Laramie County WY Archives History .....Wyoming's Lady Governor Is Hostess To Chief Executives Of 30 States. July 23, 1926 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/wy/wyfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Laurie Shaffer gramgetz@aol.com April 26, 2007, 8:21 pm Chronicle Telegram, The (Elyria, Ohio) 23 Jul 1926 Wyoming's Lady Governor is Hostess To Chief Executives of 30 States. Cheyenne, Wyo. 23 Jul-It is now estimated by the general committee of arrangements that the chief executives of 30 states will attend the governor's conference which will be held in this city July 26-28, and that not less than 75 persons will be numbered among the official visitors. There will, of course, be many others, including representatives of the press of the land, who will accompany the to Cheyenne and witness proceedings here. Entertainment features will differ much from what has been provided in other cities where former conferences of governors have been held. Among other unique features of entertainment the famous Frontier Days festival will be on during the week of the conference, the great array of real rangeland performers, blanket Indians and trained soldiers of the army will give genuine portrayals of the Old West life that can be witnessed nowhere else on earth. Opens With Parade Sessions of the conference will be held in the State Capital building. The conference will open Monday morning, 26 Jul at 10:00 being preceded by a parade in which all the governors will participate, the flag of each executive being upon the automobile occupied by that official, so that the governor of each state may be readily identified. Monday evening there will be a reception for the governors with Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming at the head of the line. The New England governors will come from their home states to Cheyenne in a private car accompanied by their ladies and official associates. Governor Ralph O Brewster of Maine, chairman of the Conference, will head the party. Governor Ed Jackson of Indiana will come in his own private car, accompanied by a part of 11 persons. The New England governors and former Governor Cary A Hardee of Live Oak, Florida, secretary of the Conference are the first to arrive. Conference sessions will be held the morning of July 26, 27 and 28. Afternoon sessions will take place on the 26th and 27th. Wednesday, July 28 will be Governor's Day at the Frontier show all of the executives and their official associate and members of their families being guests of the Frontier committee at and during the performance. Visit Yellowstone Park At 11:00 the evening of Wednesday, 28 July, a special train furnished by the Union Pacific Chicago, Burlington & Quincy and the Colorado & Southern railroad companies, consisting of 10 or more cars, will depart from Cheyenne northward bound, carrying the governors and those who accompany them part way on the trip through Wyoming and to the eastern entrance of Wyoming's greatest wonderland, the Yellowstone National Park, within the boundaries of which the party will spend 3 days as guest of the state. Friday July 30, the part will proceed by automobile to Worland passing over and through the superb scenery of the Big horn Mountains on the way. At Worland the party will again entrain the special being there to meet them and convey them to Thermopolis where the famous hot springs will be visited and entertainment furnished by the citizens of the town. Saturday, July 31, will find the party leaving the train at Cody, the beautiful town established by Buffalo Bill and bearing his name where Yellowstone Park buses will be in waiting and all will be conveyed over the scenic highway to the Eastern entrance of the park, tarrying en route at Sylvan Pass for lunch. Accompanying the governors on the long trip will be high officials of the railroads over when the special train will pass. George Jones, general agent of the Colorado & Southern and Burling lines with headquarters at Cheyenne, will accompany the party and assist the general committee in looking after the welfare and pleasure of all members of the party. Among the members of the general committee who will go from Cheyenne and remain with the party throughout the journey will be James H. Walton, chairman; A. R. Faville, secretary of the committee and Wyoming commission of agriculture; Edward T. Lazear, president of the Cheyenne Camber of Commerce; Herbert Lacy, attorney at law, and others. Smith and Pinchot Coming Alfred E. Smith, governor of New York, will probably attract more attention throughout this section than any other executive attending the conference. Gifford Pinchot governor of Pennsylvania, who will also be in attendance, is well known in the West and will take a prominent part in the proceedings. Nellie Tayloe Ross Governor of Wyoming, who initiated the movement to bring the Governors' Conference here, will be second to none in popularity. She will be the hostess-in-chief during the conference. Speaking of the matter she said recently that she had invited the state executives to Wyoming "because I felt the importance of statesmen from every part of the country coming here that they might have a better understanding of the magnitude and grandeur of this western country and with the hope that the better understanding there might be sympathetic co-operation in dealing with the problems involving in the development of its boundless resources." Besides the chief executives of the states already named, the following governors have signified their intentions of attending the conference at Cheyenne; Adam J. Pothier of Rhode Island, John G. Winant of New Hampshire, John R. Trumbull of Connecticut, Ralph O. Brewster of Maine, Franklin S. Billings of Vermont. Theodore Christiansen of Minnesota, Charles C. Moore of Idaho, John Hammill of Iowa, Arthur G. Sorlie of North Dakota, Walter M. Pierce of Oregon, Carl Gunderson of South Dakota, Ed Jackson of Indiana, Adam McMullen of Nebraska, W. Martin of Florida, Clifford M. Walker of Georgia, George W. P. Hunt of Arizona, Henry Whitfield of Mississippi, J. E. Erickson of Montana, Arthur T. Hannott of New Mexico, Thomas G. Mcleod of South Carolina, George H. Dern of Utah, Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia. In addition to those named the following are expected to attend: Howard M. Gore of West Virginia, Henry J. Fuqua of Louisiana, M. E. Trapp of Oklahoma. Mrs. Ferguson Absent Mrs. M. A. Ferguson, governor of Texas, cannot be present at the conference, political exigencies requiring her presence at home. The Wyoming General Reception Committee for the Conference consists of US Senator Francis E. Warren, US Senator John B. Kendrick, Congressman Charles E. Winter Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross, Former governors John E. Osborne, Bryant B. Brooks and Robert D. Carey, Chief Justice Charles N. Potter, Associate Justices Fred H. Blume and Ralph Kimball, Secretary of State, Frank E. Lucas, State Treasurer, John M. Snyder, State Auditor, Vincent Carter, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, Mrs. Katherine A. Morton and Horace H. Albright, superintendent of the Yellowstone National Park. Each community through which the governors will pass while touring Wyoming has its own reception and entertainment committees. One of the interesting stops that the governors will make while traveling over Northern Wyoming by automobile will be at State Senator Frank O. Horton's Dude Ranch in Johnson County, where a typical repast will be served. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/wy/laramie/history/other/wyomings20gms.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/wyfiles/ File size: 7.9 Kb