The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-09-05
TAKING IN The CITY.
The Missouri Editors Delighted
with Salt Lake.
TALLY-HOING AND BATHING
salt Lake is the Greatest Point We Have
Seen Since We Left Home. 1t Has
Great Future
TALLY-H0ING AND BATHING

Twenty five members of the Missouri
Press association arrived in the CITY yester
day morning and repaired to the Continen
tai, where they are now domiciled.
At the head of the party is E. w. 81
phens, of the Herald, Columbia, WHO is
president of the Missouri ASSOCIATE, n, as
we'll as president of the National asso,ia-
ton.
Speaking to a HERALD req orter in regard
to their trip, MIR. stephens SAID: ''lne
association met at Hannibal on the l9tn
/, and continued in session until the END,
when we left for ST. Paul and Minneapolis,
where we spent day very pleasantly. we
then continued our journey on the North
ern Pacific to the Yellowstone PARK,
where we remained five days. 1t
fully came up to our expectation
in all res ects, and is really a woilleiial
region. There Is some talk at Washington
that the attention which visitors receive -
poor, but we found the service excelle MT
and the transportation as rapid as couiu
expected in such mountainous country.
| 1t costs IS a day hotel and travelling eXpen-
ses, and the stage is so slow aud burti.u
some that people not having The time H.
strength to endure the fatigue find it
wearisome. THEY need railways. Ino
great features are the Grand canon and tue
Old Faithful geyser. The register shows
that 2,4U0 people visited the park his sea-
son. From the Park we went to Helena.
where we spent two days. thence to Butte
for a day. On cur way to Ogden, where
we were kindly treated, we passed through
the beautiful Cache valley. Salt Lake
is the greatest point we have
seen since we left home. Not
unly it's rare historic attractions charm US,
but it is the most beautiful city we have
seen, and we altpredict for it great future.
We were, especially, impressed with the
hospitality of the people and the marked
attention we received at all lands. The
ride on the tally no and the trip TO the lake
were all novel to our party. Tomorrow
we shall visit the tabernacle and other
points of interest and Saturday morning
leave, think, via the Rio Gcande Western
to Denver where we shall pass tw O Days
before returning home A person has got
to make trip o. this kind to
open his eyes to the magnitude
and possibilities of the great country.
There has been an old saying that the
star of empire westward takes its course,
but we believe that it has got here al
ready"
| LIST OF EXCURSIoNISTS.
E. w. Stephens, president, and wife,
Herald, Columbia.
w. b. Rogers and wife Republican, Tren-
ton.
| 0. D. Gray and mother, Leader, Sturgeon.
Joe. P. Johnston, and sister, Democrat
Monroe city.
Charles Nevatt and wife, Topn and Earn,
Sprigntield.
]. F. Mitchim and wife, Era, Cape Girar-
deau.
H. Hermanns and wife, Humortst, st
Louis.
Miss Annie Goodman, Sentinel, Clarks
vile:
R. w. McMullin and wife, Jefferson Demo
crdt, Hillsboro.
George W. Trigg and wife, Conscrpator
! Richmond.
H. F. Stapel and wife, Mail, Rockport.
Mrs. Samuel Keller, Republican, Leb-
anon.
George S. Townsend. Free Press, Troy.
, J. c. Kerby, Gazette, West Plains.
l w. G. Barrett, Statesman, Columbia.
f. H. Sosey, Spectator Palmyra.
} A. B. Drescher, Spectator, Palmyra.
j. l. Nichols. Gazette, Fulton.
5 b. F. Blanton, appeal, Paris.
f. H. Brinkerhoff, Gazette. Aurora.
t w. j. Powell, NeU Era, Rolla
G. p. Vandiver, Courier, KeyIesville.
Mrs. j. M. Collins Courier, keytesvill9
Joe L. Douglass, Photographer, Columbia