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Show RAILROAD MEN GIVE VAUDEVILLE SMOKER Opening Entertainment of Winter Series Seta Rapid Pace as One of Novelty and Pleasure. A smoker and a vaudeville enttsrtain-! enttsrtain-! ment in connection with the regular monthly buninosn mooting of the iSalt i Lake (Jity Trannportiition club last nihfc announced the open season for winter activities in the railroadrrs ' organization. or-ganization. It also set a pa;e that will : require considerable ingenuity on the part of the entertainment committee to i keep up during the remainder of the season. i It might have been the rain, or the ; lunch, or the entertainers or maybe i because it was the opening event of the season but something brought inO members and friends to the club rooms last night. Furthermore, they remained re-mained until long after the programme had been carried out. The lengthy stay probably was due to the rain, but anyway they stayed, which is somewhat some-what remarkable inasmuch as it was a stag affair. The committee was not hampered by time or trouble in arranging for the at- fair. They raked entertainers from the club membership, from the talent about town, aud then raided some of the Total cabarets aud vaudeville houses. And about the time all the performers the committee had arranged for had disappeared dis-appeared from the stage Manager Lrank Newman of Pantages theater appeared ap-peared with another striug. It was about the biggest affair yet pulled off at the Transportation club. .T. A. Peeves acted as master of ceremonies, cere-monies, and as a diversion introduced several speakers. The Rev. P. A. Simpkin of Salt Lake and F. B. CTioate of Denver, assistant general freight agent of the Union Pacific, gave interesting inter-esting talks on co-operation. In the middle of the programme time was called and the crowd was served with a buffet lunch. "W. J. Sloan of Salt Lake made the closing talk of the evening. |