The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-25
Salt Lake City. July "a.

Dear Hal:
Salt Lake retires tonight exhausted.
but proud. As Harold Russell. who mas
been one of the most amazed lockers on
In Venice during the weeks festivities
observes, You may not be a big CITY
out here hut you know how to make a
beautiful bluff at it, We have passed
by our fiftieth milestone, and we feel
satisfied that in passing it we have left
a few marks upon it that will prove in
delible at least till the one hundredrh
looms into view. I shall not ATTEMPT
10 give you an account of the glories
we have been passing through all this
week; l leave you to gather that from
the papers; and right here I want to
doll MY sun Shade-that form of head
gear is strictly la mode today-to the
admirable manner in which our three
newspapers have T1sin to the occasion.
EdltorS, reporters and artists have Wed
With each other in presenting the big
gest accounts of each days proceedings
Ind paying the prettiest tributes 10 the
pioneers. The work of all has been
superb shall only add that you will
lind nothing like Salt Lake tonight OUT
side of the Arabian Nights tales, or a
Neapolitan carnival. The town is
IdDluTP.
nght, blaze, noise, congratulation,
music, pyrotechnfcs. blaze-everything
that goes II make up the confusion of
merrimeut and enjoyment
Just word as to what the Jubilee
has done in the way of entertainment
and amusement. The visitor 20 Salt
Lake, when he makes up his mind TO
treat himself to a Sojourn in the most
widely advertised city in the west, has
in has mind three or four prominent
things that overshadow all the rest.
One is our lake, another is our taber-
nacle with its great choir and organ.
We are all glad that the commission
determined to give Music, Poetry and
the Drama foremost places in the plans
OF the festivities, and the prizes offered
nave brought forth some new rich con-
tributicns Nothing chaster, higher
class and more artistic could have been
conceived than Tuesday nights con-
cert, with its pretty ACCOMPANYING incl
dent of the disclosing of Utah's identity.
Mr.. Bryan, who with his wife, was an
interested spectator. said it was all alb
solutely unique i'm his experience. am
glad Mr.. Bryan did not remain over till
Wednesday night. He might have
thought that concert equally unique.
1t is pity that the high standard set
on the first night could not have been
maintained throughout, and 1T is one
or the thlngS lnexplicable. Why Mr.. :
Stephens, after providing such a feast
as that we SAT- down to on the opening
night, should have inflicted ON US a
hurdle race between seven country
bands on the second. Why not pro- |
vide for a preliminary contest, and let |
the two or three most proficient only
come before the public? The bright !
especial spots of Tuesdays concert are /
the magnificent ode TO the Pioneers - /
the ladies' Denver quartetfe, Mrs. Gill
let's song and Mr.. EaSton'S solo. The /
duet between the two ladies was dis |
appointing. Fridays concert was mis-
take. The appearance of the children |
Thursday afternoon and the browning |
of the oldest survivor Of the pioneers,
all without charge, were beautiful fea-
lures of the Jubilee programme. To
charge admission. and that the regular
price, for a children's concert, when