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Show WOOLEN MILLS AT t PROVO inspected! Big Gathering of Utah Citizens Citi-zens Are Guests of the Management. Special to The Tribune. PUOVO. Jan. 7. The Knight Woolen mills' business men's excursion to Provo today was a success in every way. The special Salt Lake Route train of seven cars, in charge of Assistant General Freight and Passenger Agent .1. H. Man-derlield Man-derlield and Traveling Freight and Passenger Pas-senger Agent W. H. Iee. pulled into the .union stat ion at 12:1.) and was transferred trans-ferred to the Denver & Rio Grande-Hcoer i track at the intersection of Center and 1 Second West streets, where the visitors ! left the t ars and were welcomed by Manager T. L. Boone of the woolen mills and other representatives of the companv, com-panv, Mavor James E. Daniels. President .1. O. Deal of the Provo Commercial club, and other prominent citizens, together with the students of the Provo high school and the B. T. U. band, under the direction of Professor Robert Saner, playing play-ing welcoming airs. Governor Sory. President Joseph F. Smith and some of the other guests were taken direct to the mills in autos and were received bv President Jesse Knight, Thomas N. Tavlor. W. Lester Mangum, W. F. Vlolett and others of the directors and officials. The majority of the excursionists ex-cursionists marched east on Center street to the Knight block, north to First North street and west to the mills, preceded by the band. The guests were te.ken into the clothing manufacturing department, which had been transformed into a comfortable banquet ban-quet hall. Bishop Thomas XT. Taylor of the board of directors officiated as toastmaster at the banquet and welcomed the guests. He introduced Governor Spry as the first j speaker. The governor complimented the woolen mills' management on the idea of bringing bring-ing together the business men of the state, who by reason or rne viu .nu inspection in-spection would have a better idea of and talk more intelligently of the products of the mills than thev could by reading or being told about them. He also spoke in praise of the men at the bead of the mills for their efforts to keep them going. President Joseph F. Smith was introduced in-troduced as one of the biggest individual supporters of the mills in the state. President Smith spoke reminiscentiJy of his residence in Provo in 186S-3 and of being connected with borne industry enterprises all bis life, including the Provo Woolen mills (now the Knight Woolen mills). Toastmaster Taylor, in announcing tbe adiournment. stated that if every person in ' the state would buy to tbe amount of $1.2n worth of the goods of the mills annually it would be necessary to run to full "capacity. Following the luncheon, the visitors were taken through the mills in groups, with guides from the operating force. After the inspection, the visitors went to the Commercial club rooms, where a smoker and a musical programme, under the direction of Professor A. ". Lund, were provided for their entertainment. Accompanving the guests from Salt , Lake were Knight Starr Jordan, secrn-: secrn-: tarv and treasurer of the mills: O. C, Hunter. R. A. Barnev and George C. May of the mills' selling force. There were about 3-50 persons on the train. Of these, about 100 came from Ogden. under the guidance of Mayor A. W. Heywood and William Glasmann. About 250 were from Salt Lake. |