The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-12-24
HOLIDAY SHOPPERS
SPENT GREAT SUMS
Despite Early Purchases, All
Stores Thronged During
Past Week.
GOVERNORS MAKE HIT
Western Executives Score
Heavily With People OF
The East.
GOVERNORS MAKE HIT
By RALPH JOHNSTON.

B. LEASED W Ire z" Inc lFl'u'''
NEW YORK. pcc-23.--Thc crIsnde m
favor Of carly Christmas shopping Is a
good thins- and doubtless does good. Iut
some other plan Is needed IN New York
than has beeu devised II tho shop EiFis
and deliver men arc 70 have ANY mel-
~ times at Christmas. NJ u matter pi
curiosity I hayo b-cu watching the hi-
a,orrF since the Christmas shopping 80" %
son opened. Three weeks $50 ] was cou-
WINGED that the constant proIchlncnl In
favor of csriy shopping had done ns
work and that long before santa Claus
had begun 10 hitch 10 his reindeer the
shops would be empty.
Not so however. for ever since that
time the crowds hsNa grown larger ahd
more determined. and this evening /
should much prefer to bc center rush In
= Harvard Yale football team than 10
try TO force my WAY 10 the buying line IN
| am ovcT-statinE it when ] say thst
IL tue census Of the New York toy and
department stores could lave been taken
this afternoon. Of course II would have
been au absolute imposSihility, IL would
have shown a population greater than
any except some OF the most populouS OF
the states.
And this has been going on for vcaks.
Christmas sure costs something In New
York.
Western Governors Popular.
Look out now Tor big Increase IN i'm
migration 20 the Rocky mountain aud
PACING siaifts I nc EpfCInnTS OF tIlp6C
s,aies. with their travelling exhibits Of
the nue things that grow there. hayo
.aInc and saw and conquered ''youthfm
New York"
They were wise in their day and gen
Grafton here. About the first place thcy
struck Uaa the College OF the City OF
New York. where they told OF the glorles
of the great west TO some 1000 or 5000
az bright ambitious Young New Workers
and my youugSter. who had the privilege
of hearing them. has already begun say
Ing to seek out the new land OF promise.
Tho governors themselves were mon
about the best possible exhibits OF what
the west can do. New York has never
entertained nncr, cleaner cut aegrcca-
tlpu OF visitors, Aud To- "A man they
were so, firmly convinced Of the super
istiye advantages 81 their states that
they could NOT fail 10 Impress others.
New York would now like To SEQ 7
has entertained nearly all OF them sngly
bur has never had an opportunity TO see
ihcm IN the aggregate
Cowboys Novel Experience.
New York can furnish amusement 10
All sorts OF men. Even the western cow
hoy need not go without hts home COM
forts II he doesn't want 10. For instance:
Herman Oechli a farmer. oi Sandy
Ground, A hamlet on the west end of
Staten island. called In three OF his
neighbors. john Foster. William FARLEY
and Robert Rrinley. 10 help him l,ill his
prize porter.
This Is some hog, commented Occn =
II, ss the pointed proudly 10 a pen where
6runted 200 pound Berkshire.
Well get him outer the PEN" said
Fostor, who formerly was q cowboy in
Wyoming. Tho hog was driven from the
pen and Foster hurled a lssso q bout his
neck That's the way We did the trick
I'm Wyoming hs laughed.
The pig objected TO the larlst and
started on. Foster held back. winding
the rope about his arms and body. Then
the pig decided he was good for dis
tance.
stop mel yelled Foster. Ills three
companions started In pursuit. The pork
broke through n gate aud reached the
road and made on in the direction Of