The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-08-21

the boys IN the Drown SullS sun COLL
Time to own the city. A great many
of them We're still to be seen on the
streets today, and wherever they passed
they were viewed with eager and Curl
Gus comment. Many of them took this
mornings trains for their homes, and
the treatment they experienced at the
depots was only a manifestation of the
affectionate regard bestowed them on
every hand. AT the Rio Grande West
ern depot, a bunch OF ten or fifteen VOL
unteers presented themselves at the
ticket Office to secure transportation
to Park City. Their badges were the
only recommendation they needed.
Their tickets were handed out with the
cheerful remark by the agent, that they
needed no other Identification to secure
free tickets home. This has been the
2 rule everywhere, and the boys will not
1. be allowed to spend a cent for railroad
fare until they are landed back in their
own towns. On the street cars it was
much the same. One patriotic pas
senger this morning, on the car going to
the Rio Grande Western railroad de-
pot, insisted on paying the conductor
for all the brown suits aboard. At the
various resorts and places of amuse-
ments the same rule was followed, and
the boys were made to realize that
the freedom of the city was theirs in
something more than name.
MAJORS YOUNG AND GRANT.
The volunteers resident in Salt Lake
generally passed a quiet Sunday in the
bosom of their families. Major r. w.
Young received many callers yester-
day and last evening. He has many
interesting curios and mementos of the
memorable campaign through which he
has passed, and several of them were
exhibited to his deeply interested
friends. Among other trophies he has
a medieval battle axe, such as one is
accustomed to see in artists studios
or in the hands of an army of supers
on the stage, but Major Young assured
his visitors that these battle axes We're
the identical weapons with which the
palace guards in one of the interior
<cities of Luzon were armed. He also
has a sword of the finest Toledo steel,
taken from the Spanish. Major Young
will thoroughly rest himself before de-
Gliding as to what his future plans will
be.
Major F. A. Grant, too, was the re-
cipient of many calls. Prior to his
departure he was the general agent in
Utah of the Penn Mutual Life
Insurance company, and his position
has been left open awaiting his return.
He will in all likelihood take up his
business where he left it off. but it is an
open secret that he may be rendered
the nomination for mayor of this city
on the Republican ticket in the Novem-
Der election, and he has already said to
friends that if he knew he was the
choice of his party he would not decline.
In this connection it may be stated that
several Democratic friends Of Major
Young have already approached him
with view to his running for the same
office, but he emphatically answered
them that he would not be a candidate.
THE CELEBRATION.
Nothing but the highest commenda-
ton is heard for the manner in which
the big celebration was planned and
carried out Everything worked with
out hitch, except the two details of the
long wait for the train, which of
course could not have been foreseen,
and the failure in the arrangements to
have the young ladies pin the badges
on the breasts of the volunteers. The
committee in charge of this feature had
il all arranged so that it could have been
done with but little delay, but the surg
ing multitudes simply demoraliZed all
preparations and the groups of soldiers
could not be kept in the sections in
which il was designed to form them to
present the badges, But most of the
boys obtained their medals, and those
who did notscan find them at the Cover
nor's office. The badge belonging to
Col. Willard Young was handed his wife
Saturday evening by Capt. Caine. The
homes of Mrs. Col. Willard Young. Mrs.
Major Young and Mrs. Major Grant
were profusedly adorned with the floral
offerings which had been used on the
refreshment tables at the Park.
Too much praise cannot be accorded !
Mrs. Ritter and the ladies of her COM
mittee for their handling of the re-
freshment feature. The tables presented |
a beautiful spectacle and the elaborate |
menu was dispensed in excellent style. |
There was large quantity of food left |
over after the boys in brown and blue |
had satisfied their appetites.
THE CASH SURPLUS.
The executive committee. consisting |
Of the Governor and chairmen of the |
various committees will meet again in |
a few days and cecide on the DISPOSITION |
Of the surplus. The receipts will run to !
about S1S. 500 and the expenses thus far !
viii not go beyond $4,000. The commit
tee will thus have $1,000 to $4,000 to dis |
pose of. A variety of views exists as to |
the best means Of using this money. |
Whether il shall go towards the mOnu-
ment for the volunteers, or be divided |
among them pro rata, or expended on |
the entertainment of returning volun- /
teers from other States while passing |
through the city, is a question yet to be
decided.
Members of the executive committee /
read with much interest the despatch in /
Saturdays paper stating that the gov
ernor of Nebraska had been
forced to abandon the idea Of |