Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-29
URGE GRAND ARMY
ENCAMPMENT HERE
Los Angeles Posts Join in Send
ing Invitation to Eastern
Delegates
EQUIPMENT IS ADMIRABLE
Attractive Features of City and
Southern California Are De-
scribed in Circulars
EQUIPMENT is ADMIRABLE

In an effort to secure the national
encampment of the Grand Army of
the Republic for Los Angeles in 1911
the Grand Army posts of Los Angeles,
department of California and of Me-
vada, have combined in extending a
formal invitation to the forty-fourth
national encampment, which meets at
Atlantic City in September, to hold its
forty-fifth encampment here in 1911.
The invitations sent out consist of a
series of statements giving reasons
why the encampment should come to
Los Angeles, and of q book of illustra-
tions of the scenes and buildings in
the city and county OF Los Angeles.
The latter are sent with the intention
of enlightening those of the veterans
who have not visited Southern Cali
fornia as to what kind of place Los
Angeles really is.
POSTS PRESS MOVEMENT
Those who are pressing the move
ment are H. H. Osborne, commander
of Stanton post No. So; S. A. Austin,
commander of Bartlett-Logan post No.
6, and w. S. Hurlbut commander OF
Kenesaw post No. 1O6.
GOllONlllB are lut iCdotAiS DOS III SAA
in the invitation circular why Los
Angeles should get the next encamp-
ment:
Because Los Angeles Is one of the
best equipped cities in the United
States for entertaining large gatherings
and national organizations.
Because Los Angeles is unexcelled In
the number, character and facilities Of
it's modern family and commercial
hotels.
Because Los Angeles is proverbial for
the equability of it's climate, both
summer and winter. and there Is no
likelihood of either uncomfortably
warm or cold weather during the term
of the national encampment.
Because it's facilities for entertain
ment are unexcelled anywhere. The
ease with which the 100000 inhabitants
ofSLos Angeles can be moved from the
center of the city to the seashore or to
the mountain ranges from 5000 to 5000
feet high in from 80 to 10 minutes are
unequaled in any other city In the
United States.
FACILITIES FOR TRAVEL
Because the surviving veterans of
the great Civil War who have hereto
fore visited the Pacific coast desire
once more to see the great ocean which
washes its shores and those who have
never had that privilege desire to en-
joy ii now. Three great tranSconti-
mental lines reach Los Angeles--the
Southern Pacific, Santa Fe and Salt
Lake systems-and cur visitors will be
able to come by any one of these
routes and return by way of the 9TH
ers, or by several northern routes, thus
visiting San Francisco either coming
or returning. and making a very COM
plete tour of the Pacific coast.
Because in the forty-five years ex-
istence of the Grand Army of the Re-
public ii has visited the Pacific coast
but twice-in 1886 and 19O3-and their
brethren In California and Nevada,
more than 5000 in number, desire again
to grasp the hands of their former
comrades In arms.
Because. the veterans and citizens of
California desire their former comrades
and their wives ana children to witness
the vast groves of oranges and broad
vineyards that supply the United
States with its citrus fruits, raisins
and wines.
AMPLE FACILITIES READY
Because Los Angeles is amply sup
piled with halls and facilities for both
the national eneampment and for the
various auxiliary organizations, as well
as for meetings of committees and
other subdivisions of the great en-
campment.
Because LOS AISeleS HAS tlo uSSS
urban and interurban street car serv-
ice in the world. extending in every
direction from Los Angeles to the sea-
shore, mountains and fertile valleys
and the orchards of the rich Southern
California country. Twelve hundred
cars each day leave the great central
Pacific Electric station, the largest and
best equipped street railway station in
the world
Because we desire our comrades and
their families and auXiliaries to see
the most modern of American cities,
peopled by a high type of citizenship,
living in thousands of beautiful homes,
surrounded by delightful gardens of
fruits and flowers and favored by nat
ural conditions which render Los An
geles unquestionably the Paradise of
the Pacific coast and the most beauti-
full convention city of the United
States.