The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-11
WOMEN WILL COME
BY SPECIAL TRAIN
ARRIVE THICK
AND FAST TOMORROW.
Every Road Leading to Minneapolis
Will Garry from One to a Dozen
State Delegations Of w. r. q. or L.
of q. A. r. Committees Still List
Rooms for Encampment Visitors.

The department delegations Of W.
Z. G. and Ladies of the G. A. R. will
begin to come in tomorrow, and they
will continue coming all thru Monday
and Tuesday. The Colorado delegates
are expected over the North Western
sapdaH lumber nj Pr snee MGaday yrsns at am
scheduled: Iowa viii come over the
Minneapolis & st.: LouisI Tennessee
and the Army Of the Wilderness, Great
Westernj Pennsylvania, over the Mil
waukee. The Custer post Of st. Joe,
Mo-, will come over the Great Western
at the same time. Ohio will arrive on
the Great Western half an hour later,
at $3.50 am, while Kansas will play
Rock Island at 7 am.
The Columbia post Of Chicago win
travel on the North w Western, reaching
Minneapolis Monday at 8 am, and at
noon Of the same day the Memorial
post Of Cleveland will arrive over the
Burlington, Kentucky will come on the
North estern and Cincinnati over the
Milwaukee. Indiana will not arrive
until Tuesday, when the delegation is
Central.
California Has Candidate.
The California delegation will come
Francisco and the other from Los An
geles. Mrs. Eliza Warburton Of San
Diego, department president, will come
With the southern people, as will also
Mrs. Lizzie Belle Cross, past depart
ment president, and Mrs. Mary E.
Hartwell. Mrs. Hartwell has been a
prominent candidate for the office Of
national president several times, and
it is not impossible that her name may
ha oh oil hn Hn-
partmenf Of California and Nevada has
one candidate, Mrs. Geraldine Frisbie
of Palo Alto, who will come on the
northern train. Mrs. Frisbie is also
a past department. president. and her
name was presented to the national
body at it's last meeting. Mrs. Eliza
beth Dorsey Kinney. treasurer OF, the
wives built and maintained by the W.
R. C. of California and Nevada, will
also be with the northern delegation.
Ohio Sends Forty. :
There will be about forty members
Of the W. R. G. who. will come from
Ohio. They will arrive on the official
train over the Wisconsin Central, Mon
day at $3.50 am. All Of the depart
ment officers will accompany the dele
ggga;tioni; The department: pressideat Is
field, daughter Of the late General
Mclaughlin,
In order that the Ohio people may
meet, all their old friends from the
buckeye state, they have arranged an
informal reception at the headquarters
in the, West hotel for Tuesday evening
from to 8 O'Clock. The department
presidents of the W. R. G. and g. A. R,
| will receive with their stats.
Everybody Wants to Come.
Mrs. Bertha Allen, chairman of the
accommodation committee. is not re-
| ceiving as many letters as she did. II
| is too late for people to ask for &C.
| commodations and expect to receive 9
reply before they leave home, SO they
are trusting to the hospitality of Min
neapolis, feeling sure that places viii
be provided for them after they arrive
| There is every prospect that this vii
| be the largest convention of the W. R
G. in the history Of the order, for every
department is sending large delega
tions.
Come by Carload. -
"Where departments used to senG
only few members, they are going K
apolis,' exclaimed~one woman who has
been in close touch with the convention
work. -
cit is all because everybody wht
has ever been in Minneapolis wants tc
come again, and if they haven't beer
here they are all the more anxious tt
come the first time," laughed anothe,
W. r. G. worker.
SO it is fortunate that the accommo
dation committee is still listing roms
There are a number Of people who seen
to fear that they will not receive thei1
quota Of visitors and keep the tele
phone ringing to ask who has been as
signed to them. They need not worry
Anyone in Minneapolis who wants tx
entertain G.. A. R. visitors next weel
can have them.
Many Rooms Offered.
AHho the w. R. G. canvass for rooms
was closed more than week ago, some
of the canvassers are still listing rooms
One woman in North Minneapolis hat
ffty-two offered her yesterday. In on
case a fat was unexpectedly found tt
be vacant and the woman who ivet
across the hall rented it, furnished i
attractively and listed the rooms will
the accommodation committee. Anothe
woman who has been spending the sum
mer out of town but expected to return
for G. A: R: week, has found hersel
her home over to the committee 70, th
accommodation of the veterans
Mrs. Allen and her assistants will
spend busy day tomorrow in thei
headquarters in the. West hotel, fur
nishing rooms to. the throng which will
come in on the days trains. But bus,
as the day will be. it will not hold :