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

The Pioneer Jubilee ended last even
ing in blaze of Tourbillions. an ex-
plosion of bombs, the squirming of
fiery serpents and the falling of show
ers of the most exquisite pyrotech-
mics ever witnessed in Utah, and for
that matter anywhere.
1t was an immense crowd that saw
the display, too. Capitol hill was a
seething mass of humanity. There are
several acres of ground up there, and
the entire space was occupied. People
came on foot, in hacks, in wagons
which are used to draw lumber and po-
tatoes, in buggies. phaetons and carry
alls, and some in baby carriages.
Inasmuch as none of the latter were
injured, perhaps criticisms is out of
order, but why on earth a sensible
mamma will take her dimpled darling
TO place like that in a baby car
riage, when at any moment some fool
horse is likely to run away, is a mys-
terry One rosy checked matrOn had
twins in her vehicle, and she wheeled
the infants around as serenely as
though she was going to a funeral,
where nothing but foot passengers
were permitted to be present.
THE HILL CROWDED.
Perhaps it will be a fair estimate to
say that over $4,000 people saw the
display from the hill. There must have
been that many, maybe there were
more. They came expectant and went
away satisfied. In fact, there was a
surfeit of fireworks. The majority of
those present were glad when the set
piece, Good Night" signalled to them
that all was over, and then when the
workmen set off three or four bombs
which they had overlooked in the work,
there were few who took the trouble
to turn around and gaze at the beau
tiful shower of falling sparks.
1t was nearly o'clock when the work
began. While the time set for begin
ming was $50, it was deemed best to
await the coming of denser darkness
in order to get better effect. And it
vs<s better so.
The children who were there, and
their name was legion, grew Impatient
ere the performance began, and cried
for the men to go on. But there is d
lot of work to do in a case like that,
and everything had to be in readiness
for the event before it could COM
mence.
But all things come to an end, and
the suspense was cut short by the
firing of a half dozen aerial cannons,"
things which go up in the clouds and
then burst with a conclusion which
makes ones ears jingle. This evoked
a cheer from the assembled thousands,
and they settled themselves for the
balance which was to come.
A LONG DELAY.
The balance didn't come right away,
for owing to some reason, there was a.
delay of 20 minutes, possibly longer
1t seemed like an hour to the crowd,
which urged those who had the mat
ter in hand to go on, tantalized them
with badinage and derisive shouts and
joked with each other.
A small boy with package of fire.
crackers created a fund of amusement
by lighting them and throwing them
plode the line along the old city wall
would cheer the lad, and the small
chap had a barrel of fun.
But the firecracker business was
ended rather abruptly by the lighting
up of the prismatic cOlors, which Gre
ated beautiful effect, especially upon
the faces of the crowd, young ladies
with rosy cheeks appearing as green
complexioned people. while fair dam
sells with the lilly in their faces aston
ished their best fellows by smiling at
them from eyes Of yellow, cheeks Of
purple and lips of orange.
THE ROCKET MAN. :
The rocket man began to get in his
work at this time, and he was a dex-
trous chap, too. He could touch off
more rockets at the same time than
anyone seen in these parts for a long
time. He would send up one and then
chase it with three more. until the air
was one symposium of balls of red,
green and blue fire.
At the same time the battery which
was firing bombs began work on the
other end, and the contributed TO
the general result by painting the
night sky several different shades Of
color to the great delight of the people.
las usual. the small boy was in evil
dence He acted in concert. too. When
anything especially beautiful went up
in the air and daubed the heavens with
streaks of fire, he would shout All"
and when ii was of the intensely pretty,
his exclamation was of the oh va
riety They enjoyed everything con-
nected with the affair. and no mis-
take.
SET PIECES.
The first set piece which was touch
ed off was that of Brigham Young, and
when people recognized it after the
clearing away OF the smoke, there was
intense cheering. When the smoke had
died away and the lights had burned
out. the air was again filed with rock
cts and bombs
The face of Governor Wells next de-
lighted the crowd. and he received
about as much applause as did the
chief pioneer
Perhaps the most delightful thing
was the display of rockets which ex-
plode and when the fire has departed.
leave the sky filed with clouds of
feathers. There were several of these.
and they were beautiful beyond descrip-
ton. OF course everything which was
displayed was beautiful. but some
were Drettier than others.
TWO BALLOONS
There were two balloons sent up. and
these created considerable interest. in
asmuch as it was announced that
when at a certain height they would
send out lot of fancy fireworks Per-