The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-06
COM MITTEE VI Arms
ALL CANDIDATES
POLITICAL AsPIRANTs CAN HELP
G. A. R. DECORATIONS.
By Smothering Ambition to Tack Up
Pictures and Paint Signs Until After
Encanpuent Week, Seekers for Hon
or and Votes Can Improve City's
Looks. @

All political physiognomies look alike
to the members of the executive com
mittee of the Graud Army encampment,
who are strongly of the opinion that
the visitors to the Minneapolis encamp-
ment should be spared the billboard.
telegraph pole and placard likenesses of
candidates for county and city offices.
say the members Of the committee.
DOM adorn the town with political
Dicturcs until after the encampment. -
The Inference is plain. -
In speaking of the plans. which the
| executive committee has made for
showing Minneapolis at it's best dur
ing the visit of the veterans, Chair
man H. +: Yerxa of the executive COM
mite, said this morning.: ~ suggest
to candidates for political Offices that
they, help our work along by waiting
until after the encampment before
adjoining fences, telegraph poles and
sign boards with likenesses and political
announcing nts. No votes will be made
by exhibiting pictures during cncamD.
ment week. We don't want to deprive
the printers and painters of their in.
come from the practice, and we won It
say a word when the encampment is
! whole town.
| SN~Ao WILL DIG WclCOlIlC.
81 want to call attention to another
thing IN connection with the encamp.
ment. Merchants all over the city can
help immensely in providing for the
comfort of visitors by placing benches
along the street outside their places
OF business. Anybody who ever at
tended an encampment will know what
an accommodation benches and seats
along, the streets would be to veterans
and their friends -
Plans for decorating Minneapolis are
beginning to, assume form and at d
meeting Of the decoration committee
held, yesterday several important sug
gestlons were approved.
/ When the visitor to Minneapolis ar
rives in the city for the encampment
he will be met right at the start with
words of greeting. Near the Milwau
kee,. St. Louis and Union stations i'm
! the streets will bid the, visitors "Wel
come. :" Two. Of these archways, mod
eled on the same pattern, will bridge
| Washington avenue at Third avenue
and Third avenue N, while at Seconi
| street on Bridge Square an immens,
archway, constructed in three part
and bridging in. turn the Hennepi,
car tracks, the junction of Hennepil
and Nicollet and Nicollet avenue viii
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Bridge Square Decorations.
1t has been proposed to the commit
tee that the immense Bridge Squar
arch be constructed as grand stan,
looking up Hennepin and Nicollet ave
nues and if this plan is adopted seat
in the stand will be sold for the benefi
Of the G.. A. R. fund. It is probabl
that the Grand Army parade will tur
from Nicollet up Hennepin at thi
point and in this case the grand stan
would be the best place in the cit
from which to view the spectacle.
Along the line Of march flags hangin
at regular. intervals over the heads O
} the marching veterans will be a featur
! of the decorations and on Fourth stree
and Seventh street, between Hennepi
, and First avenue S, the Gro ling fea
ure of the encampment, the Grant an
Lincoln court of honor, will be il
stalled; Victory. is to be the emblem
, attic idea governing the decoration
and arrangement Of the Grant court c
honor, while the Lincoln court wi
typify liberty.
In addition to the street decoration
planned by the committee, the Audit,
! rum and other buildings where Gran
Army exercises are to be held will b
appropriately decorated.
Mayor Gives $1,000.
The Grand Army encanpment finn