The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-02-09
The Peoples Parade
Last Night!
A BLAZE OF GLORY +!
Biggest and Best Display Ever
Made in Salt Lake.
HOW THE NOTICES CAUGHT ON.
Inc BUSINESS Houses of the People are Beautf.
fully Decorated-The Red Fire Burned
Last Night.

AuoU NlSub.
c by the mum Of myriad voices and II
ueXterous work of nimble fingers tbs
N were heard and seen on every cid
S. yesterday, it was evident that some
tnlng was going to happen. And if di
re e happen. Dld you see it. Did you witnes
the blaze of glory and give ear to III
W SHOUTS OF the hosts that mad
e Tue earth, air and SKY resoun6
Ii Ii you did, then don't read this fo
O. words are but feeble things in describin
t. such scene. If you did not, then yo,
, nave missed the spectacle of a lifetime
LOU must know that last NIGH
/ was the grand finale drill of the Peonle,
}; party preparatory to the great battle to
Il morrow And proudly, gloriously was i
executed. 1t is safe to say that lonr .,
e nave stood the Rocky mountains and 4o st
/ aS Is the domain they cover. never in ai
= Ineir everlasting history or within tbe,r
cohnnes mas been witnessed such an a1vfn1
S ye1 harmonious combination of sight and
t SUI DIS was seen last night in our beanti.
rul Guy; Long before the hour for the
pardoe tne streets were thronged with neo-
PIE. Mothers, daughters, sisters. fathers
, une ola' the young, the feeble, the gay-all
naasseu 70 the heart of the city to view the
Scene. Moving on the Sidewalk, on
IAN sIreet was entirely out of the
question. In order to change one,s nosition
~ was necessary to take the middle
1vor NE -t sUreet and then elbow your
way through the great crowd, on every
que was such mass of humanity. RIM
On the side streets showed a sea OF torches
Long INES of men, dozens of bands and
cLuos We're waving their lights. rattlin,
unelr drums and fairly rending the rwith
i, nuSIG ana shouting, each waiting to fall
+ba s -ine AZ ana near THE HERALD corner
t sne scene was stirring. The Ogden brass
pana, by the way one of the best. if NOT the
leaulng band of the territory die
coufsed Its liveliest strains. while drnn,
corps, clubs and bands innumerahia
cheered vociferously, and the echoine |
SHOUTS resounded far down the long lines |
~ az aoout 5nls time the Examinations be. |
figb+o " :; haMe. Glowing bonfires were
!ignIed In many parts. From the tons of
the ioIIest buildings flaming red filed the
sAy. On the Flagstaff of THE HER.In
oCIulng huge anchor about seven foot
VIDE and ten feet high, Illuminated with
lIncendescent light, made brilliant show
Ga tne Top OF the temple, one hundred and
a -, ~ leet ABOVE the ground, red fire blazed
d aiN conIlnued during the whole evening
Ilgntlng up the tops of the neiehhoI.ipSo,
t 1hulio1ngs. From the Godbe Pitts building
ene Deseret national bank and seVersi
o1hers the same might be seen.
a lew minutes past o'clock the narade
Started 81 from Capitol hill down Main street '
-, - was only with great effort that the ad
Nahced guard made room for the marcbers
Down the hill they came like a gIitterine, c
,,n,'.,, anu as company after company
poured into the ranks it looked from below
DIS 6hough the mountain itself was onenino
TO emit the armies oAins |
Acf
AS they marched down the street in solid 7
.n,.a Cne tens OF thousands of specta
many OF the business buildings 1vera ;Ii,i t
nlnaued and decorated most mapni ficen+1I
Ino parade was made the great centre If
iUOI sccI IONS ana nothing was done to de- b
.ract from its splendor After the aS.
.ance guard came the Ogden Brass band
onoWeQ by the city guards, with Lien :"
'onane Dung In advance. This gallant !.
company of cavalry made a strikina AM a
'earance and received many cheers +
YOU'D De useless to attempt to mention The l.
!, oh panies, clubs and bands, or to enumerate
ne many notices, transparencies. hanners he
:ags ana emblems that glittered in the H
mes; Suffice 1t to say that all the ssbovs,, til
Larcneo with STEADY tramp and ringing
o,., ano III such compact and precise fiji
!, ornn as 10 contrast most strangely with
ne Friday nights march. A few of the bo
lost strlklng features of the parade we NO NJ
VII mention. The same beautiful hammers ~ ~
'hlcn nave already been described on ~
previous occasion were carried last ho
lgnt ana need no further mention. Sew, W
raj Vi Inc clubs have donped new uni
orms since they were out last. and tho, De
IL marched better than eva rnb hot sney las
rant Brothers big wagon ssUtah. !, fes.
ooned with the national colors. Iiohted ad
,lth Chinese lanterns and containing fortu
lusnIng beauties, all arrayed in tasteful sig
lu EXQUISITE dress, took the spectators bv
.orm. ms car was seconded by TWENTY err
w rosy damsels in Grant Brothers
rye oand wagon, which was also annro- ~
rlately decorated and Illuminated In Ina Ina
e early part of the procession a band of ~, no
Dung Utahs' were cozily ensconced H nna
d large park phaton hauled by 90,
ecker, Doard team, and marched noblv va;
9ng. They had some thirty or forty W. Ti
nars worth OF fireworks aboard and i Ino
ere occasionally discharging them. R,5
men near the clock corner. on the down. i'o
ard march, some one inadyertentlv fired
20 1helr wagon and lgnited the stock of
Wder, bombs, rockets, candles. etc. and
an instant the whole wagon was ahlaze
sound as of heavy guns doomed forth The
panic was at once inaugurated. The
oWd screeched and fed the bows
emoeu ano scampered, the four frothing L
argers reared and snorted frantic. day
y, put the plucky driver. cool :,
calm held with an iron grip 70 his lineS
Tile beneath and around him the homhs' Gus
rsted, the fire flashed, uand behind him teri
whole bed and top of the wagon was a civ,
icklng hamy mass. 1t looked as thouob ,
driver was buried in the fire. and there "a
S no escape. In this condition thevagon Onl
S pulled about fifteen rods. when finslI,, div
lew men braved the danger and for
ishI the horses by the bits, and has
Is released the driver from his spol
1lous position. When all was safe he and
, oo"n, ana heiped to unhitch the team. shol
cle IRE was finally eXtinguished. The fere
ne Oh This plucky man is John Harmon. Mr..
ne deserves not only the praises that to
e snoWered upon him last night, but bein
l, we uouot NOS, be rewarded In q sub be a
lC,ai wa. The procession marched to higf
!, oouGh an0 counter marched TO Capi- | all
nili, ana al ter circiing Ill this line for a wor
e .line AFTER the course had been com part
ga halt was called and all facing Wht
ard, thousands Of candles, rockets and T. j
81 liiuminators were discharged stimuli ratio
sously, and with roaring yells, thun- piac
'us beating of drums, blowing of horns and
various other extraordinary demon pens
lions the great parade was at an end. gest
scene at this time was indiscribable an al
ocean OF fire was all that could be post
/. =, Buildings were hid in the smoke whe
the city trembled with the tumult Piles
/, as the last sound died away, the peo- roy
went to their homes with renewed cane
OF victory. %
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