The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-11-19
COMMERCIAL Travellers MEET
UTAH'S TRADE HUSTLERS OR
CAME A COUNCIL.
Become Part of the United CONNER
cial Travellers of America-Thirty
Members to Start With.

The commercial travellers OF Utah,
whom some persons facetiously call
| ''drummers," have organized. They
| met last evening in the parlors of the
Kenyon hotel and elected officers and
J they will become council of the
United Commercial Travellers of Amer
] lea. Past Supreme Councillor L. c.
1 Pease of Columbus, o.. has come all the
+ way to Utah to organize this council,
and his efforts have been successful.
Now. there may be q great many per-
sons who don't think that Utah con-
tains a sufficient number of commercial
travellers to make a good showing. They
are much mistaken. There is host
of travelling men whose homes are in
Salt Lake. In fact. there are $50 Of
them They travel for Salt Lake
houses, for New York, Chicago and
San Francisco houses; in fact. for firms
in nearly every city in the country.
They constitute half the business Of
many hotels in the city and state
They are moving. busting fellows who
see every corner of the state. who know
every merchant and every hotel pro
prietor from st. George to Brigham
City.
Some months ago there was -four
ishing council in Salt Lake, but it died
out through indifference. So few OF
the members could be on hand to at
tend the monthly meetings that the
council languished and died OF inani-
ton
believed that new life could be infused.
so he dropped in here the other day
and began work among the travelling
men. AS a result there was a meeting
at the Kenyon attended by thirty Of
them. Had there been longer time
more would have come. The old con-
stitu,ion and bylaws were adopted and
ha al of rx-aG Cd
with.
These were chosen, all of whom are
residents of Salt Lake: j. c. Gleason,
senior councillor; Sam Samuels, junior
councillor: Isaac Hill. secretary-trea
urer; d. W. McAllister, conductor; 10
seph Decker. page; Thomas Wise, SEN
tinel.
Executive committee for two years:
o. G. Hemingway and H. T. Cleaver.
Executive committee for one year:
William Sumner and c. II. Mcmahon
This committee. to select a perma-
nent headquarters, was appointed:
Colonel ]. L. Poole, Isaac Hill and 5.
NJ. Barlow.
The officials were installed and in
structed by Supreme Councillor Pease
and then several addresses were made.
Mr.. Pease explained to the gentle
men present that the benefits of the
order were many, chief among which
were the SOCIAL ana iFdteIHdl ltdtufcS
He said that travelling men who were
acquainted and who worked in har-
mony could accomplish much more
with less difficulty than when they were
dssorganized. He explained at some
length the insurance features of the
order, showing that it was a mutual
benefit. and that insurance was gwen
at actual cost. Others who spoke en-
Enthusiastically of the benefits of organ
ization were Thomas Wise, II. t.
Cleaver, o. G.. Hemingway, j. c.
Gleason, Sam Sanuels and c. c. Sloan.
I'VE are going TO have one of the
banner councils of the country" said
Senior Councillor Gleason. Every
travelling man whom l have met in the
past few months has been waiting for
this organization, and l believe that all
of these who live here will come into
the order"
Before the meeting adjourned
motion for a vote of thanks to Don c.
Porter, proprietor of the Kenyon. was
proposed by Colonel Poole and unani-
mously passed. -
There are now 1900 members of the
L. C. T. and there are councils in al
most every city of the country. In
fact there are 155 councils and they
contain the best class of travelling men.