The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-25
Greatest Demonstration Ever Made in
Celebrating the Day.
LIBERTY PARK CROWDED
FEATURES OF PARADE THAT
WON APPLAUSE.

DsiS Va d younger generation pulled the
handcarts which the palsied limbs
resting on the leather cushions of the
motor cars, had YEARLY dragged across
plains and mountain passes fifty-eight
years ago
Visitors came from all parts of the
state 10 witness this parade as well
the other exercises of Pioneer Day, of
which il was the opening and the main
feature. They poured into the park by
thousands and some of them stood for
hours waiting for the spectacle. This
In point of picturesque features, was
we'll worth a days journey.
II was a spectacle of contrasts. Long
files of blue clad. white helmeted sol
uierS marched near its head. Further
back on the battered cannon of the
NauvOO Legion rode gray bearded men
I'm ragged blue oveFalls. Bandsmen in
natty uniform played quick march
music. And i'm their wake huttered the
dingy canvas tops of the old emigrant
, wagons. In the ragged skirts their
STandmothers had treasured ever since
they trudged ankle deep through the
alkai dust, young girls acted well the
part of limping beside the wagon train.
Worn old women looked back with dim
eyes that were hardly able to see the
bright-dyed dresses of the little chill
dren in the floats.
Crowds Are Out Early.
II seemed as if all the city were up
carly. The crowds began to head to-
ward the park before the sun was well
started toward heat making. BY the
time its rays were beginning to
straighten their slant through the tree
tops sight-secrs had covered the grass
in the shady spots and were making
a morning picnic of it.
Down by the little lake the BannOck
Indians had crawled from their te-
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They lay about till the last minute;
then began daubing on their ochre and
painting the TANKS of their ponies.
They brought forth the trappings of
savagery and slowly adorned them
selves, always with immovable faces;
the only ones in all the place who
hadn't something to say i'm the way of
wonder or expectation. And yet they
knew they were going TO be central
figures and in their own hearts they
nursed the pride that only men of
savage race can feel when the glory
OF parade lies ahead
All Roads Lead to the Park.
Meantime great floats were lumber
ing down through the business part of
the city, and bevies Of little girls in
stiff starched skirts and bright colored
hose We're chattering on their lofty
perches as they rode. Basket bearing
mothers. with short legged youngsters
their way to places on sadly overcroWd-
ed street cars; then gave it up i'm dis
gust and began their heart breaking
walks down sunny pavements. Heads
of families held the reins in the front
seats of farm wagons. laden until il
seemed as though some OF the children
must overflow or leak out somewhere:
and guided their nervous teams among
the hundreds of vehicles that were al
ready making a cosmopolitan parade OF
their own. And so they all surged to-
ward the park
The voice of the lemonade vendor
greeted them as soon as they came
within hail of its gates. Within they
heard the same aliuring call; and the
children began forthwith to beg for
nickIes. Up to the time the parade
marched. the red pop and ginger ale
bottles were being upturned to the sky
by long lines of silent young persons,
and 50 fast as these lines lost mem ers
they were again recruited.
Atoms Fall Into Place
Ten o'clock drew on. and they began
20 find places near the dTiVeWays
where the procession was to pass. In
the process more than one happy group
was torn asunder and wild eyed moth
ers hunting their children came into
evidence. With the usual meXplica BILE
luck that attends them the young wan
derers always managed to find their
way beneath horses hoofs and in front
of speeding autos, until they strayed
back into the family folds. BY the
time the parade was ready to start
most Of the youngsters We're grasping
their mothers hands and CTaning their
necks TO catch sight of its approach.
1t came through the southwest en-
trance to "A flare Of band music. And
from then on until it passed il was
watched. every foot of it. But with all
the beauty of the floats. the swing Of
the marching soldiers. and the other
regular attendant features, one thing
demanded attention-the pioneers.
Pioneers Ride in Style.
They rode right behind the police and
soldiers. Big automobiles carried them.
They did not need the banner over the
first one of these to tel people that
they were pioneers Anyone who saw
those old women, with the little bon
nets and the whitened hair beneath
them. needed no word that these were
the first mothers of the commonwealth.
Their worn old faces and carefully
smOothed locks said that they came
when things were different than they
are now.
And the men beside them didn't need
announcement as those who had broken
a virgin soil and fought Indians. Spare
of figure, their backs bending. the deep
lined faces Of most were still brown
from the exposure they got in those
tied one another to see them. and now
and then you could hear from some
where beside you:
Look there. There he is, as fingers
shot out to point to some one whose
name was prominently identified with
the states early history.
The church officials rode behind the
pioneers in closed carriages, and the
same craning of necks and expressions
of eagerness to see were heard when the
long white heard Of Joseph T. Smith
was seen through the windows of the
first.
The city. county and state officials
rode as such men always do. with the
air Of those who are accustomed to
basking in the hot sunshine of popular
curiosity.
Prominent in the division allotted to
the Association of the NauvoO Legion,
were the three old cannon which the
original bodyguard of the Mormon
church possessed THE old sow from