The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1909-06-14
DELEGATION HAS
DIZZY JAUHT IN
SALT LAKE CITY
Chicago Business Men Are
Whirled Through Town in
Chicago Style.
FLUCTUATIONS SPOKEN
AT COMMERCIAL CLUB
ONE OF THE PLEASANT BREAKS
IN REMARKABLE JOURNEY
OF 5000 MILES.

After a hurried banquet at the Com
mercial club yesterday afternoon forty
representatives Of the Chicago Associa-
ton Of Commerce left Salt Lake with
decidedly pleasing, albeit somewhat
confused and Kaleidoscope, impression
Of Salt Lake. From eight O'Clock yes
terday forenoon until four o'clock yes
terday afternoon the visiting delegation
was whirled about town I'm automo-
biles, dividing the brief time between
mountain scenery, Country club hos
pitality, tabernacle organ numbers.
swims in Great Salt Lake and spreads
at the Commercial club. When the
party left town in the afternoon each
individual members pledged in tighten
ing handclasps his. everlasting friend
ship for everybody Of OF from salt
Lake.
The visit Of the Chicago business
men to salt Lake was in connection
with the western and northwestern tour
Of the party. The object Of the trip
was, perhaps, to boost Chicago and in
eidentally 10 cement business relations
with the people of the west. One Of
the principal results of the trip has
been a great good time for everyone
on the trip and for everyone with
whom the ChicagOans came in contact.
Welcoming 7peeches.
At the banquet at the Commercial
club yesterday afternoon President W.
J. HallOran af the Commercial club
and Judge Z. F. Colborn told the Wis
itOrs a little Of Salt Lake and babe
them come again. For the travellers
from Chicago, John P. Mann, chairman
Of the ways and means committee of
the Chicago commercial organization,
and Professor John A. Scott Of North
western university expressed sincere
gratitude for the hospitality shown and
assured the salt Lake people that there
would be no more ardent boosters for
Salt Lake than the party from Chi
cagO.
1t was after the delegation had seen
as much of Salt Lake as six hodrs
would permit; after it had heard and
marveled at the great organ; after it
had asked silly questions about Nor
mons and MOrmon-kind and had re-
ceived sillier answers from its good
natured hosts; after it had splashed
briny water on itself at Saltair, that it
went to the Commercial club to seal
the friendship for Salt Lake by break
ing bread and other things. The ap-
petite Of the visitors was such that
there was little time for speeChmakfng
after it had been appeased. The eie-
CANT special train of Pullmans was due
to leave town at four o'clock and there
was less than an hour left when the
meal was finished.
At the banquet Mayor Bransford was
represented by A. J. Davis, president
Of the city council. Mr.. Davis intro
duced Mr.. Hallorau. Mr.. Halloran well
coined the visitors, then babe them
gOOd-by and Godspeed as ne introduced
Judge Z. F. Colborn
Judge Colborn's Truths.
4 wish that I could tell you people
the truth about Utah, the naked truth"
he began. But I dare not. Through
all my life I have striven for one thing.
have attempted to so live that when
I am called from these peaceful valleys
whatever tablet pOsterity might raise
up to my memory should bear the in
scription that 1 was a man Of truth
And were I to tell you the naked truth
about Utah I fear, gentlemen, that the
incredulOus might doubt my veracity.
There are many truths I would like
to tell you about our state and about
our city, the greatest and most beau
tiful City-always excepting Chicago
in the universe. I wish that ! might
tell of Great salt Lake I would ike
to tell how much salt there is in it,
would like to tell YOU that if all the
salt in that great lake were crystaIIized
and loaded onto cars it would form a
train long enough to reach to the moon
and back and still have eight thousand
miles of cars waiting on side tracks.
4 would like to tell you of Bing-
ham. 7 would like to tell you that one
mine alone in Bingham produces and
sends TO the mill ten thousand tons of
ore each day. To haul this ore to the
mill I'm fOrty-tOn cars requires a train
two miles long every day.
Il would like to tell you Of our his
tory, of the history of a city that has
overcome more obstacles than were
ever encountered by any city since the
world began. Only two squares from
the spot on which we now are. in the
widst Of a sage-grown desert. out Of the
womb Of the wilderness, salt Lake CITY
was born.
"Of the difficulties that we have en-
cOuntered since that time I should have
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