The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-13
INFORMAL FUN
At CLUB DINNER
One Hundred Fifty Guests At
tend First Annual Banquet
of the Commercial Club.
MANY GOOD SPEECHES
HIGH JINKs IN OGDEN CANYON
PLANNED.

Over 150 guests seated around long ia
pies IN the Commercial clubs dining room
last evening enjoyed an informal banquet
at which Tlgadler-CIeHeraI Charles A
Coolidge, L. :. a. was the guest of
honor This was the first annual ban
quet 10 be served by the members of the
club to their friends. one Of the features
OF last evenings entertainment was the
total absence Of Formally It was strictly
q business man banquet. The guests
wore the suits Of business hours. Sum
mer suits, rt-Waists-anything went.
I ne talks made were also Informal The
speakers were selected without notice 10
themselves. Their themes allowed them
the liberty Of talking along any line they
chose and they did. so.
President Charles A. Quigley OF the
Commercial club introduced Secretary
Fisher Harris as POSTMASTER. Mr.. HaT-
ris spoke briefly saying that as Salt Lake
never enjoyed a time more promising it
was desirable that the representative
citizens of the city should get together.
discuss trade conditions and speak of
mlghuer things for the future. The guest
OF honor, a soldier tried and true, Briga-
der General Charles A Coolidge, was the
IlFSt speaker. When ] first came west,
thlrty-seVeu years ago we were carried
by the Union Pacific as far as Uintah
only be began. Fort Douglas was
then few three-roOm mud huts. The
post VIII. be rebuilt larger and better I
was a refugee from San Francisco Where
once large buildings stood now is but
barren waste Wooden homes are now
OF ~. The speaker said a soldier IS
seldom a speaker and announced that the
rule and not the exception applies TO
him.
Frank 2. stephens spoke upon the
Commercial Value Of Civic Beauty He
opened his talk by saying the gathering
Of I-en before which he was speaking was
IN Itself a hint at what can be done to-
ward establishing civic beauty through
harmonious effort. We have reached an
age when we must reach onward with
our faces toward the 'front.' ne COHtin-
ued. We have reached an age when we
must start building a city instead of put
terlug along as We have done for so many
years Good streets. sanitary conditions
beautiful drives and other public improve
menJs have an influence which nets cold
dollars and cents in return. The Contem-
view embracing the WasatCh peaks the
fertile fields and the wealthy canyons is
but an item in the long list Of factors
v hlCh VIII mean civic beauty for Salt
Lake. Upon the base Of necessity rests
everything beautiful The piece of sCuIp-
must carry a message to mankind to be
beautiful just as the lines of the face
mark the character Of the man. so does
the appearance Of 2 city mark the
strength Of its citizenship. Salt Lake is
the educational center Of this inteTmOun-
tain region tt Is the home of industry.
Idleness should be unknown The gam
bier must take a shovel and get to work.
There should be no open public places
for the WOTklu gmen TO pander with the
loaded dice and manipulated roulette
wheel, spending the money which belongs
to his family. We are creatures Of en-
NiTOnment- Our surroundings build our
character. Civic beauty thus has a value
which cannot be estimated in money. We
can and viii make Salt Lake q city which