Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1901-04-12
DAUGHTERS OF UTAH PIONEERS.
euo organization Effected in This City by the Women
Whose Fathers and Mothers Blazed the Way
for Western Civilization.

That they whose burdens paved tn,
plains
or peace Ger which our footsteps Gid,
May know the measure OF the pride
Their pilgrim zeal forever gains
We build along our easeful ways
(By their toil-hardened fingers traced
Some simple faggot-ples to blaze
AS bazed their camp-fires on the waste
That the spirit of Of the sires
Wax not faint in us today,
So shall memory's rudy fires
Cheer the marches Of our way
one of the most important club or
CARNATIONS OF the State was effected
yesterday afternoon at the residence of
Mrs, Annie n, Hyde on North Temple
street For some time past Mrs. Hyde
has had the idea Of the proprlety OF
forming a society of the daughters OF
the pioneers Of Utah, and yesterday af-
ternoon nearly forty ladies met at Mrs.
Hydes residence and formed them
selves into a society that will probably
outrank In number II not in interest
any otheer club in the state. Mrs Hyde
in a brief address explained the purpose
of the society.
Mrs. Hyde stated that ever since the
Pioneer Jubilee celebration she had felt
deeply impressed with the Importance
and desirablity OF the children Of the
pioneers becoming associated together
in some kind Of an organization which
would have for It's object the cementing
together, In the bonds of friendship and
love, the descendants Of those who so
faithfully stood shoulder TO shoulder
in Drawing the difficulties and overcom.
Ing the all but insurmountable obsta-
Giles that opposed their fixed determna-
ton to seek out and establish the happy
homes and inheritances in these noun
tain Wales which we. their offspring,
now enjoy. She felt that II was a
solemn and pleasant duty which we
owed to them. ourselves and our chill
dren 20 adopt some method Of familiar
i2ing ourselves with the sacrifices which
that noble and heroic band had made
for the love Of their God and their re-
ligion, and for the religious freedom of
their posterlty and mankind; and she
believed II to be our duty and our her
ltage to place ourselves in a position
where we could best take up and carry
on the noble and stupendous work
which they so well commenced under
hardshlps and privations almost nm
paraleled in the history Of the world.
she suggested the Idea that one of the
many profitable objects of such an or
ganizatlon might be the obtaining and
compiling OF the genealogles OF the
ltah pioneers that their desires and la
bors In settling these valleys and build
ing Temples might be forwarded and
continued by their children after them,
and that our children and our chidren's
children through all coming time might
pc taught TO cherish, revere and emu
hte their sublime fidelity and sterling,
sturdy worth Mrs. Hyde stated that,
having some Of these ideas in mind
she had invited the daughters Of a
number Of those who had pioneered the
way 10 these valleys to be present to-
day. that they might discuss the adyls-
ability Of efecting an organization 10
be known as the Daughters Of the
Utah Pioneers and suggested. II the
plan met with the approval OF those
present, the pr0prlety Of organizing on
q plane similar 10 that adopted by the
pioneers themselves. namely. 70 have
captains OF tens, captains OF fifties and
oaptins OF hundreds. with a president
and two counselors over the entire or
and proposed that those
present, If the organization was ef-
fected should assume the responsible
ty of each securing the names OF nine
others and that each ten could then
select their captain. after which they
could select captains OF ffties and hun
1reds, as the association grew In num-
bers sufficiently TO Justify IT,
Mrs. HYDE stated that. possibly. the
reason why she had felt so strong a
desire for an organization OF this kind
was that she had 50 much OF the pio-
neer blood In her veins. as her father.
mother grandfather and two grand.