The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-07-25

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| formidable yesterday with its short.
fat barrel and big wide mouth. was rid
J den by one of the old members of the
| legion. In blue canvas jumper and
oVeralls, he looked as much of non
! combatant as the famous little field
piece
Indians Play Well Their Part.
Soon after the funny little cannon
] with their weather-washed limbers had
J bumped their way out of sight. the In
/ dams burst into view. Their brass band
| had been doing a lot of good playing.
/ In between the strains came the dron-
/ ing chant of the gaudily- bedecked men
I who rode behind. And now and again
| some old buck would give vent to his
| pent-up feelings in the Shrill coyOte-like
! quavering yell-the warwhooD his IA
| theirs had used to terrify in the days
when the wagon trains crossed the
plains. Others joined the call and their
| falsettO rose high above the music
! about them
Painted and decked ont in beads and
bright feathers they rode ponies daubed
almost as gorgeously as were them
! selves. Some of them rode two on a
horse; all of them bareback, their moe
castned feet curling under the ponies
bellies Two or three of them were
stripped down so that they looked like
! copper statues, with great blotches of
red and blue on their dusky skins.
On float following the riders squaws
peeped from between clumDs of sage
brush and couple of bucks lay indo-
Iently in the shade of a brown tepee.
1t very truly represented the Indians
at nome Further back a good repre-
sentation of moving camp was given.
me bucks rode on ahead; the squaws
behind their ponies trailing two poles
each, on which lay the camp equipage.
| other floats showed similar scenes.
Buckskin clad. revolVers at their
belts their sombreros curling at the
side. rode fifty pony express riders.
! Their costumes from fringed buckskin
gauntlets to jingling spurs were faith
tui. and they made a typical frontier
appearance.
Prairie Schooners in Line.
The ragged canopies of three prairie
schooners appeared. The old wagons
! bore typical wagon train outfits. An
occasional WashbOard, an old. old dress
er, barefooted small boy waving. his
grimy legs over the tailboard: all these
( things lent realism to this part of the
procession. In the wake OF the wagon
train came the push-cart brigade. Clad
| in ragged garments. such as the orig
/ inal weary maTchers had worn, and
singing Old-time Mormon hymns. like
those their parents and grandparents
| sang While they made their way to
Zion, half a dozen young men and wO-
men acted the part which the old peO-
pie riding ahead of them had taken in
dead sober earnest more than half a
century ago. This was probably the
best thing in the parade. Many who
saw IT FASTENED to get places on other
driveways that they might watch it
pass again.
He Turned the First Sod.
George Brown. who first thrust q
plowshare into Utahs soil. stood on
float, holding the handles of the orig
inal pillow. The sagebrush and rocks
about him lent color to the representa-
ton.
The veteran firemen drew their funny
little hand engine, and right behind
them came the Salt Lake fire depart
ment. with its big aerial truck and the
massive steamer Richard Morris
The patrol wagon headed the parade
and behind it marched two platOons of
policemen headed by Chief Lynch, with
Captain Burbidge and Sergeants Hem
pei and Roberts in charge.
Orators Sing Their Praise
Guard mount by the three companies
from Fort Douglas followed the par
ade, and then came the speeches. Gov
ernor John c. Cutler, Hon. Fisher Har-
ris ana Bishop o. F. Whitney were the
speakers. One hundred pioneers occu-
pied the platform of these w c, A.
SmoOt of Sugar House ward had come
with the first company who entered
the valley in 1S47 with Brigham Young
as their leader
Governor Cutler made regular adj
dress of welcome, in which he took oc-
ca sion to eulogiZe the men who had
come here and founded the common
wealth.
Fisher Harris spoke of the UNEQUAL
fight of those who made one blade of
grass grow where none grew before He
told of the work the pioneers did and
then of what work has followed as a
direct result of their efforts
Bishop Whitney went into detail as
to the past. He described the journeys
of the pioneers over the plains and
then over the mountains until they
came down into this which was then
a desert--where there was no sound
save the cricket's ceaseless chirp He
told how former immigrants had
shrunned the region and had declared
il worthless. Then he went on to tell
how Utah's pioneers had by hard toll
and indomitable perseverance brought
down the water from the hills. broken
the ground and raised their crops. He
told of the early struggles with the In
dams and of the gradual upbuilding of
became what it is today.
Names of Surviving Pioneers.
The surviving pioneers. almost all of
whom were seated on the platform in
the park during the exercises are:
Harriet A. T. Badger, Hyrum Ben
Mon, Samuel r. Bennion. Margaret o.
Best, Phebe S. Boyce, Mary A P
Brockbank. Hannah +. w. Brown,
Jane E. Bradford. Emily II. Cannon,
Annah NJ. Calder. Mary B. Calder.
Mary L. 5. Chambers, Caroline J. o.
Dewey, John H Dewey, Lucinda r. S
G Dodge, Joseph L. Eldredge, Freder-
lex r. Eldredge. Samuel L. Ensign.
Elnathan -Eldredge, Edith L. p Fisher,