The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1913-09-12
And Other Visitors at the Re
union to Be iBiven by
City of Chattanooga.

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Sept. q.
The advance guard Of the Grand
Army IS already moving into Chat
tanooga. Hotels and boarding
houses are receiving those guests
who are willing to forego the unusu-
ally cheap railroad rates in order to
escape the crowds later in the week.
No fears are entertained in this
plucky, prosperous community, as to
ability to handle the crowds. In
the first place, the recent Blue and
Gray reunion at Gettysburg will
have some effect on the attendance
at Chattanooga, so that it is doubt
ed whether the number OF veterans,
sons OF veterans and other visitors
will much exceed $50, 900. By NOV
ling into their attics, as lchatta-
noogans are willing tp do, any city
of 100000 could easily, handle Al
temporary crowd OF 100000,
in the second place, Chattanooga
has SO recently handled and enter
tanned the veterans of the gray that
all lessons learned in the housing
and feeding of over a hundred thous-
and visitors are still 6resh in the
minds OF It's citizens. In this re-
! spect Chattanooga experience is
unique, for no, other American mu-
nicpality has ever entertained both
the United Confederate veterans and
the Grand ARMY In the same year in
national reuniona Out of twenty-five
prominent business men who com
posed the executive committee hand
ling the United Confederate veter-
ans reunion in May, more than half
1 are serving in similar capacity for
! the Grand Army encampment.
civilian army OF i, 200 lawyers
bankers, doctors and business men
worked for five months preparing
s for the event in Chattanooga in May.
When the Grand Army requested
Chattanoogas hospitality in the
3 same year, the same airy of public
S spirited men, volunteered their ser
!. vices to ex-senator Newell Sanders
s the general chairman.
Prominent among these are John
3 A. Patten, whose time for -four
& months has been entirely given tc
the duties of executive director Of
the local organization. Thus, under
3 the guidanceof these two masterfu,
4 captains OF industry. there has been
built up an organization of remark.
8 able character. Men OF southern
3 birth and breeding were not more
conspicuous or numerous in hand
ling the Confederate reunion thar
those who have been attracted here
s by the opportunities that the Sou.2
B offers the North. Similarly in this
event sectionalism is unknown, poi
,itics and religion are forgotten. En-.
thuisasm is. running high, with al
classes imbued with the thought
that Chattanooga must and will
demonstrate to the North and South
alike that when it comes to paying
tribute to valor. the community is
color blind as between blue and
gray.
| Preparations for reception and as
sistance of visitors are unusually
elaborate. The lessons and expert,
ences of May are a guarantee that
, visitors will believe ever after in
the famed southern hospitality. =
All trains arriving by night as well
as by day Will be met by citizens who
will assist employees in directing or
escorting visitors to their quarters.
Indeed, trains will be boarded fifty
! miles beyond the city by some of
the hundreds who serve on the ex-
ecutive committee. Thus the travel
er will have ample time to ask ques-
, lions and get his answers.
/ The souvenir, and only official
program back Is completed. 1t con-
tains no advertising and is sold at a
purely nominal rate of twenty-five
cents and can be ordered by mail
or purchased on trains .enroute to
Chattanooga. The entertainment
and amusement features are barred
from this book. being contained in a
special booklet entitled sEncamp-
ment Events" which booklet will be
, found everywhere and free to all.
The latter book details me place and
hours of such events as hydroptaae
flights on the historic Tennessee, the
reproduction of the famous charge
up Missionary ridge by regular
United States troops, the passenger
train collision. Paine's costly pro-
duction of the celebrated battle in