Show HEI O O F VISITORS Members of the Sovereign Gram I Lodge Highly Entertained ThEY ALL SPEAK WELL OF ZIOiN Drive Through the City Visit the Tabernacle Bathe in the Lake and Wind Up with a Grand Banquet You have succeeded in crowding bushel of hospitality Into a peck of opportunity was the graceful compliment which GrandSire Grand-Sire Charles 11 Busby paid to the local Odd Fellows who put themselves out to entertain the distinguished representatives of the order who visited the city yesterday yester-day The time was short i was true and the opportunity small but the capacity of entertaining is often more in the RUBS than in the host The party who received the hospitalities of the home lodge was made up of the grand sires and grand representatives of the order and there was not a man among the 2 who had not won his preferment by the tests of his fellows and whoe prominence was not attained by the qualities of manliness magnanimity and true devotion to the high principles upon which the order Is founded That tho day was gloriously spent there can be no question for the ardor of tho enthusiasm en-thusiasm of all the visitors was of the kIna that allows of no questioning as to its sincerity sin-cerity and the grand sires happy espres sion was an epitome of the feelings of all The train carrying THE DISTINGUISHED PAnTY arrived in the city at an early hour Messrs Rogers Rage Buckle Moritz Rowe and Thomas were at the depot to greet them with 8 brotherly welcome Carriages were awaiting to convey them to points of interest in the city A great many ladies were In the party and they were especially enthusiastic over the scenes and their merry chatter and happy exclamations could be heard at every turn of the street The tabernacle and the big organ were as usual the most bewildering Miss Thomas a Kentucky vocalist with a beautiful voice tested the acoustics and sang with the ease of a bird Afterthe recital was over the patty dined lake and and in the afternoon went to the THE ORE4T SALT SEA was OD his best behavior quiet calm And scarce I wave of trouble rolled Across his peaceful breast There were no squeamy people in the crowd no han ersbacl but ready and anxious anx-ious for a plunge And how the brino tickled them And the way the water acted was a novel sensation they had never before experienced and the women sat like the men with their feet as high as their heads or higher The neverending funny sensations of selfconfident women trying to get up aac then trying to get a man to help them without with-out asking him was enjoyed by all The train returned to the city at 545 and the party divided some going to the train to Test and brush up while othels made their toilets in the hotels The visitors were INVITED TO A BANQUET prepared bj the Daughters of Eebekah to bo given at Odd Fellows halL On their arrival they were greeted in the vestibule by salutes from uniformed cantons while the prettiest Hebekahs smiled a merry welcome wel-come Grand Master W P Rowe called the members to order and introduced GRAND SIRE Busnr of Raleigh N C who could not bettor express ex-press his appreciation of the kindness shown them than by sayIng they had succeeded suc-ceeded in forcing a bushel of hospitality into a peck of opportunity I was worth he said ls journey twice the distance dis-tance to meet the Odd Fellows of Utah Odd Fellowship is the same wherever you find I moved by the same impulses It stands as one of the grand agencies of tho century It is tho grandest charity on the earth I is the largest fraternal organization in the world and the reports will show the largest increase in membership in 1SJ2 in its history On the 1st of January 1S91 it had a membership of 721000 and adding the Daughters of Rebekah S02COO and they always are to be added as there Is no more loyal splendid Odd Fellows on the globe 1 you add the Manchester Odd Fellows it males the grand total 1500000 1 am proud to have been at the head of such an order I only regret that during I part of this time I have been physically unable to attend to any duties but the order did not suffer anything as the deputy grand sire led the place with absolute ab-solute perfection We cannot express to the people of this garden pot of the earth the joy nnspeaisafale of the sights we have witnessed and the welcome given us C S CAMPBELL deputy grand sire of Toronto Canada who will be elected grand sire at Port land was the next speaker Mr Campbell said with much feeling that the remembrance of this occasion would cling to them as long as life shah last and none of the receptions we have received shall be more jealously cherished than the one we received at Salt Lake We leave with you our best wishes The work of Odd Fellowship to visit the sick relieve distress bury the dead educate the orphan and care for the widow is left with you We leave you with our best wishes to each one individually We wish peace and prosperity pros-perity to rest onUtah GRAND 8ECRETABT BOSS is a tall dignified man of the typo of Wedcll Phillips and he made an eloquent address Ho stated that he had visited Utah twentythree years ago and received the same hospitality He had jealously watched the growth of the order here The incidents or tho day the delightful excursion to the and the very cordial greetings ones will not fade from their mem ores JAMES NIChOLSON past grand master was exceedingly grati fed at the reception they had received It has been the red letter day in our existence 1 he said with great earnestnces I see the magnificent temple and tabernacle and hear the great organ to bathe in the limpid waters of the salt lakeit wus an event in our lives We extend to you God speed I know the hindrances of tho past I have seen the gradual progress that has been made I believe that as the population increases the benefits of the order will spread to every household and every bedside will feel the touch of its charity The mountains of prejudice and pride shall mel beneath the power of love GENEHAL UNDERWOOD I spoke as follows I am more than glad I to be hero tonight Several months ago when they were arranging the programme I said I wanted to come to Salt Lake I have come I saw and was conquered I have seen streets the finest in the United States I seethe ladies sitting before me the batteries of their beautiful eyes makes my heart jump I have crossen the Jordan No writing can give an adequate idea of the beauty of this valley Our friends will go home and say that to understand Utah one must go home and unwrito every thing that has been said of it I am not ashamed to sayas I have a young wife that I spent my fiftysecond birthday In Utah I 1 could take a bath every day in the Great Salt lake I believe I would live to celebrate my 104th I am father of fiftytwo children and grandfather grand-father of half 0 dozen That may not surprise sur-prise you in Utah Laughter 1 will ox plain this bj saying that in our order we ore asked to officiate as the fathers of orphans or-phans I promise youthat if I can save enough ducats I will come back to Utah and bring my wife and daughters with me After the speeches the visitors repaired to the basement and partook of a sumptuous sumptu-ous spread prepared by tho Daughters of Kebekah After dining they went to the special train and are now bounding over the Oregon Ore-gon Short Line for Portland to be present at the sixtyeighth annual communication of the Sovereign Order ot the 1 O O F from Sept 19 to 24 |