The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-04-14
FINE NEW QUARTERS
FOR RAILROAD MEIv
Salt Lake Transportation Club
Will Settle Matter Of Home
Saturday Night.
MAY BE IN HOTEL UTAH
Other Buildings Under Con-
sideration; Organization
Will Incorporate.

That the Salt Lake Transportation
club will have headquarters in the EIo-
tel Utah huildin" Was tho consensus
of opinion expressed az the meeting
of tho club last night. The location
was not definitely decided upon, but
porate and To have club headquar
tiers as soon as possible
There were neariy 100 Of the active
mc,nbers OF the club present at the
meeting and every on showed an nnu.
sual interest in the workings Of the
committee thai was appointed nj r
recent meeting 10 investigate thc fcas-
ibillty Of headquarters, The commit
tee. headed by W. H. iIwiuy, showed
that fhe matter had been thoroughly
investigated and that there was no
reason why the club should not have
a home.
The proposed headquarters in the
II otel Utah have been offered TO the
club ut $ reasonable rate and n fur
nitnrc man who was present last cvnu-
ing, at thc instance Of the club mem
bers. stated that tho rooms could be
furnished satisfactorily for ahout~$700,
Free From Debt.
The club is out Of debt and mas a
small reserve, and the members said
last night that it intended to remain out
OF debt
About forty new names wero read
at the meeting last evening of men
who would join the club as soon as
headquarters were secured. This will
swell the membership TO more than
200. The quarters in the hotel have
not yet been finished, but the hotel
management Will do this as soon as the
club decides TO accept them, This
VIII be done at meeting TO be held
next Saturday night.
There was some discussion last even
ing about the size of the rooms and
the different locations under consider
alton. In addition to rooms in the
hotel, others under consideration are
in the kearns. Walker, Newhouse,
Dooly and New Windsor hotel build
ings. A few OF the members seemed
to favor quarters on the top floor of
one Of the skyscrapers mentioned, but
the majority favored those offered in
the hotel. The hotel quarters are in
the basement of the building and south
of the grill. They arc now in one
large room, fifty by sixty feet in di-
pNI IIUD5DIS WOulu De O1-
vlded into three smaller rooms
Members Are Enthusiastic.
Some Of the advantages in the Hotel
Utah are the same excellent care that
the rooms of the hotel receive, and
barber shop aud grill adjoining the
club rooms. The rooms will be Gtted
with billiard tables. library, and other
things of nature TO invite the rail
road boys away from public places Of
amusement. The members of the club
are all giving the plan tUeir individual
support and all are enthusiastic about
the new home, the location of which
will be definitely decided at the meet
ing Saturday night,
Another important move at the meet
ing Of the club last evening was a
ruling by the president, D. r. Gray,
to the effect that employees of the
Utah Light & Railway company were
eligible to become members Of the
club,
The committee having the headquar-
ters matter in hand is representative
of the different roads having offices in
the city. 1t consists Of w. T.. Ewing,
chairman; G. j. McNitt, j. III. Davis,
G. f. Warren, ]. III. Manderfield, H.
s. Twining. D. R. Gray, J. r. Foley,
e. E. McMichael and r. II Lewis