The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-09-08
UNIONS MAKE
fine SHOWING
IN BIG PARADE
Iron MolderS Present Best Ap-
pearanCe and H0rSeSh0erS
Best Craft Representation.
OUTING AT LAGOON
PROVES GREAT SUCCESS
PRIZES ARE AWARDED IN LONG
AND VARIED LIST OF
EVENTS.

Prize Winners in Parade.

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Prize Winners in Parade. y
Best representation of craft-Horse- y
y shoers. first; structural iron work y
y ers. second machinists. third. +
+ Best appearing local in parade-lron y
4 molders. first; painters and decora- y
y tors. second; plasterers, third y
Judges-Lieutenants Waterman and y
y Butcher of Fort Douglas. y
The best appearing Labor day parade
ever seen in Salt Lake City was that
which marched through the streets yes
terday. Conservative estimates. support
ed by actual count. are that the parade
was participated in by a total of union
men numbering between 5000 and $500
The parade was not as long as 1t has
been the custom to make 1t. Long ago
IL was decided TO eliminate some OF the
features in the way of floats. which, the
union men say. are spectacular but do not
add to the weight of the argument which
Labor day parade is intended to con-
Vey
There was a great celebration at La
COON after the parade. People who's
heads do not run around in the vortex
said that there were easily 1900 people at .
Lagoon at 3 o clock. That left the night
crowd to come. and it Is consequently safe
Just Plenty of Fun.
The exercises and program at Lagoon
consisted of sports for all the union men.
union mems wives, union mems boys and
union mems girls. There We're events in
the open and events indoors. There were
sports in the water and out of the wa
ter. There were cash prizes for all the
successful competitors. The Salt Lake
Federation of Labor took the money out
of its treasury and appropriated IL In the
way of prizes.
| Some of the contests at Lagoon were
meritoriOus in point of athletic suprem-
acy- Others were put on the program
| just for the fun of the thing, and every
/ body did have fun.
Winners of Events.
The winners of the sporting contests
were:
! Old mems race. 30 years and over-A. F.
Denny, first; r. Solomon. second
Mems race, 100 yards. Marx first; 2.
| p. Hamilton. second
Free for ALL 100 yards-G. c. Cattran.
second; no claimant for first prize.
| Boys race. 10 TO u years, 30 yards
/ George Carlson, first; Ernest Adams. sec
ond.
! BOYS race years and under. 80 yards
A. Hail. first: d. Ray. second
| Boys three-legged race, 80 yards-A. S.
| Harrity and o. w Pratt.
| Boys potato race. % YARDS. uncer 10
years-H. Traynor. first; c. c. Currie.
second.
Mems broad jump. running Maddox.
first; A. ]. Mubie. second.
Broad jump. Granddaughter Aller sec
ond: first prize not claimed.
/ Bicycle race around the diamond twice
L. Clammetee first; Ben Rich. second
! Ladies race. 30 yards-Janie Rich. first;
1 Mrs. Parsons. second.
] Fat women's race-Mrs. D. II. Madiehl,
first; Mrs. Mowery. second.
/ Girls race. Il to IS years. 30 yards-Miss
Bovlin. first; Miss r. Sessions. second.
Girls race. to u years-Marie Open
shaw first Rose Boyer. second.
Ladies' nail driving contest-Mrs. jamie
Rich. first; Mrs. c. S Schmidt second.
Ladies' egg race-Mrs. jamie Rich. first;
Mrs. Eva Currie. second
Boat race-L. Yochen. first; p. p. Hamil-
| ton. second.
Diving contest-Joseph Sanborn. first;
L. r. Lindley. second.
| Swimming cOntest-E. 5. Parks, second,
no claimant for first prize.
The Matching Hosts.
There was little question that the horse
shoers ought to have had first prize for
the union giving the best presentation OF
| their craft There was no question. eth
err about the decision that gave the iron
molders the first prize for appearance.
| In fact there was little question about
any of the decisions. every one appearing
| to accept the announcement of the judges
as fair.
Perhaps the Labor day parade OF this
| wear is the ONLY parade of any kind that
to start at 10 o'clock. and To- 1t started
at that time.
Sid Chalker. the marshal of the day.
| had his procession in motion before the
clock in the city and county building
ceased to sound.
In the Parade.
The parade started from the Temple OF
I ..fI Il II
State streets. 1t was headed by three
mounted policemen. who kept the way
| clear. There was platoon of police
under the command of Lieutenant John
1 Hempel Held's band of twenty-eight
pieces followed. The officers of the Fed
GRAFTON of Labor rode in carriages.
! The striking boilermakers Of the Rio
| Grande had the place of honor with their
affiliated striking brothers. the machinists
| and blacksmiths- More than six hundred
We're il this section. which escorted
float conveying locomotive with steam
! Up. This engine has been built by the
men since the Rio Grande strike began.
The iron workers were dressed in nattv
uniform. Then came the carriage and
wagon workers and the cigarmakers.
The horseshoers. with their leathern
| aprons and all logged out Tit for work.
| came next. and ii was easy 10 be seen that
the representation prize would go to them.
Union With Band of Its Own.
For long time the street car men have
been quietly limiting that they had some
thing up their sleeve for Labor day.
| And they did 1t was a band, and it
PLAYED music that none might be ashamed
of Then the Typographical union came
along with a few stickfuls of stuff. They
were followed by the brewery workers.
! and the bottlers wore uniforms of blue
overalls, blue shirts and black cars.
The mailers next appeared and then the
stage employees. who had float repre-
senting their work.
| The BARRIERS were in Uniform Then
| came the structural iron workers with
float and more than a hundred men In