Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-03-08
SINGS SONG OF PROGRESS.
scheme on to Form an Associa-
ton to Be Allied With the
N. & M. A.
Future Excursions VIII Embrace More
Territory In Utah, and VIII Then be
Extended to Other States.

II every town from Salt Lake TO Me-
phi Is not talking today Of the Sin
OF buying goods from the eastern mail
order houses, and OF the responsibility
TO Utah inherited by each city as an
integral part OF 1t, 1t is because they
have already forgotten the tune the
boosters" band played yesterday, and
the pledges their leading men made to
the boosters, which is unlikely.
one Of the happiest and tiredest train
loads of people that ever pulled into a
salt Lake depot, arrived at o'clock
this morning trying its best to make a
noise like a millionaire" after making
a noise like booster" all day long,
and far into the night at Provo. Spe-
cal cars were waiting TO convey the
throng to their homes where II is safe
10 say they dreamed Of what manner OF
state Utah really Is, and how they
could each work In their individual en-
terprIses to make bigger thing of 1t.
COL. HARRIS AND MUSIC.
A booster" excursion like that Of
yesterday is newer idea in Utah than
in many other states. but the way the
excursion organized. itself after It start
ed suggests that a dull time will be i'm
possible on any excursion of like ma
lure In the future. Col. Harris had a
gee club, and the glee club had Its
music, which 1t invented for the occa-
sion, tunes and oil. The process OF in
vention was to call In John Held and
his gold cornet. Then all the men who
had sufficiently rocas voices, would
make noise together, and John Held
would repeat 1t on his oornet with del
icate precision Thus was song gradu-
ally built, and then the glee club would
pass it around through the cars, and at
the stations till everybody In the wag-
ons, and on the backs of meadow rails
ed ponies, and standing in lunches with
broad smile and glad hand. knew the
song and were joining in the chorus.
1t Is new music for the west, but It
sings a song OF progress, and greater
growth by more feed for the home mar
ket, which gives 1t an excuse for be-
ing.
THE HUNGRY WERE FED.
Nephi city did novel thing In en-
tertainng the boosters, The high
school needed some money, and the
boosters had declared that their inten-
tons were not to unload themselves on
the hospitality OF the Nephi people.
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their meals, and hence the preparation
Of banquet was placed under the aus
plces of the high schools. The teach
ers were head walters, and the boys
brought In the food, after giving their
school yell. 1t was large lunch,
spread out over long tables In the ar
mory building, and prepared partly by
the pupils of the domestic science de-
partment. There were meats OF sew
eral kinds, jellies, potatoes in all varI-
ietles of cookery, chocolate and coffee,
and even ice cream and cake for every
person OF the 800 who demanded a meal.
me train was late at Nephi, and the
slogan for the hour and a half after
iuhch Time, which preceded the run in
10 Nephl was make noise like
lunch counter"
800 ~ W ILL HE'LL.
Following the Nephi lunch. the town
assembled In the tabernacle, and the
sentiments expressed were hopeful for
the future of this state. w. Ii. Petit
grew In welcoming the boosters"
pledged them that they would find the
tNlzens Of Nephl at their side In every
movement for greater west and a
stronger intermountain section. He be-
HeVed, he said, that the organization
OF the Manufacturers and Merchants
was not salt Lake affair. but state
thair, and would never build up one sec
non at the expense of the general good.
President Hewlett struck a vital item
IN The usefulness of giving the excur-
SION when he confessed that although
ne had done busienss with Nephl mer-
thahts FOR over 10 years, he had never
et visited the city, and In fact had
peen only little way south OF Salt
LAKE Now he was ready to swear by
Nephl and the great valley In which 1t
was located, and the applause with
when his statement was received indi-
Gated that most of the boosters" al
most all OF whom We're strangers to the
southland, echoed his sentiments.
Mat Thomas, who followed pleased
,he gray haired pioneers of the town
~ WlllnR or their early struggles with
the soil and Of the fight for home In
uustries which was instiled into them
es young men. He regretted that an
era had come when there was falling
away from the old ideals, and well
coined return to the principles which
hrst made Utah thrifty--of digging the
natural wealth from the soil and con-
Stunning 1t In the home market.
MANAGER PLACE TALKED.
Manager Gordon II. Place followed
with the story OF Mary Ann Jones' a
young woman of Nephi who bought
from catalogue house, and robbed
her town OF whatever trade was hers
To- give putting her money where II
all went out, with nothing coming IN.
IL was well along towards evening
When the train with It's two engines
and ten banner bedecked cars pulled
out OF Provo, and II was after dark
when the destination was finally reach
ed. AT Payson, Santaquln, Spanish
Fork and sprlngville crowds were watt
Ing, and at Payson number OF selec-
tons by the band had been rendered,
the Murray delegation furnishing both
band and the noise to go with II. MUIR
ray by the way was always making
n noise. The grayest heads In the big
delegation stirred things up more than