The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-01
Inaugurated Last Evening by the
Manufacturers Bureau.
GOOD MUSIC AND SPEECHES.
AN IMMENSE CROWD AT THE CON
TINENTAL MARKET.
Governor West, Mayor Baskin, John
r.. Winder, George ROmney Jr.,
Harry CuImer and Judge Powers
Splendid Exhibit of Home Nam
ufactured ArticIes-More Coming.

The formal opening of the home in
dustry fair. which is to continue for
thirty days, took place last night under
the auspices of the Manufacturers Blu
reau and with ceremonies we'll suited
to an event of so much moment.
Grander or more heartstirring Specta-
Gle was never revealed than when at I
o'clock the doors of the Continental
Market were thrown open, and the ex-
hibits of more than a hundred booths,
the wares and manufactures of more
than 100 industries, came forth in 4
flood of light. Within was the pride Of
the present generation; the reliance of
prosperous posterity. Festooned with
myriads of flags, rejecting the thous-
and colors that radiated from steel ind
brass, from ware and fabric, from
marble Ind onyx, from iron and coal,
from oils and paints, from mineral
waters and extracts, the exhibit pre-
sented a scene more beWildering than
the kaleidoscope itself And how the
masses poured within when Held's band
began its patriotic discourses. BY
clock the vast interior was sitting
with one surging mass. The streams
came from every direction. The patri-
arch who first peered into the great
valley from the jaws of Emigraat cam
ample and patriotic manhood, was
there. The mother upon whose knee
has danced the children of three gener-
atoms was there, the mother of yester-
day was there. The generation of to-
day was there, the rising generation
was there. A fitting and imposing set
ting, indeed, in which to unyeil the
hundred statues of Utah industry. MOI
had any patriarch, any grandmother,
any father or any mother, no matter
how keen their vision, how alert theil
/ perception, any idea of the magnitude
! of Utah's industrial growth until ii
had been engrossed upon their minds
| by this matchless panorama of Utah s
industry. For noiselessly, almost i'm
perceptibly, had they risen from the
parched bosom of the desert.
| From the center of this splendid spec.
tacle rose a platform that was a work
of art itself. Upon it was poised {
square constructed entirely of onyx
an electric light of powerful ray, hung
within and revealing tints more prolific
than those of the rainbow. This haC
been contributed by the Mexican Onyx
company of Utah, and was built en-
this stand that Chairman Grant fin,
ally made his appearance ant
the final opening of the fail
begun. Governor West was introduced
amid tumultuous applause and in be
half of the territory extended his ap
proval, while Mayor Baskin expressed
the approval of the city over the well
fare of which he presides. The "officia
ceremonies over and the infant bap-
TIED in the presence of the multitude
that continued to increase, addresse:
were made by President John r. Win
! der, of the Deseret Agricultural anC
Manufacturing society, George Rom
| ney, jr., superintendent of the z. c. NJ
1. Shoe company, from which 72,00C
pairs of shoes are annually turned out
| H. l.. A. Gunner, whose enterprise anC
handicraft are visible in a score o
places in this territory, and Hon. o. W
Powers, than whom none more eloquent
| have lifted their voices in it's behalf
The oracular features of the opening
were concluded with timely remarks by