Salt Lake Tribune | 1911-06-18 | Page 24 | Old Glory to Float from Hotel Utah

OLD GLORY TO FLOAT MTEL (IM Stars and Stripes to Be Flung, . - to the Breeze on July 4. "Old Glory" is to float proudly from the great nag pole on tho top of the tower of the Hotel Utah July 4 to announce tho final completion and opening of the hotel. This date has been settled upon definitely by tho 'management. The programme for tho formal opening has not boou fully arranged, ar-ranged, but will be announced in the next fe.w dnys. That a programme of speeches and music will be featured pracLicall.y has been decided. City and state oflicers will be CTicsts of tho hotel and will deliver addresses. While the hotel has boon open to businoss since June 0. the building cannot can-not be finished before the date mentioned. men-tioned. In speaking of the formal opening and the possibility of a change, Joseph Geoghegan, president of the operating company, said Saturday: "Any change in those plans will depend de-pend entirely on tho work of the doco-j doco-j rators. who aro working' day and night to complete their work. "They have promised to have everything in readiness readi-ness before tho appointed date, and we expect the opening to bo held ag scheduled. We have, however, met with so many disappointments that we are hesitnnt about announcing a definite date, so far in the future. But we hope that Ave can hold the opening on that date, and will proceed with the arrangements with that object in view. "The details of tho programme for the opening day have not yet been completed. Tho present arrangement is to have a big dinner in tho grill room on the ooening night, which will, of course, be accompanied by an appropriate ap-propriate programme of speeches and musical numbers."