The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-09-03
BOISE WELCOMES
EMPIRE MAKERS
Idaho's Beautiful Capital Is in
Gala Dress to Greet the
Irrigation Congress.
HUNDREDS ARE POURING
INTO H0SPITABLE CITY
Reception Committee Is Admir-
ably Handling Crowd; All I
Are Cared For. Z
Special TO The Tribune,

Special to Tho Tribune.
BOISE. Ida, Sept. Boise, always
beautiful, is especially so now. She is
spick and span, arrayed in her best
"glad rags" and her most winning
smile, welcoming within her gates the
host of earnest and enthusiastic men
composing the fourteenth annual 1rriga-
tion congress, The arrangements for
the meeting are fully rounded into
shape and the crowds are now pouring
in, The local committees are busy as
bees and so far all arrivals have been
comfortably and satisfactorily cared
for
This morning Gov. Gooding and Sen
ator Dubois started to meet Vice-Pres
ident Fairbanks at Pocatello. The
Vice President train is scheduled to
reach Boise at 80 Monday morning,
but as the distinguished guest has been
having a pretty strenuous time lately
he wants to get some needed rest, and
has stipulated that his car be side
tracked here and that he be not dis
turbed until 8 O'Clock Monday morn
ing, half an hour before the opening
of the first session, at which he is to
| deliver an address,
Senator Carter Of Montana is here
and has been radiating good humor
among his scores of friends.
Tasteful Decoration.
The city is simply yet very taste
fully and very profusely decorated
| The decoration committee alone has
used 10000 yards of green and white
bunting, to say nothing of the thou
sands of flags and other decorative dis
plays made by individuals. Much of
| the bunting has been made into tri-
angular streamers, half white and half
| green, and thousands of these wave
from the fronts and roofs of buildings
and are suspended en- wires, spanning
the streets all through the main busi
ness portion of the city, and especially
on Main street from Eighth to Tenth
streets. All the public buildings, prac-
tically all the business blocks and many
private residences are artistically
| draped in the irrigation colors. Every
where ia voiced the city's welcome in
the form of pleasant and attentive
numbers of the local reception commit
| tee wearing neat and appropriate
| badges, They greet each guest as he
steps from the train, and If he is not
already provided for. assists him in
finding suitable accommodations. AS
the visitor starts up Tenth street he
passes, just before reaching the Idanha
| hotel, under a handsome arch of wei
come spanning the street, and q he
| looks up Main street from the corner
| of Tenth a maze of decorations meets
| the eye, all Of which is brilliantly il
Illuminated at night by myriad of in
candeseent lights strung on wires span
ming the streets in every direction,
This method of illumination is also
| employed in lighting the TWO blocks OF
Eighth street occupied by the pavil-
| ions and booths containing the exposi-
| tion of the products of irrigation, and
Welcome Is Everywhere.
The word Welcome greets the eye
! in thousands of streamers, while reach
| ing across Main street, near the Capitol
hotel, is a large banner inscribed;
"Idaho Welcomes the Reclamation
Service,'' while similar banner
stretched across Eighth street, at the
| New Overland building, declares that
| 'fUncle Sam Is Busy in Boise Valley. -
| All these sentiments are repeatedly
expressed elsewhere, and In other forms
| in the decorations. And the welcome is
genuine. The people of Boise mean
every word of 1T.
A speakers stand has been erected
at the northeast corner of the city hall,
| from which Vice President Fairbanks
and others will make public speeches
| This stand has also been elaborately
decorated and lighted.
! The music for the occasion was fore
| shadowed by band concerts last even
ing and this evening by the Boise band,
which will be in attendance throughout
the session, The Mountain Home band
will also be here, and Held's Military
Monday forenoon on the Salt Lake
special train with the Utah delega-
| ton and the Washington newspaper
men The fame of Held s band has
preceded it. and its coming has aroused
q general interest and expectancy, both
on the part of the Boise people and
among the visitors The Statesman
speaks of it as Zone of the oldest and
most famous bands in the West, and
| saws it is doubtful If it has superior
| in the entire West. That the band will
make good and will fully sustain Its
| great reputation. no one who knows 1t
will for moment doubt.
Gov, Pardee of California, president
! of the congress will not be here, hav-
| ing been detained at home by pressing
official business. The great length and
board comprehensiveness of the pro,
| pramme will make an experienced and
| thoroughly efficient presiding officer
necessity if the business is to be han
| died in the time allotted. This after
| noon III was planned to secure senator
| Carter to act in this capacity, but up
! 10 this hour his consent had not been
| secured
Kiesel for President,
The majority of the delegates will
| arrive tonight and tomorrow morning,