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Show ME BAIIAli 10 SEEJHE FLEET Meeting Held at the Commercial Club to Sound Sentiment on the Matter. COST OF TRIP ESTIMATED TO APPROXIMATE $12,000 I Committee of Ten Named to Investigate In-vestigate Financial Side of the Matter. A number of citizens interested iu sending the Salt Lake high school battalion bat-talion of cadets to San Francisco to see Admiral Evans's ileet, met Sunday" Sun-day" ovening with'reprcsentatives of the press at ihe Commercial club. Tho meeting was held for the purpose of considering the advisability and the feasibility of such an undertaking, and to discover, the attitude of the Salt Lake newspapers concerning the matter. mat-ter. Mnyor John S. Brausford was elected chairman of the meeting, and Fisher Earns acted as secretary. General E. A. Wedgwood, of the jN'. G. U.. was the first .speaker and lie told of the excellent ex-cellent condition of tho cadet, organization. organiza-tion. 'Tic said emphatically that it, was the best thing Salt Lake could possiblv do to show its appreciation of Admiral j hvans, who was appointed a naval cadet ca-det from Utah. Thero is no doubt, whatever, said General Wedgwood, .that, tho boys would be perfectly safe and ! would do justice to themselves and to Salt Lake. City. Colonel C. G. Plumnicr heartily indorsed what General Wedgwood Wedg-wood said, and declared for his part that he was anxious to do all within his power to aid such a cause, ft would be a splendid stroke to bring Salt Lake and Utnh to the front. CapS. W. C. Webb, commander of (he high school battalion of cadets, stated that the organization was in fit shape to undertake such a trip and that all necessary equipment for the purposes of the trip could be obtained from the i Utah National guard. He nlso said that pf the ? 12,000 rccpiircd to take the boys to San Francisco and back, at least $oo00 could be raised in the battalion. bat-talion. Professor George A. Eaton, principal ot the high school, spoke along the same lines as Captain Webb and also explained ex-plained the good that, the drill was doing do-ing the boys both mentally and pbvsi-cally, pbvsi-cally, and said the board of education was also in favor of the undertaking. Others speakers were D. A. Callahan, General Sam Park. Dr. G. R. Pfotitz, B. F. Redman, William Nelson and Fisher Fish-er Harris. Dr. Pfoutz stated that he had seen Messrs. Bancroft and ISurlev concerning con-cerning railroad rates and thev had spoken very favorably, but as yet no conclusion had been reached. .The newspapermen present stated that their papers would do all in their power to promote' the undertaking. The following contmitee of teu was appointed to investigate the financial side of (ho matter and to report the same at a meeting to be held at the Commercial club noxt Wednesday evening: even-ing: Mayor John S. Bransford, General Gen-eral E. A. Wedgwood, Dr. C. G. Plum-mer, Plum-mer, Captain W. C. Webb, Professor George A. Eaton, General Sain Park, Dr. G. P. Pfoutz. D. A. Callahan, B. F. Redman and Fisher Harris. Professor Profes-sor Eatou was authorized to invite the members of the board of education to attend (.he meeting to be held next Wcdnesdaj-. |