Show SCANDAL OVER THE G A R ENTERTAINMENT ENT Colonel Frank M ll Sterrett who waS engaged by Salt Lakes Grand Arm Army Bonn i tutee to arrange for fOI the encamp ment prior to lo departing for 01 the East paid Salt Lake his respects He said that never noer in all his experience had he seon such a city of grafters Ho He HoIs Heis Is quoted as saying From a patriotic stan standpoint there arE many jn iii SnIt Salt Lake who are arc sorely sore ly Iy deficient I never in all my n exper experIence lence saw so man many for services rendered Everybody who walked across the street streel or 01 bUnked blinked au an eve 00 for the encampment was on hand with witha a bill for services rendered It was th the first time tame In my experience that such stick a state of affairs has e existed ste sten In n the first glace we never before Pahl a cent for a dIrector of a living flag The work was taken from a pl 1 standpoint and carried through without a charge ge Here we paid well for it Wo We had to pay Imy a big price for music here Never before have wo We had to pay par the tho chairman of the music committee a cent Hero Here we paid Professor J J T a good salar salary then rhon there were other small and bills brought 11 up which should cause those who pre them to tutu turu IH pale le with shame shamo A member of the womans commit committee tel tee did a low fow hours work find and tailed failed toly to put pUl that lint work worl through She presented a bill for fOl which of course wa was not paid All or of these works should have been done hy by those who undertook them from a patriotic as In other encampment cities and not for Among the tho committeemen there thero wore man mail peculiar and silly lions brought up UI which as me In one case where articles were to he be con contracted for forU I U local company ama lit III with a bid id I Another company had a abid abid bid for 01 1500 exactly half or of the thc other hl bid mind guaranteed the same clays of oC goods good It tool took me and others Il a long longtime time to con convince time tho members of the committee that time tho should accept time tho lowest bid That wnM something that I could not see Mee through until 1 I pondered over OCI It and 1 ado nil au Investigation I I 1 then thon found the reason was that two committeemen wore were big In the bid corn com puny Just such moves as 6 cost this a great groat amount of UTI an necessary money monc On One or the tho deal which shows a about how mono wn was thrown lava II Is III ii time rho matter of rots for fOl treo freo I had I made ronde arrangements for the of 1000 cots at ij 76 cents each from a ai i local This would have cost After making these al alm am m formel mer came to me and staled that govern goern government went ment cots could be secured free treo of charge I told him that he was mistaken ns as the tho same proposition had been brought up nt other encampments and It was lIS learned that a special act or of congress was necessary nn Governor Black s said hl Immediately that the prop would be brought before Smoot and the cots would be secured of charge Ho said ho he would write at once to the secretary of war anti ash ashfor for the tentS I 1 said to him 00 elnor you write your our letter leller and Ill write the answer which you ou w get The letter was written an and I wrote the answer When the reply came from the ace rotary It was substantially t the e same as the reply which I submitted to Black before he sent the letter lector It was too late Jato then for me to t 7 have the order or eler der tilled by the local company compan and I told Black It was up to lo him Ho He tool tho matter mattor lip up wIth Senator Smoot and got a bill passed In congress lug Ing the loan or of cols Several thousand and amid more than thon were needed were sent here hore with a freight Jill bill of oC nt at They were heft leCt In the tho cal cars at al the tho Denver Demer cc Rio Grande I Governor Blacks idea Irlea was that the number of cots cols ne needed ed was about 5 JOO I 1 told lold lihn that lint 1000 W teas UI suf suC but he seemed to be much wiser on the subject than I 1 was D Br the governors intrusion the line I tee teo lost The mone just justas ng as well have been rolled lip up and thrown into the tho fire Col slap at Salt Lako may be in l part art deserved but the tho Col Colonel Colonel onel must explain what lie he means by bv patriotism He received over oel I and all expenses paid and amI had rein lela tires lives from the tho east placed cn the I payroll pa Joll at large salarIes Where was hi his patriotism 1 Salt Lakers have their faults and I there are ure a few grafters tn in that thal cit city of cloud scrapers lint bot the consensus of opinion is that Ole lie or of Zion creditably conducted the and there was less Jess cause fur fOJ com complaint plaint or 01 scandal over OCI the tho ill hig enter entertainment than an any meeting of kind ever heM held In n Salt SaIL Lake Col Sterrett mn may have Itao been misquoted ed If not he has much to explain for fOl making a l scandal out of small ma material |