The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-03
ORDER OF NEPTUNE.
King Rex Will Establish it in
Salt Lake.
THE PROGRAMME FOR SATURDAY.
Judge Powers Eloquent Inyitation-A Citi
zens' Mass Meeting this Morning
at II O'clock.

Rex l and Rex II are coming to Salt
Lake, and all their households are coming
with them.
They will arrive Saturday
Not only that, but all Ogden will accom-
pany them.
Great are Rex l and II, for their gracious
majesties are far-seeing monarchs, ever
mindful of the welfare of their loyal sub
aeots.
This is the way it happened:
The subjects of the two monarchs who
reside in Salt Lake city being DESTROYS of
gratifying their maiesties with sight of
the Gem of the Mountains visited
Ogden yesterday, and al the conclusion of
the cowboy parade, obtained an audience
with his majesty Rex H. Governor
Thomas and Messrs. rreweek, Block,
Powers, Mayor Scott, Simmons and Ste
Venson, were the ones who approached
the throne, when Governor Thomas was
introduced aud said:
Your Royal Highness: I appear before
you with committee representing your
maiesty's most faithful subjects residing in
Salt Lake city, the capital of the most fam
Gus province or your maiestys dominions.
we desire to PRESENT certain matters of
grave import to the welfare and happiness
of your most loyal subjects. We have
| selected citizen, by name Orlando w.
Powers, learned in the law, of excellent re-
pute and good appearance, and withal of
most pleasing speech, now filling the high
and exhalted position of Grand Herder- of
the Dolphins and Porpoises, who disport
| themselves in the waters found in This part
of your maiesty's doiainions, to place our
wishes before you in detail. Vouching for
his good behavior, l pray you to grant him
audience.
Judge Powers said
Your Gracious Majesty: Your most
loyal subjec s living by the shore sof the
Great Salt Sea, comprising more than fifty
Thousand .staunch and fearless hearts,
have deputed US to most humbly ask, that
you and J oar gracious queen, with your
royal retinue, guards, military escort and
the faithful subjects of our capital city,
will condescend TO partake of the hospital
ity of the province f Salt Lake.
! we are people who have followed the
! tridentsof Neptune. Our lives have been
spent amid the roaring surf of our inland
o. ,an. We have been mostly bred to
Aquatic feats and if it meets favor with
| your majesty, we petition that you will de-
clare the harbor or Salt Lake city to be the
principal port of entry OF your royal
kingdom and that you will select from
your most faithful subjects living among
US, a Lord High Admiral, to assume com
mand OF the Kings Royal Navy, and that
! you Will institute the Order of Neptune.
thus adding greater safeguards against
the invasion OF foreign foe by sea-
We ask also, that you enjoy our baths,
which are famed beyond your kingdom,
that you revel in the smiles of our mer-
maids, that you will sit at the banquet
board, beneath the shadows of our mar
Vicious temple and partake of the milk and
honey which with US, flows everywhere.
| Y on will ind the entrance 10 our city fair
er than the gates of Peri The river Jor-
dan, about whose name clusters the poetry
of religion, flows past the prolific sands and
nourlshes our bounteous crops. There pass
before the eyes of him who views our city
Forms such as Nature molds when she
With Fancysi pencil, and give birth to
things
Lovely beyond its fairest picturings.
Awhile they dance before him. then divide
Breaking. like rosy OUT S ut eventide
ArouLd The riCn pavilion of the sum-
The charm is such, the prospect so fair.
that to him VINO views there comes like a
spell upon the senses, a delicious, dream
like harmony, each note Of which adds a
downy link to the soft, invisible chain
which binds him to US. The sun, which
greets US with his regal smile, catches
from Ine ruby neart the gems bright color
and spreads it with kiss upon our emer
aid fields. And when evening comes the
breezes, cooled in many mountain dell.
breathe into our weary brains odors from
the tender Woodbine and the timid iassa-
mine buds.
You will feel as you glance about our
homes, upon our minarets andstowers, that
no prospect of the tlowery plains of Para
disc was ever lovelier Therefore we streW
flowers in your pathway and beseece you to
tarry for time within the walls of the
Queen City of the Great Salt Lake.
You will extend TO your most gracious
cousin, Rex. l., our loyal compliments and
our prayer that he will, with his ROYAL
household, JOIN you in your pilgrimage to
our city.
The lord high chancellor stated that his
majesty, was unable to make any reply AT
present, but subsequently, he informed
Governor Thomas that formal acceptance
would be rendered at midnight on Friday.
Until that time the kings mouth is sealed
but when he unmasks he is at liberty to
speak and there can be no doubt of his ac-
ceptance.
The kings and queens, together with the
retinue of the kings households, will leave
Ogden on the Union Pacific at s o'clocl,
Saturday morning arriving in Salt Lake at
9:15. With them will come the city coun-
Gil and other officials Of Ogden