The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-09-20
P. GREEN SEES THE FAIR
Along with the Tabernacle Choir and
Others.
he Was Not Buncoed-Incidents Along
the Route-The Various Places
of Interest Visited

nVe gallon grip with what few things
had remaining in my wardrobe and turn
me over to the buffetings and other hilar-
ious forms of eating which the tabernacle
choir INDUCED in on their trip to the
Worlds fair The fact that | had never
seen town where people stay up over
night in order to catch the breakfast
train, snd that people who see me in
variably try to steal me, added more OF
less to my mGter's uneasiness, and with
true motherly instinct she knew some
thing would happen.'' However, with
several admonitions to she good to your
self,' court plaster, needles, buttons,
soap, umbrella, overcoat, goloshes, and
pale yellow book entitled, 'sHow TO Eat
in Society Although Not Built That
Way, chased a street car until the
kind and indulgent car-starter noticed
was about ready to drop and stopped the
car while piled my traps aboard.
Arriving at the Union Pacific depot,
from which we were to embark, l found
that about four or five thou
sand people. having, heard was
going, had assembled to give three
cheers for me, and tiger.
u was certainly a grand sight and will
never be forgotten by those who saw me
graciously standing on the tail end of the
train SO that everybody could see me for
nothing, and all the time waving clean
handkerchief which l afterwards discov-
cred had large ventilator in it that the
Hlbernlan lady who manipalates our
laundry had omitted to mention. The
conductor then called me in, so that he
could all the more readily count me, as
he was working for the railway company
and had orders to count every body, poor
or rich
To one of my sensitive nature who
usually travels on pass, you can readily
imagine the pangs of pain | experienced
at being counted by coarse, unyielding
conductor who had recently assisted in
the festivities attendant upon reducing q
"hot box' on the engine and who still
smelled OF axle grease, and who viciously
punched my lovely pink ticket three (3)
times. Fancy how you would feel, gen
tie reader, to be ali alone in the world
with six holes in your ticket, for he
punched 1t double. then circulated my
self with great abandon throughout our
train distributing my celebrated smiles,
headache powders, etc., freely and vol
UNFAIRLY as we say when man pays his
pew rent.
will now step aside for a moment and
let the choir step in. Every body will
please hang on to their seats (his or henry
until the baud toots, and the horny
handed sons of toll to whom l have dis
tributed free tickets will please applaud
as l make my salaam.
There were over 400 persons at the train.
Two hundred and fifty of these were sing
ers, or otherwise musical, one of which
was not whom, occupying as / did the
broader and more congenial field of count-
ing the fragmentary and lacerated tickets
found in the ancient tin box with the
funnel-shaped opening which you Away
see at the door as you go into or up to the
show, dependent upon the circle OF soci-
ETY. il which you circulate.
The 400 who went along were not all
members of the society for the formation
of frigid manners known as the hdut ton,
but. were more or less miscellaneous
some of them being so lost to all sense of
the refined as to take along several things
to eat, consisting of canned fruit, chicken.
sponge cake, pie of various hues, the in
ternal arrangement of which was in some
cases very touching, and the upper crust
very decorative and elaborate. I saw a
revolving fireworks afterwards at the
World fair which called back the pie
the pie that never came. Hard boiled
eggs lot which took the census, finding
400 dozen of the most luscious variety on
board.) pickles and jam galore, not to
mention the various sandwiches, with
cases hand engraved and engine chased i,
invisible hinge, warranted not to wear
holes in the pocket, internal works with
patent pinion and quick and slow moving
wheels, which could be distinctly felt by
the eater after the eatee had given him a
chance to eaten it. Our baggage car be-
which was a block long, as soon as a
party or parties had finished breakfast,
a procession would begin to move up
through the aisle pronounced oil or iIe)
in order to get his or her lunch basket out
of the other 800 lunch baskets and get
back to seat number blank in time for
dinner. This naturally pleased the var
ious porters Of the cars, SO much so that
they would often lock the doors in
order that they might more gently min
gle with the throng that would soon ac-
cumulate at that particular door. And
after we had dined we supped, and be-
tween time we lunched and passed the
festive Joke and exchanged pie for cake,
one with the other. And the darkness
and the light was one day, and we reached
Denver.
Here was where the ssMormon Taber-
nacle choir-250 voices en- route for Chi
cago--To sing at the Worlds fair''-as
our banners extending the length of three
GIFTS TtdO-IEdUt lutIT ufSU great nit.
Beautiful Trinity church was packed
back to the doors, hundreds were turned
away, every inch of standing room was
occupied, and hundreds of nice people,
unable 10 gain admission, stood outside
around the building in order to hear the
music The applause and enthusiasm was
deafening. Everything was re-demanded
so that it was in fact double concert.
Compliments by the score were heaped
upon the members, who had little time to
hear them, for the orders were to hustle
back to the train, which must pull out at
once for Kansas City. Arriving with
out serious incident, the most impor-
tant being the getting out of our
four hundred tin cups to obtain tea,
coffee, milk and other refreshments at tho
lunch counters en- route. At various
stations Where the inhabitants of the
town had assembled ito see the Nor
mons,' the boys hustled together and
sang some Of their beautiful choruses,
delighting all who were fortunate enough
to hear them, and creating a friendly
feeling among all classes. AS for myself
| have made q uniform charge OF five
cents for each man who wished to 'ssee'
me, the other man paying for his own as
we blew off the froth in unison in the
key of A or 3. {Anheuser or BudWeiser.)
Arriving at Kansas City we were trans
ferred or loaned to another railroad COM
pany, who took US over to the historic
town of Independence, Jackson county,
Missouri. Here the young members
stood for the first time on the ground
from which their parents had been driven
in sickness, sorrow and death toward the
land of the setting sun, from whence
they had now proceeded in magnificent
Pullman coaches to gaze in peace upon
the scene of former sorrows. The emo
tions felt by President MILFORD Woodruff
as he passed the familiar points, who can
imagine.
Proceeding from the depot where the
people had provided hundreds of vehicles