The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-07-02

the fair and lovely consort, your queen. O
hex the Second, and to the beautiful Queer
OF the court of New Orleans, fair censor
OF the crescent city, who has vouchsafet
30 lend her presence on this supreme oeca
sion, our warmth of welcome knows nc
bounds; your path shall be strewn with
flowers and our fair ladies will vie in doing
homage to so royal guest
Our people rejoice that in this halcyon
tlme OF Ogden's great growth and prosper
lty. you have deigned with your distin
gulshed company to visit the most favored
part OF your vast domain.
| we are far removed from the sunny lanG
OF southern fruits and flowers, in which
you long have held your royal court, re
splendent with grace and beauty and re
nowned for deeds of chivalry.
| Your glorious home by the sounding sea
OF our southern shore is famous in all
lands, and our people have long sought fol-
closer union of social ties and political
aims correspondent with the natural bonds,
Wntcil, IN commercial sense, combine the
renaseent south and the sturdy growing
west.
And now that his majesty. our noble
hex the Second, is about to establish his
seat OF empire here in this beautiful city.
let US hope that you of the great and glor-
1ouS south will be so entertained while
here that you will feel deep and abiding
pleasure prompting you to frequently re.
visit Ogden-the ''Gold Nuggetn city of
the Wasatch range
Cities are not great except as men NAV make
them;
Men are not great except they do ano dare
But cities, like men, have destinies that take
them.
That bear them on, not knowing why or
where"
Here we are, far away from the placid
waters Of the lakes and rivers of the south.
lar away from the rolling waves of the
rugged Atlantic coast, and many miles dis
tant frem the swelling deep of the mighty
Paclhc, interior in every respect, sur
rounded by lofty mountain ranges, vet sit
uated on the nations highway from sea to
sea-here in this favored land we find our
own beloved Ogden
We most graciously commend to YOUR
royal notice this beautiful, rich and fertile
valley, promising perennial blessings to It's
inhabitants and annually redeeming those
pledges. Our climate is also worthy of
your notice. Here, the warmth of summer
IS tempered in the verdant valleys by per
petual snow upon our mountain tops-that
mighty handiwork of our Great Creator,
the lmmovable masonry of nature rising
nigh above the foothills, above the timber
line, until their hoary creStS are bathed in
lofty regions of eternal snow-nature,s
barriers before the rude gales of the north
and the scorching winds of Arizona's
plains,
beneath yon rocky peak that hides
In clouds its snow-flecked crest;
Beneath these crimson crags abides
OSden-the orient of the vest
The busy hum of machinery the rolling
and rumbling of car wheels of MANY trunk
lines OF railroads centering here, our broad
streets filled with courteous and Intelligent
people, and the steady progress of our
commercial interests, will sufficiently as
sure you OF the wealth and Importance of
this part OF your mighty empire
10 slgnallze our appreciation of the honor
you have conferred upon US by this distin-
guished visit, and the selection of our be-
loved Ogden for your western capital, we
have prepared a huge pavilion in
which we trust it may please your royal
mghnesS to hold your court, and as part
OF the fete we will exhibit to YOU a grand.
terpsichorean spectacle in which the from
tier cowboys will trip the light fantastic
toe according to their native custom. Also
ON elite military ball will be given in which
our knights viii join with your vast retinue
in doing honor to their queenly ladies', and
in which all your court are invited to par
tiei pate.
We have also prepared lists in which all
noble Knights are summoned to vie in
joust and tourney bold before their lady's
gaze.
We have, your royal highness, sum-
moned out the wholeukingdom of noble
knights, those whose VOWS of chivalry con
strain and bid them attend your coming.
and conlured them by the memory of ali
heroic deeds OF ancient days that they emu
late those glorious n;en whose fame is
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