The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-29
IN MORMONDOM.
The Presidents Train Rolled
Into Salt Lake City
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Amid the Din of Locomotive and
Factory Whistles
And the Cheering Of Thousands
of Deseret Citizens.
nrOuMnEn NOWDOVC
MOUNTED COWBOYS.
Six Hundred of Them Brought
Up Rear of Procession.
Eighty Thousand People Wit
messed the Big Parade.

Salt Lake, Utah. May 29.-The special
train bearing President Roosevelt ana
party pulled into the oregon Short Line
station from the north at $50 this
morning, amid the clamor of locomotive
and factory whistles, the shrill yells OF
hundreds of cattle punchers and sheep
men and the enthusiastic cheers OF
several thousand people in the yards
and along the streets leading from
the depot.
AS the president stepped from the
train he was met by Governor Wells.
Mayor Thompson, Colonel J. w. Budds
and Secretary of Agriculture Wilson.
The president shook hands with them
warmly and after chatting moment
the entire party was escorted TO car
riages. With the president was seated
Secretary Loeb, Governor Wells and
Mayor Thompson.
On the north side of South Temple
street and stretching for blocks were
lined the military. civic and fraternal
Organ mutations and as the carriages OF
the presidential party swept by the or
CARNATIONS fell in line. Riding beside
the presidents carriage We're an escort
of thirteen mounted police and Grand
Marshal Ben Haywood and aides. a
special escort to the president and fifty
rough riders, splenQldly mounted and
in typical plainsmen's attire came
each side of the presidents party.
formed his personal guard Immedi-
ately following the party, headed by
the regimental band came battalion
of the Twelfth United States infantry
and the Twelfth and Twenty-seconi
field batteries of the United States ar
t1llery corps, under command of Colonel
Bubb. The second division was COM
posed of the National Guard of Titan
in command of Brigadier General John
Q. Cannon. In the third division were
the veterans of four wars, the G. A. r..
the young men of the Utah regiment
and a few bent and grizzled men who
fought in the Mexican and Blackhawk
and other Indian wars.
In the fourth division were the uni
formed marching clubs of the Elks,
Maccabees and other fraternal organiza-
tions- Bringing up the rear We're nearly
500 mounted COW punchers and sheep
men, many of them having come over
$50 miles Of rough trails to greet the
head Of the nation. The sunburned,
brawny plainsmen in their sombreros
and faded blue shirts formed the most
picturesque part Of the long parade, and
the president rose in his carriage and
bowed a good morning in response to
their wild cheering.
The procession passed. the Mormon
tabernacle and the immense granite
temple and proceeded through the busi-
ness section of the city to the city and
country buildings and Fifth, South and
State streets.
Excursion trans had been run from
every point of the state and it is prob
able that so, 600 people saw and cheered
the nations chief executive as he was
driven along the streets. Among the
spectators were many old A1ormons,
many of whom had come across the
plains with Brigham Young, or in the
years following had pushed carts over
the long trail. and they. too. strained
their bent shoulders and lifted their
voices in the universal acclaim to the
nations head.
Nine thousand school children. every
one of them waving a flag. greeted
President Roosevelt as he stepped from
his carriage at the city and county
building and mounted platform to adj
dress them The reception given him by
the youngsters evidently pleased the
president very much and he smiled and
bowed repeatedly in response to their
enthusiastic greeting.