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Show Hi THAT OGDEN FROST, f Ogdcn does not yet seem disposed to think otherwise than that Salt Lake is the western Naz- ! a'reth; and that nothing good can ever come, out mm , of it.; This was shown in extenso on Wednes- ; day night, when the junction city was visited by Wm the members of the Manufacturers & Merchants Wm Association. .At Logan, and generally to the j northward, they were greeted with the blaring of trumpets and other evidences of approval, but f when they arrived at Ogden, they encountered , a most picturesque frost. i The Ogden officials were notified from Lo- ' gan that of the M. & M. excursionists about one ' hundred and seventy would arrive in time to ac- mm cept the hospitality of that patriotic city at the Weber Club, to the portierred environs of which they had been invited. ' When they arrived in Ogden, it was under- stood that there would be a march to the club and that a banquet would be served in that hos-pitablc hos-pitablc mansion. Apparently something went sadly askew with the plans, for when they ar-B ar-B rived there the only Ogdenites visible were a B peanut vendor and a policeman. Undismayed, B 1 the company assayed a visit to the Weber Club, B where the main event was to be pulled off. On B , their arrival there, without escort, they were mm treated to the luxurious spectacle of three or B ; four members of the club playing pool and B pinocle, none of whom deemed it necessary to B raise their eyes from the cards or the ivories B I when the visitors entered. Later a few mem- B bers of the club straggled in, but there was no B banquet, there were no welcoming speeches, and flf 'hen the whole mournful affair was over the B ! members of the Manufacturers & Merchants A- B sociation felt as if they had just encompassed a B trip over the ice-bound Yukon. B ' The idea of a Manufacturers & Merchants fl Association was of course a Salt Lake inspiration m but it seems peculiar that Ogden was unable to B forget its primordial prejudices long enough to B ! exlend a- welcome to that most industrious and 9 patriotic organization. The most ordinary cour- tesy would have demanded their reception by a cordial committee, however antagonistic Ogden might have felt toward any project which did not have its origin in the junction city. To make B provision for fifty people, demanding first the cost of the aforesaid, after having previously B been notified that one hundred and seventy would be present, is a very sad reflection upon the offi-B offi-B cials of Ogden and the directorate of the Weber ; Club. It leads people to believe that a certain western city has retrograded since the early wild H: western days when the lights which gleamed through the cabin windows of fifty years ago PB were an invitation and a benediction to any weary BH wayfarer. The Weber Club has merely belittled itself by its attitude toward an organization which the Weber Club should have been broad enough to jl realize was designed for the advancement of BP the entire state. If a modern tale of two cities mm were to be written with reference to the relative Bj hospitality and progressive spirit of Salt Lake Bj and Ogden, something might justly be said great- to the disparagement of the junction city. |