The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-06-04
CHICAGO men.
ARE GIVEN
WELCOME
TRADE EXTENSION COMMITTEE
OF ASSOCIATION OF COM
MERGE ENTERTAINED. r
CROWDS Time

INTEREST CROWDS TIME
Visitors Are Met at Northern Pacific
Depot by Automobile Club, Taken
on Sight seeing Trip and Enter
Il tained at We olde Inn--clever Ad-
dresses Are Delivered.
To be welcomed with open arms, to
be shown the beauties of the Garden
city of Montana and her valleys from
smoothly-running automombiles, to
be entertained at the most sump-
tuously appointed grills in the state,
to hear the message of the Treasure
states governor, to be sent on their
way with the hearty best wishes of
three score new-made friends-such
was the happy fate Of the members
of the trade extension committee of
the Chicago Association of Commerce
on the occasion of their visit to Mis-
soula last evening. The special train
bearing the men from the great Illi-
nois metropolis arrived at 1850 last
evening. ten minutes ahead Of sched-
ule time, and left on the dot at III: 80
for Spokane. The time that the Chi
cago men spent in this city was
xx,i+ ;.,+N
for Missoula.
Twenty machines of members Of the
Missoula County Automobile club were
waiting at the Northern Pacific depot
when the special pulled in from the
east. A few minutes for introductions
and the visitors were loaded into the
waiting cars and whisked away for
an inspection tour that included a
thorough review OF the residences and
business districts of the city, a trip
to the University of Montana's cam
pus and ride through the Orchard
Homes . #&
At We Olde Inn.
Ye Olde Inn was the goal of the au-
tonoble trip, and the guests, divided
man and man with the reception COM
mittee Of the Missoula Chamber of
Commerce, were seated at long tables,
arranged in the form of an inverted
"U.' A light lunch was served and
an interesting program of toasts-ad-
dresses, many of then-was carried
out under the direction of A. l.. Stone
as symposiarch. Among the speak
ers was Governor Edwin L. Norris,
who had accompanied the delegation
from Helena. After Toastmaster
Stone had spoken briefly, Mayor Lo-
gan bade official welcome to the visit
ors and the response was made by
Kay Wood of Wood Brothers, man
prominent in the cattle industry of
Chicago. He said in part
Kay Wood Speaks.
1--WE come as commercial asso-
citation. The word 'commerciaP has
mercenary sound, but assure you
that the things we wish to bring are
brought with motives of the purest
kind. We are in the second genera
tion in Chicago; you have the second
generation coming in here. When
your fathers swept the savage from
the fields of the far west to make
room for their ranches and their cat
tie, it was every mans task to do
his best, for himself, for his family
for reasons purely selfish. When our
fathers began to build the commercial
Chicago, conditions of the same type, |
if different in aspect, prevailed. Our
fathers, like yours, builded better |
than they knew and laid the founda-
tions for a city that, commercially,
is situated better than any other in
tho world.
Il am almost singing the swans |
song for the cattle business in this
territory and it is right so. AS pass
through the valleys and plains of tho
west I see something SO far higher, |
SO much better, replacing the cattle
ranches that there is no comparison
between the old order of things and
the new.
1.-THE Chicago Association of Com
merce, after mastering the situation
at home, has decided to learn some
thing of the great northwest, and SO
we have come. bearing a message of i
patriotism, not for Chicago as our
metropolis, but for Chicago as your
metropolis. We wish you to help us
to develop Chicago into metropolis
that has not its like in the United
States-no, not In the whole world"
Governor Norris.
Governor Norris was accorded an
ovation as he rose at the behest of
the toastmaster. He introduced pol
ished and effective address by review
ing the trip of the Chicago delegation
since the boundaries of Montana had
been reached. He commented on the
resources and features of interest of
the various sections Of the state
through which the party had passed
before reaching "Missoula, the beau
tiful.'
Nowhere in Montana" continued
Governor Norris, .is there q more
beautiful spot than this it is your
privilege to see tonight. 1 welcomed
you gladly to Montana yesterday