The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-07-08
INTEREST GROWS
IN ENCAMP PMEN1
Parkway Maine Will Send a
Considerable Delegation to
This City.
COLORADO NEWSPAPERS
URGE BIG ATTENDANCE
Dr.. A. s. Condor of Ogden
Writes Patriotic Letter to
Executive Director.

Something of the interest which ha.
been aroused throughout the country bv
the holding of the forty third nationa,
encampment of the G, 4. R. in salt
Lake City this coming August is in.
dicated by the communications received
at the executive office Wednesday dc.
scribing what is being done in other
at the great event.
Executive Director Frank NJ. Ster.
rett said Wednesday that Dr.. A,
Condor, who recently visited the of
tlces, called attention TO the action OF
the county commissioners OF Weber
county in approprlating 81 900 for the
expenses OF the encampment and the
people of the city of Ogden appropriat-
ing similar amount. DR.. Condor said:
The people OF Ogden are heart-to- heart
with the people OF Salt Lake City in their
effort TO suitably entertain the Grand
army Of the Republic
The honor OF entertaining that fast
dissolvins band OF patriots devolves on
the state. the whole state. and not on
any one section. 1t neither belongs 70
salt Lake City nor to Ogden, nor any
other municipality, but the whole people
of the state Will be inspired by their
presence.
! AS TO the appropriation of the money
made by Ogden and the county. l thinl;
probably the people would have dIsap-
proved If it had been voted TO swell the
general fund.
The following article. which appeared
recently in the Pueblo Star-J Journal. in,
dicates the manner in which the citi-
zens OF Colorado are being urged to at
tend the encampment:
Colorado in Force.
Colorado should give hearty support to
,
Army OF the Republic, that Is 10 be held
in August at Salt Lake City. This entire
section of the country should labor earn
estty for the success OF any great national
gathering held within its confines. and not
| Salt Lake city, but all o. the Rocky
mountain region has been honored by the
selection OF our neighbor city oy the
veterans
Colorado being the largest in point Of
bordering upon Utah. should certainly
send the banner delegation to the en-
campment especially since the expense
OF attendance is less for this state than
for any other.
The railroads have done their best TO
promote the success of the gathering. and
especially IN Colorado; the Denver 4 Rio
Grande, which is the official route. has
made well-nish perfect arrangements for
the accommodation OF the veterans and
others who wish to visit the enca ulpmert.
1t will be TO this states everlasting dis
grace II II fails TO take advantage OF these
opportunities and to show proper eour-
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respect 10 the veterans or the great civil
struggle, and IN is believed that no suci,
stigma will attach 10 Colorado. but that
the Centennial State will rise TO its op-
portuDitiss and demonstrate that il Is
rightly regarded as the leading common
wealth OF the Rocky mountain section.
From Far Off Maine,
Even the people of far off Maine
are planning to be present in numbers
at the encampment, aud Department
Commander James l.. Merrick OF Water
vile has made arrangements 20 take
party 10 tins city.
The route will be over the Grand
Trunk railway from Portland and Lewis
ton to Montreal. Toronto, Port Huron
and Chicago: thence over the Chicago,
Milwaukee & ST. Paul railway 10 Oma-
ha: thence over the Rock Island rail
road to Colorado Springs and over the
Colorado Midland railway TO Salt Lake
City Returning the route will be over
the Denver 4 Rio Grande railroad from
Salt Lake City to Colorado Springs;
thence over the Rock Island railroad 10
Kansas City. ST. Louis and Chicago;
thence Grand Trunk railway 10 Detroit.
Niagara Falls, Toronto. Montreal and
TO Lewiston and Portland,
The party will leave Portland. Wed"
nesdav evening, August l. train
will also leave Lewiston that will sc-
commodate people living IN Lewiston,
Auburn and on the back road, so
called. and save expense OF going into
Portland. A complete itinerary of the
trip will be mailed upon application to
James L. Merrick, Waterville. Maine.