Show OPEN NEV QUARTERS Commercial Club Home Formally Dedicated MEMBERSHIP ABOUT 265 Rooms on West Temple Street Thrown Open for tho First Time to Business Mon and Their Friends Who Throng tho luxurious Apartments Apart-ments and Aro Entertained With Music and Speeches VicePresi dent Cutler Says Club Can Accommodate Accom-modate 500 Members With a membership of 205 business men and applications posted for a score of additional members the Commercial I Com-mercial club of Salt Lake formally 1 opened the doors of its new home on West Temple street under the most favorable circumstances last night The twenty Iooms of the clubs flOW quarters bright with the freshness of ncxv equipment Illumined with the soft glow of hundreds of shaded Incnn 1 scents s-cents xvere thronged from early even lag until a late hour with rcpresenta live citizens and the spirit of unity and good fellowship was cerywhere apparent The rooms were beautifully decorated 1 with cut flowers and palms and Chrls 1 tensens orchestra Illlod the place wIth music A tinge punchboxvl in a corner of the ladles dlnlngmom quickly I established es-tablished Its popularity Servants in bright llxery wore constantly at hand to attend the wants of the I guesUs No ladles xvere present although they will be xvolemued at subsequent receptions of the club Tho chief purpose of the reception was purely social designed to give the members and their friends an opportunity oppor-tunity to see the neW quarters at their best A few < Informal addresses were made VicePresident John C Cutler briefly welcomed the guests lo the club calling attention to the beauty of the rooms and stating lhat the dun should have at least 501 members C O Whlttomore said the organization organiza-tion of tine Commercial club was the first real genuine sign of life Salt Lake City had shown since she out cleri on her len years Rip Van Winkle sleep nftcr the boom days of the early nineties nine-ties lie Enid the club xvns OUP of the host Investments that could be made by a I business man and that with a start of more than 250 members it should not be long before the total of nOO members was secured The Commercial club was organized at a propitious moment sold Mr WhUtcmorc Salt Lake is l just entering enter-ing upon an era of prosperity such as she never before has enjoyed The railroad development1 in the l next few years will be very great There has been talk of a suitable motto for the club I propose this motto Salt Lake City and Utah first last and all time und the rest of the world afterward Judge Colborn said It would be a happy day for Salt Lake xvhcn all the citizens united to make this the greatest great-est city west of the Rocky mountains He proposed as the motto of the club the motto of the Stale of Kansas Ad astro per aspera MaJ Stanton who was next called upon explained his hoarseness by say Ing that ho had whiskers on his voice acquired while attending a baseball game at Portland July lib MaJ Stan ton spoke of the past and present of Sail Lake as ho had known It and Incidentally In-cidentally paid high tribute to tho bravery and cfllclenry of the Utah bat tery in the roccnt war The regulars had no particular love for the volun teen soldiers said MaJ Stanton but there IB not a man In the regular ser vice who fought In the Philippine but xvlll lift his hat In admiration of the Utah volunteers Let no one who looks upon those soft carpels those silken draperies and all this luxury ° f silver and cut glass think for a moment that the end of this club Is attained In IIi social features said Assistant I Secretary Fisher S Harris These arc merely a means to an end This expensive furniture these fine appointments for which many of you have paid a good round prlcp are merely Illustrative trnllc of the progress and substantial I I character of Salt Lakes business men They are designed to some extent to bring IS ustogether om I promote that spirit of unity and bar monlous action that arc ncccssarv If we would promote ami uplift the Indus trial interests or thiscotnmunHxr and this city PrlmiirUy the Commercial club Is I nelHsh Institution The man who a puts I a dollar into the I organisation derives incalculable benefit from it not only In the satisfaction It given him to be associated win siuh a movement but him In actuta I dollars anti 1 cents returned to directly or Indirectly But if thc object of the club is to be attained If 1 the greatest benefit Is to bo derived muht bo through Il earnest concerted wnrle nol only of the gocnlnc hoard l but of all the members of the club SV C Lyne II a Whitney and War rca Bogus also spoke briefly 11 |