The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-05-12
CADETS SAFELY
At HOME AFTER
WONDERFUL TRIP
High School Boys Return From
Journey to San Francisco,
Tired but Happy.
GREAT CROWDS GREET
THEM ALONG ROUTE
WORDS OF PRAISE SPOKEN BY
MEN WHOSE JUDGMENT
is BEST.

IFavel-stained and weary. but hug
glng TO themselves bright recollections
OF the greatest trip any aggregation of
boys has ever had, the Salt Lake High
school cadets returned from the front
yesterday afternoon. 1t was $3.50 O'Clock
when the special train drew into the
oregon Short Line station, separating
IN It's passage the multitude that
pressed about the tracks to give well
come TO the returned wanderers. The
Dogs were not too tired to return the
eager greetings shouted to them as the
tram came to a standstill. Nor were
they too tired TO form and, headed nv
thelr band, 10 march up town and
through the business district to the
National Guard armory, where they re-
turned the state property loaned them
for their journey.
The trip home was ACCOMPLISHED
without special incident. The bows were
too worn after their week in San Fran
cisco, where every moment was crowd
ed with new wonders to do much sky
iarking. For the most part they sat or
slept IN their seats. taking little inter-
est IN the scenery or anything else ex-
cept the mess calls. Those they never
failed 10 respond to with aIacrity. They
we're all i'm bed early Saturday night
and they slept late yesterday morning.
Ogden was reached at /: 80 in the aft
ernOon and there a stop of an hour was
maze while the boys paraded and the
band gave short concert. Then came
the call to board the cars and the last
short leg of the long trip was begun.
me run down from Ogden was made
In rapid order and within an hour or
two every boy was at home. safe and
sound. beginning his recital Of a story
that will take long in the telling.
Brought Safely Home.
Some people who were not cadets.
nor the fathers or mothers OF cadets
heayed long signs of relief when The
trip was over. A wonderful thing had
been accomplished. when one stops Ia
think of it. Nearly three hundred boys.
ranging in age from fourteen to eight
cen years, had been taken more than
a thousand miles and back. They had
been .encamped on strange grounds.
amid unusual surroundings: they had
ridden on street cars and walked about
in strange city; they had made Jour-
neys by sea as we'll as by land. And
the last one Of them was brought home
safe and sound, without hurt or all
ment of any character
Some stories of the sights they saw
and the things they did have already
been told in The Herald. Three of
them will have specially comfortable
places in their memories. First, the
place of honor in the greatest parade
the west coast has ever known: second.
the breaking of all presidents by hav-
ing positions on the flagship Connecti-
cut when Rear Admiral Evans flag
was hauled down forever: third the
playing down Of the flag at the head
quarters parade ground at the Pre-
sidiO.
At least two of these honors. and
perhaps all three, were never before
accorded to a civil organization. Ger
tainly it is true that never i'm the his
tory of the navy have outsiders been
permitted to be present at the cere-
monies the boys saw last Saturday
And just as certainly no civil
or semi military organization ever had
the honor of conducting shutdown re-
treat at an army post. That last the
boys did Saturday afternoon While
thousands of soldiers Of the regular
army stood at attention the Salt Lake
High school buglers sounded the re-
treat. the sunset gun was fired and,
while the Salt Lake High school band
played the Star Spangled Banner" the
nations emblem fluttered slowly down
lIoiii It's ivANy pOSEliOn Oll d pOlc OUTSIDE
the parade ground
Through Golden Gate.
OF the other sights none, perhaps.
will linger longer in the minds of the
boys than the cruise on the steamer
Yosemite Friday afternoon, the cruise
that took them in mid-afternOon out
through the Golden Gate, then around
the islands that dot the bay and wind
ing up with a view of the night illumi-
nation. AS the Yosemite moved silent
ly around the great warships they
seemed transformed from the grim
of daylight into fairylike Gre
atoms. Studded from stem to stern
with electric lights, their turrets for
ward and aft picked out in glowing
bulbs, the quivering fingers of the
flashing i'm every direc-
ton, they were so beautiful that they
seemed unreal.
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