The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-08-08
ELKS PARADE TONIGHT
Imposing Display to Be Made
on Principal Streets.
BIG CROWD EXPECTED
WILL BE BRASS BANDS. FLAM-
BEAUX AND OTHER THINGS.

A committee of Elks, consisting of
D. c. Dunbar and George A. Snow, cir
culated a petition among the business
houses of the city yesterday with the
result that practically all will close
their stores Thursday at O'Clock TO
give the employees opportunity to take
in the big excursion to Saltair. When
the 3. p. o. z. starts out to do any
thing it usually does it right, as is
again shown by this stroke. 1t is
doubtful that another organization In
the city could induce the merchants
10 suspend business for an occasion OF
the kind. yet Messrs. Dunbar and Snow
say they had little difficulty in secur-
ing the consent of the fifty largest in
stitutions in the city to the agreement,
and the rest of the work was easy. The
business men literally fell all over
themselves to get their names down,
and now there is still greater certainty
that the celebration will be a prodig-
ious event.
Last nights train from the north
brought in great big bull elk, the gift
of Baby Elk Woodall. the Soda Springs
hotel man to Salt Lake lodge No IS.
He (the elk and Woodall, too, for that
matter. will appear in the big parade
tonight. For a time afterwards he
will be kept at Liberty park, and when
he grows old, as big Mitt" Joe Enzen-
sperger says, they will run the large
knife into him and have the big feed
stuffing his skin and putin him up
right in the hall. It's a cinch-''
Will Have Flambeaux.
Another feature of the parade will
be the flambeau blowout, the para
phernalia of which arrived last night
Every man in line will be equipped with
one of the faring torches, and, if he
has lung enough, can blow flames sew
eral yards into the air
The procession will be led by the
Salt Palace band, tally-hO preceding
them, occupied by the officers Of the
order, TO let the people know the Test
OF the push is coming. Behind the
band VIII come the visitors from other
states in carriages, and the members
of No. IS will be in line behind them,
headed by Held's band. Then will
come others in line, all wearing the
regulation linen buster, cane and silk
hat, and then the Utah Battery band.
The procession promises to be one of
the most elaborate ever put on the
street 1t will start from the hall, as
stated yesterday, about dark, and will
turn east on Third South to the Knuts-
ford corner, north to the Salt Lake
theatre. west to the Mccormick block.
north 10 the Brigham Young mOnu-
ment and cOuntermarch TO Second
South; west on Second South to Hills
drug store and back to Main. counter
marching; then south on Main to the
hall. Joe Enzensperger is in charge
of the parade, and Sheriff Jack Ward
of Evanston will be grand marshal.
Crowds of Elks Coming.
Among the visiting Elks, besides the
big crowd expected from Butte and
other northern points, will be repre-
sentatives of the lodges at Victor.
Colorado Springs, Cripple Greek, Grand
Junction. and Denver is already rep
resented in town by Harry Walker, ].
P. Paulson and C. A. Werden. a spe-
cial delegation will go TO the trains
today and this evening to meet the
incoming members.
Major Myton came in from the Du-
chesne Indian agency last night and
Mr.. Wertheimer of De Lamar covered
100 miles by stage to get here in time
to be initiated before big Thursday.
They will be put through today along
with some other good fellows, the sec
rotary having received twenty-five ap-
plicatiOns for membership since this
thing" started
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