The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-12
EPNORTH LEAGUERS
ARE ARRIVING
Trainload OF PennsylYanianS
Due Today.
TIN THOUSAND SUNDAY
opoeaAMME FOR SATURDAY
AND SUNDAY.
TEN THOUSAND SUNDAY

,.r,etbfng over 500 Epworth League
....I,,-sioDfSts spent yesterday in Salt
IKE and today there will be many
Tlndrad more in the citJ. Tomorrow
md sunday the rush viii be az its
.,aigb, for il is expected that 10000 TO
On lf8 visitors Will be in Salt Lake over
sunday to attend services at the tab
ernacIe and to De present at the big
sreDing rally at the Salt Lake theatre.
I'm to the present the arrivals nave
constituted merely the advance guard.
The first of the pig specials VIII arrive
today.
Both day trains from the east on the
Pf0 Grande Yesterday were ia TWO sec
ri,nS and both were from two TO three
hours late arriving. The second sec
non of No I stopped mere, as al its
Messengers were eXCursiOnists who in.
tended staying over The other trains
went through to Ogden Attached TO
No. / was a car OF OhlcaSO2nS IN
charge Of F. L. Sanford
General superintendent Welby Of the
Rio -vsnde Western has gone down
the line 10 personally direct the hand
ling of trains Besides the usual eN-
ira sections and car parties, at least
two big specials with fifteen cars IN
TEe aggregate dlr uUF 10 al I've NAAAN
evening They are both from Enlidue-
phia and are known as Pennsylvania
parties. one arrives at $40 p m. aud
the other at 9:05 p. m. Both are con-
Quoted by w A. Gillespie.
The Pennsylvania parties remain in
the city until Monday at midnight
City Will be swamped.
This city viii be swamped Satur-
dav and sunday" declared George T.
Moss of Milwaukee, who came in yes
Terday i'm charge of a party who went
10 the Kenyon. The Denver 4 Rio
Grande officials told me that they eX-
ugcted to handle twenty-five trains
with IA private cars within three days.
Most of the eXcursiOniSts are planning
TO spend Sunday in salt Lake. and
there viii be probably 0OG OF them in
the city then.
We who have been coming in up to
the present constitute only the van
guard The passengers on these trains
care from all over the east, and large
numbers of them are not EpWOrth
Ieaguers but are persons who are TAX
ing advantage of the rates. The genu-
inc EpwOrth League trains viii begin
To come in tomorrow.
The local EpW0rtn Leaguers viii be
sin today To receive the delegations
personally and TO look out for their
comfort as much as possible, They feel
almost inadequate TO cope with such
large numbers. but are planning TO do
the best they can. The programme for
q formal entertainment takes in only
Saturday and Sunday, and Is as fol-
lows:
Saturday. July 13-Epworth league
day at SaltaiT-
Sunday. July Irregular church
and Sunday school services, with the
pulpits filled by visiting Methodist
ministers.
u. m.-Regular services at the tab
ernacle.
6.3d p. understanding of Christian
Young people OF salt Lake with visitors
at the Salt Lake theatre
y. m--EVening services at the va
rIous churches, with pulpits filled by
visiting ministers Sacred concert at
First Congregational church by North
Indiana Conference quartette.
The programme for the masS-meeting
is as follows.
Ten-minute song service, conducted
ny North Carolina Conference guar
tstts.
Prayer by DR.. J. L. Leilich, superiu-
tendent Utah mission.
Addresses of welcome by Rev. Z. G.
Hunt of SGit Lake and B. l.. COrUm
state president Y. p. :. Q. +.
song by North Indiana Conference
Quartette.
Brief addresses by General Secretary
A. @. Crews of Canada, DR.. W. +
Thirkiald. State Secretary George f
DOugherty OF Kansas. and other prom
inent Epworth league workers.
Solo by Mrs. Anna COlburn Plum
mer of SALT Lake.
RenedictiOn-
Rev. Alfred II. Henry win preside.
Meeting of Committee.
The executive committee of the Ep
worth League met at the First Method
lSJ church last evening to cOl.- plet'
plans for the entertainment of the Wis
itors The Y. p s. q. +. and tht
Young Peoples Baptist union are co
operating with the league in this. ana
the committees INCLUDE members Of al
the organizations.
EVerhard Che mbers is chairman o
the general committee. and last nigh
the various subcommittee were com
pieIed The various headquarters VII
De opened today. The principal head
quarters viii be at the Rio Grand'
Western station and at the t1rs
Methodist church. Registers viii Id
kept at each place, and the visitors
viii be requested to record their names
The reception committee at the station
viii be headed by Miss Cora Ferguson
assisted by Miss g Their Jackson Tn
headquarters at the Methodist church
VIII be in charge of Miss anna Price
AtlSS Mary Bunker. MS j. A. GleesOl
and Miss Myrd SowleS. Portions of tn
First Methodist. First Presbyterian ani
First Baptist churches have been httec
Gp for resting places and writing
r1Cms
A committee viii leave for Thistle al
5l5 o'clock this afternoon TO meet n,
hrst Of tho Dig special trains which ar
expected to arrive i'm the carry evening
ihiS committee VIII be composed Oi
Everhard Chambers, Miss f.. r. Boyd
Jessie Joyd Rev. +. c. Hunt, Miss An
oerson. Il. Driver. Edward Green Al
leed : Peters p. B. Farley, Misses Et
~ StalLer, clara ellison and Lena
erome.
he committee TO meet the Saturday
lrslns is composed II Mrs. GreesCn
Ars. Anna COlbun Plummer. Mis-.
tern Patterson. q. A. Vincent, Dear
hamilton. Mrs t. T. Shepard, Mis-.
AizZie Campbell 4 r. Ber6iey Franz
j. Goodwin. q II. johnson. r. r. Stew
ar. Miss Della Wake. Miss Anna Ba
Ter. ". A. ButZ, j. II wilkins Miss
ara ASier and Miss Stella Clark
The general reception committee 81
forty members viii meet at the station
see that they are registered escort
lhem 90 headquarters and furnish then
information as 20 board and lOdgins
ana as 90 places of interest in the city
HEADING FOR SALT LAKE.