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Show I, flKT MiVSLS TO CONVENTION TO; . . hold awKNtt mmmi m iwt I OUT reOiOTM W MTOVMNT if : -; . . . i All Roads Now Lead to Zion As Center of Sentiment Which Urges the Visiting Visit-ing of American Sights Before Spending Spend-ing Money on Ruins of Europe. National Guard armory of the Commercial Com-mercial club- building by former Gov. Wells, president of the club. Gov. John C. Cutler will deliver the address of welcome In behalf of Utah. Other brief addresses in similar strain will follow and Gov. Chamberlain of Oregon will respond. He will also preside over the preliminary deliberations of the conference. con-ference. Statement of Plans. The election of permanent officers will be followed by a statement by Fisher Hams of the plans formulated by the committee as a basis for the action of the conference. Dr. Roland D. Grant of Vancouver, B. C an acknowledged authority on climate and scenery of America, will be a feature of the first day's proceedings. The business of the second and succeeding succeed-ing days cannot be predicated until the plan as modified has been made known, but it is certain that enough of relaxation relaxa-tion will be Interspersed to make the time pass pleasantly for the visitors. One feature will be a Tabernacle concert. I plans for which are now practically complete. com-plete. Friday night the banquet at the Commercial club will follow. Others Interested in Move. Among others who are in the city with the best interests of the move at heart are Washington Aldrlch. Chamber of Commerce, Denver; W. H. Tayloe. representative rep-resentative of the Southern Railway system, sys-tem, Washington, D. C. ; Henry Russell Wrar, secretary of the Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce; Hermann B. Kooser, generat Western freight and passenger pas-senger agent of the Missouri Pacific; W. F, R. Mills, secretary of the Denver Conventions league; Douglas White, editor edi-tor of "Arrowhead." the official magazine of the Salt Lake Route; J. J. Cahlll, Seattle; Seat-tle; T. W. Carroll, Chicago; W. H. Mylde, Washington. Others Coming Tonight. Those en route and to arrive tonight include in-clude MaJ. S. K. Hooper, general passenger passen-ger agent of the Denver & Rio Grande; Miss Josephine Anderson, delegate appointed ap-pointed by Gov. McDonald of Colorado to represent the State; D. C. MacWatters. general passenger agent of the allied Cripple Creek lines; and W. H. Emmons, advertising manager of the Colorado Midland. Mid-land. In, addition to those named who will take official action In the conference there are many strangers in the city who have come to Salt Lake to aid with their presence in making the convention as enthusiastic en-thusiastic a go as possible. - As in days of old when a bright star iteulded certain wise men of the East, o in the new days of this generation pertain wise ones are led by the star j - NJVestern empire to the new Zlon. . The object of these wise ones is to meet and devise ways and methods of ; persuading the people of the Western ' hemisphere to keep their money at ' home that has heretofore been spent in sightseeing in foreign countries. The first cohorts of these leaders from the various States of the West arrived this morning. Some of them came from the South, some from the meeting of the land and the water In the West, some from the North and J yet others from the eastern borders of the Rocky mountains. - -s In Letters of Light. : tw- All had one common objective the .... Commercial club, and on the outer walls of this building there hung a sign I that all read alike. It Is a beautiful 1 shield in red and blue, enchained with electric lights, below which Is written In big letters: "See Europe if you will, but see America first." Bo me of the First Comers. Early tn the morning the committee-room committee-room was filled with strangers, the first comers being L. G Monroe, secretary secre-tary of the Spokane Chamber of Commerce; Com-merce; Louis W. Pratt; secretary of the Tacoma Chamber of Commerce; Ellis J. Westlake, secretary of the Minneapolis Commercial club; Clarence E. Edwords, chief of the publicity bureau bu-reau of the California Promotion committee; com-mittee; John T. Burns, secretary of the Colorado State Commercial association, and many others. - To Formulate Plans. These latter " named gentlemen will A meet tonight in the Commercial club f,and the local committee will present to them the plans already formulated for discussion. These plans will be discussed and if there is need for modification, modi-fication, modification will be recommended recom-mended and made at once. - The local committee wants It understood that plans presented tonight are by .no means to be considered final. It is well understood that the product of the rriinds of many men who have given years of study to the promotion of publicity pub-licity may be better than the product of a few, particularly when the needs of so many widely separated sections " are to be considered. For this reason the visiting gentlemen have been requested re-quested at tonight's meeting to take off tlieir coats and unite in the effort to get ui a plan of procedure that will inure to tfce benefit of the greatest numDer con- -1 5. med. Whatever plans are agreed udton tonight will be taken to the full '" conference with the recommendation that they ; be wrought up to as nearly as possible.. v I Order of Business. k ' It Is also suggested that the visitors will, with the concurrence of the local I committee, map out the order of business busi-ness for the conference, which will be followed at subsequent meetings. : : The conference will be called to order at 10 o'clock Thursday morning in the |