The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-18
Tentative Plans for His Enter
tainment Are Made at Meet
ing of Citizens Of All Parties
at Governors Office.
PROGRAM SENT TO TAFT
TO GET HIS APPROVAL
Prominent Men of Provo and
Ogden Also Arranging for
Entertainment for the Chief
Executive of Nation.
ARRIVE ON SEPTEMBER "a

A tentative plan for the entertain
ment of President William H. Taft
and party while they are in Utah was
arranged at an enthusiastic meeting
held in the Office of Governor William
Spry yesterday afternoon. The meet
ing convened shortly after 3 o'clock
and continued until nearly 5 O'Clock.
All OF the prominent men to whom in
vltations had been sent to attend the
meeting were present and took deep
interest in the proposed plans.
The scheme of entertainment is
merely tentative in form, and will be
enlarged upon at meeting to be held
later, when committees will be named
to look after the arrangements. The
entertainment of President Taft will
be one of the most earnest ever &C
corded a public official, and every mo-
ment he is in Utah will have some
feature afforded for his entertain
ment.
The plan Of entertainment was wired
TO President Taft at Washington for his
Endorsement, but meanwhile Senator Reed
Smoot and others foremost in the plan for
entertainment will go ahead with their
plans. Before Senator SmOOt left Wash
1ngtOn President Taft told him that he
would like to know about what the en-
terta4nment would include, but that he
would nuOrSe any arrangements made
and would place himself in the hands
Of the local committee. Another meeting
viii be held in the near future, subject
70 The call an, Of Senator Smoot, when com
On September "A, when President Taft
and party will arrive in Utah, they viii
be met at or near State Line by party
OF Salt Lake and Utah citizens. AT lis
o'clock President Taft viii arrive in Provo
and Will go at once to the tabernacle
where he will deliver a speech and pub
lie reception will be rendered him.
Committees Begin Work.
While Salt Lake citizens are planning
for the entertainment of the chief exec
utive Of the nation here. prominent men
of Provo OF both political parties will be
arranging for his entertainment at Provo.
and another committee at Ogden will be
arranging plans for his welcome at the
President Taft viii leave Provo at 3
o clock for Salt Lake, arriving here at
about 1880. A large crowd of Salt Lake
citizens will meet the presidential marty
An escort of Utah national guardsmen
will accompany the president to the
KnutsfOrd hotel and at 5:15 o'clock the
president will leave for an inspection of
Fort Douglas.
At the boundary of the Fort Douglas
reservation the president viii be met by
an escort from the Fifteenth infantry
who viii march in front of him to the
parade grounds and take part in the re-
view which viii be given in President
Tafts honor at about o'clock. After
#Na T-,rA
be the guests of honor at a banquet az the
post and will return to the Enutsford In
the evening. The review Of the troops
at Fort Douglas viii be an inspiring af-
fair, as the men and officers viii be in
fun dress and will make d spectacle sell
dom seen al the local post.
The entertainment will start bright and
early on Wednesday, September %. At
9 o'clock an automobile viii be at the
KnutsfOrd for the president, besides sew
eral other machines for members of his
official party and prominent Salt Lake
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