Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-06-14
WINDY CITY men q
LIKE SALT LAKE
Nowhere III Their Travels Have
They Been More Favor
ably Impressed.
THEIR STOP A SHORT ONE.

8l.HElk SlUF oi1ohl 1--WE
Delegation OF Business Men on Tour
OF Pleasure to Learn to Know
Western People Better
Thirty mine members OF the chicago
Association of Commerce, the biggest
organization of the kind in the country,
were the guests Of Salt Lake CITY Tor
eight hours yesterday. I,hey came IN
from al three weeks round OF touring
and sight seeing, meeting with the bust
ness men, and leading people OF the vast
country covered; they were entertainer
at Seattle. where they visited the eS-
nosition, at Portland, where they were
treated to a rose banquet such as only
Portland can give; they We're received
at Boise With the, true western nos
pitality of the citizens OF the sem
state, but IL the expressions Of various
members OF the delegation may pc de-
pended upon to voice the sehtllile .,
Of the entire party, the only time OF
tha t,-iI, was that shown them in Salt
lie lip WILD
Lake City.
Most of the delegation had been vest
before, and a majority had been IN SAT-
Lake before. -Four years ago the same
organization came west on q sifniiar
excursion, and Salt Lake Was one oil the
cities visited. But upon that occa sion,
while we were treated most foyaliy,
said one of the members OF me party
"the progress of the times may be suit
ably shown In the comparison Then
we were shown about the city IN car.
riaees; < today we were driven in auto
mobiles, and consequently we saw the
| CITY much better than We did before
The train arrived in this city from
| Boise about $50 yesterday morning.
! committee from the Salt Lake CORE
mercial club, headed by Fisher Harris
and a 7. Davis, was waiting at the
station with automobiles. After greet
| ings were exchanged the party boarded
! motors and vanished up South Iernpie
street for a spin over the city. inls
occupied about two hours, the drive
extending UP Brigham street 70 Fort
l8Douglas and down through the city 70
Liberty park, where members Oh me
party were treated to a nosegay from
| the park greenhouse. Returning via
south Main to the tabernacle, the party
attended the Sunday school observance
of Flag Day then going on in the
| big auditorium. A number OF solos
with accompaniment by the tabernacle
organ were heard. after which the party
returned to the Oregon Short Line de-
pot and boarded a special train for
trip to saltair.
A DIP IN THE BRINE.
Under the direction of A. j. Davis, ar
| engagements were made for each OF the
I visitors to take a dip in the lake The
train waited long enough at Saltalr FOR
| the party to make an inspection or
| the pavilion. buy a few. postal cards and
| return to the city, where they boarded
cars for the Commercial CLUB.
i AT the club banquet was prepared
| for the visitors President w. ]. Hal
/ loran of the club presided and intro
i sduced Judge E. f. Colborrs as the
speaker, to tell of the storehouse Of
\ wealth that nature left in Utah. In
4 glowing terms lie pictured the big
1 mountains Of ore at Bingham and the
vast possibilities Of that camp He
4 also told of the opportunities that are
10 he had in the west. a.
i His address was responded to in be-
i half of the Chicago men by John p
i Mann. He thanked the people OF Salt
i Lake for courteses extended and closed
i with Il few words as to the possibilities
OF the west.
From the Commercial club the crowd
i went to the special train at the Oregon
4 Short Line depot and at 4 CLOCK pulled
out for Ogden.
WHO IS WHO IN TTIE PARTY. l
The party comprises some of the fore
\ most business men In Chicago. Sas well
I as Some of tho best known eWspaper-
4 men in the country And one thlng
i was especially noticeable in Its per-
sonnet, and that was that most OF the
Il men, with the exception of Charles
4 Seegers OF the American Varnish COM
papy, a veteran of rs years who was
acknowledged to be the dean of the
Z party, were young men; men Of Solo
J. character and determined mten, w1thal,
A who had made their way in many In
stances from smaller beginnings to
4 the enviable position In commerce
4 which they now hold. For instance
i there was Edward Clifford. Of the firm
5l6of Hornblower & Weeks, bankers.
i Clifford is chairman of the delegation.
Il Year re- ago he was a poor boy In a back
4 woods town in Illinois, and wanted TO
4 he a soldier and go to West Point. His
political leanings, however. We're not
ltof the kind prevailing with the adj
4 ministration. and he turned his atten-
Il ton to commerce.. He Is now one of
Il the leading bankers of the Windy City.
Il Then there is Frederick H.. FaWson of
Il the Union Trust company Of Chicago.
4 Rawson is 81 years old. and his check
3 is good for q million. There is Edward
d u. Stransky, secretary of Kuhn n than,
Fischer & Co, Wholesale clothing; John
A Mccarthy Of the Chas. Hathaway q
a Go. commercial paper There was Prof.
& John A Scott of the Northwestern uni
g versity, who is observing the education
Il al progress Of the country since the last
i t5trip OF the Chicagoans four years ago;
A there was DIR. HeInan Spaldirg of the
Chicago Health department, whose spe-
Z cialty Is taking care of the health OF
( the party and observing sanitary COM
" ditions III the cities through which the
(. marty pa sses: and all the others. princes
Y ALL And then there was Richard "A
4 Little. special correspondent OF the
s Chicago Record Herald. who wrote one
s |of the finest bits of description Of the
Z big tabernacle organ ever penned ne
Z was Roswell Field, special represent Ia
tive of the Chicago Examiner, Neil j.
b Satterlee,, fofieia1 stenographer of the
party, and one of the best all-rouIe
writer's in the country: Robert n
Clarke, staff correspondent of the Inter
Ocean: Philip III. kinsley, special repre-
= sentative of the Associated Press
Z Frank w. Carson of the Chicago Tri
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