The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-08-18
EDITORIAL CONVENTION.
FOR THE EVENT
ON A MAGNIFICENT SCALE.
The Committee Issues an Address
to the People of the Territory
The Visitors to Be Entertained
Most Handsomely.

AT the Utah Press association head
quarters in the Atlas block the execu-
tive committee held a session lasting
till midnight, making arrangements
for the great editorial convention.
Secretary A. B. Tomson reported
upon his work for the past several
weeks and spread before the committee
a voluminous correspondence from
nearly every state west of the river
1t is certainly no longer a matter of
doubt that hundreds of editors will
attend the convention. In order to give
the delegates a proper reception it was
decided to ask one hundred leading
citizens of Salt Lake, Ogden, Park City
and Provo to act as a committee on
reception. In few days the names
of this committee will be published.
Address to the People.
The committee also authorized the
following address to the peope of this
city and territory:
To the Citizens of Salt Lake City and
Ladies and Gentlemen-As has been
published in the public press, there is
to be a great editorial convention held
in this city on the 9th and 2Sth insts.
of the year, not only in Utah, but in
the entire west The movement has
been inaugurated by the Utah Press
association for the purpose of bringing
the editors of the western states to-
gether for purposes affecting their
mutual interests and affording an OPP
portunfty for them to have a grand
outing. The responses
from the various states have been
most heartily and numerously accep-
ted so that a great convention, nu-
merically and great in enthusiasm and
profit to the newspaper profession, is
now assured beyond a doubt.
The exact number, however, 1t is not
possible for us to indicate, nearer than
that it will oscillate somewhere around
five hundred delegates.
The convention proper will be held IN
the Salt Lake theater on the morning
of the 9th, and continue on the 18TH,
and possibly on the 10Th. But there
will be interspersed between the ses-
sions of the convention a banquet and
ball at Saltair, side excursions to Fort
Douglas, Park City, Ogden and other
points, with grand finale
in the form of a complimentary con-
cert in the great tabernacle. AIT this
performance the magnificent Mormon
choir, and the popular Salt Lake Con-
cert company, and others of our no
table talent will appear. 4 fine pro-
gramme is now in process of arrange
ment. Everything that we can pos
sibly do ito make the convention and
the entertainment of our visiting
brethren of the press a success, we
will do.
However, we are obliged to rely up
on the people for assistance in var
ious ways We feel sure that the
Utah Press association, including, as
it does, nearly every paper in the ter
ritory, need but to intimate TO the
generous and patriotic citizens of Salt
Lake that their help is desired to make
this event a success, and responses of
assistance will flow in from every
quarter. There will be public COM
mittees on arrangement and recep-
ton necessary, some flowers, music
and paraphernalia for decorative pur-
poses For whatever trouble or slight
expenses we may go to in making this
event successful there will come back
to us a thousand fold in the generous
that we shall receive
the newspapers of the entire
states, and thus will
this gathering prove to be an untold
blessing to Utah.
The editors of Utah papers, moved
with a loyalty and love for our mount
ain walled state, are anxious to take
an active part in building up what is
destined to be the grandest common
wealth of the inter-mountain states.
on the threshold of state
hood we have sent out warm invita-