Show ENflEAURER lEGORATIONS C Citizens Urged to Beautify the Streets and Buildings I I THE INTERMOUNTAIN RALLY I Final Arrangements Have Been flade For It The Trains Are Now Moving Westward West-ward and Half a Dozen Specials Will Arrive Here This Afternoon A Thousand Ohioans Will Reach the City at Midnight Complete Com-plete Advices by Wire The local Christian Endeavorers are calling upon the people of the city tp decorate and to do it today Hardly apiece a-piece of bunting Is to b seen on any building in the city and before nightfall night-fall there will be from 1000 to 2000 strangers here and by 9 oclock tomorrow to-morrow morning the streets In the business section of the city will 0 lined with visitors The Christian En deavorers askare all these thousands of people to come here from the east and see nothing but row after row of plain brick and stone walls nothing to indicate that there is sufficient public pride and public spirit In Salt Lake to make the city look as attractive attrac-tive as possible nothing which will look like a mark of welcome and of appreciation of their visit There is no other city in the United States which would not have had a holiday appearance for an occasion of this kind and every city in the country where a national convention of Christian Chris-tian Endeavor societies has ever been held the buildings have been almost covered by a mass of flags bunting and red white and blue streamers and yet on the eve of a day that will see a host of 10000 or 15000 within the gates of this city there is not as much asa as-a hundred yards of bunting to be seen the entire length of Main street The members of the local committee feel that they have exhausted every effort to have the business section of the city decorated The subcommittees have visited the merchants and businessmen business-men everywhere and have tried to impress them with the importance of the matter They have met with some I success that 13 if the promise of some I merchants to decorate their stores can be regarde as success but the decora tions themselves are not yet forthcoming forth-coming AN APPEAL T THE MAYOR The committees did not confine themselves them-selves to their own efforts in this matter i mat-ter but they tried to get a public expression I ex-pression from the chief official of the I city government which would call the matter to the attention of the citizens i I I tt entS I The following l letter was sent to Mayor Glendinning four days ago Salt Lake City June 28 1897 Hon James Glendinning Mayor Salt Lake City Dear SlrThe Salt Lake committee commit-tee of 97 connected with the InterMountain Inter-Mountain Christian Endeavor rally deeming It desirable that the citizens of Salt Lake City decorate their places of business and their homes In honor I of the immense concourse of people from all parts of the United States and Canada who will be In the city July 35 in attendance at the rally above named respectfully requests you If you can consistently do so to make a public request to this effect We feel that a proclamation from you embodying this suggestion would meet with the same result as Is accomplished ac-complished In other cities where the Christian Endeavor conventions are held viz elaborate and beautiful decorations and we further think the citizens of Salt Lake City will not wish to be less thoughtful or appreciative apprecia-tive when the request Is properly presented pre-sented to them Very respectfully MISS EMMA B EBERHARD Corresponding Secretary This letter has been filed away among the archives of the mayors office and not even a reply has been sent to the committee who feel that a word from the mayor would have accomplished much muchTe Endeavorers call attention to the fact that the national holiday is an preaching and that public decorations might very well be made In connection connec-tion with it as well as the Intermountain Intermoun-tain rally and they urge every citizen who ha the welfare of the city at heart to do his utmost to accomplish something some-thing in this rerpect today The decora tion committee of the Endeavorers are obliged to confine their own efforts to beautifying the halls which will be used for state headquarters and the tabernacle and theater where services I will be held Sunday and for this purpose pur-pose wU the mEmber of the subcommittees music and San Fran tees on finance Frm i cisco 97 have been added to the decoration I decor-ation committee to assist Jn completing this work today TABLE SIn S-In regard to the facilities of the entertainment en-tertainment committee for supplying I table accommodations to the visitors the urgent appeal which the committee I has resulted I made on Wednesday night resule in much good for many persons called I at the headquarters yesterday and left II to notices that they were prepared have persons assigned to their private I houses for meals While this hsr been I a great assistance to the om iilttee l the number of places to which the visitors vis-itors can be assigned is still far from sufficient for the purpose and Mr I sufcient PUtoOSl Shepard and her assistants will move I Shepar their headquarters from the OMeara i block to the reception room In the Y I i M C A building No 28 West Second South street and they will fs be there i all day prepared to receive offers from all who are willing to provide meals for the visitors in their homes I FIRST DETACHMENT I The first detachment of the great crowds which will soon b pouring into the city have arrived but the number is I not large enough to be noticeable yet Both trains from the east over the Rio Grande Western yesterday arrived In two sections and the one due at 12 15 this afternoon will also have two sections sec-tions The first special Christian Endeavor En-deavor train Is due here at 2 oclock this afternoon and It will contain the Morrlll party The next purely Endeavor En-deavor train will 0 that carrying the Ohio delegation I is composed o 27 cars and is run in three sections and is due here about midnight tonight An extra train of eight sleepers and a chair car and containing a party a Wisconsin Wis-consin people who have not been included in-cluded in any Wisconsin delegation mentioned In the previous railroad schedules let Colorado Springs at 4 oclock this morning and will arrive here at 7 oclock tomorrow morning and after that special trains carrying the various state delegations will arrive ar-rive one after another so that by noon tomorrow there will doubtless be between t be-tween 5000 and 10000 people here the number depending upon the speed with I which the railroads between hare and f Dnv er can handle so many trains One r great difficulty Is that nearly all the trains that have arrived in Denver from the east in the last two days have I been several hours behind time EXTRA TRAINS Three extra trains left Denver for Salt Lake yesterday which have rot been included in any previous schedule They are carry 300 overflow passengi each those persons who are not attached at-tached to any state delegation and who in many cases perhaps are not members mem-bers of the Christian Endeavor = ocie ties They arrived in Denver from ta rious parts of the east and i w as found impossible to carry them here either on the regular or special trains so It was necessary to run the extra trains for I their accommodation The first of these trains will arrive here at 4 oclock tills I afternoon the second at 530 and the I third at 7 oclock In addition to the special trains and the Individual travel the Rio Grande Western ha received word from Denver of nearly 50 special cars containing small contract paries which will have to be attached to the I regular and special trains arriving here during the next few days Among these parties are the Janeway party of Columbus r I Co-lumbus 0 and two carloads from Decatur i i De-catur Ill which will arrive here with r the Canada and New Hampshire train Saturday morning The Johnstovne N Y party the Dorldlno party from Chicago Chi-cago and the Bridgeport party are among those that will arrive today FINAL COMMITTEE MEETING The general 1SD7 committee held us meeting last evening previous to the rally Arrangements were made for an overflow meeting from the taber overfow meetng nacle to the theatre at 530 Sunday afternoon I was also decided not to use the tabernacle for morning and evening services Sunday but to ton fine the services there to the great meeting Sunday afternoon which will be preceded by a procession of all the state delegations from the point of for matlon on Third South street to the maton tabernacle Arrangements will he made to have Christensens orchestra at Saltair play appropriate music including in-cluding some of the Endeavor hymns during the exercises there tomrow The committee desire to have the statement state-ment reported that the management at Saltair has agreed to close he bar l there tomorrow The annual meeting of the state Christian Endeavor societies socie-ties of Utah of which R J Caskey is president will be held in the First Congregational Con-gregational church today The rat mc log session which will open at 90 will be devoted to business matters including the election of officers for the ensuing year In the afternoon the rally I of the Junior societies will be held and J in the evening there wi be a > ul hc I platform meeting which all the In deavorers of the state present are expected ex-pected to attend as well as those who will have arrived from the east hv that time and the public in general bo that the meeting can be made a general enthusiasm affair preparatory to the rally The last Issue of the local Chn ton Endeavor will be distributed at the meeting in the First Congregational Church tonight It Is the souvenir number num-ber and contains a complete pro gramme of all the events of the next few days IN NEVADA Arrangements Made to Carry En deavorers on to California Reno Net July Superintendent J B Bright of this division Is here this morning making arrangements for the Christian Endeavor traffic expected next week Colonel Wright said it would take 50 trains of ten ears each to carry them They will run about 45 minutes apart and to avoid accident acci-dent trains will run from station to station that is a train leaving Reno would not be followed by another section sec-tion until the preceding one had passed Verdi All freights will be abandoned It is expected trains will begin passing Reno some time Monday afternoon Fifty big mountain engines and 50 crews will be sent from Sacramento to Wadsworth Sunday WRECKED IN COLORADO The Chicago Endeavorers Meet With an Accident Brush Cole July 1On board Chicago Christian Endeavor tralnIhe two se < tlons of the Chicago Christian Endeavor train reached here at 930 this morning having been delayed eight hours at Akron Ak-ron Col by the wreck which occurred at 130 oclock this morning midway between be-tween the two towns SectSon one of the westbound Christian Endeavor special from Peoria HL and a fast freight bound from Denver to Chicago collided It was pt first resorted the first section of the Chicago train was involved Inasmuch AS > immediately following the Peoria train I Neb sustained three scalj wounds a I crushed hand and body bruises lie is expected to recover Fireman S M COle of the same town was severely scalded a = l received a wound on the cheek and a crushed arm Tie only passenger hurt was Fred E Glassburn a Christian En deavorer of Tainplco 111 who received a I blight wound over the eye The passenger train in charge of Engineer En-gineer llelghler was going at high speed wen It crashed intO the fast freight or dcetl to switch at this point The passenger pas-senger struck the freight In the middle crushing three cattle cars the debris of which were scattered far and wide The pasenger engine was a total wreck and the baggage car was lIkewise demolished The first coach of passengers were badly Staking up many making their escape by windows The passengers Immediately went to the rescue of the horses and cattle cat-tle Bishop Fallows of Chicago being one of the first on hand with a lantern ENDEAVOKEKS DT COLORADO The Question of Sunday Travel is Causing Trouble Denver Col July 1With one mighty Continued on page 6 EHLEAORER DECORATIONS I Continued from Page 2 hallelujah twenty coaches of Chicago I Christian Endeavorers swooped down on Denver at noon today about eight hours behind schedule time The changed plans necessitated by the delay almost caused a split between te two sections at this I point The first section headed by R 1 Ransom of Cnlcago sought to arrange to reach Salt Lake City Sunday morning t devoting more time in the interim to sightseeing along the route The second I sec-ond secton headed by the Rev C S Block of Chicago editor of the Christian i Chris-tian Endeavorer desired to carry out I original plans as nearly as o i ar I saving in Salt Lake City Saturday night I There has been more or less I rivalry he I I tween the two sections since the Incipiency j i Incipi-ency of the California excursion The I I bone of contention is ostensibly the question I 1 ques-tion of Sunday travel I The party proceeded to Colorado I Springs this evening where a reception I was tendered them I In the towns near Denver Christian I Endeavorers turned out to bear greetings to their fellow travelers westward At I midnight last night at McCook Neb a large party on the station plnrorm I awaited the train They bore the banner God Speed You on to California As i the train pulled out they sang one of the favorite Christiu Endeavorer 6ongsG6d I I Be With You Till We Meet AgaIn the excursionists taking up the refrain from the rear platform until the bound was I lost in the distance Railroad men estimate esti-mate that 10000 people arrived in Denver from the east today and most of th < mare m-are en route west tonight Since early morning special trains loaded load-ed with I delegates and other tourists haw been rolling Into the Union I depot at intervals I in-tervals The Gulf road began dispatching special trains around the tamous Loop I in the mountains at 6 a m and thousands of excursionists have made this delightful I trip Twenty special trains were scheduled sched-uled to go efe over the Denver Rio Grande railroad today and tomorrow fifty I tvo trains will be dispatched on that line The Colorado Midland will also handle I han-dle a large number of extra trains All the trains from the east were behind I schedule time and those on the Burlington I Burling-ton were delayed by the slight accident I at Akron ColT Col-T 1 special desire of Endeavorers is to I reach Salt Lake City in time to attend service in the tabernacle Sunday morning morn-ing Tills will necessitate a delay of J4 j hours and then tic Southern Pacific assumes as-sumes the responsibility of conveying the tourists to the end of their journey Great as is the task of roads In the east the I talk undertaken by the Southern Pacific I Is by all odds the heaviest and the result will be watched with the liveliest Interest by transportation men Entertained in New Mexico Denver Col July IA special to the Reuublican from Santa Fe X M says Tne Christian Endeavor special train from Denver and other Colorado points carrying 225 people arrived here at 4 I oclock today over the Santa Fe route About 100 Santa Fe Endeavorers gave them cheers of greeting at the depot and escorted them to the Presbyterian church escorte where an Informal reception was held Then printed programmes indicating the chief points of historic interest to be seen pints visitors started were distributed and the visitor starte Wee out in groups of ten each led by a local Endeavorer representative to see the sights The trip proved most pleasant I and at the heendt r two hours the Can C-an left for the coast Massachusetts Sndeavorers Special to The Herald 1When Massachusetts Sterling Col July IWhen setts Endeavorers were dining here today three ctvwboys had an impromptu Wild I West show and wound up by offering any one 10 who would ride any one of I their bronchos A West Point cadet Howard a son of General Howard tried it for ten seconds The effete east and woolly west stayed together Then there was a convulsion of something under him and Howard was spilled out on the plains He tried it again with the same result as at first San Francisco Preparations San Francisco July 1The arrangements arrange-ments for the reception of the thousands of Christian Endeavorers who are speedIng speed-Ing to this city for the 97 convention are now complete and the local committees who have been working night and day for some time past In anticipation of the I demands of the visitor are now restIng uon their oars in order to hive some tbg in reserve for the work ahead of I i them i themtmile there is ti remote probability of i rain the work of decorating the city is being pushed as ripldly as possible The question of housing the guest has been I satisfactorily arranged and that of transportation trans-portation cused no uneasiness as the street car accommodations of this city ore unsurpassed and the management is fully prepared to handle any addUIonul demands I de-mands which may be made upon it |