The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-06-11
TRAVELLING MEN
MEET IN OGDEN
Expected That More Than TO-
600 Persons Will Gather
for Convention.
MANY HAPPY FEATURES
ARRANGED FOR OCCASION
Three Days of Business and
Pleasure; Worthy Aims of
Association.

and grand council conclavc of the
Utah, Idaho and Montana members of
the United Commercial Travellers of
America, which will take place in Og-
den from Monday until Thursday. 1T
is expected that from ten to twelve
thousand persons Will visit Ogden
during the big convention. and the
city has been placed in gala array TO
welcome the jolly knights of the grip,
The streets from the Union depot to
the limits of the business district have
been clothed In flags and bunting and
the emblematic colors of the order;
merchants have literally garbed their
stores in festive decorations, and the
city has strung chains of incandescent
electric lights from corner to corner
Aside from the business sessions of the
grand council, which will be held Mon
day, there will be great demonstra-
tive and industrial parade. sports OF all
kinds, outings and entertainments.
forming programme of amusement
aud nlirth, not without its serious side,
long to be remembered by those who
witness the festivities, When the first
delegation arrives the keys of the city
will be turned over to the order by
the mayor and all Ogden will Join in
the spirit of the celebration.
MemDeIS Oh luS COUNCIL Will
arrive from the north and south in
special trains Sunday night and Mon
day morning, while thousands of mem
bers of the order in this district will
reach Ogden in special cars Tuesday
morning. The trains carrying those
from the south will leave Salt Lake
over the Oregon Short Line and the
Bamberger route at 0 clock Tuesday
morning. The army of visitors is ex
foI % Il, nrIa ala l,, aft
o'clock. Special accommodations have
been arranged from all points. Ogden
will be swarmed with the wearers of
the long duster and silk hat.
Parade With Many Bands
The different councils of the order
that will participate in the great pa
rade, each OF which will furnish its
own band, are Salt Lake, Ogden, Provo,
Pocatello, Boise, Butte, Great Falls,
Helena and Billings. Each man will be
in full costume with colors flying.
AS the parade dlsbands, an opcn-air
reception will be held on the Ogden
city hall grounds, where there will be
addresses and ceremonies. In the after
noon there will be various amusementS
chief among which is TO be the base
ball contest between players represent
ing the Salt Lake and Ogden councils.
Wednesday morning the visitors will
make a trip over the Lucin cutoff III
special cars. following which grand
barbecue will be given on the grounds
near the Becker brewery. From the
killing of the fatted calf, those who
are ablo will proceed by auto or other
conveyance to the Old Hermitage in
Ogden canyon, where the big cenven-
tion will witness its closing festivities.
The grand council will end its ses-
sions Monday evening with a banquet
at tho Weber club. Aside from the
routine work Of the council, the con-
vention place for next year will be
chosen and councilmen elected to at
tend the supreme council of the order,
which is 20 be held at Columbus, O.,
the following week.
Arrangements for the mammoth en-
tertainlnent are In charge of the Off
GERS of Ogden council No. 24S, assisted
by the officers of other councils IN
nearby cities. The names of the Ogden
officers are:
F. A. Rose, senior counselor; w. F.
Myers, past counselor; Cash f. Faulk~
ner, junior counselor; o. A. Buschjost
conductor; n. A. Gay, secretary; Sig
Kohn, page; John W. Scowcroft, senti,
mel; George W. Driver, e, C. Olsen,
W. A. Turner and William Douglass,
members Of the executive committee.
Roster of oficers.
The officers of the grand council com.
prising the three states mentioned are
as follows; Grand councillor, H. X.
Friedman, mayor Of Boise; grand jun
ior counselor, J. B. Lewis, Salt Lake
City; grand past counselor, Samuel
Kohlberg, Helena; grand secretary,
Fred w. Hills, Helena; grand treas.
urer, r. F, Casey, Butte; grand conduc
tor, J. D. Yates, Provo; grand page, A.
e. Carlson. Boise; grand sentinel, G.
4. Beebe, Butte; grand executive com
mittes, NJ; A. Gay, Ogden; George K
Mont, and f. r. Hall, Salt Lake City
The outing. features will be worked
out by the officers Of the visiting coun.
ellis. Salt Lake council will play a
conspicuous part in all thess events.
The following committee has been ap-
pointed by the Salt Lake organization
to assist in supervising the programme:
liams, J. " Lewis, +. G., Brooks and
r. NJ, Hampton.
Founded at Columbus, O., and incor-
porated under the laws of that state in
January, 1888, with membership Of
thirty two in the one council, the Or
der Of the United Commercial Trxvel-
ers of America has grown to a mem"
beTship Of $4,000 with twenty-six grand
councils and 500 subordinate councils,
covering forty-three state Of the nnon
Through it's council, the Order of the
United Commercial Travellers of Amer
lea provides the traveller in distant ter.
ritory with place of fraternal gath
ering where his good standing and fell
lowship make him as welcome in the
strange city as he would be in the cir.
cles Of his home council. While on the
road his membership carries with it a
standing invitation and welcome to
social gatherings Of councils in all cit
les where he may be stopping, affording
him an opportunity Of varying the mo.
notony of hotel life by participating
upon an equal footing, in social pleas.
ures such as he might enjoy were he
able TO remain at home. In the broad
est sense the order stands for the pro
lection Of the commercial traveller. and
the promotion of better conditions sur
rounding the life on the road.
The cost of joining the order Of
United Commercial Travellers Of Amer