The Salt Lake herald-Republican. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1909-1918, 1909-08-20
EASTERN PARTY
IS ENTERTAINED
About One Hundred Members
of the Worcester Board of
Trade Here.
ENJOY DIP IN THE LAKE
THE BUSINESS MEN ARE WELL
p Pleased WITH VISIT.

Nearly one hundred members of the
board of trade Of Worcester, Mass, &C
companied by their wives and daughters,
paid a hurried visit to Salt Lake yes
terday afternoon on their return trip
across the continent following visit
to the Seattle fair They arrived in Salt
Lake from Portland at , o'clock yester-
day afternoon and left salt Lake at f.lO
o'clock last evening for Colorado springs
The train on which the Worcester bust
ness men arrived was six hours late, so
that their entertainment in Salt Lake
was of necessity purely informal. Inc
principal amusement in Salt Lake was
a trip to Saltair and a bath at the beach.
The Worcester people were charmed
with Great Salt lake and their enthusi-
astic delight with the bathing was evi-
denced i'm continued shouts Of JOY II
was with difficulty that they were IN
duced to come out of the water IN time
to catch their train for the east All
the way in from the lake they talked
of nothing but their delightful visit to
the lake.
With the Worcester party is a glee club
of thiTty-fOur voices. While in Salt Lake
the glee club sang almost constantly.
While at the lake informal concerts every
five minutes we're the rule. The giee
club. as well as all of the rest OF the
party, made a decided hit in Salt Lake
and when the board of trade left last
had made warm friends of the Salt Lake
people.
AT the lake, the party was in charge Of
". j. HallOran, president of the Salt
Lake Commercial club; Frank b. Terri
berry, assistant secretary Of the Com
mercial club: A. J. Davis, president OF
the city council; George W. Goddard and
d. G. Bolton, of the entertainment conf
mittee of the Commercial club
Program Is Missed
Had the train carrying the people from
Worcester reached Salt Lake at o clock
yesterday forenoon. as originally sched-
uled, a more elaborate program of en-
tertainment. including an automobile ride
about the city, a concert at the Iaber-
uable and a program of tOasts at the
Commercial club luncheon. would have
been given. As it was. there was only
time for the SaItair trip.
Edward T. Fletcher. former mayor Of
Worcester. said as he boarded the train
for the east last evening:
Throughout the trip across the cOun-
try and back again every member of the
PARTY has been waiting 10 see Salt Lake.
Salt Lake would be the prettiest and hes,
place they would visit. They have been
told that i'm Salt Lake there exists d
brand of hospitality not to be found any
where else i'm the world. When l tell YOU
that i'm leaving Salt Lake the people of
Worcester feel that III spite of what they
We're taught to expect, their expectations
We're exceeded. you may know the inn
preston that the people from Worcester
are taking with them from SAT- Lake.
"Our mission i'm travelling across the
country and back again is one of educa-
ton We of Worcester want 20 know
something of this great west from which
our great business is to come i'm the flu
tUre. We Of Worcester want YOU of the
west To known something of Worcester
the ideal center of industry. Speaker
Cannon of the house of representatives
told me that iuukeIs of business mer
such as we are taking today did more
To solve the great problems of the coun-
try than any other thing. The tariff
question is one difficult to understand
and TO learn the effect of the different
tariff schedules one must travel through
out the land and study the needs and
the resources of any section. Then, too
the acquaintance with the representativ,
men of the industrial CenteTs of the cOuu-
try is invaluable