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Show CLUB IB HASTEN RATE F10 Bil Committees Plan ndit $100,000 Campaign uj ing This Week. Efforts to Be Concentre, on Collections and Cor. poralio!i Items. Decision was reached at 1!1C ot Ihe Commercial club v0mj.1v noon to cumpleto t lie lciwer'vairo!uJ; fund campaign for 100,000 in',.,'! wind drive during the reii.aimh'r of !j week. Lester D. p,suUt tho club, presided at (lie mectin., i first since he returned from ih,. coast. He said the drive had cM( over a longer period than ho b, necessary, and said lie nas amvin, that the full amount would dc irj. by Saturday. ' The committees making solin;a!i reported that while subscriptions i1; been pledged by many biiMiu-ss U)U; the lirot installment had not been received. These cnmuiitioo, , center their efforts on this it j work and total the subsciiptinnj j campaign list. Tho local branches of national c corns have not made their sul,s,-i i,tir-It i,tir-It was pointed out that tins ,f;,v , necessitated on account of the iaanat here being forced to take tin- mai' up with the main offices, most of are in the east. ) To Swell Subscriptions. ; Special committees appointed lo crease the subscriptions from tb hnns whosu original amounts v.cro adequate will make every cil'urt u, c; plete their work by iSaturdav. Jt reported that inatletpiate suljneripti. were made by a number of mm, v: declared upon a second interview t. they did not understand tho purr; of the fund. The total sulicripf will be paid in installments of lis. cent tier year until the full aiiio-has aiiio-has been received. 11. V. Prickctt told of the prof of the Utah Traffic bureau, wjiieh ; be the instrument through which " fund will bo expended, lie said bureau already had received an : cent reduction on dry goods, vl: amounts to approximately $30" a i load. He said securing a lov.er f will mean millions of dollars to -city in savings, and that California abio to secure goods from the cast costs much less than L'tah yay . Lower Rates Big Aid. Mr. Pricket t declared that 80-square 80-square miles would be thrown opei. L'tah business houses, and an a tional saving would be made on1-outgoing on1-outgoing freight shipments, since I furnishes large quantities of fre for shipment out of tho state. The freight adjustments dutermi on by the Traffic bureau, Mr. Prici said,' would be ifKili on every uiiniti-car uiiniti-car of iron or steel shipped front east into Salt Lake, SO cents on ct 11)0 pounds of first-class freight f the east to the city, and similar ductions on all commodity shipment' The rate schedules which have l determined upon by the service bill were presented to the western fro: traffic committees at Chicago, and, cording to Mr. Prickett, have retei the recommendations of the official) that committee. Complaint Filed. ! In order to eliminate the poi'iht of the east making too strong a i if the proposed rates were put : effect, Mr. Prickett said the In-service In-service bureaus are advised to tats question up with the interstate ( merco commission for adjudication, formal complaint has been filed and matter is now under way. The following special comrontees closing tiie work of the transporta fund 'campaign for $100,omi) were pointed yesterday by Mr. reed: - Corporations, estates and otner complete - details Charles TynZ, man; Prod W. Hornung, M H. boj H A. Schweikhart, Church I . a J. E. Jennings, C. A. Fans, -'. 11 berlain, E. A. Culbertson, Will b. -rell and .Tames W. Coiiins. , ; Committee on wholesale ccm CO.. James P. Casey and Luward l baum. ... Special miscellaneous commit ce B. Hampton, chairman: Pnil :.b Parlev P. Jenson, Edward f K, h, J. R. 'Bruir. John C. Jon. 0. t; P. Gardner and J. V- id |