Salt Lake Tribune | 1909-05-30 | Page 24 | Want Hotels to Show Interest

WANT HOTELS 10 as iiEiffi . Complaint Is Made That Inquiries In-quiries About Accommodations Accommoda-tions Are Not Answered. ' EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE GOES OVER DETAILS Letters Are Received Showing Outside Interest in National Na-tional Encampment. Many matters of routine in connection connec-tion with the coming forty-third national na-tional encampment of the U. A. R. wero handled at the meeting of Ihc executive committee Saturday at luncheon at the Commercial club. It appeared that matters mat-ters wero progressing well and the chairmen of the various special committees commit-tees reported their affairs well in hand. Colonel F. M. Sforrett, executive director di-rector of tho encampment, gave out after af-ter the meeting that there was a great deal of dissatisfaction over the way communications from prospect ivo visitors vis-itors from tho East were handleil by Iho hotol managers of this cit3'. I Io staled that it had como to his attention that, out of nine hotols written lo by a party in the Fast asking for accommodations, only Iwo of the hotels had answered. Colonel Stcrrett expressed the feeling that such siction would materially in-juro in-juro tho attendance at tho iMicnmpmcnfc and said that in no other cily in which he had been executive .director of an encampment had such an incident oc: currcd. Interest Is Shown. Something of tho interest that has been aroused among Grand Army people peo-ple of tho Fast is shown by the following follow-ing letter from Itachel A. Davis, an army nurse of Gasporl, X. Y.: I received a booklet from Salt Lake Cily. Utnh, for which 1 inn wailful, t havo. rend it; luivo !;t my grandchildren n-od It, and now am letting: my neighbors neigh-bors rc.-id it. I think ovvry American cltb-.r'n ought to read It. s It tells so plainly and truly what tho nivnt object, pure sentiments and trim loyalty of the Grand Army of the Republic stands for. A communication from S. E. Thompson Thomp-son of Columbia post of Chicago, indicates indi-cates something of the feeling among Iho veterans of that locality as a result re-sult of the attitude of tho hotel managers man-agers here. The letter is dated May 2S and follows: Your booklet Invitation to Salt Lako City on account of the meeting of the Grand Army of the Republic received by me on my return to Chicago from an absence of several weeks, and T desire lo thank you for the remembrance, aud hope I shall bo favored with tho 3ccond edition. On account o the uncertainty of proper hotel aceommodatlonH. Columbia post has decided that it will not come ns a complete organisation. However, a goodly good-ly number of the post, including your humble servant, will be there. I desire herewith to oongratulato you on tho accomplishment of so much work, Including a reduced rate to and from the meeting so early in tho game.