The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-05-07
MIDSUMMER FESTIVAL
"a Hearty Welcome to All the
World
PUBLIC MEETING TONIGHT
ALL WHO ARE INTERESTED URGED
TO BE PRESENT.
Some of the Features That Those in
Charge Are Planning to Present.
cts a Good Thing, Push it Along

The proposed midsummer festival is
rapidly becoming an assured fact and
it ought to be. 1t deserves the hearty
interest and support of every public
spirited citizen of Salt Lake and of
Utah. No more important enterprise
for both city and state is now in con-
temptation; and, in the hands of such
men as Governor Wells, r. c. Cham
bers. P II. Lannan, John @. Cannon,
George NJ. Scott, H. F. McGarvie, w.
P. Jennings, John c. Cutler, 7. G.
Webber, Walker Brothers, President
Fred Auerbach of the chamber of COM
merce, w. e. Hubbard, and their as
sociates. it must sueceed-and succeed
gloriously In the bright lexicon of
Utah there is no such word as fall
The I'd, Cd and 4th of July are to be
the great festival days. There will be
a Pioneers Day. to show the world
that three score years and ten are
but the heyGay CT youth in Utah; and
a Children's Day. when --Ctah's Best
Crop" in holiday attire, will disport
itself by thousands in all the bravery OF
infantile bloom and beauty.
The GLORIOUS Fourth will be Ma
tional Day; ard never has Columbia's
proud pet eagle screamed louder, or
more exuDtantly and joyously, than he
or she-will at this first Independence
Day celebration of Utah as a state,
sovereign commonwealth of the Amerl-
can union.
There viii be grand parades of
United States troops, and of Utah's gal
liant national guards. There will be
gorgeous carnival floats, representing
wonderful scenes in Utah history,
where all history seems a dazzle OF
widest romance. There will be, of
course, a king and queen CT the revels,
TO whom the keys Of the city will be
surrendered by the mayor and the
council There will be Examinations
and torchlight professions, firing OF
cannon in salutes. flowers, feasting and
fun.
The nights shall be filled with
music, and the cares that infest the
humdrum day shall fold their tents
like the Arabs, and as silently steal
away" All the world will be welcome,
very door will be open. or every
latch string on the outside and the
watchwords will be .+On with the
dance Let joy be unconfined!a
The railroads will make such rates
as have rarely. if ever, been made in
this country before. Coming in
parlor car will be cheaper than walk
ing. 1t will be at the height of the
tourist season. Thousands and tens of
thousands will be here from all over
Utah, Colorado, Idaho, Wyoming and
Montana, and many from regions still
farther away; and they viii all be
richly repaid for coming. Beside all
the charms and delights of the festival
itself, they will have countless wonders,
rrl,1 l,1n
is scenery as sublime and beautiful as
Gods sun shines upon today. All Italy
condensed, from Alpine crags and
glaciers to NeaDolitan bay and skies,
would not surpaSS, if it even rivaled,
this vast art gallery of the gods. The
snow-capped giants of the Wasatch
and Oquirrh ranges, walling the gard
wondrOus valley Of the Jordan. all
heavy-laden with fruit and flowers.
The marvellous waters of the American
Dead Sea. in which no human body can
ever sink, with the lofty peaks of
Antelope island rising from its mys-
terious bosom. bathed in picturesque
splendor and beauty. Hoary-crested
Nebo lifting itself, like mighty senti-
mel, above all its fellows, and stand
ing guard forever in icy armor over
the gateway to the modern Holy Land;
and, over all sky as gloriously blue
and golden as ever bent it's sapphirean
arch above primeval paradise.
Then they will have-these charmed
visitors from everywhere-all the
strange and fascinating features of a
church establishment that has no
counterpart on earth; and such archi-
tectural marvels as the majestic Nor
mon temple; that iatter-day miracle in
stone and iron, the tabernacle, in which !
whisper or a pin-drop can be heard !
over the heads of 1900 seated people
an eastern city block away; and the |
great organ as high as an ordinary
two story house.
Tourists and eNcursionists. sight /
seers and wonder-hunters will come |
from the north and the south, the east
and the west, from far and from near;
and these multiplied thousands of |
visitors will spend hundreds of thou /
sands of dollars-of good silver dollars |
in Salt Lake.
y. J. Mayham, chairman of the COM /
mittee that managed a similar festival |
in Denver last year, tells Secretary /
commerce, that the affair added 81, 0OO,- !
coo directly to the business of the |
Colorado capital That much was spent 1
in Denver, that would never have gone /
there but for the festival.
Salt Lake will get back in money a (
nundred times what her proposed |
celebration will cost. 1t will directly |
or indirectly benefit every business /
man in the city; and every merchant. !
farmer and artisan in Utah. from |
Logan to St. George, will share in its
good effects. The new state will be |
doomed from the rising to the setting
of the sun, and a powerful impetus will |
be given to every mining and manu-
featuring, irrigation, railroad and
agricultural enterprise within its
borders.
A meeting is to be held at Calder's
Music hall, this evening at O'clock.
to push this great undertaking. Every
body, who has the welfare of Utah and I
of Salt Lake city ct heart, is invited to
be present. Every philosophical cfti
zen should attend, and give the good
cause mighty shove forward!
The ladies' who are always first in
every good work. are especially in
vited TO attend.