Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-12-11

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the interests of the greater develop
ment of the West.
The special train, consisting of five
exhibit cars, oneAhalf Of each car de
voted to one state, four sleeping cars
and observation cars, one baggage
car and one diner, left St. Paul No
vember 27th, and since then has Wis
tied Chicago, Kalamazoo, Grand Rap
ids, Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland. Erie
Buffalo, and Batavia, and is now a,
Rochester and in each of these cities
! a most royal welcome has been ten,
dered the entire party, the leading
business men and professional men
having shown great interest in the
visit of the Western Governors and
made preparations for their enter:
! tainment equal to any ever offered
a President of the United States.
At Chicago two large banquets
were given in honor of the visitors,
one by the Cook County Realty
Board at the LaSalle Hotel, and the
other at the Congress Hotel by the
Chicago Association of Commerce,
and at both of these the governors
were the guests of Governor Dlneen.
of Illinois, and Mayor Harrison, OF
Chicago, The total attendance at
both banquets was 1850.
At kalamazoo the party was met
by a reception committee, which
took it to the eight different educa-
tional institutions in that city, at
each OF which one OF the governors
delivered an address; and was then
taken to the Burdick House, where
was held luncheon at which five of
the party spoke. and at which there
were above 500 seated. Governor
Chase S. Osborn, of Michigan, pre-
sided as POSTMASTER, and remained
with the party until it left Detroit
the next day.
At Grand Rapids a banquet was
held in the largest auditorium in the
city, 600 people being present, to
whom all the governors spoke on the
resources of the West and the needs
of that great country.
The train was in Detroit on
Thanksgiving Day, where the gov
ernors were assigned to the differ
ent churches, and Peace and Pros
perity Meeting at the Detroit Opera
House, the total attendance at which
was over 10000.
Thanksgiving evening was spent in
Toledo, where the party was enter
tanned by the Toledo Board of Com
merce and the Toledo club. The en-
tertainments consisted of a luncheon
reception at the Toledo club held in
the afternoon, followed by a buffet
luncheon at the Board of Commerce.
Similar programs were arranged
at Cleveland and Buffalo, and the tor
tai number of people addressed by
the governors of the West, previous
to reaching Rochester was above 16,.
900. The exhibit portion of the
train is attracting wonderful atten-
tion throughout the east, the people |
in all the cities flocking to see the
western products from the suburban
towns, the large factories, and the
outlying farms. At almost every city !
the train has been met by a large
number of farmers and others who
were there waiting to see the SAM
pies of the western countries pro-
ducts and fruits. In Buffalo alone |
6152 people passed through the cars,
and in the little town of Batavia, N.
Y, 752 people went through. The to-
tai number who have gone through |
THE cars up to Rochester is 30,186.
The people have carried away all the
literature with which the train start
ed, and large portion of the second
supply, the interest being shown by
them being far beyond anything ex.
pecte'1 bv those in charge of the Spe-
cial. It is noticeable also that those
who visit the train are of a specially
desirable class Of citizens, many of
Them being farmers who are in a po'
sition to move West and make a sue
cess of the business of agriculture.
One of the most successful feat
lres of the Western Governors Spe-
,ial is the tremendous amount of
newspaper publicity which it is re-
,eiving A map of THE United States,
showing the pictures of the govern.
,rs and the officers of the train,w it'll
The states which are interested ahad.
I'd in a dark color, has been carried
n over 500 eastern newspapers, and
he stories of the west, its products
md it's magnificent train, which have
,een printed, will probably fill tenl
thousand newspaper columns. |
1t has been said by the leading
mem of every city visited that the
Western Governors Special is one of
he greatest things which has been
lone by the West and will do more
D give it publicity than any similar
work. which it could possibly have
Undertaken. The presence of the
line actual governors on a train Wis
ting another section of the country
n the interests Of their own states
s something absolutely unprece
ented in the history of the United
'tates or any other country, and the
tiles which are visited seem to APP
reciate that they have been compli.
1ented in an unusual way.
At Rochester, IN. W, the Cham
er of Commerce has changed the
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