The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-08-03
Probable This City viii Be Sc.
lected for Methodist Gather
ing in May, 1912.
REPRESENTATIVE MEN ARE
MAKING DILIGENT INQUIRY
Would Mean Fifteen. Hundred
Visitors Who Would Remain
During Entire Month.

Salt Lake City is making de
termined and mighty effort to secure
the great auadrennial conference Of
the Methodist Episcopal church. This
gathering will be held in May. 1912,
and will continue during the entire
month, the work usually requiring
thirty days for It's completion Dur
ing the conference there are in attend
anco 5000 delegates, 1000 ministers
and 400 laymen-the strongest men in
the church-200 church editors and
others, and at least 500 of the wives of
the delegates. making q total of ap-
proximately 1900 persons who make
the conference city their home during
the entire month. 1t is estimated that
in conference month the hotel expenses
of the visitors amount to 100000
easily.
There arc ten candidates in the field
thus far for conference honors. The
cities having, extended invitations are
Salt Lake. Denver, Minneapolis, Des
Moines, Columbus, Detroit, Pittsburg,
Atlantic City, Asbury Park and Sara
toga- The conference was held in Los
Angeles in 1904 and in Baltimore in
1908. There is n feeling that the next
conference should not be held on either
the Pacific or the Atlantic coast, but
at some point between the Sierra Ne
vadas and the Alleghanies,
Representatives Make Inquiry.
Hanford Crawford of ST. Louis, vice
chairman. and o. P Miller of Rock
Rapids, Ia, treasurer of the general
conference commission of the committee
OF twenty one, known as the book or
publication committee, are in Salt Lake
making preliminary investigation of
ha t,,nc ,f sc o,} },y Co.
purposes. Mr., Crawford is dry goods
merchant of st. Louis. He was in in
formal consultation Tuesday night with
Secretary Joseph T.. Caine of the Com
mercial club. Oscar l.. Cox of the Y.
M. c. A.. and Freeman Morningstar,
a prominent member of the church.
Wednesday Mr. Crawford and Mr..
Miller will make trip about the city.
and will collect data and information
concerning hotel accommodations and
the like.
The commission of seven is composed
of these gentlemen: The Rev. c. 8.
Wing, Brooklyn. chairman; the Rev. A.
s, Mowbray, Wilmington: Del. the Rev.
c. +. Bacon, Chicago; Messrs. j. A.
Patten, Chattanooga; ]. w. Pearsall,
Ridgewood, n. j.; o. P. Miller. Rock
Rapids, Ia, and Hanford Crawford, ST.
Louis.
Essentials of Conference.
we are making the preliminary in
quiry." said Mr.. Crawford. Ito see
whether Salt Lake can meet the condi-
tions. The prime essentials taken into
consideration in the selection OF q con-
ference city are the need OF the con-
ference-the impression it can make on
the total community where 1t is held;
the hotol accommodations, the treatment
OF the press and the attitude. generally of
the community, toward the Institution;
commission Will visit the various cities
that candidates. The larger part OF
the commission viii begin this work about
have been visited, we report To the pub
licauon committee OF twenty-one- which
Is really the conference Of the church
during The quadrennial period. In this
case we Will report at the meeting to be
held in Chicago next February. None OF
us knows the conclusions reached by any
data and our views 10 the committee
of twenty-one and that body selects the
place. In, this way; all possible under,
the publication committee is free to act
without bias, which might be created IL
the commission of seven made report
unanimously faYoring one or the caudl-
dates
All Bishops Attend.
Among others who will be in attend
ance at the conference when IL meets in
the church, where stationed In the
United States or laboring In the mission
field. 1t Is compulsory upon the bishops
TO attend, for they are the ones who pre-
side at the sessions. At the Baltmore
conference every bishop save one was
present. This one was especially ex-
cuscd for he could not we'll leave his sta
tion in China at the time, There are
about thirty bishops.
Attendance of delegates is also COM
pulsory At rbe Baltimore conference
40 of the 500 delegates answered roll
call at the morning session on the open
ing day. and 100 responded on the last
day showing that neither the attendance
nor the interest ever flags. III illustra-
tion OF this Is the fact that at the Los
Angeles conference an alternate was
brought all the way from New York City
TO take the place OF q delegate whose
absence was made unavoidahly neces-
Sarv.
The formal invitation for the confer
ence 70 meet In Salt Lake WIS extended
by the Commercial club. and that or
ganizatiou NAV lay claims for recognf-
ton before the publication committee up
to the time of the final selection. This
provision is made In order that all ad-
vantaEes Of the city may be presented.
including those that may develop after
the preliminary inquiry. upon which
Mcssrs. Crawford and Miller are now en-
gagged