Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1897-03-19
ON THE BIG JUBILEE.
An Old Tlmsr Writes OF The Martial
Music Of Early Days.
WOULD LIKE TO HEAR 1T AGAIN.
Suggestions About Adobe Cabins, Wild
GGmo Barb cues, Crickeis,
brasshoppers, Gulls, Etc.


uOtnnilssIou hs LohO"s'
Seeing In the NEWS that you have
been chosen director general OF the
,,,ant pi,raar o,n, 80 ,ha, s,o,.a.
hons are III otuer' anu tesoihg over
the Preparations bsing made for our
coming Pioneer day, and being
p,.r,her "a, IN. ala diva Nouyo, mar.
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.iai ""n1' Ai'er"uruS ioo'Ga"'nsu Wy
Major DuzStta in the fell OF lS4S In
Salt Lake CITY. [ feel like Offering q
tou, ,t.,s no ,,i,,vs.
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ihW hs sut'iVors Oh this oio
time martial bano sB organized by
Major Duzgtte be notified through the
NJ, o,,,o ,,,o,,,a,
- -pp
ior that purpose 10 report themseiVes
| to said com mitteV, and that the band
| take a monument mart in furnishing
| martial music for the coming Pioneer
dnv. 1 also suggest that the musical
iustfuments. drums and fles u
| such man ma Dimmiek and William
| HUNTINGTON. Levi w. Hauo1ck. PnIlo
| Dibhie. Eliger and EIsher Everett,
and others pioneer musicians. III
their inaiTImerts are In existence and
ran he found that thew bo sent to a
| az mnittes and bs rennlred and are
useI m 'thta great msmoIial pioneer
dsy in honor OF these good old veterans
and nioneer mueioinns. and also that
CAptain William Pitt and Ballo's
Srars hands be broueht Into mote II
there are surylvors enough left, and
that these bands pIay old fashioned
inoed uniforms. Our dress was chief;
burhs,tln papts and hunting shirts IN
those days, And IL our old band fla
nr cnIor. can be- found that they he
bIought ont and used ON this occasion.
III think that there are enough sur.
yiyprg left to mike a good showing
| anu that thew will teepond when they
hear the call from the right direction.
/ also suygest that the SURVIVORS OF
these bands, the Pioneers, and the
Mormon battalion have q Tree ticket
over the railroads, and that their ex.
pepses be paid out of the approptiu.
lions. ace that Mis-. Priscilla
Jepnipqs, now in San Francisco,
speaka OF Liberty PARK being the
scene Of the exercise, aud nlso suggests
that a log cabin be built, | think that
Al leagt four cabins uhould be built,
two of logs and two of adobes, and
PATTERNED as nearly az possible after the
STYLE of those built In the Old Fort or
stockade by such men as Brigham
Young, Heber q, KimbalJ. Wilforu
, Woodruff, Willard Richards, Amasa
LYMAN and Others OF lus old Pioneer
veterans.
If built. the old 5papish adde's
should be used ISx9x4, these being the
| kind moslly useu IN ,17 and ,4S, and
that they have large fireplaces
lin them. This would is,ro.
duce the old fashioned crane.
| A. dions, shovel and ton.s, bake skill
| let or Dutch oven. np nd the tin reflector.
such ms our dear old mothers used.
lhere are thousands of our children
who never saw cooking done in this
way, and that these old fashioned
building being without floors and
covered with small poles, mats and
dirt with white cotton cloth tackled
up TO the windows for light, and that
these cabins be kept In repair till the
next Centennial Pioneer day, that
our children, the sixth and seventh
geaeratiop, may view them ana may
celebrate IN honor of those noble
Pioneers, You will readily catch nv
meaning, and IL these buildings or
hints be built. that the Pioneets fur
nisb the cooking utensils SUCH as were
used on this Plains II thew can bs
found, and that bread be baked In
them MADE of unbolted flour and
eaten with corn stalk or beet moIasses,
II II can be made by that time.
see sno reason that we should
CLOSE our celebration on Saturday,
What would be more apprvpriate
than an outdoor meeting on Snuday
and have some OF those noble Pioueeis
or Battalion boys tpeak to us, stand
| iuK the front end of a covered wagon.
or Presiueut Woodruff standing Ia his
little buggy or one TO Iepreeent 1T, like
the one lie used 10 ride in crossing the
plains. This would be an old lime
meeting, as we used to have on the
plains, [ would suggest that the cels.
bratiun last one week, and II buffalo
or deer could be bought that we have n
barbecue, or meat dealt out as We used
, TO on the plains, when the hunters had
good luck and came into camp with
wagon loads OF buffalo ana antelope
mea'. Beef could oe used in steak,
For exhibits would have tn plows,
harrows, picks anticipates that did the
nrst blowing in the valley anu farm