Omaha daily bee., 1909-05-24
BOOSTERS CLAD TO Get IN
Trade Excursionists Home and Happy
After Successful Tour.
BEM1s SIREN HERALDs COMING
Trip Through Iowa was One Un-
broken Triumph for Omaha, n
Market Town, and the Best
Yet Made.

With the band playing We're Here Be
cause We're Here" to the accompaniment
OF the big siren whistle. the long train of
tired, but happy boosters pulled into
Omaha at 100 yesterday evening.
The train had been given a clear track
from Fort Dodge, leaving there at 3 O'Clock
In the morning, and the boosters visited
some twenty towns between there and
home. They were given the usual hearty
welcome which has been accorded them at
every point along the 1000 miles which
they have covered in the week.
The entire populations of all the towns
along the route from Fort Dodge to Omaha
turned out TO bid the people from the
Market Town welcome and the train stop
ped from five to twenty minutes at each
place. At aiming and Harlan the Oma-
hans we're met with automobiles and
escorted over the town and shown all the
sights In a royal manner.
An attempt was made several times dur
ing the trip to get a moving picture Of
the train pulling in at a station and the
crowd alighting from 1t and mingling with
the crowd, which waited to welcome them.
At Minden the moving picture man was
placed upon a high tressle over the track
and the train backed out of the city down
the track that it had just come in on. 1t
then came putting into the station and the
crowd mingled with the throng on the plat
form while the picture machine did its
duty. The engineer, however, seemed to
nave gotten his dates mixed and when the
order was given to pull out he started at
such a terrific rate that the boosters ex-
perienced some difficulty in going with it.
The picture machine was still doing its
duty bravely and got it all.
viii Celebrate the Trip.
The excursionists are planning a dinner
to be held at the Commercial club in cele-
bration of the trip as soon as the tourists
feel able to stand it and the moving pic
lures are ready to show.
One marked feature of the trip was the
excellent handling by the railroads. Every
thing was sidetracked to allow the, trade
excursion to pass ana at no time during
the entire trip was there any delay.
Every one of the 100 men who went
came home little the worse for the wear.
There was not the slightest accident, and
II anyone has any objection to the treat
ment melted out to him at any place ne
has not reported II.
Secretary J. NJ. Guild said last night that
ne tnouBht TINS Was the largest affair of
Its kind ever attempted by any city and
met with remarkable success at every
turn. All worked together like clock work
and have given Omaha the big boost they
started out to do IN grand style.
Gilliat was the last stop made and the
people there seemed TO realize the party
was pretty well worn out and glad 1t was
nearing home, so when the boosters were
marching back to the station after their
tour around the town the band played
Home, Sweet Home" with a very marked
effect.
II was with a feeling of greatest graft
fication that the boosters heard the great
Bemis siren as they started across the
bridge and when Union station was reached
each mar grabbed his little go-away sack
and made for the friends who were there
In great numbers to meet them.