Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-09-12 | Page 10 | Past Commander-in-Chief Nevius Commends Treatment of the G. A. R

PAST COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF NEVIUS COMMENDS TREATMENT Of THE G. A. R.. Thai the forty-third 11alioi1.1l encnnp meat of the tj. A. I... held here last August, Au-gust, was unusually enjoyable and that it compared well with previous encamp meats, is the opinion of Henry .M. Novins. past commander-in-chief of the G. A. 1?.. expressed in a letter lo Fisher Harris, secretary of the Commercial club. The letter, which compliments the members of the committee very highly for the maner in which the'v handled the affair, it produced in full. It is dated Ud Hank. i!. J September 7 and is as follows: "Mv Dear Mr. llarVis: "I 'returned home las', week, tired and wearv, from Ihe duties, fatigue atld worrief of the forty-third national encampment en-campment held at Suit bake City, and alter resting a few days find 'myself very 1mn.l1 improved, and think that I will soon be my old self ngaiii. '"And, ,now thai the encampment is over, we can Ionic over the ground, and 1 want to sny to you in all fraulcnesH. that the executive committee and the citizens generally of Sail Lake City made Ihe encampment a complete .inc. cess; while it w,ik nut so largo as some previous cncamwmeiits, the delegate encampment en-campment was larger than we have had for some years; there being about Hit) more delegates than were present either at Toledo or Saratoga. ICverything way done that could be "lone to make comfortable com-fortable and entertain the large crowd that you had during that. week. And, I waul to say that I did not have a single sin-gle complaint from any department in relation 10 the conduct of your committee com-mittee ami the citizens generally: and. the encampment ' the d A. W., in aes- sion, passed a resolution tliankiii committee and the cili.ens for tly Iwf entertainment and cou'rlcsics yL I ,111 tended to the Grand Army of4;.I Ip public and its allied Kgnnizntl;, am glad indeed to say this toW. cause I was fearful at one Wy" you would have more than yo'tfljl. take care of. and so far as 1 co all your committees worked injjal-accord injjal-accord and harmony, ami all dq(5 vjh in their power for the comfort;-if' 1 lertainment of yoiir visitors. "1 was sorry indeed that yotj" ifce CTC not able to open Ihe seiui-nfliciai l0nZ ing of the encampment, and I mhftii sorry that my condition was suirjX-iL,. i I was not. able to lake my twj-,ict at that meeting. It was tho HnfioW ft most enjoyable oflieial meeting blrfel1' ' Grand Ar'niv of the Republic h'iiX held. due. largely to the eapaeit$JJ the CJ tabernacle. Snv "Yours very I ml v. ' 'l"P (Signed) ' ' H. M. NlCVinff t "'.Fast couiniaiider-jiivi'liief, G. AVjPwU aC