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Show i KB IS flfEADV I for mmm I Expected That 8000 Delegates I Will Be in Attendance at Hi Convention. I ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETE FOR CROWDS OF VISITORS I Sheep Exhibition Will Be One I of Features of Gathering of j Flockmastcrs. H Special to Tho Tribune. OGDEN. Jan. f. Estimates as to the H j number of delegates who will attend tho HI j annuul convention of the National Wool-H Wool-H ; growers' association vary. Some say Hj there will be 5000 sheepmen and those Hi Interested In tho wool Industry here, and Hi somo say there will be 2R00. But. tak-H tak-H Ing Judgment from appearances this HI , evening. It Ib a safe prediction that HI i there will bo at least 3000. HI The convention will open at 10 o'clock Hi tomorrow forenoon. The ncsBlons will bo HI held In tho Ogdcn theater on Twcnty-H Twcnty-H fifth street. The house can scat 2000 H comfortably. It. Is probable that an ovor-Hj ovor-Hj flow meeting will be held, but definite H arrangements for this have not been H made, owing to the uncertainty as to the Hi number of wool men who will be here-H here-H City Gaily Decorated. H The city has been decorated for the HI occasion most profusely. Great Amerl- can lags are Hung from the high bulld- lngs. and an enormous number of vari- colored lights gives the streets a beau- tlful appearance tonight. Tho Utah j Light and Power company ban given the decorations committee authority to use all the current power necessary, and ft ih)1 committee has not been slow to take Hj advantage of this generosity. fl Tlc committee on decorations Is com- ( posed of F." A. Hurt, chairman; T. H. It Carr. J. S Carver, Joseph McFarland, (j J T. Hurst, C. D. Ives nnd Gus Wright. Bit' In addition to the decorations to bo 19 seen In the business section of Ogdcn, N a number of tlio handsomo residences. B for which this town Is noted, have swung 111V JIU1.1UJK11 tUIUIS Meeting tho Delegates. The reception commltteo Is the important im-portant committee In connection with the convention. This committee meets ov-i-ry Incoming train and escorts the delegates dele-gates to the various hotels, after taking tak-ing them to the headquarters In the Reed j liotel. The committee has divided Its J forces for the purpose of meeting ln- 3 coming trains. Under this arrangement 3 tho following holds good: 1 To meet each train from 12:55 p. m. . until U 30 p. m. Hyrum McFarland, chairman; .1. G Itcad. Charles Zclmer. iS John Spiers, W. G. Wilson. E. J. Mc- I ! Karland. G. S. Marshall. Charles Schmaltz, I A. G. Fell nnd Angus T. Wright. To meet each train from 7 a. in. until 12-05 p. m. Carl Allison, chairman; J. W. F. Volker. Joe Strong. I.. II. Bc-craft, Bc-craft, John Pingrec, Dr. II. M. Howe, H. P. Crltcblow. F. M. Drlggs, Jd. S. Brown-, lug, C. S. Potter and Judge J. A. IIow-( IIow-( ell. To meet each train after midnight and until early morning T. J. Kcogh, chnlr-1 chnlr-1 man; Joo Thomas. Joe Strong, ex -Mayor h A. I a. Brewer. L. II. Becraft, J. C, Itlch- j nrds and Hugh C. Wood. High School Cadets Help. Under the command of Captain Kncass, the I Ugh School Cadets are rendering i valuable service In receiving tho strang ers in the city. The cadets know avory part of the eltyt and thoy have been armed with lists of places where accommodations ac-commodations may be had. To those the visitors are escorted. There Is music here Iri plenty. At j lenst three bands have been engaged. t nnd they have done their part toward I showing the woolglowers that the town Js glad to have them. The Elks' club Is keeping open house, and so is tho Weber club. There arc many Masons among tho visitors, nnd they, with their friends, will be taken care of by tho 'Masonic lodgo here after 1 the regular meeting of the lodge at u smoker. At the Shoop Exhibition. I Tomorrow and throughout tho mooting I there will be one place that will claim j the presence of thousands. This will H be the midwinter sheep show, held In i connection with the association conven- ; tlon. Tho show will be held on Grant ) avenue. Already hundreds of prize sheep are hero. Some of these animals are j really funny. There Is ono breed, In particular, called the Tunis sheep, that has a back as broad as a cellar door and walks with the: easy graco of a i hippopotamus on land. It Is said of I this cheep that when he can't get any thing to eat naturally he lives on the excess of accumulated fat on his IuuuiiciicH. uuuguiK rum jiih appearance he ought, to do right well on that, for there Is plenty of fat there. The exhlbl-i exhlbl-i tlon is In charge of a committee, of which F. W. Ucrrlngton Is chairman. Tho Wyoming state Hocks have some ! of the finest stock In Its collection. In- i eluded In this lot arc specimens of these ntralns: Fat Rump Persian. Tunis, Kerry Ker-ry Hill. Cheviot, Black-Faced Highland. Dorset. Southdown. Shropshire, Hampshire. Hamp-shire. Oxford. Cotawold, Romney Marsh, Lincoln nnd Leicester breeds. Handsome Badgos Worn. Handsome badges with appropriate in-i in-i scrlptlon are furnished the delegates on 11 their arrival at tho Rood hotel. The en- V velopo In which the badges aro con- tnlned has also within It a copy of the I official programme. This programme i gives complete Information about tho convention and who the "big" speakers I about. Owing to the fact that a numbor of the trains are belated on account of the storms, the arrival of visitors has not been so prompt as the schedules called for. Tho railroads, however, aro doing everything In their power to bring tho Hhoepmon hero as soon n3 they possibly can. The big Wyoming and Colorado delegations dele-gations arrived here late this afternoon. The president of the association, F. H. Gooding of Idaho, formerly governor of that state, Is hero ready to sound "tho alarm" tomorrow morning. Special From Omaha. A special train will bring a big dole-gatton dole-gatton from Omaha over the Union Pacific. Pa-cific. This delegation will stop :it Cheyenne, Chey-enne, whero thoy will he Joined by othor woo!gTt)worH from that state, Tho Omaha men are coming with a movlns-plcturc outfit. Before thoy left South Omaha, the greatest range sheep mnrket In the world, perhaps, they took a number of films. These will be "enrolled" at Chey-enm- "or tho entertainment of the Wyo-omlng Wyo-omlng sheep people, nnd also will be shnun In Ogden. The party that left Omaha Included: J. A. Shoemaker of the Union Stock Yard company; Frank Strykcr, secretary of tho Union Stock Yards company; J. M. Guild, commissioner of the Omaha Commercial club; Charles H. King of the Omaha Wool Storagu company; Scott Kcnworth and J. L. Poxton of the Pax-ton-KckornVin Commission company: "Billy" Farnir nf Wood Brothers Com-mlyhlon Com-mlyhlon company: Nut C Houston of the Great Western Commission company; M. C. Wllkcrson, Smith Brothers Commission Commis-sion company; C H. VnnAIstlne of the Grand Island Stock Yards company; Ralph Jennings of the Fremont Stock Yards company; Georgo Brockelhy of tho W J. Perry company: Gene Mnlady of Thuet Brothers & Mclady; "Kid" Kytc of tho National Commission company; John Smith of W. R. Smith & Son: Bruce McCullough of the South Omaha Jourrial-Stockman: Jourrial-Stockman: W. R. Hcott. photographer, and "Doc" Strykcr no a guest. |