The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1885-06-14

where we're to be seen the United States
and Mexican coiors intertwined. Two
of the leading features of the Mexican
exhibit were their vast and rich mineral
, display, and their magnificent brass
band, the latter composed of seventy
uniform. This band associated with the
Mexican string band, have been untir-
ing in their labors to entertain the
throngs that have visited the Expo-
sition. Every day they were to be
heard either in the large music hall or
on the Pavilion under the oaks, and
well have their labors been appreciated,
for on Mexican Day, and every day
since there has been no end to the hon
ors bestowed upon them. Ex-Director
General Burke, one of the orators of
Mexico Day, in speaking of her people,
I said: Her music, whose sweet strains
have thrilled the hearts of the American
people, and the fame of which has
| travelled across the ocean, will linger
long in the memory of our people, and
the grateful recollections that flow from
its enjoyment will insure to the men,
bers of the band, and to its grand
master leader, lurking place in the
hearts of my countrymen.' This was
met with loud applause. The Times
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band in this wise: after a few min
nutes' pause, in the course of which the
great audience seated itself, the band
formed and burst at once into the
strains of Faust. The mighty audience
was hushed; each musician seemed to
throw his whole soul into the music,
and as the melodious strains, now
weird and even harsh, then
soft and wavering, then swelling
into a grand burst of harmony
and thanksgiving. reverberated in the
massive arches of the roof of the great
Music Hall, it seemed as though that
grand musical composition had never
been more feelingly interpreted. and
thatits Interpretation had never been
enjoyed by more appreciative audi
ence."
During the exercises of Mexico Day,
Colonel Moore lead Captain Encarna-
cion Payen, the leader of the band, to
the platform, and amid the shouts and
cheers of the assembled throng, and
after pronounclng him the greatest
musician who had set foot upon the soil
OF the United States, presented him
with the following: A morocco box,
which on being opened disclosed most
magnificent jeweled decoration; a
heavy vase of gold bore the inscription,
"Encarnacion Payen," beautifully en-
grayed upon it. From the bar depended |
a large link, formed of Grecian Tyre,
the arms thickly studded with dia-
monds; behind the Tyre were two
crossed flutes, while at the lower corner I
were the flags of Mexico and the United |
States gracefully draped and entwined.
From this link hung gold hexagon,
bearing on the face in relief work, the
American eagle, with the coat of arms
Of Louisiana and Mexico. Below, on
the eagle, was the inscription, Worlds
Industrial and Cotton Centennial Ex-
position" On the reverse was the in
scription of presentation and date. This
is only one of several jeweled presents
which he received, ard there was no
end to the floral offerings; in fact,
the flowers presented to ia
vorites on the rostrum were really
superior to the collection in Horti-
cultural Hall, which is somewhat
meagre for tropical display. Each of
the seventy-five members of the band,
also were the recipients of appropriate
jeweled and floral gifts.
Hon. J. r. G. Pitkin, in his Grafton
on Mexico said, "She has unveiled her
face to US, let our reach of arms respond
to the grand candor of her eyes. No
nation could have entered a worlds
tair with a prouder bearing and richer
largess from her academies, studios,
forests, fields and mines,
and in the person of commissioners
more distinguished for the zeal, culture
and gracious manners, that challenge
to share with Mexico a
destiny to which she offers such moral
and physical affluence, and
% see the two nations stand together,
two seeming bodies, but one heart
She summons US by her bountious dis
play, to discharge our American duty"
Another prominent orator said
How 1 rejoice that New Mexico has
oined hand in hand with the new
outh and that both will henceforward
axe their proper places before the
nations of the earth. We rejoice in the
of those grand plans of the
ons of Mexico, which will establish her
commercial and industrial
.Ieatness. and what future you and
re have before US. In relation to the
oming greatness of your country, to
he coming richness which must prevail
n the future, desire to say that, look
ng forward to that future upon which
Oulld the nope OF Lne crescent City
New Orleans) my section, and largely of
ny country, find Mexico bound up in
IS highest aspirations by links so strong
hat cannot ignore them"
DR.. P. Ornelas, one of the Mexican
rators, said that the great Exposition
7as but the object lesson. teaching the
ecessity of greater reciprocal inter
hange of commodities. of a closer
ocial intercourse, and more liberal
of ideas to be estab-
shed before the two great republics of
america act as one in the common
ause of their development. That the
ole object of the Mexican exhibition
Tas to show liberal effort on the part
{ her people to illustrate the potential
lentitude of her proverbial wealth and
1exhaustible resources. The cause of
er lack in the past has been due to the
ripping efforts of long series of civil
nd international wars, not due as sup
osed by some, to the natural quarrel
ONE disposition on the part of her
eople, but to causes that can be
earned from the pages Of history and
ne work before you to-day, has been
-rought by hands stolen from the
or in a short time of public
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