The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-18
BANQUET GIVEN
GRAND COUNCIL
JOYOUS AFFAIR
Leaders of Commercial Travel
efS Entertained by Com
merCial Club.
GOV. CUTLER IN ROLE
OF AN EX-DRUMMER
FRED j. klEsEL OF OGDEN GIVES
"REMINISCENCES OF
EARLY DAYS.

Jollity and good fellowship reached fe-
Yer heat al the Commercial club ban
quet TO the grand council of the United
Commercial Travelels last night.
The tables We're arranged III the form
OF gigantic letter I. About the beau
ufuliy decorated board the guests sat.
ATE the best the Commercial club could
provide. listened TO a number of good
speeches.. sang rOlicking choruses. cheered
salt Lake, Butte. Governor Cutler May
or Bfansford and other men and things,
with the utmost impartiality and en-
thuSiasm.
Broadened by travel and intercourse
with men IN many sections ana men pos
sesslng many ways Of looking upon the
world, there was nothing small about
the 7. c, T., ana there was not. judg-
ing by the volume of sound emitted at
each cheer. weak pair of lungs in the
crowd.
". J. Halloran. president of the Com
mercial club. acted as POSTMASTER. With
table, were Governor Cutler, Mayor
BransfOrd. G. W. Goddard. Fred ]. Kie-
sci, W. H. Wilkinson and Othera
Cutler As a Drummer.
Governor Cutler was the first sneaker.
He said that back in the early DAYS he
had been commercial traveller. Ii was
MS custom, he said. TO go forth with
one WagOnlOad of goods, but to return
with several wagons. as the money" he
received for his wares-grain, butter and
farm prOducts-was often more bulky
than his wares. The governor spoke of
the noted men OF that day-Captain W
II, Hooper, Horace Eldredge and others
There was a cheer when he told of how
Captain Hooper made il possible for Ad-
mirai Evans 10 enter Annapolis and start
upon his brilliant career in the navy
Mayor BransfOrd was introduced as the
EIsnNE
ever had" He said that although he had
never been commercial traveller, he had
grown 10 like the knights of the grip in
the old days when he was first
clerk and then manager Of a
store in mountain town in California
Then he made the visitors a present Of
Salt Lake.
Have a good time" he said. THE
chief OF police is out of town"
he was interrupted with a lusty cheer.
Then the mayor went on to say that
II any Of the commercial travellers fall
into the hands of the police. he will in
tercede with Judge GOwans of the ju-
venile court to be easy with them.
Colborn Explains Weather.
Judge E. T. COlbOrn was the next spe X
err He said that the skies had been
weeping for the past day or two because
will be so brief. He added that he hoped
that the sun would shine today so that
salt Lakers would have a chance to boast
of the climate here.
The judge Informed the visitors that
they were in one of the greatest cities
in all the world, and that its greatness
would increase. There is nothing Just
like Salt Lake under the sum-" he said
Fried J. Kiesel Of Ogden was then called
upon 10 tell something of his expert
ences when he was a knight OF the grip.
and before he had made his fortune. He
called Salt Lake the hub OF the inter-
mountain region" and said that in Og-
den there was nothing but good wishes
for Zion. He produced a letter which
he had received from Fisher Harris OF
the Commercial club. in which Mr.. Has-
ris. after inviting him 10 speak at the
banquet, had said:
I understand that you claim 10 be the
Oldest travelling man on earth, having
sold clothing Immediately after the lock-
out that occurred at the garden Of Eden.
II this claim is even partially true. We
must have you here. and4 beg TO express
the hope that you Will wear the original
costuRe.'
Kiesel Is Reminiscent.
Mr. Kiesel then told of having com.
menced with a store az Camp COnnOr,
Soda Springs, Ida, in 1868 In lsll-l2 he
was able TO make trip 10 Europe. Then
he came back and started from COrinne,
Utah. as a commercial traveller, or Com
mis- NOyageT' as he called H. He was the
first 10 solicit trade for Utah in Rocky
Bar Albania BOISE lOdnu tiLE ana the
Basin, Silver City. Challis. Bonanza and
the Wood river country. He told of trad
ing for winter wheat at So a bushel and
oats at $50 a bushel at Wellsvtlle in
1865, and spoke of his early contempt
raries and the merchants of the past,
Matthew and David Walker. Henry W.
Lawrence, Hyrum Clawson. Dan Cliff,
William Jennings. John Clark. Horace
Captain Hooper. Abel Gilbert
and his sons, Frank William and Cyrus:
Colonel Sam Kahn and Will
liam s. GOdbe.
Sam Kohlberg Talks.
Grand Counsellor Sam Kohlberg was
the next to speak. He said that the west
ern commercial travellers represented the
best men IN that line. The eastern houses,
he said send their picked men TO the
mountain states and as a result get a
business. He said that the
mountain states are the best in the
Irnlted States Mr.. Kohlberg then re-
viewed the history OF the L. c. T, and
told Of what IL had accomplished during
the twenty years it had been In existence
Among other things. ne said. the L. c. T