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Show BOSTON'S "HOME WtEK?' Preliminary to asking Thk Republican Repub-lican to give him six columns of newspaper space, Frederic O. Serine, secretary of the iBoston "Old Home Week" committee says: "Do you know that we are getting more letters from your state enquiring about Boston's Bos-ton's Old-Home Week plana and programme pro-gramme than from any other state In the Union outside of New England?" Truth to tell, we didn't know it, and do not know It now; fact is, we doubt It cross our heart but If, perchance, Utah IS a topnotchcr in this letter writing business, we'll wager two suspender buttons and a Jointed fishing rod that these letters are not from former Bostonesc. In the first place only an occasional Bos ton Ian ever gets this far away from the scene of the original Tea Party, When he starts west the average migratory mig-ratory fossil from tho "nub of the Universe" usually stops at Rochester N. Y., and believes that ho is beyond tho palo of Civilization. If he should screw up his nervo and get as far as Buffalo It would be with tho feeling that ho was next door to the Congo atrocities. That no Bostonian ever reached lon Is attested In the fact that beans have no salo west of the Missouri river and that in Logan's million dollar library there has never yet been a call for either Browning or Keats. A few days ago a massive-domed massive-domed stranger at one of the city hotels was heard to pronounce it "eye-ther," but the Commercial Club committee sent to arrange a reception for the "distinguished visitor from Boston" were non-plussed at his denial of the allegation. He vehemently vehe-mently asserted that he had never trod the windings of "Boating's" streets and claimed, to be from Kalamazoo, Kala-mazoo, or Paducah, Ky. His "eye-trier" "eye-trier" was only the result of an accident acci-dent In which the prong of a pitchfork pitch-fork found Its way through' his palate. We venture the assertion that if Mr. Perlne of Boston will make an investigation in-vestigation he will find his letters of inquiry from Utah to be only from those who desire to see relatives at Jbllet, Hoboken, or Sing Sing, on reduced re-duced rates secured for the "Home-Week" "Home-Week" In Boston. The people of the west are on to the fact that the railroads rail-roads make the long haul cheaper than the short, hence the Inquiry In reference to Boston even though the traveler desires to go only to Denver. By the way, the date of Boston's "Old Home Week" is July 28 to August Au-gust 3, and during that time tho old town, will be painted a brilliant red. |