The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-05-15

Beginning at o'clock this morning
the pleasant task of loading with flow
ers the special cars kindly placed at
the disposal of the pioneer jubilee COM
mission by the Oregon Short Line will
be inaugurated at the company's depot
The people of Salt Lake City are re-
quested by the commission to contrib
ute flowers literally. They can be left
at the depot, at the pioneer headquar-
tiers, at w. A. Neiden's residence. cor
ner of Twelfth East and First South
streets, or at Jacob Moritz's residence.
corner of Tenth East and Fourth
South streets. Mr. Moritz will have
two large wagons and II men in the
service and all that intending givers
in his neighborhood need to do is TO
notify him and his men and teams will
do the rest. The same rule will apply
in the vicinity of Mr.. Neiden'S resi-
dence, and all offerings delivered at
the latter place will be properly cared
for
The cars will leave the depot this
evening in charge of members of the
commission and en- route to Butte and
Anaconda stops will be made at Will
lard, Brigham, Logan and other points
as the commission has received word
that the gardens of those places will
be fairly denuded of their contents in
order that pleasure may be afforded
to the people of Montana who rarely
see a flower.
That the people of Butte and Ana
conda are joyfully anticipating the ar
rival of the floral eTnblems Of friend
ship is evidenced by the following from
the Anaconda Standard:
The Standard received a telegram
from the Utah pioneer commission last
night announcing that two cars of Ii
lac blossoms for free distribution in
Butte and Anaconda will arrive on
Sunday. On behalf of the two cities the
Standard desires to tender grateful
thanks in advance for the unexpected
and exceedingly welcome gift. Lilacs
are scarce in Butte and Anaconda, an
unknown quantity except as they are
imported, and Utah's delicate courtesy
will be keenly appreciated and long
held in pleasant remembrance by every
citizen. In the busy rush for the
mighty dollar, western cities seldom
stop to throw bouquets at one another
and when such an extraordinary event
does happen it is worthy of eXtraordi-
nary commentator. Unfortunately
Butte and Anaconda cannot repay Utah
in kind, though later on when her pio-
neer celebration is under way the two
cities will doubtless take great pleas
ure in sending her few carloads Of
guests
THE NEED OF FUNDS.
The vast amount of advertising the
jubilee has received and the magni
tude of the programme the commission
has mapped out and is rapidly pre-
pairing, necessitates the learning at the
earliest possible moment of the amount
Of fin oil n ccic NO a hTIS m
and institutions of the city propose to
give. The celebration, as planned, will
be the greatest and the most interest
ing ever given in the west. To carry
out the plans will involve the eXpendi
ture of at least $4,000 by the commits
sion and to date less than one-half of
the amount is in sight The good name
of Utah and the credit of Salt Lake
City are at stake, and with the knowl
edge before them that the time in
which TO complete the arrangements
for the jubilee is limited the special
finance committee recently appointed
viii on Monday begin an active canvass
for funds. AS the members of the
committee, as we'll as every member Of
the commission, are giving their own
time from patriotic motives and not
for financial gain, they expect that the
business men called upon will be ready
to state the exact amount they will
in order that there may not
be any more vexatious delays or mis-
understandings in the future. The COM
mission thus far has performed their
work we'll and conscientiously. 1t is
now in order for the business men and
of the city to show their ap-
probation of their labors by subscrib-
ing the necessary funds for the carry
ing out of the plans of the celebration
in order that Utah may keep faith with
the world.