Putnam patriot., 1911-12-15
EAST WELCOMES
 TIE GOVERNORS
Distinguished Western Visitors Warmly Greeted in New York.
ALFALFA SPECIAL MAKES HIT
Come to Show East Wonders of Their Section, and Bring Along as Proof Carloads of the Good Things
 of the Earth.

New York.-The Western Cover. nors, with their party of ex-Governors, one Lieutenant Governor. cattle rais- CTS, sheep ranehers, publicity agents, sugar-beet producers, miners, and others, arrived in town, ready for two days of dining, sightseeing, and speechmaking.
 In the party were eight governors, three others represented by proxy and about 45 other folk who have come fem the West and Northwest to ex- ploit those sections in the East. The following were the governors and their representatives
 James H. Hawley of Idaho, Adolph O. EberhaFdt of Minnesota. Edwin L.. Norris of Montana, Tasker L. Oddie of Nevada, John Burke of North Dakota, Robert Nessey of South Dakota. Os- wald West of Oregon and Joseph NJ. Carey of Wyoming Governor Hiram w. Johnson of California sent Colyin Brown to represent the governor. Cali fornia and the Panama-Pacific Exposi- tion at San Francisco in 1915 Lieu tenant-Goyernor Fitzgerald Of Cobra do, represented Governor Shafroth. Governor Marion Hay or Washington was proxied by E. Barnes.
 The governors and their party got into the Jersey City train sheds aboard their alfalfa special from Phil adelpbia Ahead of the dining.ear was a ear bearing a car-Iength banner about the Panama-Paeific Exposition at San Francisco, 1915. In turn ahead of this ear were cars bearing banners which read Oregon and Idaho, Mon tana and Washington. North and South Dakota, and "Wyoming" There were sleepers, baggage cars and an obserFation-buffet ear-14 cars in all.
 As the reception party walked along its length of the alfalfa special back to the dining car they might have been passing a solid block of drug store windows. Every pane of glass was bursting outward with bulbous bottles filled with peaches and plums and grapes and festoons of alfalfa, wheat, gold and silver things between all the fancy bottles
 After formal introductions by Col one, Bill Hanley the governors, former governors and governors and the rest of Coloned Bills party boarded the police boat for the trip to 34th street. There part of the staff of the governor of New York was waiting to receive them.
 A moment later Manhattan got un- der way a reception which the west ern visitors said was the most splendid they have so far received
 A block of mounted police swung into place with precision. The pro- cession was quickly formed and start ed across town to the Waldorf, rhere the party stayed At night the goyer- nors addressed Y M. C. A. meetings in New York and Brooklyn
 In the evening John Hays Hammond gave the governors and their party a Cinner at the Waldorf to which he also invited among others the boards of governors of the Rocky Mountain Club and the California Society.
 In the morning the governors met the Mayor and the Merchants Associa- tion at the Waldorf. Then they went to the City College to hear President Finley and Mayor Gaynor address them. After came steamboat trip. the salutes from Castle Williams and a dinner to be given in their homer bv Colz JOhn 4 Sleicber