apolis' appears with commendable fire.
| quency. ..-.<.,.-
| Veterans from the East.
! AS an indication Of the crowd which
may be expected in Minneapolis during
encampment week, Chairman Wallace
G. Nye of the public affairs committee
received today a request from Hamil-
ton,. Ohio, for accommodation for forty
veterans. From a small town in New
York came a like request for thirty
members of the G. A. R.. and from a
little town in northern Vermont came
| soldiers would make the trip together
Considering the fact that the veterans
who attend the encampment will be in
| the minority, compared with the visit
ors not enrolled in the. organization,
the demand for quarters is remarkabl
one old soldier wrote Mr.. Nyc from an
east eastern nrs state IS saying ah, m an old
darn poor, but I IL be in Minneapolis. -
Phil Cheek of Baraboo, Wis, member
OF the executive committee of the
Grand Army council, spent yesterday
IN Minneapolis, going over the plans
and arrangements for the encampment
with Mr.. Nye and others in charge.
He announced himself as perfectly sat.
lsfed with the work of arrangements
and predicted the most successful en-
campment in Grand Army history.
Illinois Men Enthusiastic.
George W. G. .Estover of Escanaba,
Mich, chief clerk Of the railway. mai
service for his district. called on Chief
Clerk u. A. Carr of the Minneapolis
district today. Mr.. Estover is an en-.
thusiastic G. A. R. man and past senior
vice comma nder of, the Department OF
Illinois and past commander of the
Illinois Sons Of Veterans. The prepare.
tions for the encampment here in
August; interested him. greatly and he
says that judging from the spirit OF
the state encampment at Galesburg
Illinois will send strong delegation
and the veterans Of the Escanaba
district will turn out to man.