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Show FISHER HARRIS TALKSJF TRIP He Relates How He Secured Cou-vention Cou-vention of Credit Mou for Next Year. TRAVELING MEN ARE COMING HERE L 1909 He Waxes Eloquent in Praise of tlic Great Exposition at Jamestown. Piahcr Harris has returned from tho Cast brimming over witlv joy because of thc suoccas of his efforts to secure the annual convention of thc National Association of Credit Men for Salt -bake no.vf. vnny il.. 41 , x, J L,l promise given, Ibat the National Travelers' Protective association will hold its annual gathering gather-ing hero in 1909 coin'enHonrifa?Jo(1 ihc Crodit Men's' hul Ari Chicago and the Traveling Travel-ing Men's association at Norfolk Va He, turned loose that mixture if Vir" mjr 1oi Wluch he is just y famous uti both conventions, witt the Si that on captured the Credit Mei?bv storm ami was chosen for the J08 meeffi by unanimous vote, although PhfladJE Fn Thfi vOma'City bofh hod b2n in the field prior to t ictimo Mr Ilnr-ns Ilnr-ns uncorketi hiR flow of Engage. Ho Talks 5 a. m. o..f'e i:utQDi n,cn from the Mormon btHtc had to wait until 5 o'clock in i e,, inrrV""K t0 ,ndllrcss ih traveling v?8 dHiv,S.PCC?1,' S0lflmn,5' nssert ns delivered in the ennvnnfinn v,ni nufl not 111 a thirst parlor, where speeches at such an hour usually' delivered. He lost his voice trv L to &s"ad2 lh .invention to coif K il i hf ke"CA;t -vear and ho hasn't got tii . b.ncIc- -vet h a"y moans. Ire & for inn.!a ri100 but a ',rom-If.?..,. ',rom-If.?..,. I I Milwaukee opened hcad-orr;Jf hcad-orr;Jf tw? d.n-vs., before Mr. Harris tlm , .'wlonAf.d,StVb,,t?(1 tI,e I?rod"ct ur-M,1(1,c Milwaukee famous ad lib. . With characteristic modest v Mr. Harris Har-ris asserts that he bore but a humble part, in securing thc convention. He s.iys tho other Utah men who went Bast did more than he did, but when pressed, admitted that ho was thc onlv man who made a speech for .Utah betoro either convention. Tho other delegates to the l-rcclit Men a convention wore Arthur ParsouH .Herbert Van Dam, ,TrM and John Q- Cntchlow, all of Salt Lake, and Joseph , & Sijng f 0gden. The other dclogate to Norlolk was JL W. Ruth of bait Lake. Studies Publicity Methods. After his labors at Norfolk were over Mr. Harris visited New York, in company with his daughter, and spent a week studying publicity methods. nVun, convinced," suid Mr. Harris, that the best advertising auv city can get is not tho paid kind. 'Newspaper 'News-paper articles, descriptive of our climate cli-mate and scenery articles that do not bear the stamp of paid advertising are tho very best kind of publicity. Get the people here jpiiec, and wheu you get them here, and they sec .the country, the rest is casj'. Pit teen of the leading and largest business houses in Los Angeles An-geles were started by men who. when they went to the town, had not thc slig-htest idea of investing a dollar in the town, but who were attracted there by the eh mute. "What wc wan to do is to tell thc people of tho Enst.in the most attractive attract-ive wa yof our mountains, our valleys, our canyons and our climate. Get them interested in that. The bringing of these two conventions here will be of wonderful assistance in advertising Utah. The credit men are the representatives repre-sentatives of tho largest business firms and financial institutions of the country, coun-try, and their ernning horo will be of wonderful value to us. The traveling men are missionaries wherever they go, and they, too, will do us a world of food. " ' Praise for Exposition. As is becoming in a true son of old Virginia, Mr. Harris waxed eloquent on the subject of thc Jamestown Exposition. Ex-position. "It started with a thousand handicaps,'' handi-caps,'' he said, "'but it is tho greatest exposition in the history of America. In thirty days, when everything is completed, com-pleted, It will bs wonderiul beyond my powers of description. Tho Buildings are all of brick and aro premanent in thoir nature. The grounds aro a dream. "The best way to reach thc exposition exposi-tion is to take the boat down the Poto-mnc Poto-mnc from Washington Ono will ride all day between tho historic shores of Maryland and Virginia, and at night you "will glide in among thc warships of Uncle Sam's navy, and sec tho exposition ex-position lights ou ground rich in tradition tra-dition and story, and gaze upon one of the ivost beautiful sights in the world. "Utah day will bo October Jo. It is believed that there will bc a largo attendance, at-tendance, and that the pcoplo from this great Stato will have a memorable timo in the history of tho exposition. Wc want to paint a red streak across the exposition grounds." |