Show denver meeting will be largest in history denver colo sept 3 the thirty ninth annual encampment 0 tho grand army of the republic will begin in this city tomorrow the city Is crowded guests andea vily loaded trains are arriving at tho union station all directions in order to facilitate the handling of passenger trains the santa fe has ordered all freight trains annulled for the next twenty four hours the travel on this line is exceedingly heavy other roads where traffic Is heavy are considering the advisability of taking similar action members of local executive committee persist in their belief that the coming encampment will be the largest in the history of the organization at headquarters and in the lobbies of hotels already 13 heard the discussion 0 election of officers and the place of next meeting there are five candidates for the office of commander ln calef namely corporal james tanner of new york robert brown of ohio colonel burroughs of new jersey ex congressman charles burton of missouri and general george stone of four cities are in the race for the nineteenth 1906 meeting place they are chattanooga tenn columbus 0 minneapolis and buffalo the custom of giving the office of senior vice commander to the city entertaining the encampment has brought two candidates cani dates for that position into the field from this city general george W cook chairman of the local encampment executive committee and U S hollister Holli ater bamo bomo of the important business to be considered by the encampment in its secret sessions which begin on thursday morning will be proposed changes in the constitution and recommendations ions to alie congressional corn mattec the latter will bo asked to endeavor to have congress pass a new service pension bill that will have no ago limit one proposition Is to pension veterans of the civil war whether injured or not on a per diem basis that is to say a certain amount for each day of service there Is a proposition under consid sider atlon to change tho constitution so as to provide tor a new office that of instructor each post will have an instructor of this kind whose duty it will be to officiate in the public schools as a teacher of patriotism riot ism A department official to be created will have supervision of the post instructors and a national officer will bo in supreme authority over all of them each shall have an insignia of office another proposed amendment is one changing the ratio of representation in the national encampment from one representative for every members to one for every members and still another proposes to make it obligatory upon posta to suspend members in arrears lor twelve months when two months notification has been given readers are urging their comrades to work to get more than veterans who are not G A R members affiliate in this way they assert the great decrease in membership through mortality can be mot for the present brest france sept 3 the british bound for london from cape town struck on the banner reefs west ot here today the passengers and crew numbering seventy live persons were rescued by life boats manned by fish folk from molene and buda pest sept S tho international prison congress and the international veterinary congress held their opening sessions here today |