Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-31
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FOR COMMIT \. Tees.
Just What Salt Lakers Must Do
To Prepare for Record
Breaking Crowd.
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TWENTY : ONE COMMITTEES.
TWENTY ONE COMMITTEES.
They viii be Appointed Next
Week and viii Supervise
Every Detail.
The 1',,uncc Committee Must Raise
100000 Which the Executive COM
lnittec Mill Have to Disb,rsc.

The definite work which Salt Lake
has to do to put her house III order
% receive the largest annual gathering
that occurs In 1909 at any spot on the
American continent, will begin with
the appointment next week of a super
yisory executive committee for the
forty-tliird annual encampment of the
Grand Army Of tho Republic.
Mayor John S. Bransford is at pres
ent tho only official member Of this
committee. He was designated to be
chairman by tile Commercial club
board OF governors, and upon his.
shoulders has been put the task Of
calling a meeting Of those he wishes to
help him in the work Of producing a
successful encampment. This meeting
he will call In the very near future,
probably early next week, and the peo-
pic OF Salt Lake win then know just
how they are to prepare for the Grand
= Army 8encnimpment, and just what
there is to be done. The executive
committee Will have no merely hon-
I, oi-afy task of receiving the holors and
plaudits Of the occasion. Theirs will
sjibe the task OF preparing every detail,
of supervising absolutely AL eNpendi-
+ lures, and of appointing all other COM
1nittees to participate in the arrange
: 1ncnt of particular features of the en-
z campment work.
Under them VIII serve, Salt Lakes
young army OF 900 soldiers of thu
common good who will be employed
Z as guides, committeeman, and in other
capacities tending to the general sue
4 cess of the gencampment. BY them Will
Z be appointed 81 committees, each charg-
5etl with important responsibilities, to
be created by the executive committee.
How some things will be handled Is
+ already known. They are fixed by reg
atlation or the G. A. X. One or these
i is how tile parade is to be rum No To-
cal official has any authority over this
parade. 1t Is the commanders pa
Iade, aud the commander Of the Grand
Army has power. over every feature of
ut to the last float that may be allowed
in the line.
Fl PROPOSED PARADE.
Through Col Sterrett he has made
Known some of the limitations on the
1iarade. One Is that it absolutely must
not be more than two miles long, and
another is that it9must end the min
ute the old soldiers pass the reviewing
stand. Experience, Col. Sterrett states,
show that a parade longer than two
2
ana that a parade less than this length
& cannot accommodate the demands for
space In il. Salt Lakes big parades
have had 1000 or less people in them.
For this parade $4,000 veterans alone
3 are promised, with possibility that
{ there will be $4,000. The parade must
Z pass the Commercial club, a grand
& stand, a chldren's stand. and the COM
& n,ander-in-cfief reviewing stand And
then It must end the minute 1t has
pnssed this latter stand, by the wish of
a the comnandcr-in-chiefn us already ex-s
& pressed.
4 !; The week Of The encampn1cnt will.
be from Aug, 8 to Aug. IA. The eXecu-4
tive committee (which will have in
charge the spending of all money rails
ed, will also appoint tho 81 sub-com-
nlittces.
GETTING 100000,
The finance committee, which, will be
the most important Of these will have
the duty of raising exactly SEQ, 900.
& Thisis the sum ! t was estimated would
4 just carry the encampmcnt before Salt
Lake got into the game of working for
the encampmcnt, 1t Will raise this
money by soliciting a legislative ap-
preparation, n civic appropriation, SUB
scrptionS from pubic citizens and IN
all other practicable ways. Once rails
LnG sum w III gDtc I)lSlttu IL
of the executive committee, to be
checked against only by checks signed
by its chairman, and approved by Its
auditing committee.
THE SIDE TRIPS
To care FOL. all side trips there will
he a transportation committee. Its lR-
formation on all available lake trips,
resort trips, canyon and mining camp
trips, must be furnished Col. Sterrntt
at unce, with signed statements from
those lnscharSe OF transportation that
their rates Will be as stated. Then
II, q, booklet TO be issued March !. to
he sent to every Grand Army member,
these trips, with their cost VIII be
described.
Besides this work, the, transportation
committee will have charge of secur-
4 ing the best rate it can on the rail-
roads to the encampment.
ONE PRICE HOTEL RULE.
81. sDonft think the Grand Army Will be
mortaIly offended IL somebody in your
city tries to make four prices off one
meal or one hotel room" said Col. Ster'
rett this morning. when asked about
h the duties of the hotels committee. II