Omaha daily bee., 1902-02-11
ST. PAUL HUSTLERS ARRIVE
Delegation Of Business ksn Making . Tear
Of Inspection
LOOKING INTO an AUDITORIUM PROJECT
Visitors VIII he Received and Enter
tanned BY Committee of Omaha
Auditorium Company and
Commercial Club.

Hustlers from ST. Paul. Mimi, to the
number OF twenty-five arrived in Omaha
early this morning. The hustlers are from
the Commercial club Of the SANITY city
and they are out for Information pertaining
to the ways and means Of building an audi
torium.
Upon their arrival in this city the st.
Paul men we're met at the station by a
committee from the Omaha Auditorium
company and a delegation from the Com
mercial club and escorted TO the Her
Grand hotel. where they had breakfast.
After breakfast they will be taken to the
Commercial club rooms, where the work
Of the Omaha Auditorium company will be
reviewed. At IL o'clock a luncheon will
be served at the club rooms. the visitors
being the guests OF the executive commit
tee of the Commercial club.
After luncheon the plans Of the proposed
auditorium win be inspected and the party
entertained until the train leaves for the
north at Z o'clock in the evening.
Personnel of the Committee.
The ST. Paul committee is headed by @.
B. Bowlby, retail clothing merchant and
handspring Of the last ice carnival move
ments at the Minnesota capital. and secre-
tary c. p. slime Of the Commercial club.
H. p. Hall, who during the last thirty
years has been the editor OF every daily
newspaper In St. Paul, with but one ex-
ception. and a veteran 'rooter" for every
thing that ever struck the northern city, Is
in the party. John Caulheld. secretary Of
the city water works department and the
man who knows every foot of pipe in the
city and how to lay a ''lead-pipe cinch''
for evary new project undertaken by his
enterprising town, is another of the dele
CATION. Theophilus +. smith, who edits the
st. Paul city directory and knows the name
and address of every Saint, both big and
little, and Arnold Kalman, who own about
one-half Of Sixth street. one OF the lead
ing retail thoroughfares of st. Paul, are
also in the party. Another shining light
is Wilbur Tibbals. who has the distinction
OF belonging. to every fraternal organiza-
tion that ever took root in his city. Others
In the party are: F. w. Bergmeier, @. W.
Skies and j. Harry Lewis, newspaper mem;
e. s. Chittenden and w. M. Carson, law
yers; j.. w. Cooper, J. w. L. Corning, D.
B.. Finch. c.. B. Gedney, F. c. Genge, ]. F..
Kelly. Ike Lederer, w. H. Merrlck, J. 8.
Moody, A. X. Pruden. Edward Vanish and
W. L. Perkins, wholesalers and manufac-
tuners; Chester R. Smith and. J. W. Shop
herd, real estate dealers; r. II. Rice, pub
fishers agent; Christian Fry, hotel land
lord. and Eugene Valentine and e. A. Whit
taker, railroad agents,
Travel in Special Car.
The party left st. Paul at $40 Saturday
night and spent Sunday and Monday In
Kansas City. from which place It CO me to
Omaha. Tho managers Of the Great North
ern railway have placed at the disposal OF
the committee the sleeping car. "Marias,''
and the car will be the home Of the COM
mitteemen excepting while they are In the
hands of the entertaining committees OF
the two cities visited. y
The information 222Shich the committee
win try to secure Will cover every point
that bears on the auditorium project. A
list OF questions was prepared for the
guidance Of the committee, and IL the
Kansas City and Omaha auditorium people
answer these questions fully the st. Paul
committee will possess a fund OF Informal
tion that will leave little to be learned
by experience. The answers to these
questions will serve as a guidance in the
st. Paul auditorium project.
To meet the st. Paul men the Omaha
Auditorium company delegated the fol-
lowing reception committee: F.. r. SAN
born, Charles E.. Ady, S. ]. Campbell, M.
F.. Funkhouser, George w. Hoobler, f. p.
Hamilton. ]. r. Lehmer, c. G. Pearse and
H. S. Weller.
An entertainment committee consisting
Of ]. z. UT, J. F. Carpenter. F.. H. Davis,
P. Z. Her. o. d. Kiplinger. A. Millard, 7. J.
Mahoney, A. C. Smith, J. A. Sunderland and
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