The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-06-16
OMAHA VISITORS
SEE SALT LAKE
Commercial Club Extends Hos
pitality to Hundred Bust
ness Men.
SHELDON ONE OF THE BOYS
NE5RAsKA'S GOVERNOR HELPS
TO KEEP THINGS MOVING.
SHELDON ONE OF THE BOYS

Eighty-five of Omaha's representative
business and professional men. headed
by Governor George L. Sheldon of Ne
braska, are guests of Salt Lake today
and have been since yesterday after
noon, at o'clock, when the special
train bearing the party rolled in from
Ogden over the Oregon Short Line and
the Nebraskans swarmed off TO be well
coined by a delegation of hundred or
more members of the Commercial club,
with Held's band
The town has been turned over to
the visiting merchants and the Com
mercial club members are doing every
Thing in their power 10 make the visit
here pleasant. The special train leaves
for Omaha tonight over the Oregon
Short Line, and this afternoon is to be
spent at Saltair, the party returning to
town whenever they see fit.
From the time the Omaha men
formed in parade at the Oregon Short
Line depot yesterday afternoon and
marched to the Commercial CLUB
through the downtown streets. the ex-
cursionists and their hosts have been
on the jump. A more representative
sOlic and prosperous appearing eXcur-
sion partv has never been seen here.
Governor Sheldon is the personal
guest Of Governor Cutler. Yesterday
Afternoon and last evening at the Com
mercial club he was everywhere. shak-
ing hands. getting acquainted and keep
ing things moving. He is a big six.
lfOoter. black hair, dark eyes and smooth
Ashaven face. You could spot him by
his tall silk hat yesterday. He wouldn't
use a carriage to see the town during
the afternoon. but climbed into the
waiting street cars with the other eX-
cursionistS and led the fun.
The members of the committee from
the Commercial club which went TO Og-
den and came down on the excursion
train with the Omaha men yesterday
were given warmer welcome by the
visitors the minute the special train
pulled out of Ogden than they had
thought of preparing for their guests
at this end of the ride.
Fun With the Committee.
The committee was individually mi
tiated into the secret order of "Am-O-
cats" to which every one of the Omaha
men belongs and has belonged since
leaving Tacoma, Wash. Here's the ini-
tiction into the "Am-o-Cats." as it was
administered to the members of the
committee from the Commercial club
yesterday between Ogden and Salt
Lake: Every committeeman was blind
folded ana brought into one of the cars;
here his shoes were removed and he
was made 20 stand on a copper plate
raised from the floor of the car: after
swearing To an oath of allegiance that
all but took the windows out of the car
the victims hands were raised alOft
and an electric current shot into the
plate he was standing on. The current
was kept on until the candidate sue
ceeded in his hySterical jumps in land
ing in some other section of the car
ThereupOn he was Immediately bounced
upon and branded in the small OF his
bare back with a piece of ice.
Every one of the committee was ini-
lated. and according to Governor Shell
don they seemed to like it,
Held's band headed the parade up
town and to the Commercial club
Q. S. Burton, vice president of the
club. mounted a table i'm the main re-
Ception room and welcomed the Oma-
ha men to the city, outlining the pro-
gram for the two days to be spent here
He was roundly cheered. and A. w
Jeffries. the official spell binder of
the visiting party, responded in an elo-
quent address, in which he used half
the adjectives in the dictionary in ex-
pressing Omaha's gratitude for Salt
Lakes hospitality. The Commercial
club men then rendered around Her
a
touching and highly artistic manner.
The Omaha visitors responded with
THE Gangs All Here" and at 800
o'clock the party boarded waiting
street cars in front of the Commercial
club building and went for a tour of
the city. Every point of interest was
visited and at $50 o'clock the visitors
entered the tabernacle for the splendid
organ recital given by Professor ]. ]. |
Mcclellan.
Sheldon Astonished.
Our trip through the northwest to !
Tacoma, Portland and Seattle, and all |
the country that intervenes between |
Omaha and those points on the Hill |
lines, and between that country and |
Salt Lake, has been a, revelation TO u.s.
said Governor Sheldon yesterday after |
noon. I'VE started out 10 boom Oma- |
Ia. When we get back I believe it is |
that great northwestern country that |
VIII be advertised more than our own |
town. The business men Of our party /
are astounded at the DEVELOPMENT of /