The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-30
SCOTCH WELCOME
AWAITS AMERICANS
Worlds WOmen's Christian
Temperance Union to Con-
vene in Glasgow.
WHITE RIBB0NERS WILL
BE THERE IN FORCE
Greatest Gathering of the. Fair
Sex Ever Seen i'm the
Land, o. Cakes.
BY PAUL LAMBETH.

Speclal Canle to Inc ITibunc.
LONDON. Jan. 29.-England is pre-
pairing TO entertain thousands of car
nest women from the four quarters
of the globe in May and June. They
will be delegates TO the eighth CON
vention of the Worlds Women S
Christian Temperance union, which
meets IN Glasgow June to II. Al
ready the Scotch metropolis has put
the general election excitement behind
IT, and is in a cold water ferment. The
shopkeepers are laying in extra stocks
Of white ribbon, Glasgow women are
preparing TO take full possession of the
city. They are making ready for the
greatest gathering of women ever seen
in the Land o Cakes. Fifty countries
will be represented in this great as
semblage of delegates. representing the
largest organization in the world COM
posed exclusively of women.
American Delegation Leads.
That America will lead in the size
OF her representation is assured by the
fact that already tours have been ar
ranged, with New York, Philadelphia
and Montreal as the starting points.
America leads in membership in the
W. c, T. L., having over 100000. Great
Britain has 100000, Among American
women who will he here are Mrs. Lii
liam NJ. y. Stevens of Portland. Me,
who is vice president at-large of the
world s body. the Countess OF Carlisle
being president, and Miss Anna \.
Gordon of Evanston. ILL.,, one of the
honorable secretaries, Miss Agnes
Is expected that the American con
tingent will begin 70 arrive early IN
Nav. aud large numbers have engaged
passage ON the Celtic, OF the White
Star line. and on the Canada, OF the
Dominion line, for May 81.
Hearty Scotch Welcome,
Glasgow will give them all good
hearty Scotch welcome. All Scotland
will contribute to its warmth, while
Great Britain and Ireland will offer
whatever entertainment the time and
the inclination of the visitors will per
nit them TO accept. But Glasgow VIII
be very Jealous in her hospitality, and
it is planned 10 hold the visitors in
and around that city by round or
local entertainments and interesting
excursions that shall prove satiating.
Committees already are at work. The
community at large Is becoming inter
ested. Big programmes are taking
shape in practical preparations for all
sorts of demonstrations, aud IN these.
while in the main the promotion Of the
temperance cause will be the pre-
dominating idea, no opportunity will
be lost of sending the visitors back
10 their homes impressed with the
picturesque beauty and the warm
hospitality of Bonnie Scotland.
Two Princes to Visit America.
Canada and British Columbia and
tho other British possessions across the
see the two Young sons of the Prince
of Wales next year. aud 1t may be
the young princes Will make a visit 70
some of the leading American cities.
The two princes-Prince Edward is
sixteen, whilst his brother is ten
will thus DC following in the footsteps
of their father, the Prince OF Wales.
who, at the age of fourteen, together
with his elder brother, The Duke OF
Clarence, made what amounted TO a
tour of the more distant oversee
states OF Great Britain. AS cadets oil
Ii. NJ. S. Bacchantc, the royal brothers
visited Australia, Japan, South Africa.
Egypt and India. The Prince of Wales
himself will visit Cape Colony in the
autumn for the purpose of opening the
new parliament of United South Africa.
Kings Holiday.
The arrangement for the kings
forthcoming holiday arc now almost
complete. His majesty proposes 10
leave this country about the second
week in March. after the two usual
spring courts have been held at Buck
ingham palace, and will travel direct To
Biarr.z halting for one night at Paris
on the way. He will remain at his
favorite spring resort for about three
weeks, when he will travel to Mar
settles to meet the queen and Princess
Victoria upon The royal yacht Victoria
and Albert Their majesties viii then
take lengthy trip in the Mediter
raneau. His majesty will subsequent
" leave the royal yacht and return to
this country, arriving during the first
week in Nav. Her majesty will then
90 to Denmark, and does not expect TO
be in Loudon until quito three weeks
later. This Yachting trip is being taken
az the advice of his majesty's physi-
clans.