Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-12-16
RAILROADS Hold u
KEY TO D SUCCESS D D [:
Commander MENUS Draws the
Point at Commercial Club
Annual Banquet.
SURPRISES OTHER EVENTS
Last Nights Gathering One iii Which
History of Past, Present and
Future Was Reflected.

At the Commercial club last night
the annual banquet for 1865 was
held, with visiting delegates of the
guests of honor.
In beautifully decorated club rooms
the guests were welcomed in a man
ner that will make the banquet stand
forth in local history as without an.
equal. AS the guests assembled early
in the evening they We're welcomed
withthe strains OF music from Chris
tensen's twenty piece orchestra, and
at eight o'clock sat down to enjoy an
elaborate repast in the dining room.
Toastemaster Heber M. Wells was.
seated at the center of the table
of the club We're seated on either side
officials of the State of Utah alternat-s
ing with distinguished members OF
the &. A. r.
No speechmaking was introduced
until after the close of the banquet
when President w. j. Halloran in
troduced Jos. S. Game, as chairman
Of the banquet committee. Chairman
Caine introduced Gov. Heber M. Wells
us HlOdSl iIlHSteF, ana IN responding ne
proposed first a toast TO his country's
flag.
Gov. Cutler made an address of
welcome in which he stated that in
honoring the Grand Army officials,
the people honor themselves. Mayor
Bransford followed Gov. Cutler with
a brief address of welcome, outlining
the gratitude we of the West feel
for the Grand Army's work." and
oY1,a ar RI NJ 10 no A
dcals the beautiful city that Is being
builded here.
IS UP TO RAILROADS.
COMMUNICATIVE chief, Neyius, Of the
Grand Army was introduced by the
POSTMASTER in a Amanner to provoke
long and voclfTous applause He
spoke freelingly of the entertainment
provided by the Commercial club for
him, and then stated that the prac-
teal situation as to the encampment
was that it was absolutely necessary
for the railroads to make a proper
rate. AT every encampment except
the last he said, we had one
cent q mile rate and every encanlp-
ment except the last was a success.
The railroads have either to make
this rate here for this encampment.
or else 1t will be an encampment of
delegates only. Announce a cent a
mile rate, and fairs will be held all
through the country to raise money
to bring on the old veterans. The
last encampment authorized me to
change the place for holding the
next encampment unless the railroads
that the people OF this state desire
to have the place of encampment
changed, or to have anything but the
largest and best kind of an encamp-
ment."
Attorney Abbott r. Haywood OF
Ogden discussed Suburban Utah"
closing with perora-
ton to the flag.
The practical work of the Com
nercial club was discussed By Frank
B. Stephens, who stated that the
club represented the progress of Utah
and fostered this progress in every
one of its phases. To welcome the
g. A. r. he said the hearts and hands
of the people of Utah would unite.
A REAL PEACH.
Judge @. w. Powers, who was in
Produced as "a real peach discussed
the Great Republic" Summing up
dts present assets he characterized
them as sixteen stately battleships
encirculing. the globe to show the
xirile powers of the country where
the people ruled. us collection or
statesmen, poets, lawgivers, inventors,
artisans. miners, brawny toiIers and
patient students. Once all this he
said existed only as a dream, and
then he traced the nations growth
from the ages before which the pre-
face to its history was written God
sifted three kingdoms to find the
wheat for this planting" he said. '.and
then he sifted the wheat as the liv-
ing seed of a nation
Gov. Elect William Spry closed the
toasts of the evening.