The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-07-08
FISHER HARRIS
TALKS OF TRIP
he Relates How He Secured Con.
Ventlon of Credit Men for
Next Year.
TRAVELLING MEN ARE
COMING HERE IN 1909
he Wakes Eloquent in Praise Of
the Great Exposition at
jamestown.

| he
iIast Drumming over with joy because
oi the success of his efforts 70 secura
."e annual convention of the National
association Of Credit Men for Salt
LAKE next year and the promise given
'nde the National Travellers Protective
association will hold its animal gatbor
ing here in 1907
Mr' harrls attended the Credit Men %
TVnVe1tlon ;n In Chicago and the Travel.
IIIR wen 3 association at Norfolk w
re turned loose that mixture Of VIZ
S,m'a eloqnence and Western spellbipd-
ing Tor which he is Justly famons nr
poth conventions, with the resuIt ibot
ZION captured the Credit Men by storn,
hhu was chosen for the 1908 meet;no
unhnlmous vote, although Philadef
pn'n ~ ~ ane Oklahoma City both had been
rio nelo PRIOR to hetime Mr.. Har-
LIZ uncorked his flow Of language.
He Talks at a. m.
me eloquent men from the Mormon
Jtate had TO wait until 5 o'clock in
the morning TO address the travnIi1r
men. This speech, he solemnlv assertss
was delivered in the convention hall
ana not IN thirst parlor, where
sPgeches at such an hour usually are
uellVered. lie lost his voice irving TO
persuade the convention to come ~
Iale LIKE next year, and he hasn I got
lGe r voice back yet by any means. lie |
ie ia'ica TO & WIN for 1908, but got a prom. |
quarters two Gays before Mr.. Harris |
arrived, and distributed the product |
that made Milwaukee famous ad I,h
win characteristic modesty Mr. Uar.
RS asserts that he bore but a humble
part IN securing the convention. He
says inc other Utah men who went East
dld more than he did, but when pressed
adnltted that he was the only man who
made speech for Utah before either
convention The other delegates TO the
Credit Men convention we're Arthur
Parsons, Herbert Van Dam. Jr and
John q. Critchlow, all of Salt Lake. and
:. oseph ). Ioung of Ogden. The other
delegate to Norfolk was H. w. Ruth of
Salt Lake. -
Studies Publicity Methods
After his labors at Norfolk were
over Mr.. Harris visited New York, in
company with his daughter, and spent
week studying publicity methods.
am convinced said Mr. Harris,
IAN get is not the paid kind. News
paper articles, descriptive of our eli
nate and scenery-articles that do not
oear the stamp of paid ADVERTISING
IRE the very best kind of publicity. Get ]
ne people here once, and when you get
hem here, and they see the country. 7
he rest is easy, Fifteen of the leading !
ma largest business houses IN Los An =
,eles were started by men who. when /
hey went to the town. had not the r
lIghtest idea of investing dollar in i
he town, but who were attracted there I
~ the climate n
What we wan to do is to tell the y
eople OF the East in the most attract y
we wa yof our mountains. our valleys, s
ur canyons and our climate. Get them v
Interested in that. The bringing of
hese two conventions here will be of
ionderful assistance in advertising =
jtah. The credit men are the repre- q
entatives of the largest business firms Il
nd financial institutions of the couu- a
ry, and their coming here will be of b
value to us. The travelling
len are missionaries wherever they 90,
nd they, TOO, will do us world of ~ =,
ood y =, r.
Praise for Exposition. IN
AS is becoming in true son Of old r.
irginia, Mr.. Harris waxed eloquent OF
n the subject of the jamestown Ex- NJ
osltion. IL
..It started with thousand handi- li
lps,n he said, "Hbut it is the greatest W
eposition in the history of America.
y thirty days, when everything is com AZ
cted, it Will BE- wonderful beyond my in
owers Of description. The buildings BY
-e all of brick and are PERMANENT in B;
leir nature The grounds are a dream. ID
"The best way TO reach the exposl
on is TO take the boat down the Poto de
ac from Washington One will ride on
| day between the historic shores of hi
aryland and Virginia, and at night
,u will glide in among the warships
Uncle Sam S navy, and see the ex" IA IA
,sitiou lights on ground rich in ira, III
tion and story, and gaze upon one of
G uost beautiful sights in the world. -
''Utah day will be October 10. 1t is =
,lieyed that there will be large at /
ndance, and that the people from this +
eat State will have memorable time !.
the history Of the exposition. We j.
ant to paint a red streak across the +
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