Show I BANQUET TO VOUNTEERS Fine Entertainment r Swedish Soldiers Sol-diers at St Marks Hall There was a rousing reception to the returned Swedish volunteers at St Marks hall last night The Norden Literary society so-ciety dispensed hospitality and good things to eat With a liberality that made things hum The hall was decorated with American and Swedish flags and bunting and filled with doting parents enthusias tic friends and troops of admiring children child-ren The battery boys wete buried in flowers and banked on the platform with a large number of pretty girls and half a dozen little tots There were songs and speeches in the Swedish Wl language and then some more speeches and songs in English I Corporal Barkman told the story I of his life and doings ot the battery boys in the Philippines in his native I tongue It sounded real l musical like but It was rather rath-er a puzzler Sergeant Johnson made an epigrammatic speech Then Otto Ryd II man told the story of Swedens greatness geltJoht ltJohtlg nv lg t tay and lauded 1 John Morton a Swedish signer sign-er of the Declaration of Independence and Captain John ErIcsson the inventor I of ironclads He believed In outandout Americans not hyphenated ones I First Sergeant John Nystrom of battery A was called upon and said We haa a royal reception In Japan and didnt lacK for anything except tood We were all glad we lived when we landed in California Califor-nia except those that died I dont Know what you asked me to speak for anyway Id any rather day face bullets t than an audience The volunteers present were First Sergeant J 0 Nvstrom Corporal George S Backman Sergeant EmU Johnson Hospital steward Q Sf Sandbctg Corporal B jorkman Privates Charles Walciuist Charles Forsland Frank C Peterson and Corporal D Gronwick I of the Fourth cavalry cav-alry l < y 4 Tfie committee of arrangements consisted con-sisted of C Gjllensvan OttoRjdman G W Olson J O Llndqulst Mrs Hanna Soderberg Miss Augusta Fernstrom and > T Nilson i |