The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-13
ENTERTAINMENT
FOR TODAY.

FDwarth League day at Salt :
air Train schedule on fourth ?
Two free organ recitals at the >
! tabernacle at IL a. m. ana 3'oV
nm. by Professor ]. ]. McCIeI- =
= land.
FDworth League headquarters =
\ are at the Rio Grande western
: railway station; First Methodlst
= church. Third South, between
! Main and State streets; First =
; PRESBYTERIAN church, East sec
and South and Second East ,
; streets; and First Baptist ?
: church. Second West and Sec ?
= opd South streets. Information ,
bureaus. resting and writing >
: rooms are at headquarters
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salt lake is choled with people, and
s-srcayv more than a 1.-THE of the ex-
ra-tsd crowds have arrived. Railway
cf,is1s say they viii handle $1,000 to
o. GOO Fpworth League eXcursionlsts.
Already about 5000 have reached salt
lake and about half that number have
summed over. 1t is estimated that there
were 1000 guests in salt Lake yester-
day. By tomorrow 1t is expected that
the city win hare 10000 to $1,000
strangers within its gates.
Fears Of a famine arr haunting the
local Epworth LeaguerS. With the
markets closed. Sunday viii see a ire
mendous throng i'm the city to be
housed and fed, and 1t IS cared that
+ha local restaurant and h9l-I facilities
will be Inadequate. The hotels already
have mad warning. but the entertain
rnent committee announced ITS 1nten-
ton last evening Of notifying the res
tzlrants Of the immense multitudes
expected so that preparations could
ne made TO take c. r. OF them. several
Of the restaurants have already laid
i'm extra supplies. and nave IN loUnced
their readiness TO handle the crowds
but Ii is thought that the mOdera ue-
priced restaurants viii De unequal to
the occasion. There was some talk yes
tsrday of arranging % hire a hall
where at least sandwiches and coffee
could be served. but no definite move
was made in that direction.
The hotels have laid in extra supplies
in preparation for the rush.
Can Feed the Crowds.
we viii be able to feed at least 500
people a day" said Proprietor Don II.
Porter oi the Kenyon. Il have been
buying extra quantities of meat, fruit
and vegetables in preparation for the
rush tomorrow and Sunday, an1 we
will keep the dining room open pretty
nearly all the time. If necessary, to feed
the crowds. This city could not furnish
sleeping accommodations for all that
crowd, but I think they can be fed"
The KnutsfOrd is under contract to
house and feed the KinpOort party of
New Workers. numbering 100 persons,
besides several smaller parties. Prdc-
IDEALLY all tbs rooms in the house have
been engaged for tonight and Sunday
night, but preparations have been made
20 Iced an extra number OF people. me
Cullen has also laid in extra supplies.
The entertainment committee has
Prepared a list of hotels and rOOminS
houses. A resume of their accOrnmOda-
ttliIS show that they viii not begin ID
lake care of the crowds. 1t is expected,
however, that nearly all of those who
come on special trains viii sleep on the
ears. About fifty persons who came IN
on the special trains last evening came
up town TO hotels. About thirty of
them were obliged to return to the
train, owing to the lack Of hotel accom-
mOdauons.
Pennsylvanians Arrive.
Ihv first of the Epworth League. spe-
Gals arrived last evening. They were
1ne two Pennsylvania specials in
charge Of W. A. Gillespie, arriving at
S.45 and sos last evening. In addition
70 this there were three extra sections
o. the regular trains, bringing in
crowds Of eXcursi0nists from all over
The east.
The Gillespie trains brought in go
PERSONS including sixteen ministers.
The party Included G. NJ. Boswell, pres
ldent OF the Philadelphia union, Rev.
~ f. TribOu. chaplain in the United
states navy. and a number of others
VI greater or less prominence
We left Philadelphia July f." said
3ir Boswell, and have been making
olf way leisurely along, enjoying the
ZIP as We went. We stopped over at
DenNer and Mamtou. and We expect "a
say IN salt lake until Sunday night
are all enjoying Oul selves an spite
q the hezL"
AF. Iri5ou was formerly chaplain on
tae cruiser New York. and is now on
-S way 10 be assigned to one OF the
'sssels in the Pacific fleet
ne Pennsylvania trains We're met
= inistle by the committee Of ten from
,le Salt Lake Epwor ~ League. Headed
W Everhard Chambers. The commit
,re distributed copies of the Utah
AelEcdist containing the programme OF
entertainment in Salt Lake. and sup
tled the visitors with information
ABOUT aecommodauons AID points Of