The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-26
ALL TN THEIR HONOR.
The Old Boys Of ~ Are Crate
fully Remembered.
FURTHER NEWS FROM LOGAN.
South Cottonwood Makes a Good Showing
Boua;iful Does Well-TooeIe and
Other Places Heard FFcm.

pondence of The HERALD = The
booming of the ''old SOW" from
Temple hill at o'clock in the
morning woke tie city Of Logan to the day
for which she had been SO long preparing,
and TODD honor to which she mad sent out
cards to all tie neighboring villages and TO
the big cities in the southern plains. The
historic old cannon has ushered in many an
eventfu1 celebration in Utah, but Major
Ladd and Lieutenant Martin, who in olden
times used to give the orders that sent ner
roar reverberating through the streets of
lSalt Lake, never hauled her out on more
|auspicious occasion than that which has
transpired in Logan today. The invita-
tions were responded to freely and not only
Cache county, but Salt Lake and Ogden
sent up large populations to swell the cele
bration OF the territory's natal day.
Wednesday nights train from Ogden had
TO be split into two sections, and when
both, loaded out to the platforms, reached
Logan they met with a reception almost
dazzling in its character. The depot plat
form was crowded with people and the Lo-
gan band surrounded by cordons OF blaz-
ing torches. sounded a blast Of welcome
TO the Guitar and Mandolin club and the
drum corps in particular, and the corners
from the whole south in general.
THE ZIG FEATURE.
the parade and procession, began to move
at 3 O'clock TINS morning-not q second
elapsed after the time advertised before it
was in motion. We Salt LakerS who stood
in a sort Of admiring awe and saw it pro
coed through the decorated streets, could
not rcpress something Of a blush when we
thought of Salt Lakes $4,000 Fourth of
July celebration ana compared it with this
little trumpeted occasion, and saw how far
they eNcelled us in the beauty of many of
their designs. They advertised Indians,
and they had them, one OF the Strang
est, most novel and most interesting
spectacles possible to conceive of and one
that could not have been eXcelled for the
purpose of showing the wonderful advance
made by Utah since the pioneers entered
in 1874; the Indians, painted, creased, be-
decked with all the savage panoply of war,
rode with their tepees, ponies and squaWs
Just behind the elaborate cars represent
ing music, sculpture and painting-and no
sharper sonGrast could have been presented.
The whole procession was on the order Of
novelty, taste and beauty rather than of
extreme length. Some of our old time
celebrations in Salt Lake were wildly re-
called by the spectacles of the old men and
women pulling handcarts after them-sev-
eral of them actual survivors of the memo
inorable and fearful handcart emigration
There were pioneers, too, driving OK teams
and old covered wagons, on one of which
was painted the inscription, Council
Bluffs to Utah, 1S47.'' A most notable part
of the procession was the young ladies,
who, representing the arts, the musical so
ciety and the star-spangled banner "a cav
alcade of Logan belles-and Logan boasts
more bellies to the square inch than any
other city of her size in the
west - all on horseback and were
dressed in red, white and blue
looked most beautiful and won hearty plau-
dts along the entire course. The mandolin
club and the drum corps made notable
parts of the procession; the Logan Sales
mems club and the fire organizations also
doomed up splendidly, and lauqhable skit
was that of a mock king and queen, drawn
by donkey and labelled "Rocks ILL., The
mayor and city council were in the line,
and the business of Logan was fairly well
represented by Thatchers' mills,
6tudebaker and the Gardens, though
there were several large institutions not on
hand. When the procession ended the
crowd congregated
AT THE TABERNACLE,
where it seemed as if all of Cache county
had gathered to hear the exercises. The
, building was packed out to the large from
stairs, and ansoYerfow meeting was heli
on the grassy square, while a pleasing
tumult reigned all around it from passing
teams, refreshment vendors, toy horns auC
crying babies. The building was loaded witt
decorations outside and in, and handsome
arch which spanned the centre approach
was a beautiful study of bunting, stars
and stripes and appropriate inscriptions
Inside, the wall was hung with sentiments
and scraps of poetry lauding the deeds OF
the pioneers. The exercises lasted till after
~ o'clock and were listened to with in tense
enthusiasm, particularly the
GRAFTON OF HON. MOSES THATCHER,
thirty minutes speech which will surel,
rank among the first of all the eff
forts in the eloquent speakers life
1t was moving, soul stirring address
delivered in the ringing voice, and witt
all the magnetism and IRE which hav,
made MIR. Thatcher's efforts famous
was punctuated with rounds Of applause
and the excitement was thrillingly height
ened by the arrangement Of the artiller,
on the ouside, which at every outburst o
applause, pealed out a boom of thunde
that shook the building, and lent to tn
whole affair species of military an,
patriotic ferYor impossible fully TO describ
but wonderful to experience. The subjec
of the Grafton was one IL accord with tn
martial spirit Of the occasion. II was Tia
Pioneers, their origin, their struggles
their journey, the cause they representet
and the work they did, but 1t would b
impossible Tor a man Of Mr.. Thatcher
temperament, with his position and his i'm
passioned gifts, speaking on such a theme
not 10 advert TO the present position of hi
people. their prosecutions, their attitud
towards the parent government, uhei
hopes fer that government. their loyalty t
it and their answering belief in the divin
inspiration OF the founders of the constitu
ton. ''We viii suffer our wrongs a
Christians should,n said he. I'VE wi
teach our children if they are smitten o.
the right cheek to turn the left; if they bi
us walk a mile we will so with them twain
but we Will never, never ADM
that we are disioyal,n a sentimen
that set the great audience to pulsatin:
with enthusiasm. The whole address wa
one of rare historic interest and full of pa
thetic Incident. lie traced the exodus G
the Mormons from Nauvoo from the TIM
they received their percmptory notice L
leave and told that Nauvoo was nearly a
large as Logan, Providence, Hyrurl
Smithfield and Nellsville combined
Twenty thousand people were hidden t.
march, to leave their almost ripened crops
and 10 so the then unknown west; b
traced their wanderings, aud spoke pathe
tically of the seven babes that came int
the world in that desolate train, locke
in the embrace of snow, frosts and Ice
He spoke OF the influence of Brigham
Young on The people and compared the ef
fects OF his works 10 that left by Olive
Cromwell on The English people, an
finally concluding By bringing the saints I
their land of promise, and employing
beautiful figure in which he compared III
people of Utah TO Joseph, sold into oondag
by his brothers; the surrounding territoI
jes were named as the sons of Jacob, an
the speaker closed by saying that The tim
would come when Utah, the dispised an
cast of, would be found mightier tba
them all, when she would place the siive
In q cnnl, nr hl.,