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Show SILT LAKE IS HOST TO UGUMKE PARTY Eight Hundred and Seventy Officers and Agents of Aetna Company Here. FIVE SPECIAL TRAINS Visitors, Many Accompanied Accom-panied by Families, Have Pleasant Visit. l-liht hundred and seventy officer find agents of tho Aetna Life Insurance company of Hartford, Conn., many of thorn accompanied by their wives and families, ramn to Kalt Lakfl City yesterday yes-terday afternoon in five solid special 1 rains. The visitors had a pleasant afternoon and evening here, taking auto rides about the city, visiting Saltair boach, dining and visiting. Tho five specials left at midnight for San Francisco, where the Aetna company will hold its annual convention at the Panama-Pa-cific exposition. Local representatives of the company find agents from various sections of tho west joined the party when it left, here, and will participate in the convention. Those who went from Salt Lake were: Wesley King, who held tho district agency here for tho Aetna company until un-til a few days ago, when he disposed of it to Ed H. Smith & Sons; Fred E. Smith of tho last named firm, and Charles C. Backes and Carl T. Freeze of the local agency force. Mr. King was accompanied by Mrs. King and Mrs. B. F. Groweg. Officials and Agents. The great excursion party of insurance insur-ance folks included the president and other high officials of the Aetna company com-pany right down the lino to agents and field men who in the past year have got new business to tho amount of 42000. In the year the new business amounted to more than $2,280,000, and the special jaunt to the world's fair is. fcy way of celebration of it. Heading the party were: Morgan G. Bulkley, president of the Aetna company; com-pany; Walter S. Faxon, first vice president; pres-ident; J. Sc.ofield Eowe. second vice .president; W. L. Mooney, agency supervisor super-visor and chairman of the general committee com-mittee in charge of tho excursion and convention; Daniel N. Gage, socretary; John M. Parker, secretary, and E. 0. Higgins, secretary, all of Hartford, Conn., the "home offifce. " All these officers wore accompanied "by their wives. Praises Salt Lake. "Our stop in Salt Lake City will be remeinberod as one of the pleasantest visits of the entire trip," said President Bulkley last night. "Salt Lake is a wonderful, beautiful, prosperous city. Her citizens should be proud of it.'r ' Fied E. Smith, whose firm has just taken over tho Aetna agency here, had not contemplated going to San Francisco Fran-cisco with the party, but last evening at the earnest invitation of the head officers of the company, he hastily packed his grip and, with Wesley King and his confreres, climbed aboard a special. About the two busiest men among the visitors were W. L. Mooney, the agency supervisor, and John M. Parker, secretary secre-tary of the accident and health department. depart-ment. Mr. Mooney had general charge of the exenrsion and Mr. Parker is "master of transportation." Mr. Mooney directed the work of assembling assem-bling the excursionists from tho agencies agen-cies in every part of the east, south and middle "west. And the excursion has been picking up members all through the west, as it did here. Great Excursion. This trip is said to be one of the greatest great-est ever attempted by a single organization, organiza-tion, and Mr. Mooney and Mr. Parker declared yesterday they were willing to testify it "was no slouch of a job to " en-gin en-gin eor' ' it. One special train started from Boston over the Boston ft Albany. One from 7w York over tho New York Central. Two, bringing assembled delegations from the south and central states, were made up over the Pennsylvania system. Ono originated in Chicago, bv wav of the Northwestern and Union Pacific. The five specials went to Denver over the Union Pacific, and from Colorado Springs came over tho Denver & Bio Grande to Salt Lake. The first special arrived here shortly after one o'clock in the afternoon. Three otheTs arrived short intervals apart, twit the last special was late, not reaching here until four o'clock. At Both Hotels. A local reception committee, of which Wesley King was chairman, greeted eaeh pedal as it arrived and directed tho excursionists up town. Both the Hot-el Utah and the Newhouse hotels were headquarters for the excursionists. The afternoon programme was varied. Some of the visitor? elected to make the trip to Saltair beach, a few of them having hav-ing the temerity to po in bathing:. Others gave the afternoon over to a Fightseeing auto trip through the citv, viiting the principal point? of interest. Beginning at 6 o'clock, dinner was pnrved to the visitors at the Utah and Xewhouse hntelp. Both hnstelries are running about capacity, with conferenco visitors, state fair rrowd?, commercial men and exposition tourists, but each had made special arrangements for handling a qnoto of the Aetna hostp. About ri0i dined at the Utah and nearly 400 at the Kewhouse. The magnificence and service of fifclt Lake's great hotels elicited much favorable comment from the visitors. Leave for Ogden. .After dinner the visitors occupied themselves as they chose until they elected to go to bed in their sleepers, parhi'd in the Denver & "Rio Grande yard?. Some . went to the theaters; others alked around the bus! nes streets. A great many gossiped in the hotel lobies. Hundreds of Salt Lake souvenir postcards were despatched to friends back east. At midnight th tardiest tar-diest insurance cliap was aboard and one by one the specials pulled out for Ogden where the Denver & Rio Grande turned them over to the Southern Pacific. The local commit tee which directed the entertainment of the excursionists included, beside those already mentioned, men-tioned, Charles L. Smith of the firm of Kd P. Smith fc Sons, John T. Brunn. manager of the Aetna department of the firm; F. J. Gustin, C. A. Gillette and Dean P. Bra; ton of the law firm of that name, and E. C. Kahn, C. 1". Moss. A. 8. Borne, 0. M. Oakley and A. X. McNeil of fhe Aetna's "life" agency here. The excursion represented nil the various , insurance branches of the Aetna '3 business. |
