Show GREAT GRAT IN SAlT LAKE lAK Twenty Thousand Persons Persona Gather in Temple Grounds on Opening Day of Great Mormon Church Conference INCLEMENT WEATHER DOES I NOT INJURE ATTENDANCE About Five Thousand Persons Are Unable to Gain Admit Admittance Admittance I tance Either to Tabernacle or A Assembly Hall Meetings I OTHERS EXPECTED TODAY ET El the be gathered fathered to together L LET gether ami let the people be assembled People of Mormon filth faith from frum nil parts part partI I of I the At world oriel Meem to lo have boe obeyed the ibe I mandate and they hac have gath gatli gathered ered nt ut snit salt Lake Luke for the he conference conf re C Cn I I us n they be gathered before I Inclement M cat her had no DO dl Ing effect un on the conference i tailor I yesterday c I walked to unit and from frolD the lie lieI I I tabernacle in lit and snow ansi seemed tu ii pay nay no ito heed to o the he weather I They The ere all Intent lutent securing I a neat preferably in tile the I but if not under HIP be of oC tIle lie great grent I edifice they turned to the A hail ball In lu the lie Temple ground where over ocr overflow I flow meetings were ere held both morning I and nfl afternoon I Had the weather been beell more propitious so soI I that the normal Sunday Sunda crowds would I ha have hae e been out the principal streets of Salt SaltI Lake would have bave been crowded as they the I never have been before during a Mormon I church conference time I I For 1 or hours before meeting time on eith either I er side of or Main Alain street from Third South I Ito 1 to the Temple grounds there was a surg I Ilag I ing lag mass maas of humanity all headed north I Realizing that the Tabernacle would be bei I Ij i i taxed to its utmost capacity the people j had barely barel time to partake of a lunch lunchi after the morning session Ion until unil they again I i turned back toward the Temple TempI grounds i iso I so that they might find seats Jn the Tab Taki who wh Ute the main SOS tare re to fo tobe I be held Belated ones to the number of 1 turned toward the Assembly A hall hail hailI I where a meeting under uDder the direction of I Apostle Apo tle Orson F Whitney was held heldI 1 I I Twenty Thousand Persons Still more belated ones were turned I a away ay because of the inadequacy of the I Tabernacle and the Assembly hall hail to toI hold I more than persons It is conserva conservatively se I estimated that fully t persons entered the gates of the Temple grounds between the hours of 1230 1 30 and 20 yesterday afternoon The morning attend attendance attendance ance was wall but slightly less than that of the afternoon and altogether It surpassed I in point of attendance any an previous open opening openIng ing lag day of conference Anxious as they the were to be seated in the Tabernacle and hear the sermons the great pipe organ and hear the choir sing anthems courteously re refrained refrained reframed framed from pressing for seats yesterday so S that the visiting conference Mormon Monnon church people might have the first call I Twenty minutes before 2 every even I seat In the Tabernacle was taken A few fe I minutes later there was no standing room I within and people crowded Into the arches archea of the tho spacious doorways and remained there standing and craning their necks during the afternoon services Finding the Tabernacle crowded beyond any hope of or even pressing another man woman or child within many of the conference vis vie visitors visitors I contented themselves with going to the overflow meeting Ordinarily and under most any other I known condition the assembling of twenty thousand people would for safety precautions precautions require the presence of a squad ot of police While the crowd crowll was coming at atts Its ts flood one solitary policeman stood at atthe atthe atthe the gate There was really no need nee 1 of at athis his presence and he withdrew Come From All Points The overflow meeting ended endI perhaps ten tenI minutes before the Tabernacle services I I and enabled those who were in the Assem Assembly Assembly Assembly bly hall hail hR II to pass without the gates before I the tile congestion congest on came anie However It was fully of an hour before the egress congestion was finally relieved Of course there was no pushing or crowd crowding crowding ing despite the fact that all were anxious an lous I to get out that they might reach home haw have dinner and be ready to return early for the Sunday school night lon The crowds are composed of conference visitors from Canada to Old Mexico on the western hemisphere and from many manyin ponts in Europe and In Salt Lake form an In Interesting Interesting interesting study Despite the storm of Saturday night I which started with violent wind and closed with snowfall savoring of a blizzard the I principal streets of the city were thronged long after midnight Every Mormon lormon no matter from what remote point in the world he comes cornea feels at ot home when he reaches Salt lAke Canada is especially well represented at this April conference and the tho hardy man manor manor manor heed to or woman from Canada paid no the storm of Saturday night and the changeable chan weather flurries flumes of yesterday It only mAde them feel the more at home There will wUl be no diminishing of the Crowd today tOda in fact It will be he augmented as It was reported yesterday that belated I trains on the railroads leading lending to Snit Salt Lake had prevented the arrival of many ma who had figured too closely on railroad time cards If the weather is fair today the streets will win be thronged as they the never have been before at conference time I i Ii |