The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-11-04
ELKS COMING
BY THOUSANDS
Eastern Lodges Preparing For
Salt Lake Trip.
LETTERS ARE POURING IN
LOUISVILLE WILL BRING THE
FAMOUS WEBER BAND.

! Exalted Ruler Freed has taken the
initiative for the reception of the B.
P. 0. z. grand lodge next year by ap-
pointing a correspondence committee,
whose duty it is 10 answer the hun
dreds of letters that are coming in
! every week making inquiries about &C
| commOdations and rates. This commit
/ tee consists OF Thomas Homer, Mel
/ vile Crane and Andrew Smith. They
have on hand now orders for nearly 400
/ reservations, room and board.
Word has come from reliable parties
| to the effect that Cincinnati will have
four or five sleeper loads in its delega-
! ton, and Louisville will send 100 peo-
pie, with Webber's band. This organi-
cation was the sensation at Milwaukee.
Cincinnati. Seattle, Louisville and
! many other cities have inaugurated the
fund system. under which each mem
Der who expects to attend contributes a
stipulated sum every week, and out Of
this fund, which viii grow until time
| Tor starting, the expenses of the trip
viii be paid. Cincinnati is to try for
the grand lodge session Of 1903.
A novel proposition comes from Sc
attic. The exalted ruler Of that lodge
wants to get I'D tow baseball teams,
composed exclusively of exalted rulers.
TO play game during the session. He
offers to get all the eXaIteds on the
coast, nine of them at least. and gives
Mr.. Freed the prerOgat tive Of choosing
nine from states east of here. The aim
IS to have eighteen states represented
IN The game, everybody to go in with
out team practice.
Grony D~-sI- csy
An indication of the attendance to
be expected at the EIks' national con-
vention next year and of the prepara-
tons being made all over the country
Tor that event is contained in the fol-
lowing from the Grand RAPIDS Mich
Evening Press:
The Elks have started preparations
Tor trip to Salt Lake City next wear
which promises to be even a greater
success than their journey this year to
milwaukee,. A meeting Of the special
reunion committee was held in the
iOQge rooms yesterday afternoon at
Which plans were discussed and ar
fangements made which, if successful,
VIII be of Importance not only to the
lodge, but to the city as we'll.
1t is proposed to make up special
tram, to be known as the Furniture
CITY special, to carry EIks from this
city and from the state generally. Cor
respondence will be entered into at
once with the railroads and sleeping
car companies and at the next meet
ing Of the committee, reports will be
made. after which viii commence the
formation Of a Salt Lake City club.
charles Retting viii go to the Utah
city this week and look over hotel
possibilities, secure options and rates.
and look Over the general plan of the
reunion. It is reported that S35, 600 has
already been raised by the citizens
there and it is proposed to raise S75.-
600 and to make the social feature of
the reunion better than has ever be-
fore been experienced
1T is expected to take at least 100
members from this city and to again
60 after the grand prize in parade IN
cHlclal figures make the expense about
$50 per man, and the committee would
organize club and have members paw
IN half that amount Immediately and
the balance on installments, with a
forfeit of 20 per cent in case one fails
to so. 1t is planned TO make a ten
days trip OF it, going by way of Chi
cage, Denver, and stopping for one day
at Colorado Springs ana ManitOu for
the Gods and Pixies peak.
Michigan Division.
1T is not expected that any other
Michigan lodge will make a formidable
showing. There are about thirty of
them in the state, however, and all of
them will be represented by members.
They viii all be invited to go with the
local lodge upon the Furniture City
special, and TO join in making a Mich
igan division in the parade, with some
distinctive feature of uniform for all
Nothing has yet been suggested about
uniforms for local lodge members, but
It Is expected to get up a neat uniform
of new design, and it is also desired to
take the Furniture City band. Such a
demonstration would be of immense
bebefit to the city, from a business
standpoint, and ii is not believed that
there would be any trouble in raising
the money necessary for the expense.
"A suggestion has been made that a
general excursion % given to Salt Lake
city, as the time comes just when
school teachers and others are taking
their vacations and It is thought thai
many Of them would be glad to take
advantage of the excellent Offering for
this occasion. The sentiment of the
committee, however. IS that it should
be confined to members of the order
entirely.
George F. Sinclair. who was gen
eral chairman Of the Shriners' pilgrim
age to Honolulu. is chairman of this
committee and is taking an active in
tersst in the work Novel ideas for
badges have already been suggested.
and there viii be other details develop
ing from now On and they will be act
ed upon as soon as figures can be OBJ
tanned from the railroads"