Show COURTESY TO STRANGERS One of oC the tho unfailing characteristics of Salt Lake bake people i is their courtesy to strangers In rn an any other ather city such an event as conference would be the signal for fora a general policy of oC Insolence and of oC unfair dealing Hero tho the strangers are made mad as welcome as possible Whether a n man has anything t to sell or OP not not tho the visitors rs arc are with all courtesy courtes and antl probably not one man In In inn Ina a thousand thousand thou thou- sand encountered on an the street would take the slightest advantage of ot them Here is a a. little Illustration A man of near el eighty ht years came up from a distant caunt county He never gets to a n city excepting In conference time and he would be an easy mark for tar scamps If It the general sentiment of Chicago or St. St Louis in worlds world fair time for tor example were the sentiment of or our people Ho lie wanted tho the address of a man in Philadelphia and anCi had no idea how he could obtain it IL Some Sonic ono one suggested that the directory publishers would have a n. directory director 01 ot Philadelphia and ho was taken at some somo little inconvenience incon incon- to the resident to tho rooms of or R. R L. L Polk Co the publishers of or the Salt Lake Lalta city directory The Tho directory directory tory people listened patiently to the tho old mans man's story stor story story- I he could not ilot tell what he wanted without a n. tedious explanation and then they took down the tho Philadelphia city directory found the name and address In a moment wrote It out for the old man nan and sent ent him awa away happy happ Moro More than that the they sent him away amazed at the new thing he be had learned These Thee people could keep track of or an any man in the tho country Now the directory p publishers here in Salt Lake couldn't mal make o anything fr from J that old man He positively had nothing th they wanted nor will ho hu ever have He lie was nothing to the resident who directed him to the ono one place where his wants could be supplied From first to last It was the characteristic behavior of Salt Lake people toward the tho stranger within our gates gales And we weare weare are proud of or tho the men who exemplified It IL |