The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-25
SAYS ENCAMPMENT
MAY SWAMP CITY
Commander in Chief Of Grand
Army Of the Republic
Visits City.
Declares Vast Throng Will Be
Here and Tax Housing and
Feeding Arrangements.

Minneapolis must wake up or the
city will be swamped with visitors dur
ing grand army week. -
This is the note Of warning sounded
by Corporal James A. Tanner, COM
mander-in-c of the Grand Army of
city en- route to Bismarck, where he
will attend the North Dakota encamp-
ment Of the G.. A. R.
Corporal Tanner is in Minneapolis
unofficially. He is completing tour
of the country, and has spent the last
two months in attending state encamp-
ments of the organization Of which he
is. the head. He delivered an address
Thursday at Yankton, at the South Da-
address the veterans at Bismarck.
At the West hotel today, Corporal
Tanner said: 1T have travelled over
$4,000 miles in the last two months, at
tending state encampments and other
official functions, and in every part Of
the country there is great interest in
the encampment at Minneapolis.
have had an opportunity to study en-
campment conditions during the past
few years, and Minneapolis must wake
up to the problem Of housing and feed
ing the multitudes that will take adj
vantage Of the encampment rates to
visit Minnesota and Minneapolis.
Must Be Impressed.
t"This fact cannot be too seriously
impressed on the people. I cannot es-
innate the attendance at the encamp-
ment, but in South Dakota every veter-
making the trip to Minneapolis, and I
find the same attitude all over the
country. Railroad men say that there
Is an unprecedented demand for &C
commodations in the, way of special
trains and special cars. The only thing
that will operate to keep down the at
tendance is the fact that cheap rates
will not go into effect in time to make
possible short stay in Minneapolis be-
fore the convention, and the fact that
the convention is earlier than usual and
SO little time is left for advertising
low rates.
"One Of the interesting things in
connection with the Minneapolis en-
campment will be the report made on
the membership Of the Grand Army:
Incredible as it seems, an increase of
more than 1000 in membership will
be reported over losses and deaths.
each year, but the veterans Of the war
are joining the organization. and it
will number about 235, 900 in its ranks.
About one-half Of the civil-war vet.
Grams belong to the organization.
2 Stand Well in South.
ttIn my trip thru the south I was
delighted to find that the members Of
the Grand Army stand we'll in the
nation came from the Confederate vet
Grams themselves. was invited to
| speak before Confederate veteran camp
fires and was entertained most cor
daily. There are evidences Of wonder
full prosperity thruout the southern
states. Buildings are going up and
business seems to be booming. This
was especially noticeable at Dallas,
Chattanooga a Birmingham ha an. and 81 Paso.
people there were two things upon
which I could not congratulate them;
the condition of the tpoor whites and
the labor conditions in the southern
cotton mills. Philanthropists in the
north are contributing vast sums Of
money to the education Of the negro,
while the poor whites are growing up
in absolute illiteracy. In the cotton
mills negro laborers are not employed
labor. AS result. you see children
stunted and anemic. -
Corporal Tanner and his party, com
sisting Of Mrs. Tanner and Mrs. Jane
Adams Of Superior, Wis, president Of
the. Woman 8 Relief Corps, will leave
tonight for Bismarck. An automobile
ride to Lake Minnetonka and along the
line OF march of the big. encampment
parade was taken. this afternoon, and
this evening an informal reception will
be rendered Commander Tanner by
John A. Rawlins post in the post rooms
All members Of the Grand Army are
invited to attend the reception.