The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-21

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gressional party now visiting the city was
loaded into the big wagonette Utah and
accompanied by number of prominent
citizens, driven about town, being shown
the business part of the city, the view from
Prospect point and finally being driven to
Fort Douglas.
THE TABERNACLE CONCERT.
At 2:30 the party, augmented by prob
a. ly 2GO prominent citizens and their ladies
arrived at the tabernacle and at once
seated themselves in the cool of the capa-
cious building. 1t had been arranged that
the concert should consume an exact half
hour, but the listeners We're so charmed
that at their request three more
numbers were added and the pro-
gramme took 40 minutes to render.
The party were aStonished to find player
like Prof. Radcliffe in this corner of the
world, and sat in an awed silence
while the tones of the great instrument re
verberated through the building. Both
Miss Dean and Mrs. Pugsley aroused their
enthusiasm and the ladies have seldom
been in better voice. The Easton, Whitney,
Goddard and Spencer quartette sang
a new selection hardly so suited to their
voices as others of their repertory, but the
piece was well received. On request be-
ing sent up Mr. Easton favored the COM
pany with ''Then You'll Remember Me-"
and Mrs PugSley and Miss Dean sang
Stephens beautiful duett Consolation.
The delightful little concert concluded by
Radcliffe's rendering in exquisite style
angels Ever Bright and Fair"
TIE TRIP TO THE LAKE
At o'clock the party assembled az the
Utah s. Nevada depot and, boarding the
special train in waiting for them, they were
soon rolled across the valley 10 Garfield
Beach. In the party to the lake were
Representatives Burrows, Dorsey and
HAYDEN, General Brooke, General Golf,
Captain Herr and Mr. Heath-the city's
guests, and among those who accompanied
the party We're: Governor Thomas, Com
miSSiOnerS Robertson and Godfrey,
Delegate Dubois, of Idaho, Delegate
Game, Marshal Parsons, Judge Ander-
son and daughter, Aldermen McCor-
nick and Weber with their wives
and daughters, Aldermen Ritter,
Councillors Dooly, Roberts, Smith,
and Jeremy, Mayor Dusenberry of Provo,
c.. W. Penrose, Henry Dinwoodey, Mrs.
William Jennings, Mr.. and Mrs. Arthur
Brown. Postmaster Barratt, Major Hill
Recorder Wells, Mr.. and Mrs. John Clark
Judge Smith, Engineer Newell of the Geo
logical survey, Ers. J. E. Game, Miss
Hooper, Mr. and Mrs. James A. MOyle,
Selectinan Weller and daughters. County
Clerk Cutler aud wife, s. r. Fenton and
wife, ex-Alderrnan Patrick and wife, Frank
Hyde and family, and others.
ARRIVING AT TIE LAKE,
all were supplied with bathing suits and
were soon in the water Congressman
Burrows soon found himself fiat on his
back, the ripples playing with his toes.
The idea that he was not too fat to float
CO.. IN p1aOcn him ir,nr,orca1,r nd ba
tloated, and fioateG. and toatcd. He will
listen to nothing now UtSalt Lake. His
hobby up to yesterday was fresh water for
the reclamation of arid lands; his hobby
now in salt water for the reclamation OF
arid Tor otherwise) Congressman. He
wanted the party to promise to visit the
lake again at 5 o'clock this morning and
when told that he would have to wait until
after church he submitted with very poor
grace.
General Golf and Mr.. Hayden are both
good swimmers and they kept well out into
the deep water.
Mr.. Dorsey is ladies man i'll the water
as well as on dry land. No ladies' were
drowned within radius of thirty feet of
him yesterday.
General Brooke is an old hand at bathing
and has been in the lake many time be-
fore, but he never enjoyed it more than
yesterday.
Mr. Heath, the newspaper man, and
Captain Herr both had high time in the
brine
When all were through bathing, the train
drew up to the platform and brought the
party back to the city in good time.
In the evening the Congressman distri-
buted themselves among their friends, and
had good time generally.
A special train will be run over the Salt
Lake IL Fort Douglas road this morning
for the Congressional party and invited
citizens.
SOLID on WATER.
There were too many strings attached to
each one of the congressman all day yester-
day and all last evening to permit of any
formal interview with any of them. All
that could be learned from them had to be
caught in snatches here and there. Enough
was learned, however, from brief chats
with all of them to know that they are
nightly pleased with the west, Salt Lake
in particular, and that all the influence
they can WELD will be brought to bear in
Congress toward the solution of the water
storage and irrigation problem.
A question has been raised as to the con-
stitutionality of the appropriation of
money by Congress for such purposes as
the building of reservoirs etc, but there
is little doubt that this objection will be
successfully met on the start. Congress
man Burrows, IN little speech at Chey
enne, said that if government has the right
to turn water off of land it certainly has
the right to turn water on land. This was
a terse way of putting it and it is an argu-
ment that will tell. The redemption of land
from water is thing that has been done
by our government time and again without
its constitutionality being questioned; the
redemption of land by water should be &C
compished with equal facility.
All the congressman now in our city
favor a liberal expenditure of money by the
government for the purpose of redeeming
the arid lands of the west, and all will sin
cerely wish them success in whatever
measures they may bring before Congress
with this end in view.
Perfectly sure, perfectly pure, perfectly