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Show IKNIGHTS T8 Visitors En Route to. California, Salt Laka Real Estate Association As-sociation Appoints Committee Com-mittee to Act. Proposition to Establish a. Bureau of Information Meets "Unanimous "Unani-mous Approval. Two Important matters were taken I up yesterday at tne regular weekly meeting and luncheon of the Salt Lake Tteal Estate association. One waa the appointment of a committee to look up the matter of entertaining the Knights Templar delegates to the gTeat conclave to be hold in San Francisco in September, Septem-ber, when they pass through this city; the other, the establlRlilng of a permanent perma-nent bureau of information on some prominent Main Btrcct corner, -where tourists and strangers mny be provided with reliable facta concerning the resources re-sources and advantages of Salt Lake City and Utah. To Welcomo Templars. Delegates to the Knights Templars' conclave will number 300,000 representative represen-tative men. largely from the Eastern and Middle Western States, and all will pass through lhl3 city either going" to San Francisco or on the return trip home. Ordinarily, the stops made on trips of this character are of brief duration, and one of the dutleH of the committee appointed by the Heal Estate Es-tate association will be to try to Induce those In' charge of the Knight Templar excursions to attend the time of the ftop-ovcr In this city from an hour or two to at least twenty-four hours. This uould mean not only that the travelers would expend In the aggregato a much larger sum of money here, but also that they would have time to be shown tho city and Its environments In a way that would be pleasant and profitable to them and result In much future benefit to the city. It Is believed that such an arrangement will meet the approval of more than nine-tenths of tho great army of Knight Templar excursionists, for the break In tho long Journey would be grateful and the time well occupied, while It would undoubtedly be one of the most effective advertising measures meas-ures for this city that could possibly happen. Are Good Investors. I Knights Templars are not only repre- j sentatlve men, but they are investors, t an a rule, and it would bo only neces- j Fnry for them to sec the advantages of this city to become interested in It ob a place for the profitable investment of capital. They arc accustomed to regarding re-garding Investments as very good which yield from 2 to 5 per cent, and when they are brought face to face with opportunities of making from C to 10 per cent without question, there Is no reason why there should not be something doing as a result of their visit to this most prosperous section of tho Great West. W. J. Halloran. who was chairman of the meeting, appointed on this commlt-; commlt-; tec Walter G. Tuttlc and B. A. M. Frolseth, who were authorized to name the third member of the commlttoe. They are expected to report at the next meeting upon the prospect of securing the twenty-four hours' stop-over for the Knights Templars, and also to present a plan for the entertainment of tho I laltors. Bureau of Information. ' Tho proposition to establish a perma nent bureau of information at some prominent location in the city was pre-I pre-I .sented In the form of a motion by Sec- n-tary A. Rlchter, and It mot with unanimous approval. This, it Is recog nized by all, Is something the city has long needed, and It Is believed that not ! only real cstato men, but business men In all lines will be only too Glad to aid In supporting such an Institution properly prop-erly managed. It is purposed by the Real Estate association to appoint an assistant secretary who will devote his entire time to this bureau, to bo located near one of the prominent Joint railroad rail-road ticket offices. The bureau will be well provided with literature descriptive descrip-tive of the city and State and their re- sources, and the secretary In charge I a111 be ready to give free to tourists all ! general Information which they may desire. The members of the association associa-tion aro enthusiastic over this project. I believing that it will bring to tho city oery year many thousands of dollars v.hlch would otherwlso be Invested elsewhere. Other Projects Suggested. Many other advertising schemcH were ij -suggested at yesterday's meeting, but ij nothing except the local information bureau was definitely decided upon, the jj consensus of opinion being that meas ures Involving the expenditure of the money realized from the Real Estate day celebration should be well consld-i consld-i cred and only the very best adopted. A- Rlchter. secretary-treasurer of the association, reported on the finances of the celebration, his report showing that C0.200 tickets had been sold and that the net sum realized from their salo ns J21G5.30. The meeting tendered a vote of thanks to Thomas Partridge, H who had charge of tho rnlo of tickets! and a committee, consisting of Walter P G. Tuttle, A. C. Sadler and Edgar S Darling, was appointed to draft a restv h lutlon thanking the public and the press 1) and the donora of gifts for their parts I In making Real Estate day the success i that It was. |