Show aiuiiiATHE E BAll I J Dancing Out of Question in Li i vt Early Evening I t I RECEPTION BY CLARK 1 Guests Finally Get Opportunity to Reach Him J Also Meet Secretory Vilson of the Department of Agriculture t Bauquot Hall Crowded iI I t j L TRIBUNE SPECIAL I Ogden Sept HiOne of the surprising I surpris-ing features of the Irrigation congress 1 Is the elasticity Uhlle the Tabernacle a seemed large enough to hold the congress I con-gress In the afternoon Klcsalls hall t and two lurge store rooms failed to doth i i do-th same thinG tonight It was the oc I l I caiilon l of the banquet and ball tendered I t to the delegates by the people of Ogden Og-den I donSalt I I p Salt Tittfce vas very largely renrc I i f setited Jn the crowd By 9 oclock the I k hall was so full oC people that dancing I I was out of the question The stairway I halls dressing rooms were likewise I Jammed Fresh air was at a premium People shoved pushed and tramped I upon one anothers toes Indies In I 1 llyht ball costume were In Imminent J f peril of going home in dishabille while i 9 the men who were not used to the per Jls of society probably vowed that I C L never again I would they be tempted V Into the yellow peril 13uL as the hour grew later conditions I Improved The crowd llnally loosened up to l such an extent that more of the i t guests were able to reach PresidentS President-S Clark and Secretary James Wilson of 14 the Department of Agriculture who I were holding an Informal reception nt i one end of the room Then the banquet d ban-quet room and buffet were prepared t I for the reception of visitors and In a marvelously brief space of titne the I biff crowd in the ball room was thinned l t so that dancing could be Indulged inS in-S The big storeroom under the hall was l fl turned into a banqueting room and t till lines of men and women three deep 4 t I trnmpeled for the choice dishes served I by the waiters L Just across the hall was the buffet t a counter forty feet long where the l mnle guests of the city regaled them I 2 Pflvea on sandwiches liquors and cigars p r ci-gars free of expense Along toward a 1 midnight the dancing floor became t fairly clear and those who had come iI to dance and had the patience to wait I were rewarded x II The overcrowding of the building was tr 1 L the only unpleasant featureof the t en I tcrtainmert Otherwise the arrangements 5 a arrange-ments were perfect and the ball was I all that could be desired The hall I I was the largest available and in order to have avoided the jam the committee p would have to have engaged three or four places and given the ball in sections i l sec-tions This would doubtless have been I f done had the magnitude of the attendance I attend-ance been foresecii |