The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-06-27
OLD YOUNGSTERS
IN MERRY WHIRL
Annual Excursion to OGDEN
Brings Out Throng of Over
a Thousand.
THEY CAPER LIKE CHILDREN
TALK OVER FORMER DAYS AND
HEAR PROGRAMME.
THEY CAPER LIKE CHILDREN

Shortly after 8 o'clock yesterday morn
ing one thousand boys and girls woke
Up, dug away down deep in the lowest
bureau drawer. spread out silks and sat
ms. stiff billed shirts, cuffs, red ties
. and with bFedthleSS haste went through
al unusual agony Of dressing There was
unusual care paid TO the way the red
tie laid the satin sash. the little poke
bonnet each and every garment had TO
lit Just so. For one thousand boys and
girls, whose ages range from 20 years
10 the shady side of the sos, were praying
for the arrived Of clock The cause for
all this excitement was the arrival OF
the lOnged-fOr, lOOked-for Old Folks day
There was trip 10 Ogden in sight.
feeble fingers nervous. and feeble fingers
dropE-' pesky cuff buttons, which rolled
under bureaus.
Start for Ogden.
Finally S O'Clock arrived. Just hurried
taste of breakfast had to be enough
too much would have ruined their appe-
tites for the good things 10 come. When
o'clock tolled from the City and County
buildings tower a thousand boys and
Elrls wearing red. white and blue ribbons
were seated comfortably in twenty Rio
1Efande western coaches at the depot
Street cars a-plenUy had been furnished
and the aged young were carried free to
the station Once in the cars the happy
youngsters of 70 years and upwards were
anxious 10 be rolling toward Ogden and
GlenwOOd park and the good things they
had been told were in waiting for them.
Superintendent +. s Elliott General
Agent T. A. Benton and Travelling Pas
senger Agents Frank GrOesbeck and Har-
~ n. Gushing. aided by threescOTe mem
hers of the local Old Folks committee, Sc
cured seats for the travellers. Shortly aft
er o'clock the twenty cars. decorated
with bunting and flags and filled to the
doors with a wTlnkled, gray-headed. jOk-
ing and singing cargo, started towards the
Junction City. The special had been
placed under charge of the Rio GTande's
engineer; Frank Smith. conductor: W. E.
Perry. fireman; :. Smiley and Tom
Gleason. bT1kemen. and Travelling Pas
SenEer Agents Frank GTOeSbeck and Har-
ry Gushing. Attached to the train was
Superintendent F. S ElliOtt's private car
WaSatch. occupied by President Joseph F.
Anthem H. land, and Apostles Francis
NJ Lyman. Charles ". PenrOse. and other
diEnitaries Of the Latter-day Saints
church accompanied by their families.
Old Folks Choir Sings.
The train was pulling out of the yards
when the Old Folks choir commenced
singing ''Mcrrily We Roll Along" and
ether Old familiar songs. The singers ViS-
tied each car, from the first one to the
WaSatch, and in each car sang some dear
old melody. Back and forth through the
train the. choir made its way. and the
train IVES lively with applause and the
sound OF thirty voices raised in fOvfuI
harmony The choir was comnrised of
the following w H Foster. leader Edna
Edwards. accompanies, Professor George
Careless. viOlinist- IenOrS-Hy. Gardner
Thomas Butler, Eli H Pierce, Hv. Lee
land Bssses-Evan Stephens. Duncan
McAllster- Evan Arthur James Maxwell
Joseph Christensen. SOpranOs-Mrs Liz
zie Thomas Edward, Mrs. Agnes Olsen
Thomas. Mrs. Martha Arthur Miss Ju-
dith Anderson. Miss Phoebe n Foster
Mrs Lucy Greene Miss Rose Heath AL
tos-MiSs Mabel Cooper, Miss Kate Nc
AllisteT. Miss Aura Rogers Mrs Mile F
Lyon. Miss Sarah Daniels
There were fun-makers on board whose
antics kept the youngsters merry. Josh
Davis in all the regal robes and queue
Of China's spOrtiest battered through the
train in rs real Chinese slippers bow
sheeing and ulS-hOWOwing like a grouchv
chink after losing in fan-Jan. George Mar
gets and Sid ClawsOn had a bunch Of