The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-01-19
.ELKS PREPARE
FOR BIG MEET
Orders For Accommodations Are
Pouring In.
STARTING SALT LAKE CLUBS
INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION
OF ELECTRICAL WORKERS.
STARTING SALT LAKE CLUBS

From the amount of interest shown
on the outside in the grand lodge re-
union of the Elks in Salt Lake the
middle of next August, it is evident
that the probable visitors to this city
have a deeper appreciation than the
people of this. city have of the extern
sive preparations that must be made
to care for the thousands of Eiks who
will be attracted here next summer.
But it must not be supposed that the
Salt Lake Elks are not alive TO the
exigencies of the situation.
INQUIRIES for accommodations at the
hotels. boarding and roeming houses
and private dwellings are coming in at
a lively rate already and Chairman
Thomas Homer of the general com
mittee is beginning to feel what a
task ne has before him to answer all
communications. An average of thirty
letters daily is sent out by him in
reply 10 inquiries from delegations
which intend to be here when the
grand lodge meets.
Grand Exalted Ruler Pickett and the
members of the grand lodge executive
committee are expected to visit Salt
Lake early in February to ascertain
whether assurances can be given that
the thousands of visiting Elks can be
properly fed and housed next August.
The general committee of the local
Elks has been given carte blanche au-
thority to further all arrangements,
and Chairman Homer is in no fear
that his committee will be able to
give the proper assurances at the re-
CURED time To do so will, however.
necessitate a canvass of the city to
learn how many visitors can be cared
for at the homes Of resident Elks and
others.
Advertising the Convention.
The general committee is working
out plans for drawing the widest at
tention TO salt Lake as the convention
city. and already attraetively litho-
/ graphed letter heads and other printed
matter are used by the bureau of in
| formation as a means of answering all
| inquiries from outside points.
I In Omaha a Salt Lake club has been
started with fifty-four Elks, who are
pledged to make the trip out here next
I August. and it is expected that the
clubs membership will reach 200. ex-
{ elusive of the uniformed band which
! will accompany the party. similar
! club has been organized at Joliet. Ms
/ with a prospective membership OF 500,
! including the women.
| Next Saturday there will be a meet
( ing of all the Montana lodges at Great
/ Falls to arrange for taking the Salt
/ Lake trip. The Montana Elks wrote
during the week to engage headquar-
/ tiers and fifty sleeping rooms, with
/ privilege of increasing the order foi
accommodations. The Great Falls Tri-
| bune is getting out a special Elks edi-
ton to promote the success of Mon
! tana's part in the big convention
San Franciscans Coming.
/ Exalted Ruler Dunno of San Fran
/ cisco has wired for accommodations
( for 200 persons, the expected number in
! his delegation Sc zess
An inquiry received last week BY
! Chairman Homer from Greenville
Miss, asks what prizes viii be Offered
for best features in the spectacular
parades. This aggregation is known
as the Cotton Pickers from the South
and it intends to go on to California
after the Elks' reunion is over.
The publisher of the Southern Buck
a New Orleans paper, has written tina
he will give the use of his columns t
promote the success of the big meet
ing. 500
Many inquiries are coming in TO
information about side trips before o.
after the convention, to the Yellow
stone park and to California, anC
about the scenic routes of travel. Al
these queries are promptly answered
by Chairman Homer.