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Show BSLEBATES WIVING IN-STATES IN-STATES TO GREET BRYHW . acting Mayor, Mr. Hoge, and Gov Folk will also ride. A few other carriages car-riages with members of the reception committee wiJl follow. To Eecelve In HoteL After the ride to the Victoria botol, Mr. Bryan will be received in the hotel by a committee of five distinguished Democrats from each State. The proposal to have Mr. 'Bryan spend a part of the time before he lands officially at the Battery in a yacht does not meet with favor with the Nebraska Ne-braska delegation, it is said. Mayor James G. Dahlman of Omaha, who Las been made chairman' of the delegation, had views of bis own on thai subjt yesterday. To Meet Bryan in Boat. "We are going down to meet Bryan Bry-an in a boat"" he said, "and vou can bet we will bring him back if I've got to lassoo him myself." Last night the Nebraska delegation went to a theater to see the play writ-ten writ-ten by Mr. Bryan's daughter. , NEW TOBK, Aug. 23. The town is filling up with Bryan welcomers and other excursionists. From now on un-1 un-1 til the day of the reception delegations from all over the country will bo thriving th-riving almost hourly and they will bring with them a lot of others. Attorney-General M. J. Cunningham of Louisiana reported at the Victoria ' hotel headquarters yesterday that he expected a delegation of about twenty-eight twenty-eight from New Orleans next Wednesday, Wednes-day, and for whom he is looking up accommodations. ac-commodations. Various State Delegations. The West Virginians have begun to decorate at the Hotel Brealin. where they will have headquarters. The Mis-sourians Mis-sourians and Illinois men, who will lead ' the delegations in point of numbers, were expected to arrive early today. The St. Louis Democratic club, 250 strong, will be at the Saranac. The Iroquois club of St. Joseph, Mo., will reach here on a special train on Wednesday morning. Iowa is sending a delegation of about 200 by special train. The Arizona men, about fifteen of whom are expected, will stay at the Ansonia. Edward F. Goltra of St. Louis, upon whose yacht, the Illini, Mr. ana Mrs. Bryan will be taken off the steamship at quarantine, said yesterday that he did not know who would be "his guests with the Br ana aboard the Illini. Reception Programme Simple. The programme for the reception at the Battery on Thursday will be the simplest possible. Mr. Bryan will be met, as he steps off the vacht, by Acting Act-ing Mayor McGowan, President William Wil-liam Hoge of the Commercial Travelers' Travel-ers' Anti-Trust league; Lewis Nixou, chairman of the plan and scope committee, com-mittee, and one or two others. Probably Probab-ly Mr. McGowan will extend the freedom free-dom of the city to Mr. Bryan, who will be escorted to a carriage, in which the UTAH PIONXEB DIES. MANTI. Aug. 28. Edward L. Perry, S8 years of age, and one of the pioneers of Utah, died at his home in this citv tinudav. The deceased came to Utah in 1853, since which time he hss taken an active part in the building up of the State. |
