The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-18
BEDS FOR. G. A. R.,
SIRA W FOR FAMILY
PATRIOTIC WOMEN WILL HOUSE
THE VETERANS.
Task Of Finding Encampment Visitors
Place to Sleep and Rest and Plenty
to Eat and Drink Will Be Under
taken by Auxiliaries In Systematic
Manner.
Manner.

I'll put the family on straw ticks
In the attic and give the bed springs
and the bed rooms to the old soldiers, Z.
said patriotic woman when asked if
she. could find room for a few Of the
| thousands Of Grand Army veterans who
will throng Minneapolis in August.
1t is this spirit that the members of
the committee from the Woman s Relief
corps is meeting in the canvass for &C.
commodations for the vast multitude of
visitors Minneapolis is to entertain.
The women really have not begun their
canvass and will not take it up syste-
matically until the first Of July The
! Denver women began earlier last year
and when the veterans arrived it was
found that many who had offered their
homes had moved and had not left
their new addresses. The Minneapolis
women are determined to avoid any
thing of that sort and will not begin to
list rooms until the moving season is
over. They will work under the, gen
eral direction of the Grand Army exec
utive committee. ~.
More than 2000 900 persons coming! A
large number to find accommodations
for, but the Woman's Relief corps is
not a bit worried. The women know
that Minneapolis is hospitable and the
response to any inquiry has been 80
ready and cordial that they feel that
all they will have to do is to ask and
the homes will be opened.
-. Work BY System.
The city has been divided into dis
trlcts according to car lines. Each dis
trict has been placed in charge of one
of the Relief corps women who will
select as many assistants as she needs.
Supplied with cards which are to be
filled out with names, addresses, num-
Der of rooms, number of persons who
can be accommodated, price and state
ment whether meals will be served or
not, these women will visit every house
in town. The cards, when they are
filled out, will be returned to the Com
mercial, club committee. There are
twenty-on one Of these districts and Mrs.
Bertha Allen is- chairman Of the COM
mittee in charge of them.
On the East Side the college men
will give way to the veterans in many
Of the fraternity houses The homes
| Of the Greek letter men are usually
closed during vacation, and they win
form ideal homes for the Grand Army
| while it is in the city. The Kappa
Sigma men have CALAMITY made over
their fraternity house to the Daughters
Of Veterans from Massachusetts, and
houses near the campus are expected
to follow their example.
i, NOT only have the fraternity houses
been annexed by the vigilant commit
tee, but the women have their eyes on
the vacant fats. One East Side apart.
ment house where the ''For rent :" sign
will be hanging in five flats will replace
the sign with flags during Grand Army
week. Each fiat will be filled with cots
from the parlor to the kitchen.
| Il: = Vacant Houses Popular. 81.
| ;, Vacant houses are also to be trans
formed into temporary lodging houses
as long. as, cots can be secured to flll
to furnish all Of these flats ana houses,
but the, committee seems to be conf:
dent that they can be. secured. In
many cities 1t has been necessary to
that comes with the national encamp-
ment, but the; committee hopes that va
cant houses and fats will make The
tents unnecessary and certainly they
Will be better for the veterans and thei1
friends. The cots in the flats anc
houses will be rented for so cents, each
a night, while rooms in private houses
will range from $3.50 to So.
The question Of meals will be as i'm
|
eran must be fed. No doubt new lunch
rooms will be opened downtown, and al
each Of the convention halls arrange
ments will be made for the serving Of
a MONDAY meal which will relieve
some Of the congestion that is bound
to be in the business center. ! =
/ Mrs. Marietta ,Sleight will make ar
rangements for. three regiments From
New York. Mrs. sleight is a New
York woman and she will see that tn
men from her state secure three goo,
meals a day. She will have a ten
erected on the east side and will b.
assisted by small army of youn.
/ Comfort for Marchers. -. ..
I The women of the Relief corps ar
also planning to serve refreshment
along the line Of march the day Of tn
charge Of the arrangements which ar
being made by the federation Of corps
A group Of women will be statione,
every few blocks to refresh the veter
ans with lemonade and other coolin
drinks and sandwiches.
These women Of the Relief CORDS ar
going to be mighty busy until after tn
encampment Is over for another affai
that will take lot of planning is tn
Dig reception which will be given l.
the university armory Tuesday after
noon, Aug. IA. Mrs. Perry Stark
weather has charge Of the decoration
and flags and bunting will f1utter a
they never futtered before in the BIZ
drill room and over the university cam
pus. The reception will be for all til
allied orders as we'll as the g. A. R. an
will probably be the largest patriot
gathering ever held in the city. /
All of these matters and many NOR