St. Landry clarion. (Opelousas, La.) 1890-1921, 1919-08-09

far South that her folks seemed per-
manently as a part of the party. Her
mayor and other city officials were
at the Iowa state line to receive us
and it is in order to mention that
Mayor Hodgson went all the way to
Winnipeg, as did other St. Paul men,
and added greatly to the affair by
the splendid touching speeches that
they were able to make. Little Falls
MINI. sent her delegation nearly 800
miles to meet the run, and so it was
all the way along Honorable Thomas
Johnson, attorney general of Manitoba
and president of the Jefferson High
way, met the party at St. Joseph, Mo.
A little way farther on Winnipeg
qualified by sending Publicity Commits
sioner Mcdonald, and at Red Lake
Falls, Mimi, there was another con
tingent Of Winnipeg officials waiting.
unable to join the party but sent his
secretary to personally welcome the
governor of Louisiana and to escort
him across the state. Governor Allen
of Kansas joined the party at Pitts
burg, as did Governor Harding at Des
Moines, la. The governor of Minneso-
ia qualified at st. Paul.
Much to the convenience of the
party, it was discovered that from be-
low st. Joseph, Mo-, to Winnipeg, the
highway, with the exception of pos
sibly a few stretches, was provided
with the regulation Jefferson Highway
markings. Almost every conceivable
kind of a road was encountered. There
were gravel roads. cement roads, as
phalt roads and some dirt roads that
were good for forty-fiye miles per
hour, mile after mile, and a few 9TH
er kinds of roads.
There was only one thing that was
not appreciated and that was the ap-
parent nature of Manager Clarkson to
live without sleep. It has been de-
clared by many of the party that he
stayed up all night SO as to get the
bunch up early next morning. We
saved money because we didn't have
time, with rare exception, to get a
shave or have our shoes shined. There
was practically no delay or i~nconveni-
ence at either the American or Cana
dian customhouses.
"On the afternoon of July q we
rolled into the splendid city Of Winnt-
peg-the most picturesque procession
that hsa ever crossed this continent
There was a string of a at the city
limits that extended for miles. Pre-
mier Norris had already j%ourneyed to
Emerson, which is ON the border,
where he extended an official welcome.
A very artistic archway had been
erected at the border, but We had al
ready been made to feel that we would
be Just as much at home in Canada
as in Louisiana.
"And then came Winnipeg. One of
the daily papers of that city very APPLY
though apparently in error, referred
to the occasion as the hospitality run,
and it certainly was a hospitality run
after it ended in Winnipeg. Officially,
the entertainment there consisted of a
magnificent lunch at the A~ssinaboine
Club, an informal dinner and recep.
ton at the governors mansion, a
lunch by the Chamber of Commerce
at the Canadian Club and IN open
air dinner under tn %eauspices of the
Automobile Club at old Fort Gary,
some twenty miles out on the river.
Not satisfied with all of this the Winn-
ipeg officials insisted on taking the
entire party $50 miles west by spe-
cial train, where they did the Provin-
cial Fair at the city of Brandon. The
number asnd magnitude exhibits of
live stock, the long list of clean, attrac-
tive entertainments, the Indian camp
and parade, in fact, the affair as a
whole, amazed US. 1t was one of the
most interesting features of the trip.
Mention should be made of the splen-
did manner in which the Chamber of
Commerce or other civic bodies of the
large towns such a Eufula, Muskogee,
and Miami, Okla, Joplin, Kansas City
and st. Joeph, Mo-, Pittsburg and Fort
Scott, Kansas, Des Moines and Mason
City, Ia, and the wonderful Twin
cities of Minneapolis and st. Paul,
came through with receptions that
were magnificent but were important
moresespecially for the attendance and
interest that was manifested by their
business men"
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