The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-05-08

SAT- Lake City put Oh ilSi Seio o>S
tire last evening and celebrated th'
Dewey victory.
1t wasn't a tame affair, either. L
was a sort of sounded forth trumpe'
which shall never call retreat" event
everyone who participated being chocl
full of patriotic enthusiasm, wh1cf
they permitted to escape freely.
Notice was short. Someone conceived
the idea of a celebration and announced
it would be held. The newspapers
placed the information on the bulletin
boards and the people passed 1T from
one to another. The small boy was
much in evidence in this matter. He
got the news up town and carried II
from one corner of the city to another
so that everyone knew something was
going to happen.
AN IMPROMPTU AFFAIR.
The parade was an impromptu affair
It was made up of the Knights of Ply
thias band the Grand Army Of the Re
public, the Orpheus club, the Alta club
| the remnants of the old drum corps
and citizens generally. young America
being represented in the parade extern
sively. The shotgun brigade was out
| in force-not a very large force, but
large enough to be heard.
| Line was formed on Richards street.
and the procession moved down First
South to West Temple street and
! thence south to Second South, over to
West Temple and to the Cullen hotel,
where the exercises We're held. Every
man and boy in the parade had flag,
| and some of them two. Each also car
ried a large and extensive voice, which
he used with vigor and intensity.
STREETS RANG WITH CHEERS.
All along the line the procession was
greeted with cheers. which wera in
stantIy returned, with compound inter-
est. Red and green fire was burned all
along the line of march. The Herald
sent up rockets and made a brilliant
pyrotechnic display.
MUSIC AND SHOUTING.
Every piece of music was easily rec
ognized. There wasn't anything from
the opera of Norma" nor any selec-
tons from the Spanish Cavalier" but
everything was American. Star
Spangled Banner" Red, White and
Blue and our ownest own Yankee
Doodle were the burdens Of the strain.
And the beauty of it all was there were
no variations: it was plain, straight
music, with no frills
The shotgun brigade made life ire
mendous all along the line. It was
bang, bang, bang all the time. A gen.
erOus ordnance officer must have is
sued the ammunition. for they were
shooting an hour after the business
was over.
After the parade had marched
through the principal streets, it halted
at the Cullen. Manager Ewing had i'm
YT>nI-fcnd CT IN 0f
the house, and after a halt was made,
someone boosted Theodore Bruback I'D
on top of the boxes as master of cere-
monies. Theodore took off his hat and
sent his voice over into the crowd. It
was drowned right then and there. No
one would hear it.
But in the midst of all the hubbub
and confusion. Bruback managed to
say Powers, and that was sufficient.
Judge Powers was assisted to mount,
with great cheering.
Then a whole lot of noise ensued.
while the transparencieS were hoisted
around the stand. There was Dewey
Has Remembered the Maine" What's
the Matter With Dewey?' "'Steenth
Utah Light Artillery" and several
others. But the work was finally COM
pleted, and then Judge Powers ad- !
dressed the multitude
JUDGE POWERS ADDRESS.
He said he was proud to address the !
people of Salt Lake City and of Utah |
on such a momentous occasion as this. !
when they had assembled to celebrate
the great victory which had been won
by Admiral Dewey. This caused the
crowd to cheer and the Shot gun bril-
gade to do a bit of firing, but the Judge
held his ground and declared he was
pleased to hear the people raise their
voices in Glad loi
passing caused the speaker to wish
that Dewey was there to cut the cable
and stop the racket This sally pro-
voked some more cheering
Judge Powers said this was a time
when every one of US could say we
were proud of our country, which is as
serting its power among the nations Of
the earth, and that we could all feel
n this moment that there are worse
things than war. For, while war brings
anguish and separation, misery and
distress, at the same time it brings the
people together and unites them in one
grand and glorious community. It rails
IS the ideas above the mere level of
dollars and cents and engrafts in us
lobler purposes and higher aims. This
yictory of Admiral Dewey had told the
lations Of the earth that this republic
# ours is advancing and that we pro-
)oSe to take place among them, sec
md to none. No land on the face of
he earth is like this one, cosmopoli-
an in its character as it is in respect
o its people. Fighting under the great
ficer who has won this greatest OF
-reat victories. were sailors and gun
ers from Scandinavia, from Germany,
rom Ireland, from England, yet all
americans.
AT this juncture some one shouted, {
What's the matter with Dewey?' The I
peaker smilingly looked around and '
eplied, From the best of my obser-
alton I should say he was all right
lie is an American citizen and we Y
ught to be proud of him.
THE CUBAN FLAG.
Then came a scene which was thrill /
lg. Some one handed up Judge Pow t
RS a large Cuban flag which he waved I
loft with the statement: Here is the '
ag of the youngest republic born in t
ne world; an American republic which
ill be ruled by Americans"
Then everybody cheered, the shot i
uns talked and a. whole lot of en- q
lusiasm was turned loose O
But it wasn't a marker for what fol- /
Dwed, when some one handed up the e
Lars and stripes. The band struck UP O
The Star Spangled Banner and C
veryone had a good time. If Judge il
overs said anything it was wasted, O
Or no one could hear it, When order a
as partially restored the speaker said. | r