OCR Text |
Show Coming Convention in Zion Now Gives Promise of Being Big Thing. " DJBXVER AND FRISCO MEN EXPECT TO COME IN FORCE Attendance, It Is Thought. Will Be Much Larger Than First Expected; The coming: convention of the hotel men of the Mississippi Valley-Rocky Mountain-Pacific coast regions, to be held hero January 11-12, will be vastly moro of a gathering than at first expected, if 'tho reports coming from Donvcr and San Francisco aro true. It had been supposed sup-posed that the meeting would bo attended attend-ed by only from twenty to fifty of tho hotel owners from tho various sections named, but word has now readied tho city that a party of hotel men from the Mississippi valley section have chartered a Pullman car and will arrive In this .city ovci tho Union Pacific and Oregon Short Lino either on tho evening of January Jan-uary 10, or on the morning of January 11. The car will bo crowded, the report says. At tho same time, word has also come from San Francisco that a Pullman carload car-load of hotel men from that section will head this way on January 0, and will arrive on January 11, shortly beforo noon. This will mean that tho meeting will be uttended by no Jess than 150 to 175 proprietors pro-prietors of hotels, provided the reporta aro conservative. Program Announced. President Samuel K. Dutton of tho Rocky Mountain Hotel Men's association has announced the program for tho convention, con-vention, but. as outlined In tho press dispatches. dis-patches. It la Incomplete-. One forenoon will bo occupied in a visit 10 Saltair, in order that the hotel men may see what there Is there to boast of. Ono evening will bo passed at ono of the local theaters, a morning will bo occupied In an uuto-niobllo uuto-niobllo trip about tho city, and the guests will also be treated to a banquet at tho Commercial club. An organ recital at the tabernacle by Prof. John J. McClel-lan McClel-lan has also been arrangod for, but It has not been decided upon what day this will be givon. The afternoons will bo passed In tho business sessions, which will bo hold at tho Commercial club. It has been decided to hold a meeting of the local hotel men at an earlier date than January 1. and this meeting will be held some afternoon between Christmas and New Years, tho exact date to be announced an-nounced later. At this meeting further plans for the entertainment of the.guest-s will be considered and tho matter of forming a local hotel men's association will also be discussed. Going After "Beats." One of the objects of tho convention, which has not been made public before, will be to try and secure better laws regarding re-garding what are known as hotel "beats." Tho laws-today are lax in tills respect, and when it is considered that tho hotel men suffer a combined loss every year of thousands of dollars from these individuals, indi-viduals, thcro can be but little wonder that the proprietors desire to protect themselves In ovcry-way possible. Resolutions will bo adopted asking tho legislatures of the various states represented rep-resented to onact laws vhlch will make this offense punishable by a long term of Imprisonment. Further than tills the convention will attempt to devise ways and means of Increasing tourist travel to the territory west of the Mississippi river, and to aid one another Iu securing conventions con-ventions for their cities. Other mattors of Importance will also be .considered, besides be-sides tho formality of organizing a triple association of the men from tho three sections of tho west. |