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Show SALT LAKE ELKS I iOWESElf Antlered Brethren of Zion kx-'wi ranging an Excursion to Hawaiian Isles. W TRIP MAY BE MADE jik LATE INTIIE AUTUMNS Details Have Not All Been Arl ranged, hut Aro Now Beinir . Worked Out. b V: Salt Lako Elks and their friends will I in all probability make a trip to the wt' Hawaiian islands late this fall, or inl"2g iho early winter. For a long while iwj inombcrs of the antlered brethren in' Zion havo been figuring upon a trip o-4$ll I his kind, buf it i3 only recently that!!! that definite pians havo been dcciflcdUPP upon, and the details arc not yet cotn'Bp . Tho intent is to have two escursionBS in one; that is, to run one to Los Kxl--Wh gelos and San Francisco and from lhajlSK latter point to Honolulu. For scveraliffffiK years the Llks havo run excursions 'o'lftw Los Angeles, and so popular have tiiesofUfcTi becomo that tho field is to ho cn-Bw CJoinmittcos aro now at work on tlio'fB 2 details for tho ocean voyage. Tho in-'$B tout is to inako a flat rate from San"Br iraucisco to the islands, which will in-'Bx. cludo everything in tho v.-ny of trans-H portation and hotel while at Honolulu.! MY, Ihcro will bo a number of sido trips "4 to tho various islands, and for this a- I small additional faro will bo charged, i '-tr? Cost of Trip. .-; fey For the trip by rail tho round trip) from Salt Lake to Los Angeles will belt' $3i5. For the trip to return via San K " Francisco, $G additional will bo charged I'- -As to the round trip rato from SaoK1'. Francisco lo Honolulu, that has not yetf : 8?': ' been decided upou, in view that it isV & i proposed to make the rate includo ho-l r-tol r-tol whilo at tho crossroads of tho Pa- i ' cific. Tho Daily Pacific Commercial? P 1 Advertiser of March 2S, received hereof. Saturday, prints this story: i "Honolulu maj- just as" well got busy? and prcparo to reccivo a big herd o'fJ t- Elks next, wintor. for a Salt Lake Elkvr.' is down in Honolulu looking over thoiR. pastures and sizing up tho situation to) V mako a report on his return in about; Pi a month from now. Frank T. Collins' bd of Salt Lako City, an Elk. ajid a prom-.) M incut man of Zion, arrived hero last t woek on a pleasure trip and inciden-lf f. tally to invosligato tho prospects for. f a big excursion. ( " 'Tho Salt Lako Elks are a hunch of); ; mighty good follows,' said Mr. Col- '. t lins yesterday, 'and they lako trips hero'tea and there almost every year. Tho last f time, they went over to Los Angeles, ,JS5 about SOO people making tho trip. Nowjjfe?: they want to do something bigger andSgfS havo practically decided that a trip to'M?Z Honolulu will be just the thing. Il2sv " 'Thoro is a very largo matter aboutrag transportation lo and from tho islantoMKr; which will havo lo be solved first, hfijlK1 c ever. Wo want to ascertain whcthftP?) wo cau get accommodations for a biji . crowd on one of tho regular passenger y'ir boats, or whether wc will havo to cluir- fer tor a stcamor. Wc want lo know.; yV-whether yV-whether it will bo possiblo for us to) 'Mz get return transportation to tho coasts f' just when v.'c want to go. That is all r very important. 1$ ' 'Tho arranging of sido trips around'; I be islands. I find, will bo easy of ac-l complishmonf. I thiuk the Utah Elks! A,t .. and their friends who mako 1 his trip -i will be delighted. Several hundred; people will como if it is finally dcci54 f' to-go ahead with tho proposition. 1; " 'Honolulu has two very good friendfl V in Messrs. Calvin and Bancroft, iH J-d two railroad mou who were down hero jrUi recently, and Mr. Burloy. tho Oregon 71$. Short Lino ofiicinl who. I understand,' mft was hero a few years ngo.' , K. "Secrotary Wood of tho promotion' SMg committee is taking up the excursion' JVj mattor with Mr. Collins, and the local, 5B Elks of lodgo No. 1516 will be asked' to tako up tho matter of entertain-niciit entertain-niciit should tho excursion be decided upon.'7 JlP? Say Story Is True. W&h Prominent members of tho B. P. O. E-1yB in Salt Lako when soon Saturday stateaMW that tlfo story printed in the U.p'HK lulu paper was true, and that Mr. CoWMM lins had been delegated to look mtog tho matter. It was further slated lh:itSp. tho country as far east as DenvcrBPff might bo taken in for persons who" might desiro to mako tho voyage Itj is the- iutcnt to make it tho greatest, excursion ever taken in tho west, m fact it will bo au extraordinary one, in. that no fraternal organization has over,; ; attempted anything of the magnitude otj . this. Members of tho organization aroj confident that when tho plans aro conw pletcd and tho public advised that noK i, less than 1000 persons will avail tkem-j mbb selves of tho opportunity to visit tho;. midoccan possession of Lnclo Sam. J.no; ( timo necessary to make tho voyngo to. -tho islos'and return will be about! .Fo thirty days. $"&V |