The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-04-24

If the quarter Of hundred hote
men from every section of the United
States who are to visit Salt Lake in g
few days do not leave Zion with q
very good opinion of the Sanity City
1t will not be the fault of the commit
tee who are arranging for their enter
tainment, and they will be as hard &c
please as is their average guest.
Proprietor Gus Holmes of the
Knutsford gave out last evening the
programme which has been decided up
| on as calculated to give the hotel men
! pleasant recollections of the city. By
the hotel men, is meant the proprie-
! tors and managers of all the principal
hotels of the country, who, as members
of the Hotel Mems Mutual Benefit as
| ISOLATION, have been holding their an
nual meeting on the Pacific coast.
They will stop in Salt Lake on their
way east, arriving here over the Rio
Grande Western on the morning of the
29th, coming $50 strong. Their travelling
equipment is three special trains said
to be the finest trains that ever cross
ed the continent. One is called the
New York train, another the New En-
gland, and the third the Chicago G.
Northwestern. Attached to one of the
trains will be a special car containing
twenty-five of the hotel men of Gin
cinnati, Columbus and Louisville.
Upon the arrival of the party in the
morning, they will be met at the train
by the reception committee and escort
ed to the Knutsford for breakfast. At
10 o'clock they will be taken in fifty
carriages engaged for the occasion, to-
gether with the tally no Raymond and
carryall Utah, and driven about the
city until 1880, the drive ending at
the tabernacle, where special concert
will be given, lasting from hall 10
three-quarters of an hour. They will
then be taken to luncheon, and at 2:30
a special train will convey the party
to Saltair, returning in time for din
ner at the Knutsford. They will leave
again at 7:30 over the Rio Grande
Western for Glenwood Springs, Colo
RADIO. from whence they will journey
direct to Chicago.
The reception and entertainment of
the visitors will be under the direction
of the chamber of commerce, assisted
by the hotel men of the city.
THE OFFICERS ELECTED.
The association held its annual meet
ing and election of officers at Los An
geles George w. Lynch of the Flor
ence hotel, San Diego, California, was
elected president and George H. Par
ker of New England, first vice presl-
dent The other vice presidents elect
ed were:
A. c. Bilicke of the Hollenbeck ho--
tel Los Angeles. Cal; NJ. NJ. Taber OF
Colorado, A S. Bliss of Washington,
Charles B. Taylor of Florida, Warren
Leland of Georgia, Charles Locke of
Illinois, Edward Watson of Indiana,
John E. Carlisle of Michigan, F. A
Barker of Minnesota, H. Weaver of
Missouri, G. Turn of Mississippi,
George Marke of Nebraska, T. E. Kell-
horn of New Hampshire, C. NJ. Ford
of New York A. s. Cook of New Jer-
sey, G. w. Reynolds of Montana, D. P.
Kissick of North Carolina, D. c. Shears
of Ohio, F. P. Holley of Pennsylvania,
E. w Eldridge of South Carolina, W.
P. Harbutt of Texas and AL Ainsley of
Virginia.
The following directors were elected:
H. H Brockway of New York, Al Bliss
of Washington, D. c.; NJ. F. Barker of
St. Paul. C. c. Hilton, S. E. Howard,
F. W. Price, Jewett Wilcox, E. J.
Bohmi, w. H. Worth, M. A. Loring, E.
S. Pinney, all of Chicago.
Boston was selected as the next place |
of meeting.