The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-06-02
Those Who Waged WAR
for a Greater Organiza-
ton Count The Results
of Their Work.
EIGHT HUNDRED
RECRUITS SECURED
Mutual Fluctuations Mark
Hours of Truce; Fighting
Parson" Leads the Vic
torious Regiment.

CluD 5 SIedt nlSua-
bershiD campaign last midnight
marked g new epoch in the his
tory OF the organization and bore strik-
ing evidence of that spirit which is to
sweep all obstacles from It's path in
the unconquerable. progressive march
of Salt Lake and Utah
When the clamor of battle ceased,
final count showed that 800 new mem
bers had swelled the ranks Of the club
| to a total enrolment of 1860. AS the
clouds Of warfare lifted, they disclosed
great field, not strewn with dead, but
clothed with massive army Of rep
resentative, determined men, whose
faces were set toward growth, devel-
opment and prosperity.
1000 Now Goal.
In securing membership of 1860,
within campaign of sixty days, and
with the splendid assurance Of passing
the 2000 mark in the near future, the
Commercial club has placed itself upon
a basis equal to if not stronger than
that of any similar organization in the
great west, and has acquired both the
spirit and the material that should con
stitute the biggest and the strongest
| factor for the advancement of this
commonwealth.
After fnal,s incessant campaign,
lasting throughout the day until s
'clock at night, the Red and Blue
regiments, which had in hand the Sc
curing Of resident members, and the
Independent scouts, who went out after
nonresident members, gathered in
mass meeting at the club to learn what
the official count would be.
| Theodore w. Whiteley, lieutenant
colonel and judge advocate, reported
that 5s4 resident and so7 nonresident
members had been added to the club S
enrolment.
Parson Wins Cup.
An official count showed that the Red
regiment had won the victory for Sc
curing the greatest number Of mem
bers, and Colonel P. A. Simpkin, the
fighting parson.'' in charge Of the
Reds, was awarded the handsome sill
1
strong, who said in part:
The Commercial club OF Salt Lake
| City. through your loyal efforts. has
put over the biggest thing that
| has ever been accomplished for the
advancement Of a city or community
| in the country
want to thank you on behalf OF
the board of governors OF the club.
bno Haa lcs
for us I want to thank you oil be-
half OF Salt Lake City, for your work
J has been a big thing for Salt Lake
CITY. I want to thanh, you on be-
half of the state OF Utah, for your
work has been of inestinable value TO
the state. and want to thank
YOU on behalf OF the west. for your
work has been OF immense value TO
the whole intermountain country To
those men whom you have induced to
ioin the Commercial club you have
rendered q great service through your
self-sauriHcing service IL is thiS
spirit OF self-sacritce that makes reaI
men and IL is real men that make
great commonwealths. 1t Is just this
spirit. as shown In our membership
campaign, that Will make Salt Lake
CITY the greatest city between the
oceans and that will make the state
of Utah the greatest state In the
whole west On behalf OF the board
of governors OF the Commercial club
| want TO thank you all. To the van
oujshcd comes the satisfying knowi-
edge of work we'll performed and the
same knowledge comes to the VIC
tors.
King Has O. Word.