The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-04-07
BANQUET GIVEN
FOR JAP ANESE
Fifty Oriental Business Men
Are Entertained by Governor
Cutler at Commercial Club.
ON TOUR AROUND WORLD
WILL MAKE THE TRIP IN NINE.
TY DAYS.

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At a banquet held last evening in the
Commercial club, unique in the history
of Salt Lake, over fifty japanese busi-
ness and professional men were well
coined 10 the city and told of the
! friendship that exists between America
and Japan. An odd feature of the BAN
quet was that only one of the Ameri-
cans present could talk japanese, and
scarcely any of the japanese could
speak English. Nevertheless. the Japs
! tolerated the English speakers and APP
plauded respectfully at the conclusion
of each speech, while the Americans
were almost equally respectful to their
guests, who replied TO the speeches in
the japanese tongue. The English
! speaking Japs, however, kindly told
their countrymen what the Americans
were talking about and. in turn. told
the Americans what their brothers
were saying.
Governor John C. Cutler, who was
the host of the evening, presided. He
opened the speaking which followed
the dinner with a short address of well
come, spoken in English. Then he
asked Horace S. Ensign, who speaks
japanese, to address the guests in their
own tongue. Mr.. Ensign welcomed
them to Salt Lake and assured them
that while they were in the city there
was nothing too good for them. The
Japs applauded vigorously. Later dur
ing the evening he sang a Japanese
solo, and then led while all sang the
Japanese national air
Frank Pierce. assistant secretary of
the interior. spoke on the relations be-
tween Japan and America. He said,
in his opinion. there was no possibility
of war between the two nations He
said that the great mass of the people
of both countries wanted peace, wanted
to join hands for the upbuilding of the
commerce of the Pacific. and to estab-
lish friendly trade relations profitable
to both countries.
Japanese EVince a Friendly Feeling.
In reply TO the address Of Mr.. Pierce,
which was translated into japanese by
K. Sugimura, editor of the Toxic Asahi
Shimbun, f. Sugihara, speaker of the
Toxic prefectural assembly, made d
speech in Japanese. His speech was
translated into English by X. Minami,
professor of the Osaka Higher Com
mercial school. MI Sugimura said:
II am sorry that l must address you
I'm japanese; / am not yet familiar
with your tongue. We come to your
city on a flying visit such as your Mr.
Bryan made 10 us in Japan. We wish
that we could stay longer, but at any
rate we hope that we have stayed long
enough to make the Americans our
friends. The assistant secretary of the
interior has referred to the talk of a
war between America and Japan
There viii be no war. We want peace
We want America as our friend, not
our foe. Our countrymen look to Amer
leans as their friends. and what has
been said about war win not alter the
sentiment of the people. In making
this trip around the world, in short
three months, this party of representa-
tive business men hope to put Japan
on better commercial status with the
world; this party hopes to learn and to
teach, to learn from you your better
business methods and TO teach TO you
that Japan stands for enlightenment"
Others who spoke at the banquet
were I. r. Cutler, Mayor Bransford
and Nj. Snow, the japanese banker
of Ogden.
One of the most popular of the guests
at the banquet was Mrs. Nichi Nomu-
ra, wife of the proprietor of the Sa-
mural Shokai. the largest jeweIry
house in Yokohama and one of the
largest i'm the world. Mrs. Shokai was
dressed in japanese costume. contend
ing that the japanese women make a
better appearance i'm their own cos
tunes than in those borrowed from any
other country. She is of the petite
japanese type and no one who saw
her in her becoming Japanese silks
could deny that her contention was
not good Indeed the bellies of the
countries to be visited by the party
may easily fear that the beauty from
sunny Japan may outshine them.
Party Arrives in Afternoon.
The japanese party arrived in Salt
Lake yesterday afternoon from San
Francisco. They occupied two Pull
mans and a dining car. They were
taken TO the Knutsford and after they
were comfortably settled they took
walk in the downtown district. At 5
o'clock they were given a special or
gan recital at the tabernacle. The
Japanese were very much impressed
with the music OF the great organ-and
declared that it was far different from
anything in their own country After
the banquet they heard a portion of
the festival concert at the tabernacle
and later attended the dance at the
armory and looked over the drill rooms
They will get up early this morning
and take a trip in fifteen automobiles
about the city.
The trip which is being taken by the
Japanese is unparalleled in the history
of travel. Theirs is the largest party
of tourists that ever sailed around the
world. The trip is being made under
the auspices of the ''Asahi Shimbun''
of Toxic. the largest paper in Japan.
1t is under the direction of X. Sugi-
mura. literary editor of the paper, and
NJ. Tsuchiya, Toxic correspondent of
the "Asahi Shimbun" of Osaka. The
others in the party are:
X Asayams. exporter of tea. of Kobe;
n Enami of Kobe. secretary Osaka Mer-
camille Marine company; X. Haga. of To-
ko wholesaler of cotton and silk; Y.
Hattori of Osaka, wholesaler of curios:
Y. Hitoui of Kobe. manager or warehouse
company: Mr. and Mrs. Y. Hori of Osa-
ka Jewellers; s. Ide of Kumamoto. pro-
prietor of two Shanghai newspapers; S
Ikai of Osaka. apothecary: 7. Iniuye of
Osaka broker cotton exchange: J. Itsumi
of Osaka. manufacturer; f. Iwamoto of
Osaka. statoner: NJ Iyama of Kioto.
wholesaler of raw silk: S. Kamada of
Hyogo. president of local banks and pre-
fectural councillor; NJ. Kataysma of XII
oto banker: c. Katsuda of Osaka. farm
er: Y. Kawase of Osaka, importer of
European fabrics; T. Kawada of Toxic
of the Takachiko primary