The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-07-15
MISS UTAB'S COSTUME.
1T IS BEING PREPARED BY THE
WALKER DRY GOODS CO.
Out of Compliment to the Unknown
Young Lady Who VIII Represent
Utah at the Jubilee-Hon. W. ].
Bryan and Mrs. Bryan Will At
tend Some of the Jubilee Exercises

The young lady who has been selected
to personify Utah in the Jubilee is now
busily preparing herself for the event.
Her costume is being made by the
dressmaking department Of the Walker
Bros. Dry Goods company, without
charge, Manager Shelp CALAMITY in
sisting on his establishment making it
whose identity viii not be disclosed
until the opening day of the celebra-
ton. This interesting event will take
place at the tabernacle. She, accom-
panied by her maids of honor, viii
make her entry just before the grand
concert begins, and one of the features
viii be the singing of the choir and
audience Of THE Star Spangled Ban
ner.''
A telegram was sent yesterday to
Hon. William J. Bryan. inviting him
self and wife to participate in the Ju-
bilee celebration as the guests of the
commission, and the following reply
was received:
"Pendleton. Or. July a.
ITO Governor H. NJ. Wells:
We shall be pleased to attend some
of the Jubilee exercises. Will confer
with you upon arrival. Thanks.
w j. BE1 AN.
Replies to invitations to attend the
Jubilee were yesterday received from
the following:
The secretary of the navy presents
his thanks TO the Utah Semi-Centen-
NAL commission for its kind invitation
to be present on the occasion of the
Pioneer Jubilee, to be held at Salt Lake
July 20 to %. and regrets exceed
ingly that his arrangements are such
as TO make it impracticable for him
to accept"
writes:
Ny congressional duties will not.
believe. permit of my leaving here be-
fore about the goth, and if they do,
there are a number Of important mat
tiers awaiting my attention at home. I
would be more than pleased to be able
TO attend, and by my presence par
ticipate in the celebration and COM
memoration Of such grand and glorious
triumphs as the pioneers of 1S47 have
achieved
Senator c. W. Fairbanks writes:
II assure you II would give me great
pleasure to be present did not other en-
gagements imperatively forbid. l trust
and believe the interesting and notable
event. commemorative Of brave pio-
neers. may be all that you could wish.
These worthy men ana women VINO HI
orally took their lives in their hands to
carve out new civilization and SPLEEN
did state in the Rocky mountains, are
entitled to all honor, and you do well
to honor them"
Representative Morris expresses his
sincere regrets at his inability to be
present at the Jubilee. He writes:
81 expect this session of congress will
adjourn about that date July 1929,
and / feel. of course, that I shall have
to be .resent."
T. NJ. Hatch of the Hawaiian lega-
ton at Washington writes:
1T is with great regret that I am
prevented by official duties from being
present at the Semi-Centennial cele-
bration, to be held at Salt Lake City
on July 20 TO %. I beg to express to
the committee my sincere congratula-
tons on this event so interesting in the
history of the state of Utah"
Senior Z. Depuy de Lone, of the royal
Spanish legation at Washington,
writes:
Il have received the kind invitation