The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-21
CHRISTIAN ENDEAv0RERS
SALT LAKE WILL HAVE THOU
SANDS OF GUESTS.
Question of Providing Suitable En-
tertainments for Them Is Becom-
ing Serious One-The Committee
Hard at Work.

Very few people realize what splendid
opportunities Salt Lake City will have
for advertising herself next July What
with the Jubilee, the Trans Mississippi
congress and the Inter-Mountain Christian
Endeavor rally, we will have more peo-
pie in the city than have ever attended
any OF the semi-annual conferences of
the Mormon church. When it is stated
that $500 people from II states alone. have
signffed their intention of spending q
couple of days in salt Lake City en- route
to the International Inter-Mountain
christian Endeavor convention at san
Francisco some idea of the attendance at
the Christian Endeavor rally, July Sd to
9th, may be gained.
The Pennsylvania delegation, 600 strong,
will travel in three special trains: the
Chicago delegation. also of COO. will ar
rive in the same manner; New York, with
200, Iowa with 500. Ohio with 400 Missouri
with 800. New Jersey and Indiana with
together 225, Tennessee and Maryland
with $50 each. win all arrive here in
special trains. while West Virginia and
Texas Will each muster at least 90. The
delegations from Mississippi. Kentucky
and Idaho VIII also spend some time in
the city. but the letters from these states
failed TO give an estimate of the number
coming. When it is remembered that
the most populous states have not yet
been heard FROM it is hard to determine
just how many strangers will be here on
Mr.. J. B. Caldwell. chairman of the
Committee of 81 originally suggested
that possible 1000 would come one way;
couple of months later he was willing
to concede that there might be 5000, but
now he is thoroughly convinced that $500
would more nearly fill the bill.
In view of this tremendous influx of
eastern people the matter of adequate
entertainment becomes a formidable one.
Can the hotels and restaurants of the
city accommodate 1880 people in an hour
and a half? That is the question the
entertainment committee would like to
nave answered in the affirmative as it is
causing the genial chairman, Mrs. E Z.
and her committee Il great
amount of anxiety. Certainly that num-
Der cannot be taken care of unless special
arTang are made. The honor OF
Salt Lake City is involved in this matter.
We have asked the people to come here.
and thew are coming with vengeance.
II they are not properly entertained it
VIII give the city an unenviable reOuta-
ton. 1t IS suggested that the hotel and
restaurant men get together and see what
they can do in the way of making these
people comfortable. SO far as meals are
concerned.
The executive committee is working
hard and great deal of enthusiasm is
being generated. Headquarters have been
established in the O'Meara block and to-
aar banner with the device Inter
Mountain Christian Endeavor Rally. July
Sd to 9TH, will be flung to the breeze.
Never in the history of Salt Lake City
has such vast amount of intelligent and
well-to-do people from the outside states
visited her. Let such attention be shown
nave no time to talk of anything save
Salt Lake City, her invigorating climate,
her wonderful future and her unstinted