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Show 00 WILL GO TO YELLOWSTONE PARK IN A SPECIAL TRAIN Salt Lake, June 15. With grips packed, papers, files, reports and the like ready for transportation back to Chicago, the memhors of the Transcontinental Trans-continental Passenger association completed their work in two short sessions held Wednesday and the work of tho convention Is over The visiting passenger oiien, their families fam-ilies and friends will spend Thursday Thurs-day sightseeing. Early Friday morning morn-ing they will leave Salt Lake on a trip to Yellowstone park, guests of the Oregon Short Line. So well did the general committee accomplish Its work that only a few hours In session ses-sion were necessary for the association associa-tion to dispose of all business matters mat-ters that had been docketed since the last meeting. Practically all the business before the association was concerning rates from the east to the coast and the coast to the east. Among the big meetings asking for rates the association considered the eleventh biennial session of the General Gen-eral Federation of Women's Clubs, to meet at San Francisco, June 12-18, 1912; the National Commercial Teachers' Teach-ers' Federation, Spokane, July, 1912: national convention of Women's Christian Chris-tian Temperance union, Portland, last two weeks In October, 1912; national encampment of the G. A. R., Los Angeles, some timo In 1912; National Electric Light association, Seattle, June, 1912; second World's Christian Citizenship conference somewhere on the coast In 1912; national convention of Letter Carriers' association, Los Angeles, some time in 1913; nineteenth nine-teenth National Irrigation congress, Chicago, December 5-9, 1911; general conference of tho Methodist Episcopal Episco-pal church, Minneapolis. May, 1912; annual convention of the Western Federation of Miners, Butte, July 17, 19il, and the National Association of Life Insurance Underwriters, Chicago, Chi-cago, October 9-12, J91l". These matters mat-ters wero referred to special committees, commit-tees, which In turn arc to report to tho head office and the report promulgated pro-mulgated by letters to the various passenger agents. None of the matters mat-ters receiving attention was discussed at any length by the members of the association, as consideration had been given them before tho meeting Wednesday. |