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Show I Unique "Round flie World" Tour Fostered Ty FJowery Kingdom Newspaper. ENTERTAINED AT DINNER ! BY GOVERNOR CUTLER Fil'fj-Six Japanese or' Both-Sexes Both-Sexes in th.e Party;.FurfIier Itinerary. The "Asahi's Bound the World Party," the first of tho kind over given, consisting of fifty-six Japanese ladies and gentlemen, representing many of thc financial, educational, political, business and agricultural interests of the great "island nation," arrived in Salt bake 2Londay afternoon, visited the principal points of interest about tho citj attended a special organ concert con-cert given in the tabernacle, were entertained en-tertained by Governor Culler at the Commercial " club, listened to the musical mu-sical festival concert at the tabernacle, and looked in on the dance at tho armory and went their way toward the rising sun for the continuation of their circumnavigation of the globe, having oxperieucea something of the hospitality hospital-ity of the intcrmountnin city and learned something of the great Occi-. dental nation about which they had heard so much. Undertaking of Newspaper. The tour is conducted by the Ashahi Shimbun, one of tho leading newspapers of Tokio and Osaka, for a.. party of its readers, in order to show something of the world to the Japanese, and, as is stated in the description of the trip, "something of the Japanese to the world." The affair partakes in some measure of tho celebrated "Jules Verne trip of sixty days," excopt that tho present excursion will require ninety days in order to permit the people to sppnd several days in the different cities which thej' visit, and to see and be seen. The party includes bank presidents, importers, manufacturers, principals of schools, brokers, publishers, mining men, agriculturists, merchants. students, members of tho Tokio prefcctural as-sembl.v as-sembl.v and correspondents of tho Ashahi Shimbun. They reached Salt Lake Monday afternoon aft-ernoon and visited tho tabernacle. A special ogran recital was given for their benefit, by J. J. McClcllau, and the rest of the afternoon was occupied in viewing view-ing tho many' points of historical interest in-terest about the'eity. The notable part of their entertainment entertain-ment here w:i6 tho banquet given by the Governor, John C. Cutler, to the party at tho Commercial club. There were present, besides the party of fifty-six fifty-six Japanese. Governor and Mrs. John 0. Cutler, Mayor and Mrs. John IT. Bi-ansford, Mrs, W. W. Biter, Mrs. "Dr. Bower, Mr. Seno. a Japanese banker from Ogden; Adjutant-General Wedge-wood Wedge-wood and Col. Charles G. Plummcr of the Utah National guard; D. S. Spencer. Spen-cer. Samuel Hedges. Thomas B. Cutler and Frank Pierce. First Assistant Secretary Sec-retary of the Interior. Speeches Made. Speeches were made bv Governor Cutler, Cut-ler, Mr. Pierce, T. B. Cutler. Mr. Sugi-mura, Sugi-mura, literary oditor of the Tokio Ashahi Shimbun; Mr. Sugihara, speaker of the Tokio prefectural assembly, and by Mayor Bransford. Horace Fjnsign welcomed tho party in a speech in their native language, and led them in singing sing-ing the Japanese National Anthem. !Mr. Kumshima acted as interpreter and translated all of the speeches into both English and Japanese. Mr. Sugimura led a series of ringing "bnnza.is" for the United Stales, the State of Utah, Salt Lake City and the Governor. After a recoptiou which lasted noarly an hour, the- party visited the festival concert, and later the dance given at the armory arm-ory by the First battco' of the National guard. The party will leave Salt Lake Tuns-da' Tuns-da' afternoon and will visit Chicago, Niagara Falls, Boston. Washington, D. C. and New Vork; then, crossing Ihe Atlantic, will sco something of Fug-land, Fug-land, Germany, France and Bussia; crossing the latter county on the Trans-Siberian Trans-Siberian railroad. The tour will be not only tho first of its kiud ever made from Japan, but, considering the number num-ber in the party and the distance traveled, trav-eled, 20.725 miles, ouo of the croatost traveling undertakings ever made. |