The Glenwood post., 1905-08-26
ROYAL WELCOME
AT SALT LAKE
Colorado Delegation Net by Gov
ernor OF Utah and Given hey
to City of the Saints
GLtNWOODITES HAVE GRAND TINE
Salt Lake City, Utah,

august ~, l3uo
Last Saturday evening Mr.. and
Mrs. William Dougan, Mr. and Mrs.
Ed. S. Hughes, William Cardnel and
A. J. Dickson of Glenwood Sprins,
and Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Koch and SON
Edward, of Aspen, joined the special
Colorado delegation for Portland,
Messers. Dougan, Hughes, Cardnell
and Dickson having been appointed
delegates from Garfield county to the
National Irrigation congress at Port
land and Mr.. Koch representing Pitkin
county in a like capacity.
The trip across the desert was un
eventful, as might be expected, but,
early Sunday morning we began to
sight spots of green, indicating that
we were approaching country where
civilization was the order of the day.
At Provo Governor Mcdonald and
the Colorado delegation were met by
Governor Cutler and party consisting
of His Excellency, John C. Cutler,
Senator Reed Smoot T. r. Cutler and
uduSHltI, lIouStItI SHIlslldll-
son, Attorney General Joseph Geoghe-
gan, Auditor J. A. Edwards. Just
what the governor of Utah said to the
governor of Colorado will probably
never be known but 1t must have been
about right as it put smile on the
countenance of Governor Mcdonald
which remained during our stay in
Mormondom. Suffice it to say the
Utah gubernatorial party escorted the
Colorado delegation to the City of the
Saints and turned over the town to
them in a way that spoke much for
the hospitality of this people. The
taken in an elegant motor car and
driven to the great Mormon tabernacle
and the rest of Us followed on street
cars, where the conductor said all our
money was counterfeit and he just
went along the board and counted
noses. He counted Bill Dougan 8
twice because it was 50 big. l don't
know whether he charged it up to
Brigham Young, Governor Cutler or
Reed Smoot, but we got to the taber
nacle without walking, and that's
the principal thing.
The tabernacle, that marvel of
architectural skill and famed for its
wonderful acoustic properties, where
Is, 600 people can be crowded in, ard
having comfortable seating capacity
of IL, 600, was reasonably we'll filled
except the gallery which our hosts had
kindly reserved for the Colorado dele
CATION although but small portion of
it was needed for that purpose.
After magnificent music by the
great choir, we listened to sermon
by Prof James E. Tallmage, of the
University of Utah, which woud have
been pronounced strictly orthodox by
Methodists, Presbyterian or any other
of the evangelical churches. After
this an organ recital given by Pro
fessor Cannon for the entertainment of
the Colorado delegation was greatly
enjoyed by all as many of us had
never before been privileged to hear
the greatest pipe organ of the world,
The old trick of dropping the pin was
not put on for our benefit, but the
marvellous acoustic properties of the
tabernacle were so clearly demonstra
ted without this experiment that it
was entirely unnecessary.
After the services, all members of
our party we're taken in automobiles
and driven out to Liberty park and
shown many other land marks of the
city including the Beehive, Liberty
arch, Brigham Young's theatre, the
old tithing house and many other
features.
A feature of the Mormon service
which was especially noticeable to
Coloradoans was the large percentage
of men among the worshippers.
Coming into country where, if
rumor be credited, the women pre-
dominate in much larger ratio than
in any other, had expected to see
comparatively few men at the service,
but at casual glance my first guess,
made hurriedly was that of these pres
ent fully 25 per cent were men, but
knowing that this would be considered
by Glenwood people as remarkable
proportion. l determined to resort to
figures on small scale, and did a
little counting with the following re-
suit In one pew containing Is people,
there were 10 men and five women.
Another pew with 13 persons held II