The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1896-07-05
THE CITY BY NIGHT.
Turned Over to Gay ReveIers-The
Fireworks Display.

The carnlVaIS browning glory was
attained last night
1t was as though the thousands of
visitors, having spent the first two
days in a sort of awed admiration of
the gaudy sights and scenes about the
city, had just awakened to the idea
that it was time to begin to celebrate
the glorious Fourth il old time style.
The parade started late. While many
Of the floats had been seen by the pub
lie before, there were enough addi-
lions and new features to make last
nights procession by far the most
beautiful of all The fireworks and
electrical and other Nominations had
much to do toward adding brilliancy
to the moving scene.
Fully fifteen thousand people crowd
ed the seats at the exhibition grounds
and it is estimated that another ten
thousand congregateed at the imme-
date intersections to view the blazing
Spectacle
Aside from the parade, the pyro-
technical display was, OF course the
feature Of the evenings exhibition. 1t
required fourteen hundred dollars
worth of sky rockets, Roman candles,
Chinese whirligigs and frey fizzlers of
all kinds to give adequate expression
to the patriotism which overlooked
the Utahnian heart
For over an hour the atmosphere
for blocks around the grand stand was
perfect shower of sparks and the big
city and county building stood out in
the glare like palatial cameo against
the black sky
The conclusion of the parade and the
exhaustion of the supply of fireworks
marked the end of rule and regulation
and order and programme
Inc city was given over to good na-
tured riot. Confusion and revelry
relgned supreme and the multitudes.
as if with one accord, and by pre-ar-
rangement, entered into the spirit of
the fun with right royal good will.
Booming guns. exploding crackers and
b!aring tTumpets were everywhere. The
great croWding, sweltering mass
OF humanity was jostled and
thumped and walked upon and seemed
TO be glad OF it. Everything went: and,
barring few cases of individuals Ia
boring under unusually heavy loads of
spurious, vinous and malt refresh
ment and with consequent exaggerated
lGeas of their own personal importance
as factors in the show, everything was
as Tree from contention and ill-hunor
as could be wished
one instance Of the few exceptions
to the general order of good fellow
ship which obtained will serve to il
lustrate them all. When the jostle and
Jam was at its height at the corner of
Main and Second South streets. a big
raWponed squirrel-shooter from some
rural district not yet down on the map.
drew an audience about him by an
nouncing himself to be the hardest
game in the wild and woody west" and
calling for able bodied volunteers to
nd
Iaunted by the gibes and jeers of the
crowd generally and the small boy par
lcuIarly, he waXed exceeding wroth
and declared his intention of biting the
WlSh-bone out of omebody-coWbov
or policeman preferred. No victim an
pearing to make a sacrifice of himself
the bad man started amuck through
the crowd in search of one. AS usual
In such cases. he hadn't far to 90 A
Sao-Flsaged young gentleman with an
presence happened r.. he in
the direct line of the hard eame,s,,
course. Everybody else fell awav From,
him as he rushed through the crowd.
except this solitary individual. and
When the terror reached him sometime
happened. 1t is not known Just what
1t was, but simultaneously there was
a collision between the back of rhe
rural gentlemans head and mother
earth. a little later, as he got I'D and
pulled himself together, he was heard
TO remark something tbout sky rock
cts and fireworks, and shooting stars
and things. Then he was lost to sight
in the swaying crowd.
BY 10 o'clock nearly everybody had
donned mask or other disguise, and
there was a world of fun resulting
from discoveries of personal identity
among friends, relatives ard acuuainf-
ances. An elderly lady was highly in
suited at the presumption of a Young
man who locked his arm in her own
and started to pilot her off through the
tnrong. She. was about to call a no
liceman when her Indignation was
turned to delight by the discovery that
he was an old friend A middle-aged
man, whose name is suppressed on ac-
count of his church connections. spent
two solid hours making violent love
TO his wife's mother. under the sup
position that she was gay young
lady from Provo. out for a good time.
HIS barefaced assertion, upon being
discovered, that he had known all /
along who the lady was, was voted
oy all hands to have been the thinnest
and f1imsiest thing in connection with |
the carnival.
Not the least elated among the roll
licking throng were the gentlemen
who had conceived and executed the |
carnival scheme. After the hard and |
patient work of the past few weeks.
after the surrounding of difficulties at |
me time seemingly impossible for them /
to successfully cope with, after over (
coming impediments and obstacles of |
every kind and character, they saw
gorgeous success far beyond their
widest dreams.
The members Of the executive COM