The Morning examiner. [volume] (Ogden, Utah) 1904-1910, 1909-02-21
DISCUSSION N
OF CHANGE
OF DATE
OF NO AVAIl-ouTtooK AT PRES
EMIT UNFAVORh5lE
oIs,Logan Post and Local oroaniza-
tions Make Strong Endeavor-s%-
ecutIVe Turns Down Proposition

The question Of changing the cato
for the national encampment Tor the
Grand Army Of the Republic IN SAT-
Lake this Year has been duly con
sldered and IL now seems that the date
will not be changed The date, August
9.14. 1t seems, has been quite eXten'
siyely advertised. and It Is thought by
the directors Of the affair think IL
would be unwise at this time TO make
a change which would neceseitate re-
advertising and readjusting matters IN
many ways,
The Dlx-Logan post OF Ogden, To-
gether with the Chamber or commerce
and the Weber club, have made
strong endeavor to have the date
changed, but it appears now that uneir
efforts will be Of no avail. a letleI
from the executive director, Colonei
F. NJ. Sterrett. addressed TO the sec
retary OF the Ogden Chamber OF |oHl-
merce. Is self-explanatory and appa-
rently settles the question oil onanglhg
the date. II reads. IN part.
salt Lake City, Utah. Dear SIT:
Your communication 'of the fourth
inst. addressed to W. NJ. Bostaph.
and endorsed BY unanimous vote OF
the Dix Logan post No. 8. department
OF Utah G, A. r., has been presented
to me by a delegation from said post
with request that change OF date
Of the forty-third national encampmcnt
Grand Army of the Republic might
be conidered.
The COMMUNICATIVE and his eX-
ecutive committee, Of which the under
signed is a member and chairman
thereof. took this enIlre matter up and
discussed it carefully at their meet
ing here on December Is and 10. and
fixed the dates OF August 9-14, 190?
Since this time there has been re-
quest made Of the commander-in-chlet
that the date be changed to the TWEEN
ty-first TO twcnty-eighth of August. and
this the commander-in-chief has re
fuse.l to do because Of the fact that
10 more than 5000 posts, camps
tents, corps. circles. etc. comprising
our own order and those of allied pa
triotic organizations, notices have been
given of the dates fixed, and the same
dates have been advertised by all the
local railroad agents Of the country
| and by the folders Of several steam
railroad lines You will observe that
the change Of dates would now in
| volyc the Issue of new literature &c
| the extent OF about 30 900 agencies and
| organizations.
Your statement that the choicest
fruits of this yalley-especialll
peaches-will not be ripe between the
! ninth and the fourteenth Of August
| is to be regretted, but | am Informed
/ that the season will be from two tc
four months earlier this year thar
| formerly.
The statement that Yellowstone
| park is much more desirable In Sep
tember than In the latter part of Au
| gust, is possibly open to some discus
sion / broke ice an Inch thick In {
| rain barrel on the morning Of Angus
IS. 1898. and ] am told that the parl
itself closes by government direction
on September ].
'ln reference TO the Alaska Yukon
| Pacific exposition, ] am quite certain
that few of the members OF our organ
ization or visitors who may come here
| for the encampment will take In th'
Alaska Yukon Pacific e1position,r bu
there will be large number who de
sire to take In Yellowstone park. Thu
Columbian exposition, the st Louis
worlds fair. and other exhibitions II
the east have been SO extensively at
tended by the people Of the easter
section Of the country that that feature
will scarcely cut any figure at all.