The Minneapolis journal., 1906-08-08
CITY READY FOR
COMING GUESTS
COMMITTEES FINISH EVERY
THING POSSIBLE TO DO.
Headquarters Will Be Moved Saturday
to Ground Floor of West Hotel-De-
tails for Care of Strangers Include
Service of Every Naturalization
of Booths. @ szs x @s
additional G.. A. r. news on Page 4. }

Saturday morning will find every
thing in Minneapolis ready for the en-
tertainment of the fortieth national en-
campment Of the Grand Army of the
Republic. All plans are complete.
Everything for the care and comfort of
provision made. These plans will be
put into effect Saturday when the ad
vance guard of the encampment, headed
by Commander-in- Chief James Tanner.
and his party, will arrive. .. eas:.
/. Up. to the present time headquarters
for all encampment activities has been
in the office Of the Commercial club
cial club. For encampment week the
headquarters Of all committees will be
at SOP Hennepin avenue, in one Of the
ground floor stores of the West hotel.
Secretary Wallace G. Nye Of the G. A.
R. committees, who has had most of
the work in charge during the months
Of preparation, and all encampment
committees will be at headquarters.
Each Department Represented.
Each of the active committees in
charge Of certain department. of the
encampment work will have desk in
headquarters, and the chairman or some
members of the committee will be in
charge. In addition, the quarters will
be used for rest and information quar-
ters for the benefit of visi tors. All
orders relative to the work of care and
entertainment will come from the gen
eral headquarters. One active commit
tee, that on parade, will have headquar-
ters in room POI Andrus building.
Accommodation bureaus, rest and in
formation rooms, information booths
and registry stations have been def
nitely located There are to be three
general accommodation bureaus, where
| visitors who have not reserved rooms
! will be assigned to quarters in private
houses, hotels, boarding houses, etc. One
will be in a large tent at the union
station on High street. Another will be
in the city hall, at the Fourth street
entrance, accommodating the Milwau
kee and Great Western stations. The
N for the St. Louis and 500 stations
These also will be open Saturday morn
j Veterans registration rooms, where
all veterans are urged to register thei]
names and addresses by the regiment:
IN which they served will be at 5l(
Rest, and information rooms will b.
! open Saturday morning at the follow
ing points, IL Seventh street S; 81
! Second avenue S. 502 Hennepin ave
! nue.; As Fourth street S; Fifth stree
rs; old city hall, Bridge square; 8.
Third street S; new city hall, Fourt]
street entrance; Y. W. G. A. building
81 Seventh street S.
In these places clerks will be, cor
-stantly on duty, to answed question
strangers. Chairs and settees will b
provided, also, that visitors may rest.
knowledge Adjuncts.
Smaller information booths will b
open Saturday morning at the follow
ing corners: : Union station ~'Nicolle
and Washington, Nicollet and Fourtl
Nicollet and Sixth, Nicollet and Eight
street, Hennepin and Washington; Hel
nepin and Fourth, Henneinp and Sixt]
Hennepin and Eighth, Fourth stree
and Second avenue s, Fifth street an
Second avenue S, Chicago Great Wester
station, Milwaukee station, Sevent
, street and First avenue s, First avenr
S and Washington.
These booths will be small boxes ST.
toned on the corners named, and wi
be plainly marked to show their pu
, pose! In each will be clerk who wi
furnish all necessary information abo,
the city. Folders similar to railros
circulars with maps and detailed dire
I tions for finding any point of intere
in the city will be distributed free fro
: these booths. During the parade tv
, additional booths, one at Nicollet al
Tenth and one at Park and Tenth, W:
> be established.