Salt Lake Telegram | 1904-12-29 | Page 8 | Evangelists of Trade to Dance

EVANGELISTS OF. ; TRADE TO DANCE SBSBSBBBSSBBBBBBBBBBBS The United Cojnmercial Travelers will give a grand ball Thursday night at their hall. Main and First South streets. A large attendance is expected, and several unique features will be introduced. in-troduced. ..The members of the local organization will participate in the grand march, each carrying a sample case with the name of his firm prominently promi-nently displayed. It is not generally known that there are not less than 350 commercial evangelists evan-gelists traveling out of Salt Lake City, either for local firms or outside -concerns having headquarters here. A majority of -this number is connected with the United Commercial Travelers, which is an organisation for mutual protection and benefit. The ball Thursday night will be under un-der the general direction of "Little Billy" Bil-ly" McAllister, who has been traveling in Utah for fifteen years, and knows every foot of soil in the inhabited portions por-tions of the State. His friends he numbers num-bers by the thousands.