Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-08-09 | Page 3 | Famous Cook Drum Corps of Denver Attracts Attention on the Street

FAMOUS COOK DRUM CORPS OF DENVER ATTRACTS ATTENTION -ON THE STREET "I am going to brinp the national encampment en-campment of the Grant! Army of the Republic Re-public to Denver In 1911." This was the declaration of Gon, Geor-Ri-W. Cook of Denver ns the Colorado G. A. It. special pulled Into Salt I.nku City over the Denver & Rio Grande, Sunday Sun-day nijrlit. There wero ten coaches in this special train, each filled to Us capacity with civil war veterans, their families and friends. Two cars were devoted entirely to the famous Cook drum corps. t probablv tho largest and finest organization of lt;s kind In. the world, which will head the Colorado Colo-rado delegation in the big parade on Wednesday. Tho Colorado special carried fully COO people, and was In personal chargo of MnJ. P. K. Hooper, general passenger agent of tho Denver IUo Grande road, who will bo a prominent figure at the encampment. To llaj. Hooper Is largely duo the credit for the. Hue showing the Colorado I posts of the G. A. K will make at tho j encampment. For weeks he has labored j assiduously to this end. and has distributed distrib-uted thousands of dollars' worth of tho finest G. A. R. literature and folders put out anywhere In thc country. Maj. Hooper will assist Gen. Cook to bring the 1011 encampment lo Denver. The Colorado delegation probably will take no side In the contest beLwcen St. Louis and Atlantic City for the 1910 encampment. en-campment. Gon. (formerly "Corporal") James Tanner Tan-ner of Now York also has promised Gen. Cook that he will work for Denver as the iOH meeting place. "Corporal" Tanner, Tan-ner, as he is still familiarly known by all his comrades, was tho guest of Gen. Cook In Denver, where he stopped on his way to Salt Lako City. Tho Cook drum corpn made a beautiful beauti-ful and Imposing showing when Its seventy-four members, dressed In bright, new, red and white zouave uniforms, marched up tho street from the, depot, playing a vigorous .qulckstop. The Colorado delegation carried hulf u hundred flaming banners Inscribed with "Denver. 1911."