The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-06-30
SAYS c. 4. R. IS
TOO BIG
I. p. Ferrin Says Wenat
chez Cannot Entertain
Encampment.

that the delegation from Wenatchee
which attended the G.. A. r. encamp-
ment at Hoquiam, June 81 to 23
created quite stir as far as to whe.
Their Wenatchee can or cannot care
for the encampment in 1911. I am
still as firm in my convictions that
Wenatchee cannot take care of the
encampment in 1911 as I was last
year that she could not take care OF
it in 1910. Last year at the encamp-
ment at Tacoma this same question
bobbed up and only for the deter
mined stand taken by Comrade Pal
mer, Ferguson and myself, the en-
campment would have been held in
Wenatchee this year.
/ would like to ask any sane man
what would Wenatchee have done
with three thousand visitors this
year? Capt. Burbank, of Cashmere,
would say, fill that beautiful park
of yours with tents, put the people
in them. That is what he would do
next year, he told me. Now let me
say, don't try to put the G. A. R.
men and their old wives in tents un-
less you want to insult them and
have them curse your town and leave
on the first train that pulls out.
Mr.. Editor, any country school
boy of reasonable intelligence, will
tell you that a city of four or five
thousand people cannot properly
handle and furnish rooms for three
thousand visitors. Perhaps our Com
mercial Club will willingly under
take such a job, but I don't believe
it. Burbank to the contrary notwlth-
standing. Hoquiam is city of fiji
teen thousand people. She had all
she could do to take care OF his WIS.,
itors. Her committee had made ar
rangements for all the rooms and
beds they thought they would need
before the crowd came, but Monday
evening and Tuesday forenoon they
had men securing the city for addi-
tional rooms, besides great many
went to Aberdeen to spend the night
as it was but a few moments ride on
the street cars. Where would Wen
atchee put her overflow? Perhaps
Monitor or Malaga might come to
the rescue and take few hundred
to this city. 1t seems to me that our
Commercial Club should turn this
matter over to Spokane which, l be-
lieve, at this time, would take 1t off
their hands.
I don't want to see Wenatchee I'M
dertake a. job that, when her books
are balanced, her credit would ap-
pear on the wrong side of the led
ger. When Wenatchee entertains
the State G. A. R., let it be the very
best one ever held in the state. II
we cannot do it now we had better
wait a few years until We can.
And now, Mr.. Editor, in regard
to that little item in the Saturdays
Daily World, beginning ''Incensed at
Report 1 wish to say just few
words. 1t says the pleasures of the
last day were marred by very Bit
ter roast in one of the Hoquiam pa
pers, supposedly emanating from l.
P. Ferrin. My dear Editor, one OF
the ladies whose name appears in
that item disclaims any knowledge
of anything therein contained. She
says her name appears in the Item
without her knowledge or consent,
also she knows nothing about the
roast referred to in the Hoquiam pa
per, and further, she never heard OF
II until she saw it in the Daily
World. Wouldn't that jar the ma
tives? Now, / don't blame those la
dies. or the lady, that handed that
item to the Daily World, If it is
little off color, for it must be borne
in mind that that was the day of the
clam-bake down at West Port beach,
and I consider it a simple matter of
little too much baked clam. Sci
entific men claim that all fish 1000
works on the brain. This being true,
of course, it is very easy to see what
an overdose of baked clans might
do. BY the way, Capt. Burbank, OF
Cashmere, went down and got baked
clam also. Keep your eyes open.
Now, Mr.. Editor, please excuse
me for taking so much space in your
valuable paper. ! promise not to
do so again, except I have to do so
as defendant. IRA. P. FERRlN.