The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-06-19
GREAT HOSTS Of
TRAVELLERS OWN
SALT LAKE CITY
Remarkable Welcome Extend
ed to u. c. 7. and Thou
sands of Friends.
PARADE is MORE THAN
FOUR MILES IN LENGTH
WONDERFUL SIGHTS TO BE SEEN
IN WAY OF DECOR
ATOMS.

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/ y TOdays weather-Fair. >
/ = Events of today: =
/ y $3.50 a. m.-Music and speeches at >
/ y Chamber of Commerce. =
{ y 10 a. m.-Ride through Salt Lake in 4
y Seeing Salt Lake" cars =
= p. m.-Baseball game between LO- >
y gan and L. G. T. at Walkers field. =
y p. m.-Saltair entertainment, >
/ = dancing and bicycle races al new >
{ y saucer track.
/ y TOmOrrOW-LagOOn. =
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Next year Salt Lake will be the =
= scene Of another, big gathering Of y
y commercial travellers. The Travel y
= ers' Protective association. which, =
= like the 4. c. t. now gathered in =
= the city, IS a powerful organization, y
4 will be here.
y Fisher Harris. secretary of the :
= Commercial club. said that the r. >
p. A. would certainly hold its 1919 :
y convention in Salt Lake. He lost his '
: voice in the memorable struggle to =
y get the convention here this wear. =
y Milwaukee won. But he was prom y
= ised that Salt Lake would have the \
y convention Of 1903
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In the light of the sun yesterday after
noon and in the light of the thousands OF
electric globes last night. Salt Lake never
looked gayer and more inviting and never
before dOnned brighter carnival attire.
Ii was blue, white and gold in broad
daylight.
1t was blue, white and gold when dark
ness came on.
And as blue. white and gold are the
colors of the United Commercial Travel
ers. the thousands of yards OF gay bunt-
ing and the thousands of twinkling mean
descent bulbs adorned the streets solely
in honor Of the jolly bunch of commercial
travellers who gathered here from various
points in Utah. Idaho and Montana 10
have good time.
Yesterday was the first Of the three
days the commercial travellers viii devote
10 meTrymaking and il was a day brim-
full of interest to every one who came to
Salt Lake to have a share of the fun
The street parade was the big event of
the daV. but il was only one of many i'll
terestinE features of the days program
Ii was four and a half miles long. and
contained thousands of marching men and
hundreds Of floats and decorated automo-
bileS and vehicles. II was witnessed by
nearly everybody in Salt Lake and thou
sands of visitors from outside points.
Had it not been for the threatened storms
of the morning. Salt Lake would have
been filled TO its limits with sightseers.
As il was. there were enough pleasure
seekers abroad TO pack all the resorts with
dense multitudes after the parade had
passed.
Will Have Parade, Anyway.
For d time yesterday il looked a.
though all the weeks aud months of la
Dor of the L. C. T. committees would be
wasted. Rain and hail fell. and Billy Nc
Allister, who had worn himself thin over
the preparations for the pageant. said:
Wen have a parade. anyway. Wen
get the city sprinkling carts and a snow
pillow. Stand by your guns, boys. We
announced a parade, and If il rains pitch
forks. we must have one
Then. all at once, the rain ceased. After
a time, the sun came out. One after
another. the pretty floats were taken from
the sheds sheltering them and driven TO
their places in the procession
And. after this narrow escape from ut
ter failure. the L. c. T. parade was one
of the longest pageants ever seen in Salt
Lake. according to men who had seen all
the celebrations of the past.
In the afternoon. there was the baseball
game at Walkers field between L. c. T.
and Provo. In the evening there were
the bicycle races at the Salt Palace and
Saltair
But while the resorts lured many away
from the city, there were numerous others
who found sufficient delight in admirinE
the beautiful appearance Of the citys
streets at night.
New YOrk's great white way" Broad
way. could boast of no greater splendors
than Main street last night. and Second
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